4 hfo BWUA'jimajjMywmMKflBaH B. Pfefferle me say 'fore now th't w'en I were a Bail or Drown. TOO LATE: over to Bill Simmons' with it. The LQN-Q BBAHCH STTLE. ,i i boy th' wa'n't ez meny boys ez th' is Old Settler resumed his boot greasing. A supervisor of Westchester county wf now, but whether yev heerd me or "And when we meet, as meet we may, "Thuz nothin like pertectin' the welfare A Woman with Sirty Dresses and a Dude ew York, proposed this novel tramp 'Tv.ill be as strangers, Upton Rey" not, such were the fact. Jedgin' o' yer gran'children w'ile they'm $sl Dealer in WhoRivals ber. ^^vSt^ With scornful lip I turned away. en a building on the county farm, from w'at I've see o' boys nawadays, voung," said he, "fer w'en they git old Long Branch Letter. & an' 'specially durin' the past short j'to be so constructed that it can be ye can't" *y ED. MOTT. He did not stretch a hand, nor chide time, I hain't afeered to say th't it'd iooded with water to the depth of 6 He stood quite silent in his pride This is a great hotel. At present it be better fer folks in ginner'l if the As silen bly I left his side. and so arranged with apartments shelters not only a woman with forty A Affectionate Squirrel. CANNED, DRIED & GREEN fac't were jist vicy vercy. Nex' to me, ^3FRUITS, bst pei'sons committed as tramps can brand new complete costumes, but a Across the stubble brown and dry, proberly, the best boy th't lived in We frequently hear of a pet dog, 01 Beneath the purpling tuilifc sky. placed therein and when the water well, God made him, therefore let him our deestrie, sixty years ago an' better, even horse or bird, mourning for a Alone with wrathful thoughts walked I. 'Sffl were AjaxThumply. Ajax wa'n't turned on be compelled to bail or be Floux and IF@@ci pass for a manwith sixty spick-span lost master or mistress till it pine's only good but he were tough. He never "Henceforth as strangers let it be, bmerged thereby." The author of fresh suits, ninehorses and four servants. away. The Atlanta Constitution tells And uhen we meet be sure he'll see went 'round the country askin' other resolutions is Joseph B. See of the The lady in question is Mrs. Moses Fraley STOSK,WOODKN AND WIULOWS\_ No trace of cank'ring care in mo." the same story of a pet squirrel. boys if their gan'pops was ever $ui of New Castle. A Sun reporter of St. Louis, wife of the grain speculator. WABK. buried alive, an' a bettin' the cider The intensity of animal affection Siced him for an explanation of the Of her wardrobe the whole of th't they'd say they was. He didn't NEW ULM, MINK. has just been pathetically illustrated [^solutions. waste no time a dom' that, but w'at The frozen snow beneath our feet the immediate house is aware, not alone in this city. Three years ago Mr. Fr. Burg Trod icy hard as cruel sleet, did he do' He 31st went an' got buried I cla to be a kind-hearted man," because it is dazzled three times a day My heart foreknew that we would meet. Jacob Gardner, of Bull Street, sold a alive hisself, an' I'm glad th't this ud Mr. See, "but I think that the and between meals by miraculous toilets, Bill Simmons has managed to put me large black squirrel, which had attracted With scorn we met, with pride we passed ramp' question is getting to be a very but because, though occupying an in mind o' that leetle sarcumstance A bitter sigh rose on the blast. considerable attention while at the rave one for the people ot Westlester. extensive suite of rooms, two of which in the hist'ry of Ajax Thumply. No look my haughty eyes upcast. store on account of il unusual size We get all the v.igrants who are turned into a wardrobe, the corridor "The fact th't th' wa'n't many boys and the beauty of its coat. Manufacturer of and Dealer in dr.ven out ot New York city, and into which they open has a wainscotting in them times give the measles an' The animal became the favorite pet seems as though we get all the the hookin' cough, etcettery, the best "To-day the soul of Upton Rey of trunks, varying in size from CIGARS, of its purchaser, and was often given Sped gladsome on its heavenward way, kind of a chance to slo^h in their best amps in the State of Connecticut alegator hat boxes to the huge the freedom of the house, and other And will you come?" I heard him say. licks, an' th' bein' so much on 'em to nee the severe laws against them went "togas," openinglike chests of drawers. L&'TOBACCOS, liberties nofoften enjoyed by its kind spare, 'twa'n't no uncommon thing fer The grass was new beneath our feet, (to operation there. We pay about when captivity were extended to When Mrs. Fraley, who is a large 'em ter visit the boys two or three Along our way the lanes were sweet, it. Occasionally the chatterer left the 00,000 a year on account of tramps. woman with