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I.ileof Miioster townsl, ip, Cainbna county, liavlmr been uranted to the nndors.srne. , al I per sons Indebted to said osinieare 'cJlu7'f 1 pavme.it ior.hwilh. and , hose having n.ivtt She s..mo will present I hem propel ly pro hlcd for settlement. .,,,,., FUANCIS (I'FRIEL, Administrator. Irclto. Oct. , 1S74.-61. Dani i:l Mclaughlin. Anot-m Vn. niBot In th" "la F.cehansro l.iiiidiiijr! (m stntt-s.) eornor of Oin- to an4 i.oii-i srrt 1 s. iYiau i v txe ctrnaretwa WivU uisirofwsiuu. -M. -ni?ia l-ifi it Co., 2-7 Lr iaIwiyt New York. fcafij Massachusetts to Louisiana. BY JOHN BOY LB O'REILLY. Bistar ! we hve longed i spaak it ! We liave waited long to save : TTa have yearned to speak tlie welcome "Enter be no more a sl.-ire '" Every tear that fell,, we saw it, As we braced to meet the shock. New ! Come in the door ia open : Sit tfeou here by Plymouth Kock ! "We have aeon thee all dishevelled, Peen thee bend with tremblin;ip, YVhc-n the men who should have loved thee liaised a g:in the brutal whip. Hut we knew their day was coming As we know their day has rorne : Iliiig their doom, Louisiana ! Massachusetts drive them home ! Queen thou wart in all thy sorrow : Queen thou shalt be yet in pride. Many-throned Columbia rails thee Where her queens sit side by side, And thy re;al robes are ready, And thy crown is on The thioue, For we knew our Cinderalla Would come back to claim lier own. Nevermore shall one bs driven To the dtsert ; nevermore Shall the children of the I'nioa On their brethren bar the door. God be thanked fr love crown stronger; Heart and hope go hand in hand ; We are North and South no longer, But a great United Land ! I'.oflnn nioi. I'AHEE MOULTllli-. BY CAI'TATN CHARLES JJCnV.WtP. The finding of Randolph Rliett dead in Iiia library, on the eveningof October 29th, 18o3, gave rise to considerable excitement. Thb sudden taking oif of ro prominent a member of the Carolina Legislature as "Mr. lihett, was to be deplored by the entire State, and when it became known that he had been murdered, a thrill of horror shot through every heart. Mr. Rliclt's library was situated on the ground floor of his spacious and magnificent mansion. The eastern windows looked out upon a beautiful palmetto grove, while ibe southern ones revealed the loveliness of a flower garden. The legislator had never married, but his roof sheltered a lovely giil who bore his name. His nephew, a young Georgian named Parke Moultrie, resided with him. The youth was reading law under the Col onel, as "Mr. Ithctt was c:iled throughout tha State, and it was he who had found him dead among his books and legal papers. When the student entered the room at 8 o'clock on the fatal morning, he found his uncle bowed upon the desk, very like a per son napping. He did not manifest .-ny surprise at this, for the Colonel often rose at four, read or wrote till seven, to fail asleep again in the position I have, in a word, de sciibed. Moulti ie 1 am writing from his testimony elicited at the inquest took a lgal volume from the hook case, and threw himself into a chair near one of the south ern windows, the sash of which was raised. He opened tho volume at a page where sev eral.slips of paper.had bcn placed"1y some one, and a sudden breath of .southern hreczo lifted them from tUe hook. One piece al'ffbtcd directly beneath the Colonel, 'and the youth thought to recover it without discommoding his relative- He left the chair and was putting his hand beneath the pi nli nil when be noted a tlaik red spot on tho cai pet. As it looked like biod, be statted and li ied to awaken the Colonel. Failing to do so by gentle slinking, he raised his head and saw t he unmistakable staie. of death in 1 his eyes. There