GOING A-GUDDLING. I and myself walked over to Secretary Presented at Court. soul into all our games and all our A CHAT ABOUT LINCOLN. At last, however, we hear a shout & Stanton's office in the war department. schemes. from Willie, and a "skraigh" from the Americans go abroad with the de- 13 He and Mr. Lincoln held a conference "Willie," we said "will you go a -^f heron, and well we know what it BecoIIectloflg of Twenty-Three Tears of Lift 1B (termination to see all that is to be Dominie Forbes was not in a particularly andthen westarted back again. On the guddling? We're all going." means. the Whit*House Gathered from a Talk With T. seen. Democrats though they are, stairway of the department we met a angelic frame of mind on "To be sure I will," cried Willie, "and F. Perdel. The dam has burst, and the waters nothing is more attractive to them stranger who looked at the president 1 so will Jock. And I'll put on my hest come down with a rush and a roar th at Friday afternoon. Very far Philadelphia Letter:He spoke of and he looked at him. I watched jacket too." and a force irresistable. tha from it. Friday has always been my the martyred Lincoln and bending them both intently. The man passed mysterie Jock, by-the-way, was a tame heron Suave qui pent. Save ourselves.save ministeralty. They- for ad roy beset their fulacky day, anyhow. If fate, as over said fervently: "He had all on his way up stairs, and the president "a craigit heron"so called from our jackets, save our fish. mission into the presence-chamber kept going down, but Mr. Lincoln frequently happens, has any unpleasantness the length of his neck,which you could those simple ways, my *friend, that The mills down the stream will have of kings. The American minister to kept his eyes on him. When the have tied a knot upon without putting water enough now and to spare. It in store for me, it is sure to make great men." He was Thomas England might be a happy map, in stranger reached the head of the stairs the bird to much inconvenience. will fill and. overflow the dams and reserve it till Friday. F. Pendel, Lincoln's bodyguard, and spite of diplomatic complications. he turned and peered over the balus- A long-legged stupid, old bird he was, make a dash breast h.'gh over the But Dominie Forbes was, as we now serving his twenty-third year in trade, and when he reached the pave- were it not tor the importunities of who used to catch minnows and trout wheels, and it will sweep the linen ment the president spoke for the first his countrymen, who insist that he boys hrase it, "in a tear" on for himself till he muddled all the the White House. from the fields of the bleaching works. time. 'Pendleton,' he said, I received shall present them to the Queen, and stream, then go to sleep for an hour, Again, what care we? Have we not that particular Friday forenoon While he spoke he sat in the parlor a letter from New Yori yesterday,telling -.-i- .i.-r. secure them tickets for royal balls. with the water up to his knees, till it had fine fun. We tie our trout in something had gone radically wrong of Mrs. Martha G. Kimball's house, me that a man answering his description got clear again." strings and prepare for home. Men who at home denounce "the g-rifch him. Everybody knew that the effete monarchies of Europe," will 4703 Kingsessing Avenue. Mr. Pendel and dressed just like him While Willie went away to get Jock Only justm time, for yonder, running wear knee-breeches and swords, the dominie was deeply in love with a was on his way to Washington to kill and his best jacket, we stood at the on Saturday surveyed Philadelphia up stream, comes farmer Milnehe court costume and their wives will me.' blacksmith's door and watched the farmer's fair daughter, and that the always was a bruteand two of his a bit from Mr. Kimball's carriage bare their arms and neck, deck their "Then came that terrible night, Mr. sturdy burn-the-winds putting a redhot men. But if he thinks to catch us he courtship of Duncan Gray was nothing and called at George W. Child's heads with tall feathers, and drag a Ashmer, of New York Mr. Colfax, tire on a new cart wheel, then is much mistaken. We take to the to his in vicissitudes, for at one office. Mr. Childs was delighted Speaker of the House, and Mr. and i train three yards long, in order that pouring a bucket of water over it to woods with a defiant whoop! and they may boast of having been presented timehonni Jeanie Johnstone smiled Mrs. Lincoln were chatting in the parlor and gave the veteran guard of the cool it and make it iresh. This was farmer Milne has seen the last of us. at court. before starting for the theatre. on him, and at another