blonde hair, has astonished PIPESL times apiece, an' keep us either a "As strangers, Upton Rey, we meet." premises, but never failed to return see, a& it is now vagrants are sent whoopin' like a painter, or swelled up us for the fortieth time with a stunning iACor. Minnesota and Centre hen night approached. It was the *v^he county jail, and trampsthat is, The candles twinkled through the gloom, 'bout the jaws like a chipmunk with combination of dress, hat, parasol, object of almost constant petting and About the coffin bud and bloom two walnuts in each chop, or broke ^-resident vagrantsare sent to the streets. gloves, stockings and shces to match, Of roses white made sweet the room. caressing, and nearly always slept out like ripe pokeberries from groun'hog "nitentiary. Whenever one of these snuggled up in the arms of its mistress. she will start for pastures new and begin NEW ULM, MINN/ day till holler-eve. Ajax Thumply In silent scorn of me he lay. A few days ago the owner left the city iaps is anested he says that he lives all over again, as is the mode with seemed to be the av'rit o' all them "You vex"his cold lips seemed to say Jno. Neuman^ for a few days, leaving the squirrel ac "No more the soul of Upton Rey. the county, naming a d'stant town, blessin's o'childhood an' worried out women of fashion. For example, there home. The little animal soon missed the mumps three times on both sides, id so he goes to the county j.ul. He arrived this morning a lady who has "When you have breasted Death's dark her and ran from room to room, all made the measles tired four different is nothing to do there but eat and tide, been doing Saratoga with thirteen over the nouse and grounds, in search Dealer in winters, kep' his folks awake o' nights, And stand in heaveu by my side, ay cards all winter. We have tried of her, giving unmistakable evidence ol trunks, and who lunched in a miracle IDR/5T GOODS, an' chocked an' ketched his breath We meet as strangers, Gladys Clyde." stop the nuisance, but in vain. It 1 grief. All efforts at consolation on the of chocolate satin sprinkled with with a reg'lar wild Injun whoo-whoop! Mats, Caps, notions. part of others were unavailing, and It is too latetoo late to tell sts more to make a tramp work than so I0112 an' so often th't the doctor natural-sized walnuts of golden hue, How all the while I loved him well, the squirrel refused either to be comforted Groceries, Provisions* said it had set in on him to stay, an' work is worth. Every effort that and bronze shoes, which, by the way, In secret how hot my tears fell. or to paitake of its usual food, th't nothin' less'n a good stroke o' Crockery and Glassware, ~f*4 make to stop it meets the determin. are very fashionable, and in this case from time to time giving vent to pitiful Yet every golden summer dav lightnin' 'd cure him. But Ajax got Canned1 Green, Dried and 'resistance of the Sheriff's office, of little cries indicative of grief. cut low enough to display golden silk 1bstables. Above his grass green grave I pray, fat on 'em an' they all gave it up ez a /e Justices of the Peace, and of the Fruits, etc, etc. "In that last resurrection day After nearly a week had elapsed and stockings. On her head was perched a bad job, an' he come out of all on' em "Oh" not as strangers, Upton Rey!" it became evident that the little sorrower's The Sher.ff gets $3)|a week tougher'n ever. Folks said th't th' coquettish turban, trimmed with a death was a matter of only a wa'n't nothin'left that could down the board of each tramp, and I will always take farm produce io exchange dozen gold and brown rings. few days, the owner was notified and THE OLD SETTLEB. Ajax Thumply, an' if th' were any one for goods, and pay the highest market pricefor ai 't^tmust be large. The fees of the As to the masculine wearer of five returned home. Her arrival was greeted kinds of paper raga. in the settlement ez doubted it he quit dozen different costumes, Mr. E. Berry her officials are of course increased with evidences of wild joy by th doubtin' arter what happened to Ajax Wall of New York, I am told he Hist the arrest and committal of a large New York Sun. In connection with my store Ibaie a flrst-clast squirrel, which jumped into her arms one spring in the sugar bush. became famous through his infinite saloon furnished with a splendid billiard table aa4" ^ruber of tramps each year. "Grandpop," said little Peleg one with all the signs of happiness that variety of his clothes and his lending my customers will always ftnd good liqnora an "Ajax were tappin' trees fer sap, its weakened condition would permit. "My resolutions were adopted by a day, as the Old Settler sat by the that assuming young fraud Lord Abercromby cigars, and every forenoon a splendid