was a red stain on his well ironed shirt front it was the wound of ti'C j T Cii destroying dagger. The Colonel had been dea-leveral Lours. Parke Moultrie could see this at a glance. i He did not rouse the house until he had . examined the room. The Colonel's money had not been touched; his papers were in tact. Then what motive prompted the murder? Revenge! Colonel I Miett had no ' avowed enemies who would stoop to the level of the midnight assassin. lie did not fear the stealthy blow. "I.Iy foes are chivalrous," he rvas wont to sny. "When they wait revenge, like gentlemen, to the field of honor they will call me." P.u fcc Moultrie found a bruised daisy leaf on the window sill. Tt boio the ir.iprir.tor shoe-nails, and it told the youth that his uncle's assassin had gained the house through tho (lower garden, lie had pre served the leaf,and exhibited it to the cor oner' 8 jury. . I hava said that the papers of the deceased were found intact. But a mystery now bothered the minds of many. A will, which the colonel was known to have written, could not be found, though the mansion was searched thoroughly a dozen ties. At last, deeply buried among some old letters, a codicil was discovered. It was dated a year before the murder and j lead thus : ! "Codicil to the will of Randolph Rhett : j I bequeath to my nephew, Marion Rhett, who, when last heard from, was in Rich- i mond, Va., the sum of twenty thousand dollars, on condition that he takes charge of my plantation and manages it for my child Viola. I appoint him executor of my , estate, and the guardian of my child. The other items of my will, namely, five thous- j and dollars to Taik Moultrie; the remainder j of my property, exclusive of the bequest to ' Marion Rheft, to Viola." This codicil was propoily signed with the , well-known authogiaph of the distinguish- j cd Caroliuian, and it was thought that he ; had misplaced the will. . j I "I do r.ot know much about this cousin of mine," said Viola to Park Moultrie sev eral days subsequent to the funeral. "I have heard father speak of a Rhett who has disgraced the family by marryiug a travel ing actress, but I have forgotten his chris tian name. Mariou sounds like it, though I do not think that is it. Shall I write to Richmond.?' "I would advise j-ou to do so,' said the student. "It is proper that your father's affairs bo attended to at once," and ho added as he turned away: "I am curious to sec this Marion Rhelt this unknown cousin of mine." That night Viola dispatched a letter to the capital of the Old Dominion, and a week elapsed before a reply came. The letter which she received was signed 'Mai ion Rhett." The writer expressed sorrow at the colonel's sudden death, and nutchjs nt prise at the fortune that had he fallen him. "I am coming down in a few days," he wrote, "and 1 will have no rest tiil the assassin is hung." "I adjudge him a young man," said Parke Moultrie, studying the chirography of the Virginian letter. "A young man about my own age four and twenty. I had expected to see a mau in tho neglibor hood of thirty six." One evening, several days after tho recep tion of t he letter, Marion Rhett reached the plantation. That he was a genuine Rhelt could not be disputed. He possessed the intellectual forehead of hisVevolutianary ancestors; he could boast, of the Rliett eyes, the Rhett mouth, and the ringing melody of the ilhctt voice. "What do you think of him !" Viola found time to whisper to Parke Moultrie, "lie is the person be represents himself Sumter Rhett's son," was the student's re. ply. "Rut there is something about him I d',not like, Viola. 