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A Parting Blessing
BY DENNIS O'RAFFERTY,
The sowl-chilling panic, '
Wid aspect Satanic,
I'm happy to note, is subsiding;
For eighteen months, daily,
The miscreant, gaily,
My interests has been bestriding.
Now don't raise a question
Upon my suggestion,
Regarding his structure infernal;
His visits destructive,
Of evil productive,
Have beeu as the morning, diurnal
And now that he's laving,
A song I'll be waving,
Rejoiced at his long wished for exit;
His name, may it perish,
May none live to cherish,
Or to deeds of kindness annex it.
May danger confound him,
And goblins surround him,
Wid wierd, indescribable faces ;
The spalpeen to frighten,
As death's fingers tighten,
Wid all sorts of horrid grimaces
May sorrow attend him,
' And none dare to lend him
A hand in the hour of peril ;
May traitors betray him,
And doubly repay him,
For rendering industry sterile.
And while, in great torture,
He takes his departure,
Let joy fill the heart of each mortal ;
While fairce exclamations,
And dape execrations,
Converge at oblivion's portal.
Wid malice unsated,
And optics dilated,
I fain would pursue him Blain further ;
But prudence cries, "finis,
Inginerous Dennis ;"
So farewell, ye essence of martini..
Zixt torg-i3vlltv.
HILI)A'S REVENGE.
"Mother, where is Minna?"
The speaker, attired in a gray cloak and
straw hat, had just entered the cottage,
where her mother sat monotonously spin
ning by the firelight, for dusk had fallen.
The girl was handsome, with a round
chin, sharp curved lip, large, dark, open
eye and square brow, about which fell her
long black hair in careless tresses, that
bespoke a firmness and strength of will
rather unusual in her sex.
"Minna !—where is she ever, Hilda,"
answered the mother, looking up with a
smile—for Minna was the pet of parent
and sister—"but with Captain Northeott ?"
Throwing aside her hat, the girl sat
down on a stool by the hearth, and, her
hand clasped round her knees, looked si
lently into the fire.
"I wish, mother," she said, abruptly,
"Minna was not so constantly and so late
abroad with the captain. I wish he would
wed her, as he might, without delay."
"Why ? There's time enough, Hilda.
Recollect, 'Marry in haste, repent at leis
ure.' You don't mistrust the captain,
surely ?''—and for the present, the whirr
of the wheel ceased. "You don't believe
he'd be false to our darling ?"
"If I did, mother," ejaculated the girl,
her dark eyes flashing up with a sudden
gleam, her small brown hand being clench
ed--"if I did—well," she added, dropping
her voice again, "were it in my power, it
would be bad for him."
"Hilda!! Hilda! How the girl talks !"
exclaimed the mother. "I'm certain our
Minna's beauty would excuse a greater
man than Captain Northcott making her
his wife."
True ; yet I sometimes wish her choice
had fallen on one of our own class—on
some honest, hard-working fisher as my
father was,"
'Tut ! To be left, Hilda, a widow, at
the first gale, perhaps ; like in the song
the captain sings, 'where the women weep
and .ring their hands for those that'll
never return.' "
"That's a glorious song," responded
Hilda. "It thrills you through. But
hark—hush l Here is Minna."
She rose up quickly, and, at the same
time, the door opened, and a girl hurried
lightly in. It was Minna.
Never had she looked prettier, happier
than at this moment, as, crossing the floor
in the fire-light, she exclaimed :
"Dearest Hilda, dear mother, rejoice
with me. Henry's ship is ordered to leave
here to-morrow week, and we are to be
married on Friday, that I may go with
him."
"An unlucky day, Minna," remarked
her sister, putting her arms about the
younger, and kissing the pretty pleading
face. "Yet I congratulate you sincerely
on the news."
All the evening Minna laughed and
sang with delight. Even in her bed room
they heard her clear voice singing her
lover's song :
"And the women aro weeping and wringing their
hands
For those who will never come back to the
town."
Were those words ominous ? Not in
Ililda's mind. Though, as she laid down
that night, she repeated for the twentieth
time, "I am glad they are to be married at
last."
Monnah was a fishing hamlet in the
Hebrides, and Hilda and Minna Thurlwyn
were a fisher's daughters. One tempestu
ous night a ship had harbored there. Its
captain, Henry Northcott, had seen Minna.
He had left, only to return to confess his
love, and hear the sweet lips answer that
his affection was reciprocated, when it had
been arranged they should be married be
fore the Cassandra sailed—a period
which, until Minna's announcement, re
corded above, had been indefinitely post
poned.