she laughed always great fun to us. Grief came on the following Friday, nation's chief magistrates a hearty It will take the lady two hours to Richmond had fallen and the house By-and-by, back came Willie, dressed though. For the dominie had got a new at him. And whatever Jeanie's mood welcome. He had known him long. dress she will sit in her carriage for was illuminated. Do you know the for the occasion, and carrying the spengie cane, and wethree conspirators "was, we poor pupils became the resultAnt Mr. Wanamaker grasped his hand and two hours more, while it waits in line reason the President went to the theatre great heron, precisely as a mother stole that and cut it up. We were just tfc was flogflogflog all day and the rabble, staring in at her coach said: "You must see my Sunday that night? It had been advertised carries her baby, only' he could not about to begin. windows, comments upon her charms that Grant would be there, but he when Jeanie was saucy, but when get it to keep its long legs doubled up, school, Pendel," which he did. "Let us smoke the calumet of peace," and laces, and guess at her age and couldn't and Mr. Lincoln went so which made matters look awkward. Jeanie was kind everything we did I said. Mr. Pendel's first serviee for the her jewelry. Once inside the palace, that the people would not be disappointed. Willie put Jock down at his feet, and pleased our dominie. When suddenly the sharp features government was rendered during the she waits an hour in the "pens"en- I saw the party off and sent took snuff out of a sheep-horn mull, of Dominie Forbes were protruded closures formed in the rooms by ropes As a rule, at all ordinary times Dominie a man to look after them. About 9 Mexican war. He towers through a and handed the box to us, and we all over the fence. drawn across, to prevent pushing o'clock the bell rang, and when I answered took snuff. Forbes was a tartar. Squeers was mass of years, tall, erect and swarthy. before she is admitted into the throne "Oh' you young scamp!" he cried it a man said: 'Do you know Our complement was now complete, a. saint to him. And the tawsea His hair is still black. His eyeis bright room. "wait till to-morrow I'll ca-cacalumetyou." they have tried to cut Secretary so off we all went, whooping for ]oy, piece of leather bridle cut at the end and piercing, though his step lags just Then two gentlemen in waiting seize Seward's throat'' I said: 'No. it can't aloag the road that led to the wood into two fingers and hardened in the the train, which is over her arm, and be.' A few moments later he returned, a little. He is best described "by a through which the Den burn ran. And What could we do to avert the ordeal spread it behind her. She hands her breathless, and exclaimed: 'Yes, firegot little rest. When it was put after ushophophopping, and that would in all probability take lady's exclamation when she caught card to a lord-in-waiting, passes up toward it's so. The cavalry are up and down helping himself along with his wingscame place to-morrow. awa for a time the "spengie" cane, sight of him: "How much he looks the Lord-Chamberlain, stands the avenue.' Then I grew uneasy daft Willie's heron in the most "I have it," I shouted. "Let or rattan, took its place, and I do not like Lincoln." They were almost inseparable. us go till he pronounces her name, and then about the President, and sent ridiculous manner imaginable. No straight and see Jeanie." -know which makes the palms and fin- prostrates herself before the Queen. out messengers. A few minutes wonder several people on the road We told her all, adding afterward I saw Senator Sumner 4*ers tingle the most. Her Majesty extends her hand, with drew rein to gaze after us we were a "So you want to hear about Lin- "Oh! please, Miss Jeanie, take pity coming up the hill followed by a the back upward, which the lady, receiving queer pack of sportsmen. coln," he said to his interviewer, as A bit of a masher was Dominie on us, and be kind to the dominie. He crowd of men and boys, and he gasped, on her own hand, raises to her he rubbed his eyes to aid a memory of That dear old Den burn, as it used JTorbes, especially on a Sunday, when is so fond of you, Jeanie, and if you 'How about the President?' He lips. An obeisance to every one in the two decades ago. "I might as well to be in days of yore I fancy lean see he wore a swallow-tail coat, with a say a word he will never thrash us." had hardly finished talking when royal circle is then made, and the gentlemen, it now, even as I write. Alas! thirty morsel of crimson silk handkerchief lead up to the great man's end by "Do you think he is fond of me," Commissioner Newlin arrived and catching her train, throw it yeats have fled since the date of t*his 'ticking out of the pockethe kept an saying that on Nov. 3, 1864, Sergeant said bonnie Jeanie, said: 'The President has been shot over her arm, and she stumbles backward little sketch, and the romance has fled 'Ordinary white one in a breast-pocket Cronan, Andrew Smith, Alfonso Duan "OlMisa Jeanie, I replied, "he would through the back of the head.' I out oi the room. from the bonnie burn. It has been lor nasal dutyand his club-foob and myself were assigned to duty at die for you." went to Captain Lincoln's room. He She has paid many pounds for her improved out of all its beauty. 