1 cannot explain myself now." Marion Rhett gradually Teamed the reikis of government on the plantation, lie treated Park .Moultrie deferentially for a fortnight, when ho suddenly began to wax cold toward him. lie hinted that thc-e was a good opcuing for Jaw students in Rick mond, and, unable to lear his ruling longer, and unwilling for Viola's sake to resist afici' the manner of the Carolinian, he quitted the estate. "I shall feel lonely while you are away, Paike," Viola said to him on t he night prior to his departure. "I do not like my cousin; He treats niekindly: he is very entertaining, but there is something about him I do not like." Park Moultrie started at her last words He bad made use of them hile addressing her shoitly after Marion Rhett's arrival on the plantation. "Wh'at have you discovered, Viola?" "Nothing, Parke only there is a some thing about him I do not like. I cannot explain myself." Parke Moultrie kissed Viola Illicit before he went away, and a week later a letter informed her that he had opened a law of fice in Petersburg, Virginia. Occasionally, during the year that fol lowed the departure of the student Viola heard from him, and lie from her. To his repeated advice to watch tho do ings of Marion Rliett she at last Levari to return eas;ve replies, and one evening the contents ef a certain letter startled him. Viola was about to become the wife of Marion Rhett ! This announcement, made by the fair o-iil herself, drove Parke Moultrie from tho chair, and he started at the let'er. unable j to credit the evidences of his senses. "He has fasciualed her with those hale fid eyes of his 1" he died, crunching the letter in his hand. "I love the girl;, she loves me, or did.. I know this! Ry bcav ns ' bis nlans shall amount to nothing. I will baffle him, if I am compelled to kill : him on the field oT honor. They arc not j fitted for one another ; the angels in Heav- en above revolt at this match, and the de mons down under the boa rejoice. He has charmed her, as the serpent charms the bird. He drove me from the plantation that he might work with node to molest, nor make him afraid. I will not give Viola up without a struggle. With the spell broken she will return to me. She is not sinning no ! no ! Marion Rhett has done it all !" Maddened almost beyond control, Tarkc Moultrie stood over his law tables, with bloodless lips and clenched hands. The room was growing dark, and the lamp lighter was making bis i omuls. The 1 tw yer's form was not visible from the street, but his door, flung wide, told passers-by that he bad not deserted the office. While he stood in the dusk, slowly re covering from the excitement iuto which Viola's letter had thrown him, he heard a boy's voice at the door. ; "This is the place, ir.a'atn, but I pness Mr. Moultrie's gone out." "No, I am hero," said the lawyer, has tening to the door. "If the lady will step in, T will light the gas." He saw the door darkened by a form, clad in female attire, and turned the gas on. The next moment, he closed the door and turned to his visitor. He found a woman who had not passed her t wenty-seeond year. She was very beautiful, ftagile in form, intellectual, in countenance, but there lurked the fire of passion in her dark Southern eyes, and i1 heightened her lovcliuess. She dropped inlo the chair which the Rut, alaa ! for his precious life, his alibi lawyer pushed to her and looked him in was not a good one. The lie in his letter the face. ... to Viola hung him. The evidence of his "Do you listen to clients after office wronged wife he could not overthrow. Re hours?'' she askeel, in a rich voice, which fo-e he died he confessed to another crime, rippled over a smile that played over her Entering his uncle's chamber that fatal coral lips. , night, he fou id him at the desk. There, 'i es, Miss or Madam." j before the old man could recognize him, he familv, fifth co-.i-irt or something of