The time went quickly by, and Minna's
spirits still retained their extraordinary
buoyancy, as she prepared her humble
trousseau. Only one day more, she thought,
her lips quivering between laughter and
tears, on the Thursday morning as she sat
putting the last ribbon on her dress ; only
one, yet how long it will seem !
It was early, not quite nine, when the
latch lifted, and an old fisherman, as
weather-beaten and rugged as the coast
that was his home, looked in. At the
sight of Minna he drew partly back, then
he said : "Mrs. Thurlwyn, can I say a
word to you, please ?"
He tried to speak as usual, but she
whom he addressed perceived something
in his tone that made her rise instantly
and go out to him. Not only she, but
Hilda and Minna had seen it also. An
expression of fear bad settled on the lat
ter's countenance. "Jepson has bad news,"
she exclaimed, rising quickly. "It is
about Henry ! He is ill !".. -
She moved hurriedly forward. Hilda
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1875.
would have stayed her, but she glided
past and reached the door just as the fatal
words were uttered.
"It's true," the man was saying. "When
the tide turned last night the Cassancler
must have put to sea. The captain's
gone ! Not a sign of him, his crew, or his
ship were to be seen at dawn this morn
ing."
One wild, quivering cry, and Minna lay
in a swoon upon the floor.
The death-like faint was terrible, but
was worse on returning to consciousness.
Frantically the poor child clung round
the parent's neck—her sobs, her piteous
cries, telling har fearful grief, in vain
they strove to soothe, to comfort with
fondest love. They called him unworthy
of her; they said there were truer hearts
than his to cherish her. Minna never
answered—never raised her flushed face.
For an hour her agony continued; then
in despair, imploring death to take her,
the truth stole from her pallid lips. She
had trusted in Henry Northcott's honor
to the sacrifice of her own.
When the mother heard, a cry burst
from her. Hilda's lips only issued a long,
quick gasp. Then, tenderly kissing her
sister's cheek, she got up and quitted the
little parlor.
"Better leave them together," she
thought. "It will make her speak more
freely."
Ascending to her room, she opened the
window and looked out seaward. Her
features seemed chiseled in stone. What
a grand face it was. how resolute—how
terrible
Not a ship broke the line of the horizon ;
but she knew which way his had gone.—
Her lips were mute as she gazed, but her
soul took a vow that threatened great
danger to Henry Northcott, did he ever
again visit that place.
When she went down stairs there ap•
pearcd little alteration in her, save that
she was even kinder to Minna than usual.
She made no reference to the sad event,
but was the support of both mother and
sister. A close observer, however, might
have noticed her peculiar look, a tightness
of' the lip, and a strangeness in her very
calm. Two words explained the matter
—"L wait."
Months rolled on and the shadow of
death was on the cottage threshhold. It
had been creeping "like a guilty thief,"
nearer and nearer, and now it had entered
On the bed, past all suffering, icy pretty,
trusting Minna. At her side a tender
flower, whose life had been one soft, brief'
sigh.
On her knees, the bereaved mother pas•
sionately wept, breathing prayers for her
child, blending with curses on him her
wrong doer. At a short distance was
Hilda.
She knelt her elbows on the scat of a
chair, her face bowed on her hands, her
loosened hair, black as night, falling
around her. She had wept at first, then
prayed; then the cause had recurred to
her, and the fountain of her tears drying
up. sloe, too, had cursed Henry Northcottl
The time stole on in the darkened cot•
tage, shared by silence so still, a grief so
bitter. Neighbors had come, offering help
and condolence, but had retired, feeling
their presence was an intrusion.
As the night closed, the dark black clouds,
long accumulating, flew upward, obscu
ring the heavens, while the fitful gusts of
wind gathered together, and broke in roars
like artillery. It promised to be a fearful
night. In Hilda's ears rang Captain
Northcott's song, "Though storms are
sudden and waters deep."
It was in her ears when the minute gun
boomed forth—no rare sound on that
coast.
Again it sounded. She heard the fish
ers hurrying to the shore to help. On
such occasions her place was over there,
and not in the house. Now she did not
move. The thought of her dead sister
robbed her cf interest in others. _
Suddenly, those words ringing in her
ears, an idea occurred to her. Rising, she
glanced at her mother, threw her cloak
about her, and, unheard, passed from the
cottage.
A fearful but magnificent scene disclosed
itself. Rifts of ragged clouds spanned the
heavens, through which the moon occa
sionally shone in brightness. The sea broke
on the shore with deafening roar, making
the bravest heart tremble. On the high
est headland, standing out against the sky,
were grouped the eager fishers.