'hoot, with its extraordinary thickness the White House. I am the only survivor. "That he would," said Willie. had just returned from the front, and dress, has spent days in practicing her of ble, shining like half-a-yard of polished But thenwell, it rose in a peat We were taken to Mr. Lincoln's "I'm sure he would," said Davie. I said: 'Captain, something has happened obeisance and the backward step, has Whitby jet. The dominie's hair mossa marshy, boggy, dismal swamp room, given instructions, Reader, that promised thrashing to the President.' I told the 0- occupied six hours in going and returning was as black as his boot, and his sidewhiskers through which it flowed silently and. and went on duty. The real never came off, but I'll tell you what military secretary plainly what it was. from the palace, and stood glittered like boatmen beetles. sluggishly, and here we caught many inwardness of the matter was did come off just two months after He turned white as death and said: just two minutes in royalty's presence. a lordly eel. Escaping at last, it a wedding. that the president had received 'Don't let any one come in the house.' But when she returns to her Western rushed merrily along the side of a Now Saturday was a kind of mixed And Dominie Forbes limped away many threatening letters, and at that I was going down stairs when little home, she can boast that she has been road, over a sandy, pebbly bottom, day with us boys at Bellfield school from church with bonnie Jeanie's time precaution was necessary. Tad, who. had been to the National presented at court. bordered by long slips of watercress day of grief in the morning, because hand in his sleeve.Gordon Stabley, Everybody had to be watched, even Theatre, rushed into my arras and then it went off to the left, and becamethe the work of the week had to be recapitulated, M. D., C. M., R.M., in Home Chimes. sobbed: 'Oh, Tom Pen, somebody women. I tell you, sir," with his eyes King and Pope in Rome. "marsh" betwixt my father's and we were ail sure to be has killed my Papa day.' It was an lighting up, "those fiery Southern land and a neighboring tarm. And {hrashed and of joy in the afternoon, A Rome cable dispatch to the New awful night.* I rushed through crowds women are dangerous. I had been at here even was a good guddling ground, because it was a half-holiday and the Jessie Fremont. York Mail and Express says- The on the street to Peterson's tailor the White House but a short time and many a lusty trout I have hauled xnorrow was Sunday. General Fremont's Menioire. coolness between the Vatican and store, where the President had been when the President chose me as his to bank from beneath the green TJBufc no! to our great astonishment, taken, passed the line of guards, and Italian government is developing retaliatoiy Jessie was the second daughter. I guard. I walked with him everywhere. overhanging banks. 'On this particular Saturday the dominie Mrs. Lincoln met me in one of the parlors measures on both sides, and As a coincidence, one day, went with the eldest of the sisters to was as sweet in temper as a tab'bycat The Den burn went wimpling away with hair disheveled and almost bears symptons of speedy active hostilities when we were on the street, I said: with five young kittens. a school concert in Georgetown, through haughs and green meadows, wild. *0h, Pendleton,' she cried, 'if between the church and state. Mr. President, Senator Holland is a and under many a rustic bridge, till it Jeanie had been kind, That was where I saw her. She was then just in you had been there it would not have The result of the two recent measuresagainst good man.' 