thai "Madam, if you please, Mr. Moultrie," drove the little dagger to his breast, stole Krt t)'en reidii cn Second street. One she said, her eyes flashing hatefully, and tho will and wrote the codicil found amoug day,' t dinner ti:i:e. there strode into the din then she laid a white, ungloved hand on the letters. j in-rx)ni a tnl!, I rjp.l-shouakred, bronzeJ the table. "That hand," she murmured, The spell of Mm ion Rhett's fascination a;,J bearded mtin. who w&s evident".. from you must separate forever from the hand it graspeel before the altar five years ago, Do yon understand, Mr. Moultrie?' "I think 1 tlo. You seek a divorce." "And I must not seek in vain," the said, firmly. Parke Moultrie drew some paper from the drawer, and sharpened bis pencil. "Please state your case, madam," he said, glancing at her. "Five years ago, come the tenth of next October, I, as Maud Raymond, better known to the pU.; going world as Madam oisel'.e Rcanchampe, was united in marri age to Marion Rhett." I i ue intelligence cmiimcrt'u uis last ino At mention cf his nvai s name Parke . , . . . . . . , ... ., nients : but ho met bis fate with the cour- -Mouitrie almost dropped his licncil. I lio 14 1 . woman did not seem to notice Itisemoaon and continued after a brief pau.se. "I don't know why I married him. I never loved him. lie had no money."' j "Perhaps he had prospects? suggested j the lawyer. j "Prospects !" echoed the petitioner, with a smile. "Ah ! he had prospects. He had a rich uncle Randolph Rhett, I think : his name was. He expected money there, but his marriage with me ruined all his . prospects. His uncle cursed him in a long letter, and told him that he had cut him oil . wilhout a cent. I hold the letter. After , that, Marion Rhett soon tired of me. Ho basely tleserted nie in Mobile. That was j three years ago. I have spoken to LLm but once si uce. It was in Ilanisburg. I was playing my last engagement there. It was the night of the 20th October, lyo3." "What!" cried Paike MouKric, start ing again. ' Mai ion Rhett's w ife repeated the dcclar at ion. ! "Are you confident or the date ?" "I am. I cau swear that I talked with him then and there." Mt Riictt, on what grounds do yon. pet'tion for a divorce?" "On the grounds of desertion ; but there is another chaige which I would to God (he court would hear?"' "Will you make it now?"' She rose to her feet, and looked the law yer in the eye. Al! the passions of a Cenc; burned in her eyes, aiul lu?r voice was cut tingly vindictive and emphatic. "I charge the man v.no charmed tnc to the altar with the basest of crimes - the ci ime ef murder," she cried. "Can vou prove it? ' cued Parke .Moul trie, springing almost triumphantly from his chair. - "I do not know." she said slowly. "Oh God, if thy angels could speak in the courts of men ! He slew Colonel Rliett, his uncle The dagger he carried would fit the death wound which 1 have seen so minutely de scribed in the papers. I know he. killed him, for I have beared him swear that be would do it. What sweet revenge if L t could prove it !" j "Hoid " cried the lawyer. "One of his ( lies shall furnish the missing l'nk. I have i a letter which he wrote to the colonel's child one week after the murder. In that letter he declares that he was in Alexan dria the on r.iht of tlie;tweniieth." "He was not! On the morning of the 11th of October, lS-'o, I left Harrisburg for the South. I was obliged to lclire from the stage on account of my health. I reach ed Cloyden on the 2-lh. That night I rambled among the suburbs of the town. 1 saw a raan approaching, and I shrunk i ,i. the shade of a palmetto. He passed nie, and 1 saw tho face of my husband. He went toward Colonel Rhett's plantation. The next day he was not in Cloyden. I have cot