On the billows was a ship, rolling, toss
ing, pitching—a wreck that soon must be
swept into annihilation.
As Hilda proceeded towards the former,
a rocket rusher' through the air to the ship.
They were seeking to communicate with
her. Would they succeed ? Yes, the rope
was caught and secured, and the apparatus
was already at - work when Hilda arrived.
It was an anxious, a bustling scene. She
took no part in it, however, but stood
aside. First came the passengers—a few
scared women and terrified men. Then
followed the crew, hardy fellows, used to
front death, and with faces not unfamiliar
to some on the Island.
"Why, cried a fisher to one, "you are
Jack Armstrong ?" Then added interrog
atively, receiving an affirmative, "Yonder
ship is the Cassandra ?"
'Yes, Commander Henry Northcott,"
was the reply.
At that name Hilda started, and quickly
drew nearer.
"Is he aboard ?"
"Yes; he won't leave the ship until the
last. See, he is coming now."
The moon had broken forth, and showed
a man coming forth with difficulty. Every
eye was bent on him. He had reached
half way, when swiftly stepping forward,
ere her intent could be divined, Hilda
seized a sharp knife from the ground, and
with all her force severed the rope.
It was done in a minute. There was a
shout, a cry, and Henry Northcott sank
in the waves.
Horrified, maddened, furious, the crew,
with a yell, turned upon her.. They would
have torn her to pieces had she displayed
fear, but her calm, undaunted bearing
made them fall back from amazement—
wonder.
"Fiend!" cried boatswain, "why did
you do this ?"
"Come and see," she said. "You shall
know the reason ; then applaud or blame.
Come !"
Swiftly, unchecked, she passed through
the startled group toward the cottage.—
Daunted, curious, several followed. She
entered, bidding them to do so. They
obeyed, and the little room was filled by
the silent, awed group, who soon perceived
in whose grim presence they stood.
Approaching. the bed, Hilda drew back
the sheet that covered the young mother
and child.
"See," she exclaimed, regarding the
others fiercely, "do you blame after look
ing on this sad sight—this death by your
captain's hands ? As he is the sea's victim,
this poor child was his. But she is
avenged !"
Then the feverish madness within her
died out. Dropping on her knees, bury
ing her face in the bed clothes, she sobbed
forth, "Oh Minna, my sister, my poor,
dear love !"
* * * *
When the humble funeral procession of
Minna Thurlwyn, three days after, was
wending its way along the beach to its
final resting place, turning a rock, it came
upon the body of a man, cast up by the
sea.
It was Captain Northcott's.
Instinctively the bearers stopped. Rais
ing her eyes to know why, Ililda saw the
cause. Stepping near, she gazed coldly,
pitilessly down upon him who had wronged
her she had so loved. As she did so, the
glitter of something on the dead man's
bosom caught her attention. Stooping,
she examined it. It was a miniature—that
of a woman fair and young ; not Minna's,
for beneath was the name Janet. Plucking
it from the guard that held it, Hilda crushed
it with her heel into the sand ; then, re
suming her place, motioned the procession
to proceed.
"I have avenged them both," she mur
mured, "my Miuna !" And covering her
face, she wept,
Puling for the
The Coming Wife.
She's a little bit of a woman, all patience
and sunshine, and I'd spoil the best silk
hat that money could buy for the privilege
of lending her my umbrella in a rain storm.
She's married and she's got an old rhi
noceros of a husband. Ile makes it a
practice to come home tight at 11 o'clock
every other night, and has for years, and
he can't remember that she ever gave him
a cross word about it. When he falls into
the hall she is waiting to close the door
and help him back to the sitting room,
where a good fire awaits him. She draws
off his boots, unbuttons his collar, helps
him off with his coat, and all the time she
is saying :
"Poor Henry' how sorry I am that you
had this attack of vertigo! I'm afraid that
you will be found dead by the roadside
some night."
"Whazzer mean by verzhigo !" lie
growls ; but she helps him off with his
vest and pleasantly continues :
"I'm so glad you got home all right. I
hope the day will come when you can pass
more of your time at home. It is dread
ful how your business drives you."
"Whaz bizshness—whnz yer talking
'bout ?" he replies.
"Poor one—how hot your head is !" she
continues, and presently he breaks down
and exclaims :
"Yez, zur—zit's a 'orse—wearing zelr
out fhast's can—wishzi was dead I"
Next morning she never refers to the
subject, but pleasantly inquires how lie
slept, and ii' his mind is clear. His boots
may be missing and he yells out :
"When thunder's my boots!"