inneh. one spring, all alone in that part o' It made every effort to partake of the of 14 to 8. A motion to reconsidthis kitchen stove greasing his boots with $7,000 dollars. I cannot vouch the bush. He had bored a hole in one tempting food placed before it, but vote was lost, and so the matter All goods purchased or me will be delivered U* the nubbin of a tallow dip, "was you for the truth of it, but it is said that tree, an' were jist a gointer to set his was unable to swallow, and the following any part of the city free of eost. {settled so far as we are concerned. he and Mrs. Fraley regard each other ever buried alive?" elder-spile in it, w'en swat! come sumpin' day, with its eyes turned almost re will have to get the Legislature to Minnesota Street. New Ulra, MroB in the light of bitter rivals, though the agin his head, an' he didn't quit pitifully into those of its mistress, The Old Settler paused in his work. latter has the advantage for she can flyin' through the air till he had gone notion it, of course, and we have it gazed out its life while lying in her He drew his hand slowly out of the wear diamonds in a dozen different Meat Market/ sunipin' like forty foot. Ez he struck arms. iked our representatives to urge the boot, put the nubbin back the saucer ways while Mr. Wall is obliged to confine on the groun' he looked back an' see tssage of such an act. We don't on the stove hearth, and sat the himself to studs, pin and sleeve th't ez he were tappin' the tree a big ant to drown any tramps, but if this boot on the floor. There was at first buttons of blazing stones. Points for Porkerites. b'ar had come up ahind an' tapped M. EPPLE, Prop'r. fan goes mto operation there won't be While I write I can see through the a startled look in his eyes, but it disappeared him The b'ar didn't wait fer Ajax Boston Herald. NEW ULM, MINN.. MINNESOTA ST. tnareplace window the St. Louis matron setting ay tramps around here to drown. to get up, but follered him right up. as he pulled his spectacles If you want to find out the true in her carriage for a drive. She has Ajex didn't hev nothin' to figth with, down from his forehead to his nose not going to hang around a character of a man get him into a on a wonderful gowna peach colored so w'at does he do but playoff dead, HPHE undersigned desires in'orm the peopleI and gazed over them at his lively very long where they game of porker. He is bound to show New Ulm and vicinity that ie haerv established silk covered with immense damask rosea knowing th't at th't season o'the year wir grandson, who was just then blowing !us meat market and is now preapared to his true colors there. It does not i\e to bail water ten hours a day. b'ars 'd lug their fodder home of crimson velvet pile the underskirt on tils eld customers and friends ih only th* his breath on a window pane and make any difference whether he is a best iresh and cured meats, sausages, lard and everytlnns: 'fore they put it inside of 'emselfs, an, is flounced alternately with crimson usually kept in i. firt-class market Tb#* marking his name there with his finger. winner or a loser, he will show himself hopin' th't sunipin' 'd turn up to git velvet and rose point the cut of the Fantan. highest market price will be paid for FATCA1V "Ez I look back an' gether up my him outen the scrape. The b'ar sniffed just as he is before he gets throucdi TLB, HIDES, \V OOL, ETC. cor&age is concealed by a mantle of the The Chinese gxmblmg game known reconiember'nces," said the Old Settler, 'round Ajax a while, an' then begun It takes a cool head and lots of nerve brocade a tiny bonnet of lace and crimson M. EPPLB. fantan is thus described by mission- to lug him off. They hadn't gone fur, NEW after a reflective pause^ "I can't pompons covers her flaxen puffs, to keep quiet in a game of poker, watch yKin. of New York: Seating himself though, w'en the b'ar stopped an' rubier and diamonds tremble in the sun. 'azact'ly sa,y fer sartm whuther I were the players and never be moved Meat Market. a table with a handful of half dollars dropped his game. Ajax opened his Mrs. Fraley steps into her satin-lined by the jokes, growls and jeers of fellow-players. buried alive or not, Peleg fer so many eyes a leetle by an' by' an' wa't does jjjid quarters, he said the silver must be (.Mh?