seen him since. Mr. Monliiie, you can thaw your own conclusions." Parke Moultrie was not slow in drawing them rr. t.i...i..if. Pi,.i,mj lmn ni-ht suddenly confronted Marion ilhctt. Ven.lemanhomhemadeknovvnasMr. Swails, of Pittsburgh, accompa.vcd him. Vhe. were you on tho lo.h of Octo- her. 18oo," inqund Mr. wail3, ourin the conversation that followed the intro duction. The answer came after a moment's tho't. "Iu Alexandria and Washington." "Ah ! a fine old town, Alexandria," said fi.o nnet inner : and then the conversation fell upon the minder at the plantation. vrns in Richmond that niht at the Spotsvvood," said Marion Rhett. Tha last word was still quivering on his lips when Swails -ose to his feet. "Marion Rhett, in the name of the Com monwealth of South Carolina, I arrest you for tho murder of your natural uncle, Ran dolph Rhett." ' The accused laughed. 4 "Well. well, this is a joke. Mr. Moul trie. I .suppose I am indebted to you for its ' . nernetration. So 1 am to cxhiuit a ciear We'll drink over alibi to a dozen men Two " With forced rood humor Marion Rhett ordered Wine, and astounded the .i ut,ndd the ofticer aud his friend dissolved. Viola returned to the love of 1 l'aikc Moultrie, and became his w ife. , j ' Vcu do uoi, need a uivoice now," srit j tho lawyer to the deserted actress, afier the villain's condemnation. j I "Rut I must have it ! The woild shrill never point to me aud say, IIer husband 1 I was brng by Ins own lies. The court i must separate us before he elies." On the morning (f Marion Rhett's last day on earth, certain papers were placid ; in Lis hands. They told him that the tie ' that had bound hi in to Maud Raymond I were broke n. 1 ' -, .'. i . 11! , 'it 1 , " , L ,,, ,. acre of Rhett It was Marion Rhelt who left the elaisy leaf in the libiary, as is re lated in the first part of this sto.y : it was Marion Rhett who was hung by his own lies. The actress committed suicide four years since in New York. On her person was I found the decree that separated her from a murderer. Parke Moultrie and his wife are happy. Over his desk bungs a sword aod faded uniform. True to the teachings ef his father true to the spirit of the Rhctts he wore them nobly for the "lost cause." The 7 Jab's- ahd Fowl. Rvni s Ad-i;i-s at a Poc.Tr.T Snow. Max Adeler tells this: A poultry show was held recently by the Agricultural Society in "Newcastle, and Col. Rargs, who is a member of the Society, was invited to deliver Hie address at the commencement of the fair. Langs prepared what be considered a very leai ned paper upon the culture of domestic fowls; and when the lime arrived, he was on '.!: platform ready to cnligten the audience. The biids w ere ai ranged around the hall in cages; and when the exhibition had been foimally opened by the chairman, Langs came forward with his mauscript in Lis hand. Just as he began to read it, a black Poland rooster close to the stage uttered a loud and defiant crow. There were about two hundred roost cis in the hall, and every one of them instantly began tocrcw in th most vociferous manner, and the noise ex cited the hens so much that they allcacklcd as loudly as they could. Of course the speaker's voice could not be heard, and he came to a dead halt, while the audience laughed. After waiting for . ten minutes, silence was again obtaiu-d, j a,,d t,ie Colonel began to si-eak a second time. As toon as he had uttered the words, "Ladies and gentlemen," the Poland roos ter, w hich seemed to have a grudge airainst Langs, emitted anothe.i preposterous crow and all the other fowls in the room joined in tho dea re':ii:j.' chorus. The .mdience roared, and the Colonel grew red in the face vi:h passion. Rut the noise si-b.