'A very good man,' he reached at last the dark and rocky the solution of the riddle. happened.'" the bloom of her girlish beauty, and the government ia that thelatter replied. The Senator afterward became wooded glen of Maidencraig. Here its But there he was, dressed in his SabIhath replies to them by a stringent perfect health effervesced in bright a member of the President's wateis feed those mill-dams,and turned clothes, silk handkerchief and The old guard deeply depressed by enforcing of the law against monastic Cabinet and also father-in-law of the a monster mill wheel that seemed talk which the pleasure of seeing her polished club-foot-boot, and positively his own recitation, skips a score of institutions. These laws have hitherto President's son, Robert Lincoln. One always to roll round and round, night a white neck tie! years to the second White House tragedythe sister drew out. Naturally I was been administered with considerable day he said to me as we were coming and day its black wet sides glancing And he frequently smiled softly to murder of Garfield. "I shook attracted. She made the effect that laxity. Several Jesuit priests in the sunshine, or glittering when the out of Secretary Stanton's house, himselfwandered a little in his talk hands with Mr. Garfield just as he a rose of rare color or beautiful picture have been forcibly expelled from a moon shone. Onward it dashed for & but looked generally angelic. 'Well, Pendleton"he and Mrs. Lincoln was entering his carriage for the depot. convent at Florence, where they havetaken another mile and then flowed sullenly would have done. When the news reached the White blundered a good deal over my ir- always called me that' I have quarters in contravention of past the foot of a gloomy pine-wood, House I met Secretary Lincoln coming received a good many threatening letters, rregaJar verbs. I gave sjngle verbs to Her beauty had come far enough the law providing that when the inmates where, tradition alleged, more than down stairs. He was almost staggering -plural nominatives and murdered my but I'm not afraid.' 'But, Mr. down from English ancestry to be of a convent have fallen below one farmer had been robbed and killed and exclaimed: 'Pendel, isn't this --past (participles. But dominie merely President,' said I, 'many a brave man now in her that American kind which while returning late at night from the six in number they shall take no recruits, awful!' The secretary remembered amiled *ind corrected me. has lost his life because he did not is made up largely of mind expressed market where a mother had hanged but shall arrange for the final the night of his father's assassination. Invent back to my seat, walking on fear.' 'That's so,' he replied, 'that's in the face but it still showed its herself, and where, even in our day, On the morning after Garfield was evacuation and secularization of the ifeaicners, seemingly. Saxon descent. little Sammie Stuart, when looking tor shot he to Dk my eye-glasses and read convent. This law will be applied to J$Lftd. a favorite flat mahogany ruler, birds' nests, found a murdered bairn. Her qualities were all womanly, a three-column account of it in one of seven other convents which are in the "fend I got round to my table in time PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND TAD. Close by this wood was to be our and education curiously preserved the newspapers. His attendant had same condition and which are already to find mischievous Davie Law burning "Again, to show you how frank he guddling ground to-day, nevertheless. the down of modesty which was innate. started to read to him, but broke one end of it between the bars o was, I asked him how tall he was. He indicated. In one twenty-one young Little we cared for tradition. It There had been no experience of life down just as the writer was describing the grate. laughed and said: I am just six foot girls were recently received these will was a lovely daya day that would to brush away the bloom. She had the shooting. threeinmystockingfeet. The devotion My joy was turned to wrath. I be expelled. have made an old man young again. inherited from her father his grasp between Mr. Lincoln and his little son .-drew forth the ruler and smote Davie "Just before Mr. Arthur came to The church party is apparently emboldened Spring was on the treesspring was of miud, comprehending with a tenacious Tad, who always called him 'Papa- with the fiery end of it, javelin fashion. live at the White House a man called by the result of a similar everywhere. In the woodland glades memory, but with a quickness of day,' was something for a study. It went half way down his throat, I and asked for him. One of the ushers struggle in Germany, and seem inclined the scented furze was all in golden perception and instant relization ot Whenever the President returned to suppose, and loosened some of his told me the fellow was not right, and to defy the government and take bloom the feathery larches were green subjects