**' carriage with a dexterous touch arranges There are some players things tha'd be likely to set theirselts he see but the cheerin' prospec' o' her skirts and settles hersell '[.pposod to be "cash," i. e. cheap Clnse it who never know when they are bein^ fast onter my mmd has happened to JOS. SCHNOBBICH, Prop'r.,. bein' stowed away in the ground, an' among the cushions, under the shade of co n. He covered them up and whipped around the bush. These fellows me ez I've pressed for'ard, up an' the ba'r were diggin' away for dear a white lace, rose lined umbrella. are never satisfied with the text en diewfrom the heap four coins at down, over an' acrost an' through New life to scoop out the bury in' place. At Ulm, Minn Presently Mr. Fraley's valet rushes out of the game. If the ante is twentyfive 'ich draw. In the mean time another this Ajax kinder lost his grit a leetle, this mundane spear, th'tsech a triflin' with a vast boquet of red roses. Then cents they will invariably make an' he couldn't hev stirred an inch if little thins ez the one you mention of iison had written on a sl.p of paper the lady gives the signal, the liveried A large supply of fresh meats, sau^ it seventy-five cents when it comes he'd know'd it' 'd save his life. The wouldn't hev ben likely fer to stick footman hops on his perch at the back, i^gfiicss at the number of coins that lage, haras, lard, etc., constantly on*' ba'r wa'nt long a digging the hole, an' their tum so as to make a jack pot. and the liveried coachman in front thar, an' o' course I've fergot it. jonid remain when all the possible land. All orders from the country 'fore Ajax scarcely know'd it he were But it is seldom that they win one oi startj v4 the syan,oue pure white and But whuther I ever was buried urb had been ithdrawn. He guesstwo, dumped inter it an' the ba'r were womptlr attended to, Jg^-ese big pots. Some quiet duck, who one jet black Bteed, with huge yellow alive, or whuther I ever wasn't shuckin' the dirt an' stuns in on top which proved to be right, and nad no hand in the job, will open the pot collars around their necks, to the manifest HIDE&/ CASH PAID FOR buried alive, I'm willin' to state it o' him. Ajax were pooty near hid consequently would ha\e raked with two pair or better, and then one deteriment of their appearance. right here ez one o' the biggest facts 'fore he diskivered th't he had hung je pot had the game been played in of the smart Alecks, with a small pair onter the elder spile all 1 hat time. th't ever were mannyfactur'd, th't I 'rnest. Ordinarily chips of different and an ace, or a bob-tail flush \vi'! THE HEW E ft: The spile had a half Inch hole through Wasn't never buried dead, b'gosh, an' raise the pot and attempt to Steal dprs for different amounts of "cash," The Fatal Name of "Walter." it from one eend to to'other. The ba'r ye kin spread it from the housetops'" by a reckless bluff, But Utt always te used. had his back to Ajax jist then, shovelin' Forty-four years ago the writer was The Old Settler grabbed up his boot CITY PLANING KIILL gets a call, and in the end finds himself in the dirt. Quicker'n a flash called in a professional capacity to a again, and rubbed it vigorously with The Roman "Peelers." only the deeper in the hole. And Ajax clasps one end o' the splice to rudely constructed log cabin in the the grease for a moment. Peleg having his nose, an' lets the elder stick then he swears, calls the fellow who woods, sixteen miles east of Indianapolis. The police S3 stem ancient Rome. exhausted the surface of the window MANUFACTURES straight Up through the dirt, *nd we'n beats him a tight-bellied player, and A male child was borne^the has been discovered by fcrchseolog pane with his inscriptions, hustled the b/&r got through Ajax had a reg'lar thinks he is playing in terrible hard DOORS, WINDOW SAS1T first borne of man and wifewhose intelligence il researches was in some respects fthimbley from the outside, tarry- the cat out of the rush-bottom rocking luck. A man who makes it a practice and general cultivation wag W similar to that of modern times *n? fresh air right down to him. The VENETIAN BLINDS,39j hair and sat down. His grandfatner much in advance of the society in which of bluffing in a small limit game, or dirt bore a leetle heavy on Ajax, o' IC duties of the oflircrs appear to they lived. They were determined to suspended his boot greasing who invariably comes in on a small course, but he commenced to dig it MOULDINGS AND FRAMES ve been in the in tin like those of our make themselves a home of plenty in operation once more. pair when a jack-pot is opened, i-j away, knowin, that it weie only a the new country by their own industry, dice, with the important exception 'nothusg short of a chump. Put that question o' time w'en the b'ar would! "Peleg," said he, "that's a cttr'ous Planing, turning nnH *iV having nothing but a quarter section of in yottr pipe and smoke it, as it fits a at the Roman police served also as come back, onkiver him, an't chaw a! question fer you to put to yer gran'pop. good land and their household goods. work ivith rib-saw promptly good many of you. There are some enian Their tire buckets were of dinner often him. Ajax were jist ati' W'at hev ye been