-idcd, he went at it again, and gc-t as far ns "Ladies and gentlemen, the domestic barnyard fowla'l'ords a subject of the high est interest to the' when the Poland rooster bee-cine engaged in a contest with an overgrown Shanghai chicken, and this set the hens of the combatants to rackl"i'g, and in a moment the e-nti;e collection was iu another uproar. This was too much. Colonel Langs was In-side himself with rage. He .'lung down his manuscript, i ubed to the cage, and shakn'g his fists at the Poland chicken, exclaimed: 'You diabohca! fiend, 1 vo a n.bl a iniixi to b'l'st yoii open!"' Then he kick'o the cage to pieces with his fot, and scizifg the roi'stcr, tvviste-d its neck and Hung it on the floor. Thi n lie fled from tho hall, followed by peals of laughter T om theaudiencvand more ten i;.c elaUer from the fowls. The exhibition was tbenonened .vilhout further ceremony, and Hangs' s dissertation on the domes: ic , o- yard fowl was lost to the world. Ratios has since resigned from the fcoeicty. He takes less intent in poullry than he used to do. CotLns'T FeiOL "Sandy.' The la(c Professor Anderson, ilic famous conjurer, WHO was cauea inc i, izmu in um .oiiu, i, 5 ir-z j . v-.li. was Mjiiornnng one nigue iu v. ta'-g-ii, when he noticed a green looking Highland er in the audience. Relieving him to be a ; good subject to play a trick upon, ho asked him to the platform. The JmoI olteycd. "Xovv give me a bawbee," said the profes- sor. Sandy handed idm the c ppcr coin. The Profet sor held it op to the audience in the nsual way, and tinning to the man told him to keep r.a eye en it. Anderson iosscn it in'o the air and dawn it came a sovereign. "Take it and examine now,"' said he to the delighted Highlander.ashe handed him the sovereign. "What is it now?' "A goold guinea." '.'Correct :.. i : - Now let rac Lave it agaox iui I "Xa, na, mon, I'm na fonl; yn might turn it into a bawbee again," said Sandy, as he put the sovereign into his rockt, m left the astonished piiresor to find niH'thcr eiibjcct to finish his trick i ith. Hal ilea in Haste. Fouryrnr a:;r a bri.t. intcV.igeat, tut not pretty-looking yp:inr miss left a home less and penniless o-phan hy the death cf her father, came to this city and prjcarcl enr,.hvmcni as a waiter girl at a well-known second class hotel, snaking her hoaie with i the far Wot. There wa the wnmi-takaVe nir of a p't irc-tunn ah.rjt bi n, evidently oce of the hotter soit. Ho scale i himself at tl;e tah'.e serve! by the c'rl in que -ti. n en waiched her r,n.ve:;K;:t very c'.isc'y. At supper on the second d ty r.itcr hi. arrival hf renamed tMe ur.tii it vv.v nenr'.y de-erte J, and then as he was r.'Mut ri -inj; he auvi.T-st J the girl in courteous ttis. s:.ying that La d '.-iied au interview with her, as Le bsi in firm;iti n of iinpor:an'?e to communicate. Sii.- rr-pa -J that she w-oulJ see Lizi in the laJies par'or at a la;cr hour. '',e did s and was not a hit'.' s. r;.ri'-el at rcevir; -: r.j offer of inarrage. Ilo srat-J that l.e w a reM lent of the grazin: districts of Califernitl, owned a large st ck rnnche end was a wca'.thv mm. lie had been oat there tiar te?n years, during wl i.-h rime lie had rcireJ, prvspected fir rich digging-, Ir.rLteJ griz zlies, fought indi-.ins. ! aeJ greasers and pursued the iisua' av c.tti' ns of nn ititTpri. ing Caiifornian. He was en his way L'jt to visit his aged pirents, who railed ia Mas-nehu-etts ; had .-t.jVeJ in lf iiit tosco the city; and met her tis n'x.ve described; wasp'.ea-ed wit 'i her appei ranee ,nnd thauc1 t it would be hr her advnntngj to q :it L?t pre-nt caipl lyiux-iit aud becoiu3 the wife tf a ranchmnn. There was an l;c,nety pn l sincerity in tho man's voice a he inada his declaration that canvineed the girl ihat he was ia earnest. She rerfliel that she w idl eonsijer his pro position an 1 give him an answiTat th e break fast taVe. Darin? t!:e r.ight f-lto t'ionrv.t the matter over scriou-'.y, ani when ia the morning she took he:- ccecaM io lover's ord. r, ar.d be asked in a lox f -ne, "Are yon c i.'j to Caiiforr.il ?"' she rep'.!