and senses in their completed the White House, no matter how brief teeth.. Davie yelled, and the dominie I told him to detain him until Sergeant the consequences. Their failure is almost green, and draped with little crimson extent, which did not belong to had been his absence* he would piek appeared and found Davie spitting Dinsmore came. He detained him on tassels while pink-white fingers a foregone conclusion because his and with these warm sympathies that boy up in his arms, hug bim and ^bl&od. and cinders. But even this did some pretext or other, and when the protruded from the twiglets of the a generous pity for human suffering they have no strong ecclesiastical carry him up stairs to his room with mot disturb his equanimity. He merely sergeant came the fellow started to dark and solemn pines. Spring was and a tenderness and sensibility that party in parliament as they had in him. 1 never shall forget how Tad interested said, "You shouldn't have done leave hurriedly. The sergeant caught in the hearts of the birdsthe mellow made the feeling take the place of Germany. Further than this, the himself in my behalf. that, Gordon." him by the throat, and the man put fluting merle, the saucy, mocking mavis, mind so compelled was every impulse liberals, who are sympathising more "The President was at his desk iSaach is lovewhen Chloe is kind! his hand in his pistol pocket. The the modest sispin, the bold, bright to pass through these before it could or less with the churchmen,only desire when Tad opened the door and said, W were not a bit surprised to get guards threw him down and it was chaffie, the bonnie, wee rose-linnet reach the surface to find expression. to effect a compromise on a sufficiently 'Good morning, Papa-day, will you do away that day two hours sooner than found that he had a loaded six-shootAny that sang on the thorn. There was a rare union of intelligence amicable footing to permit them to me a favor'' 'My son, you know I usual. number of these cranks come to feel the injury of events and And spring was in our hearts, ay, work with the government. will,' he answered. 'Well, then, sir, We rushed pell-mell, almost breaking around and it takes trained men to submission to them with silence and even in Jock's though the green heather just sign that.' The President each other's ribs in the doorway. discern them. discretion, and withal a sweet, and was high enough almost to bury read the document, looked at the boy Ladder-Climbing: Women. We yelled and shouted lor joy, and "General Grant was one of the happy, and forbearing temper, which him. proudly, half amused, and picking up flung our Highland bonnets high in air. greatest of men, and he had an ear Rome Correspondence Philadelphia Telegraph. has remained proof against the wearing his pen, inscribed his name. This is But here is the Den burn. It is When the exuberance of our ecstasy for everybody," said Mr. Pendel. "I of time. Insensibly and imperceptibly the document," said the old man bright and clear, and, not too full iad Bomewhat subsided, Willie Jamiesonpoor remember standing one iay at one of What a curiosity she would be in in these frequent meetings i huskily, as he held out a bit of faded She just in fine condition for guddling. lad' he was killed soon aftarthis hod-carrier1 the White House windows as he America, a female there came a glow into my heart paper that shook because his hand And now Jhy English reader will be Jay his father's horse falling on sauntered out for a walk. A would soon retire from that business which changed the*current and color gave beauty to trembled: initialed into the mystery of guddling an iihimstood upon the top of a stone. womanI don't know whether to attitudinize in a museum, and ti*e Of d.aily that is, if he does nbt already know ,.&nfi. shouted: EXECUTIVE MANSION, Dec. 31, 1S64. she was colored or notmet people would look at her, I know common things. These presents -witness that Thomas F. what guddling is. -"Who will go a-euddling?" him on the steps and talked. Well, with greater wonderment than at the Pendel ia duly appointed an usher in the What he really did say was: "Fa'll Off goes every jacket then our it seemed as if she was giving him an best Niagara ciank. But here she is place of Edward McM\nus. now disinwe'll sleeves are rolled, up to the very cagguddlin'?" But you see I am polite awful hauling over the coals. He never so little of an attraction that she A. Lincoln. The Northwest Watershed.. 