seuV or hearin' They came from Clearmont Co., O. players you never can satisfy, no matter hour an' twenty-minutes gitten, outen anil neatly tocecated. oven straw coated with pitch inside tell on th't could ha' put it inter Three neighbor women were there, and how you play so the only way is that hole, an' though his grit, hadt all yer conk''* ul outside to make them watertight, it after the little stranger was dressed the come back to him, he argyed th to attend to your own business, keep "Well," said Peteg, "Bill Simmons ouses were often guarded In the day mother, with black hair and beautiful All work gnaranteed. Rates reason-' were picnic enough to be buried alive your mouth shut and your eyes open, saya to me the ot&r day, 'That's a eyes, was asked to name the boy. "I able. 'lie by watchmen employed by the by a b'ar an' git out ag'in without play your hand for all there is in it. wonderful chap* that granddaddy of C. ZELLER, Prop'iy want to call him Walter, but it is an vners or occupants of the buildings waitin' to be chawed up by bruin, an' see that the cards are well shuffled yours,' he sa^s. 'How many times unlucky name. My great-grand-father so Ajax made tracks fur hum, the best id to secure a faithful performance of has he been killed and wounded?' he and cut, and when you find a chronic NEW60QDS1 LOWEST PRICED was named Walter, and he never came feelin' ten-year-old th' were in. the duty the guaid was chained to the says. I told Bill that I guessed you growler or a bluffer in the game, study home from the war for independence. clearin'. Arter that everybody said Hadn't been killed and wounded many or post, so that no interloper could his game and make him your meat. Then my husband's grandfather was th' wa'n't nothin', fer sure, th't could times, not all at once, anyhow but named Walter, and he went to the wax ike advantage of a temporary absence Eenry J. LucU& get away with Ajax Thumply. But that you had been about everything of 1812 and he never returned. His the sentinel. jist listen a leetle more. else there was, except it might be buried Did Not Catch The Idea. oldest brother was named Walter. He alive. I told Bill I guessed you went to sea and we heard that he became Mislaid the Corpse. "I don' s'pose th't you'd have the From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal. hadn't besn buried alive yet, 'You Dealer InDRY soldier in Europe, hut he never cheek to say th't you're ez tough ez A good story is told at the expense jest ask him if he hain't.' Bill says, a back-country town, where funer returned. We do not know where any GOODS, u Ajax were, Peleg, an yit see how he 'and if he don't say that of course he of a good looking young farmer ol serve much the same purpose that of them are buried. No grave stones ended up. One day, not long arter he has, and don't tell you all Readfield. He is not only a goodlooking ie theatre does in the cities, there i .$ mark their resting-place. There is no GROCERIES, were buried alive, he were havin' a about how it happened,' Bill says, young fellow but also a steady war now, and I trust never will be in lanced to die one of the members of leetle discussion with a boy 'bout you can come over "and suck for an NOTIONS, ETC: our life-time in this country, and I am worker and very practical in his ideas. ie community, and one of the neighrs sumpin' th't Aiax's poor ol' gran'pop hour on our cider barrel with a straw.' in favor of calling him Walter, that t=e had or hadn't done. Sumpin' sim'lar, It seems that last summer among the was asked to "take charge" of the So I guesss I'll go over to Bill's now, XfoattBg'a Block, old family name may be retained among come to think on it, to this Bill Simmons' guests at the hotel wa3 a very pretty grandpop, and sea whether the cider ineral. On the day appointed the us." Twenty-two years from that time way o' doin' business. The NEW ULM, is worth it."* -1 young girl who was spending a few immunity assembled and stood about Walter bade his widowed mother farewell boy pooty soon said to Ajax th't if it "Jis' hoi' on a leetle, Peleg," said weeks here with her mother. She wae groups discussing either the departor to join the army for the defense of wa'n't so w'at he said th't Ajax could the Old Settler, with ominous mildness. decidedly citified in her manners, and the condition of the crops, while the Union and the home of his childhood. come over to his house an* have all "I've got time 'nought to giva of rather a coquettish and romatic He never returned, and the the cider he he could take inter him neighbor in charge bustled from ye some advice on different matters mother who has just died, leaves all through a straw. Well, it wa'n't so nature. The young man in question room to another making the last 'twixt