Right here, my dear !" she replies. and
she. hands them out, all nicely blacked up.
If she wants a dress, or a hat, or a cloak,
and he yells out that household expenses
are citing him up. she never "sasses" him
back, nor tells him that she could have
married a Congressman, nor declares that
she will write to her mother and tell her
just how it is.
"That's so, my dear—times are hard,"
she says, and she gets up just as good a
dinner as if he had left her fifty dollars.
He may come home tight at supper time,
but she is not shocked. She remarks that
it is an unexpected pleasure to have him
home so early, and she pretends not to
notice his stupid look. He sees three
chairs where there is but one, and in try
ing to sit down he strikes the floor like the
fall of a derrick.
"Whazzar jaw that chair 'way for ?" he
yells, and she replies :
"It's that hole in the carpet—l knew
you would stumble !" and she helps him
up and brings him a strong cup of tea.
They do not keep a servant and when
cold weather come she never thought of
planking herself down in a chair opposite
him and saying :
"Now, then, you'll either get up and
light the fires or there won't be any light
ed—mark that, old baldhead !"
No, she didn't resort to any such base
and tyrannical measures. When daylight
comes she slips out of bed, makes two fires,
warms his socks, and then, bending over
him, she whispers :
"Arise, darling, and greet the festive
morn !"
He's sick sometimes, and Iv'e known
that woman to coax him for two straight
hours to take the doctor's medicine, turn
over his pillow twenty-two times, keep a
wet cloth on his head, pare his corn down,
and then wish that she had a quail to
make him some soup. When he gets into
a fight down town and comes home with
his ear bitten up and his nose pointitr , to
the northeast she inquires how the horse
happened to run away with him, and she
says she is so thankful that he wasn't killed.
She has an excuse for everything, and she
never admits that any one but herself is to
blame about anything. Lor' bless her—
I hope she'll slip into Heaven and never
be asked a question.
A BeautifurSentiment.
Life bears us on like the stream of a
mighty river. Our boat first glides down
the narrow channel through the playful
murmurings of the little brook and the
winding of the grassy boarders. The trees
shed their blossoms over our young heads ;
the flowers on the brink seem to offer
themselves to our young hands, we are
happy in hope and grasp eagerly at the
beauties around us ; but the stream hur
ries on, and still our hands are empty.
Our course in youth and manhood is along
a deeper and wider flood, amid objects
more striking and magnificent. We are
animated at the moving picture of enjoy
ment and industry passing around us—are
excited at some short lived disappoint
ment. The stream bears us on, and
our joys and griefs are left behind us. We
may be shipwrecked—we cannot be delay
ed;—whether rough or smooth, the river
hastens to its home till the roar of the
ocean is in our ears and the tossing of the
waves is beneath our feet, and the land les
tens from our eyes, and the floods are lifted
up around us, and we take leave of earth
and its inhabitants, until of our further
voyage there is no witness save the Infinite
and Eternal.
A YOUNG lady, the other day, in course
of a lecture, said : "Get married young
man, and be quick about it too. Don't
wait for the millennium hoping that the
girls will turn to angels before you would
trust yourself to one of them. A pretty
thing you would be along side of an angel,
wouldn't you, you brute ?"
Nest Hiding.
The little 5 , of rf Lind rising. in the
South Seas called Ysabel Isle is divided
among several savage tribes that are ecn
tinually at war with each other. A terri
ble massacre oecurring in a portion of the
island named Mahaga. the sufferers adopt
ed, as a means of defense against future
surprises of a similarly unpleasant nature.
the custom of sleepirr , in houses built in
high trees, though living by day in the
ordinary open bamboo huts. When the
Rev. Coleridge Paterson. Bishop of the
Melanesian Islands, visited Maha! , a, he
was very curious to inspect these human
nests in the summits of the loftiest palms-
They were situated in a swamp, that for
general safety were surrounried by a strong
wall. The lower boughs of the trees se
lected for habitation had been lopped off,
leaving only the highest as a platform for
the houses. A plumbline let down
from the veranda of one of these houses to
the ground showed the distance to be 94
feet.
The ladders leading up to the houses
were planted upon the to? of the wall.—
They consisted of a ba.aboo pole in tke
centre, to which cross pieces about two
feet long were lashed by vines. To steady
these, and also to hold on by, there were
double sets of pliant vine stems stretched
along the whole lenzth. °tie ladder was
found to measure 60 feet. Another of
50 feet had forty-two rounds or ero.s
pieces, at unequal distances apart rp
and down these dizzy ladders the native
men, women, and children ran like monk-
eys, never using their hands. but trusting
entirely to the sure planting of their feet.