3houlders, and our trousers high up enough to translate his words into moved once, and when she had finished doesn't even draw the attention of "The boy was only 13 years old," over the knees. We are bare-legged, It is to one Of these geological English. he walked slowly away, puffing at her fellow-workmen. Her femininity continued Mr. Pendel. "He was very bare-armed, and ready for action. 2$ow, Willie was the biggest boy in "might have beens" that venture to his cigar." is certainly not universally fascinating, fond of me. He would meet me on We begin by building a stroug wall of ur set, and we respected him accordingly ask the attention of the section to-day MiCPendel concluded: "Therehave for she's not very clean. Indeed, the stairway and say: 'Tom Pen, green turf, which we tear up from the and looked up to him almost one which is the more interesting in been many happy days at the White as a general thing, she is very dirty. you go upstairs and ask mamma may burn's bank at each side of the stream reverentially. Even a box on the House many dark and dreary ones as this city because upon it depends the I go to the theatre and tell her you 11 She seems a shade or two darker then we make a heap of extra big cars from Willie vas considered an well," and touching lightly upon the take care of me.' I would go and say, than her brother laborers. Sometimes intereststhe very existence. I may turfs, close to the burn, and dashing honor and a condescension on his part. present administration, he added: Mrs. Lincoln, Tad wants to go to the she is young and pretty, but sayof Buffalo and its relation to Chicago. them and beating them down, speedily "Who will go a guddling?" "Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland are noble theatre, may he?' 'No, I don't think oftenest she is old and hag-featured Buffalo, is the outlet port of the complete our dam. tifftby arms .wed in the air at once he had better,' she would say. 'I'll people. Indeed, she is very beautiful." but whether young or old her general great lakes Chicago the port at the fifty treble vt .ees rang out "I'll Hurrah! the burn is almost dry beneath ng! go with him and take good care of Mr. Pendel is going to furthur refresh appearance would not make a good head of navigation. This relationship Til gang! I'll gang!" the dam only in the pools the him.' Will you be sure to do it, his old eyes with a look at New advertisement picture for "somebody's is not accidental, hut is based on geological But Willie Wad no intention of inciting water still abides, and into these go Pendleton? Well, then, I guess he York. soap*" Her garments usually* causes that existed before either nearly all the trout. Beautiful yellow the small-frythe nippers from may go.' consist of a ragged dress, polkadotted city was founded. It depends on the trout, speekled with red! to 7. with mud or mortar an erstwhite "It was my duty to stand in front How Grant Received the Intelligence drainage of the lakes. The four upper fie rushed through their ranks, da hing We wade in the water the two Willies apron now beclayed into ani of the President's desk when he was of His Nomination. lakes are a most remarkable geological wade, and Davy wades, and Jock them aid in all directions, like a ugly saffron, and the rough stuff legcovering receiving business visitors. Of all the He was nominated by acclamation combination. A large part of all the wades Jock uses his* bill we thrust sturgeon in a shoal of haddocks, and twisted in twine, and even, requests!and he would listen to at Chicago in May, 1868. Stanton our bare arms in under the green Iresh water on the globe is banked upon anade his way te the spot where Davie Physically1 every body. One dav two Southern dirtier than the apron. banks, heedless of eel bites, heedless carried him the news. I was with thastr and I, with our jackets off were a tableland 500 or 600 feet above women came and said: 'Mr. President, they are very strong, these female* of the presence of ugly water rats. We Grant at his own headquarters when fo&viagit out in downright earnest. the sea. The drainage, bf course, flows won't you give us a pass to Rich- mortar-carriers. In place of a hod, seize the trout by the round, slobbery He iseon settled the business by the Secretary of War entered the over the dam at the lowest point, Black mond?' *No, I won't,' was his plain they use a long, narrow iron par heads after working them into a corner, tfritching into us both, and when we room. I had never seen Stanton there answer. They sat down sullenly, and Rock, but by a remarkable coincidence with handles at either end. Whea and pitch them out on to the .arose from the ground before, but this time he did not send after awhile the President called them they have filled the pan some one there are two points almost on the bank, and laugh to see'them leap and "New, will ye gang guddin'?" said up and said: 'Yes, I will give you a for Grant. He came hurriedly up the helps them to lift it on their heads* same level, Black Rock and Chicago. Y^ dance, their bodies shimmering white oass to Richmond,' writing one on Willie. stairs, panting for breath, lest some and then with this excessive load f, The watershed behind Chicago is but and golden in the sunshine. his knee at the time. 1 would rather "G&ngguddlin'? Wouldn't we, just?" one should precede him. He had received they go climbing up the perpendicular twelve feet above Lake Michigan, twenyt-five Every fish that Jock cat shes he tries have you there, because if you stay On went our jackets, and off after ladders. They mingle with men oa. the first telegram of the vote, feet above Lake Erie. The geologists to swallow, but Willie pulls them here you'll just inform the Confederacy "Willie went Davie and I my arm round equal terms, and the petticoats and even in advance of Grant, and as he of Buffalo know that the land away and casts them ashore. of what we are doing. A young Davie's waist his arm round my neck voices alone indicate to the- passer-by* rushed in he exclaimed, "General, I on both sides of Niagara River is only Presently Jock gets a frog and officer who wanted to be transferred fiie telling me he liked me better than that they belong to the tender sexu have come to tell you that you have a few feet above the water. Consequently chokes on it. There is nothing sticking to Hancock's corps submitted the *any other boy in the school, and I asuring been nominated by the Republican a dam twenty-five feet high out but a hind leg. However, necessary papers to him. When Davie-that I had always quite party for the President of the United Jove him Willie lays hold of that and draws it across the river at Black Rock would at length he called for the President's Childrens' Questions, States." Grant received the intelligence out, and cautions Jock, and .the guddling be sufficient to throw the waters of the decision he inquired very bluntly, On our way to Den burn, where we "Papa," commenced} little Ethel, as he did every important goes merrily on. 'Well have you looked at the papers?' upper lakes into the Mississippi by the ilntended to guddle, we met daft Willie announcement of his life. There was Never was finer sport on this earth. "does the sausage ewne out of this 'Yes,' said the President. 'Well is ^Wilson. Willie was a wheelwright Illinois River. The most, beautiful I- no shade of exultation or agitation on I have fished all over the world since there anything more you want?' "v-oc his brother was for I don't suppose hole on Candlemas day and look stream on the continent, the St. Law* his face, not a flush on his cheek, nor then, but the memory of that afternoon's 'Hancock says you are a gallant the himself did a great deal in that way. rence, would be annihilated or greatly around for its shadotw, so as to make guddling always will remain a a flash in his eye. I doubt whether officer, sir, said Mr. Lincoln sternly, But Willie wasn't a fool, mind you. reduced, and tfie dirty ditch of Chicago an early spring? Ma says it does." sunny one. he felt elated, even in those recesses looking him in the eye, 'but you are liSot a bit of it only a little daft he would carry the tribute of the great "Why, darling,, what ate you talking While we are guddling, all the mills not a sober officer.' That settled it. wheiv he concealed his inmost emotions ''wanted a feather in the wing, twopence la'kes into the Father of Waters. Buffalo about?" I tasked, looking up from below us that depend on the Den burn tin the shillingcall it what you please and thoughts. At that moment would in that case be at the head THE NIGHT OF THE ASSASSINATION. my writing. "It's the ground hog that for driving power have to he idle of -7 -only he was a, very great favorite with I believe he was sorry to leave his sausage*1* of navigation and Chicago the natural Mr. Pendel was nearing the blackest comes out ot its hole.not the course they have, but wbat care we. fJS us boys, A boy himself at heart, position in the army, and disliked as outlet port. On so slender a thread spot in his memorythe night of the "Well, papa," said Ethel, opening The waters rise very high in the dam ?'v/ though he could not have been less much as ever the prospect' of new assassination. her wonderful blue, eyes, "isn't toft* did the destinies of these two cities at last, and over and over again we than 30,*he sympathized with us in 'On onedark rainy day the president fc hang.E. W Claypole, at Buffalo. have to strengthen it... every way,land entered with heart and Itf '$&