now an' thai time yer gran'mammy an' Ajax went an' sucked cider, her means to be devoted to hringing became very much struck with th. comes in, an' it'll do ye good, rangements. The hour for the funerarrrved Through a straw. Now just to see the body home, should its burial place mebby, to hev ears an' hear. Yev young woman's attractions and was and paased, and yet the servdid Peleg this tough boy, who had got ver be found, and erecting a monument*KW had the mumps on both sides, hain't quite devoted in his attentions. not beg n. Still more time fat an' tougher the more he had the to the memory of her Walter/* ye. Peleg?" Young men are scarce here, and the cd. and the manager of affairs was measles,the mumps,the hookin' cough, "Yes," said Peleg. city maiden was by no means loth to etcetteryan" you've only had 'em to be hurrying from room to room, "An' the measles an' the hookin' wun8tan' who was buried alive bv accept the attentions of the uood- oktng anxiously about as it search cough?" '1\ J~ 'That Was AIL" ^1?^M a b'ar ad' dug hisself outw'ich you 100king young farmer. "Had em' both bad." something. As time passed the auence ain't never done yetwent an' sucked One night the couple were sitting in "An was ye in w'en the chicken-pox The late David Snow, President of began to show signs of impajnce, cider through a straw, come back a hammock which was swung near the visited your folkses, house?"* i- J"- the Bank of the Republic, in this city, and also of curiosity as the percxed home an' was took to his bed with it, windows of the hotel parior,'and a "I was there, grandpop." was remarkably well-informed in all face of the man in charge apared an' what the measles an sech an' the certain person sitting near one oi "That's good," said the Old Settler, mercantile matters, and found time buryin' alive couldn't do to Ajax again before them. There was these windows overheard their conversation. leaning back in his chair and getting nearly every day to visit the Produce' Thumply, the cider through a straw idently a "hitch" in the proceedings The moon was shining brightly ready to talk. "That's good. Any Exchange, where he looked out for an done in short order. 'Fore it had and the crickets chirruped merrily, boy o' your age ez has had all them mewhere. and an i-xplauat'on was 'tacked Ajax an hour he was ready occasional investment. Meeting one whfch fact may have prompted the a'ready, 'specially the mumps on both cessary. Mounting a cha r, the imomptu to be buried dead." day a large flour dealer named Willis maiden to coyly ask, "What is God's sides, is apt to git it inter his head undertaker ai1 "My friends. House on 'Change, Mr. Snow asked The Old Settler paused. Peleg was best gift to man?" Having asked the tha't th' hain't nothin' wuss to come, areare very sorr to cause any dcin so affected by the recital that he question she blushed a little and let an' th't he's ready to stan' anything him how things were in the market. theahlast riles of the departbut simply looked amazed and said nothing. her long sweeping lashes hide for a moment th't is in th'futur' an' comeont h'inky, "Dull as death,"responded House "I Presently his grandfather said: thoahirutlt s, we have umthe her downcast eyes. 'less it mowt be a littlo rassel wth a would like to see the man who will give "Now my son, if Ajax only had carried fam'ly o' b'ars, or the unfortinit run- But the young man was equal to corpse." me $10 a barrel for a thousand barrels that cider hunt to bis poor ol'gran'- nhV agin a catty mount ez has been iho occasion, and after hesitating a of "Acorn'" (a brand worth 12 at the It transpired that the coffin had been pop, th'hain't no doubt but th't he'd dissyp'inted fer a week or so in gettm' moment he answered, confidently, "a time.) ught Uown to the lower entry or SODA ha' been here to-day a tellin' his story his grub reg'lar, Consekently seen a boss." The moonbeams were just as "Ill give it io you?' said Snow. I from a chamber, and through some hisself, an' how much better his gran'pop boy kin 'preciate the small passel o' bright and the crickets still continued isunderstanding plated beside the House knew Snow's sharpness in the would ha' felt* You kin find a facts I'm 'bout to give him, fer they'll their song, but the maiden wait suddenly jrway in the shadow. Those cora- market, and after staring at him a pitcher right there in the cupboard, show him b'gosh how he kin be mistook brought back from her romantic 1g in from the bright sunlight had moment said: Peleg." 'bout hisself. world to the practical realities of a rown their wraps upon it, not reiliz- "That's all I only to see the heerd ha1 Peleg found the^pitcher, and hurried "Yemowtoryemowtn't aSp?**it it was, and thus made It in- I %*T3gre*r'* Magazine. $ kiS^M