-1 "ye.,'n:- l t'"n went for beef-ten k r.rvl potatoi.T. Tat was the extent of the c ':rt-h;p. A sen n the hnr'i.Ty ge-t hnd r'pnrfoJ from the diniug-ro :n she repaired to tin parlor, w!.cre the liver wr anxiously nwaitr ir.g hrr. Ry hi- dirccti n she informed tlifl heal waiter that she sho-iM not work n y 1 Tgr-r, el.rmej her hat nni havl r,nd the two started out shopii-;. Dresses wrra ordered of neirly r.l". ;hcf;-hi -nihle m-idlste? in tlie city, the same to bo c m-.'e!cd within twenty-four hours. II.it- weir simiiary or dered, and ii.ei the retail deolcr-inali roep ner or small we? ring njina el wec visited ard largo purchases mid:, the 1 ;t ono being two large S:trit--gi t-nn'c-. The next afternoon th" pair vvrro married nt the re-ile ice of ? elerirvman, ma ie a c d! on thebridc- hnn hle I'rieods on Sec ; d street rii 1 Lf: for tlieFusl Ly the evening trnin. Cf course the new a rn'nbnc3 of the h.i ie who wcro aware of the i.vumtar,?c of her marriage wcTnIl po-Live thr.t she hud aetel rnh'.y. and preLetcd all manner o troubles nnl trials for her. From the hour tf her departure, however, none of litem l.avo ever heard a word from her ; but from tha f ct t'.at the happi ct lo kini wifo nrtd r.: ther to b seen riding nV:it the ei'j" on Sitti"day, a cm !y-'i-t ied boy in her nraia, an I th? grric no who 4:t .'d her snnethins to h"r a ivnn'ngr' l.y hr 1 vn ths waitot girl w ' i "l i-irriel in haste," hat did rot re pent at Li-uro, it may safely he fs-ureJ that the predictions did n it corns true. Wou'Ierfr.l Riscoicrj. II.' Ilom-chwanz, liiing in ji!iert own, Iowa, commenced digging a well in a h.f. When about twenty-two feet djwn he enme to a broad, flat stone, which was removed with much lahor. I itdcn.eath it w.i focnl a ssireojihaaus, of whielj ii appear d to he the cover. In this receptacle were fei.md many , a-iielcs vv' icli will prove ol important in j tercst to arc' ft.- .'.a.'.-t-. The skull, vrite- . bra, and some ribs partially t-Ltu rt J, of a 1 man. An h'. n cireie-t or crown, a Lronse ;' datg-r ai;d Iwt le-nxe. ; e fir-t i-'-taneo of the tw o a-es t ias U-iti,; vmbin -1, several flnger-vio-s, a p.-ouiiar iitt ument of musio r.-i rnV.ir.g a medeni j,-vsharp, but without . t..e n'nt.tr, ana a tmi pan. I oi woi ... ia i much worm-eaten, bat that hav i g , b,l,e ferment, on widen, p.rt. ihy en . graved ao 1 pa: V n.Vl ,v,U f u Z lira ar j .o t'.nt -en an,,,,,, toe i.ea,:s o, M. . . t r : a Z J Ine I i - ' . m rein nit- mc . . . i . n o.ii,i , ,'..,. i r.- , cventuah'v bero'.iie tnc p:opc:t cl the Acav- eventually nefi.bi ' ciuV" oi 3 -u tt-.-s. Sco'dinr is a I.nhit verv e.-.s.lv formed. ; ;s eii-l tin-' how "to;, fi'io Woo i.idulims , ;n jlatn:; i fee-- ad'h'-ted to it, and con- r,.,.,, ,i ; t j ,.n ,r pv.wi:s l. -o.ee r-t in the ;vs...ji:i';e habit. te way t sconimg i n;-lV, n,,d s..:!,e:h;!t' toxoid abotit. lf I there was tiuhing e,-e. they would fill a scoM'i':? at tii mere n i-ene'e of anything to sco'I at. It is an extremely l:t;reubla hiibjr. The constant ri. moling ef dist2t thunder, caterwauling, or a ltand-irotl under one's w indow, Wcnild lie 1cj urphn- j rmt. T!ie habit i fontagien. tace intio- dueel i'.l-i a family, it is pretty ie:ta;u, ia ;. a short time, to n fleet 11 the meiulv-irs If ' one of them liegins finding lau'.t alv.it al ! soliiethi.nr nr taitl i 'g. tl C e. theis nre r;.t tor vc! y siir to laiie ii ip. " e-'j ufucivs j vt-.y to lae it i . . , r. I . ''V hedi.tm is creaied 1
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