At first the Bishop dared not attempt an
ascent, and while he stoat won4lering at
the fearlessness of the climbers. he saw a
woman go up with a heavy burden on her
back as it' it were the easiest thing in the
world, and not once staying herself with
her hands. A sailor is the company of the
Bishop who was perfectly at home in the
shrouds of a ship ascended one of the lad•
tiers, and when be came down confes4e,l :
"I was so afraid my legs shook. Going
aloft is nothing to it." At another time
the Bishop managed to reach one of the
arboreal huts. Ile found it in an in..x
pressibly filthy condition. The floor was
made of matted bamboo, and the roof and
sides were of palm-leaf thatch. The roof
was low, and there were no apertures for
air and light. Everything was grimy with
soot and dirt. while the noise of squalling
babies, the singing and scolding of women
and the chatter of all, the natives together
make the place a very pandemonium. A
brief stay in the wonderful nest convinced
the Bishop that it was much more com
fortable to sleep in a hut on the ground.
where during the night the singing and
squalling of women and babies above him
sounded as if they were in the clouts.
A hluscclar Parson.
A Fort Laramie, Wyoming letter says :
" I saw one of those desperadoes get s
nice dose of quiet courage and stern will.
At this time, 1867.1 had occasion t•) go
down the road, and had to wait rpr the
train. My abiding place was one of those
dining tents, where I had to take nr-als in
the meantime. Among the several persons
seated around, ono evidently was very
raw.
his dress was semi•clerical, and as be
held forth in constrained manner about
"the terrible sin" and "Babylonish Chey
enne," the old-timers within hearing en
joyed. in an uncouth way, poking small
chaff at him. In the midst of one of his
tirades against "this sink-hole of perdi
tion" a man came into the tent, walked up
to the bar and demanded a drink. It
seems fur some reason be had been refused
before. Suddenly throwing his hand un
der his coat he drew a six-shooter. and half
facing the crowd and the bar-keeper. he
said "By--. I'm going to have a drink
right here, or I'll turn loose :" r meaning to
shoot).
To tell the truth most of those terrible
old-timers broke for the door, the bar
keeper sunk under the counter, and death
to some one seemed imminent. I confess
to a cold sensation down my hack, and
thought of several debts that different par
ties owed me, and wondered it' I should
ever be paid; the green field in which I had
sported as a child rose before me vividly ; I
remembered one Sunday. having played
off sick, I went down to the foot. Mill
street, and went swimming. I felt sorry
for the Frogtown boy who licked me once.
But what a sight. That parson, his tall.
slim form seems to grow taller as, in a
quiet way, he strides up to the death deal
ing cuss with the pistol.
lie wrenches that weapon from this ter
ror ; grasps him by the throat, fairly lifting
him from his feet, his protruJing tongue
and blackening face show the powerful
grip of the parson's hand, and. to make the
picture complete, says in ordinary tones,
"My friend, I have observed you before to
day trouble the landlord of this tavern ; I
am of' opinion that you are entirely in the
wrong. place. The landlord appears 1)
think you have had a sufficienci of intoxi
cating liquor. Now, observe, if yon create
any further disturbance, I will jerk thee
gullet out of you."
And he literally threw him headlong out
of the door. Subsequently the parson held
forth on the sins and iniquities of Chey
enne, and was listened to respectfully by
the subdued old sinners. I was constrain
ed to seek a favorable opportunity to a.. , k
the parson where he learned that grip.
"Oh," said he, "I used to keep a tav
ern down East, that's where I g.. 4 fay
hand in."
A MOTHER'S LovE.—But there i 4 a
love which neglect cannot weaken, which
injury cannot destroy. and which even
jealousy cannot distinguish. It is the pure,
the holy. the enduring love of a mother.
It is as gentle as the breeze of evening,
firm as the oak, and ceases only when life's
last gleam goes out in death. Durinz all
the vicissitudes of the changing world, in
sickness or in sorrow, in life or in death,
in childhood's halcyon days. in youth's un
troubled hour, or in manhood's vigorous
prime, the mother clings with the same
unwearied affection to her child. It is the
same amid the snows and frosts of Siberia,
the temperate regions of our own lair land.
oramid the arid sands of Africa.
WHILE riding in a stage coach from
Kinderhook to Albany, N. Y.. msnyyears
since, John Van Buren, who was smoking.
asked a stranger in the stage if smoking
was agreeable to him. The stranger an
swered, "Yes, it is agreeable. Smoke
away. I have often thought it' I were
rich enough I would hire some loafer to
smoke in my face." Mr. Van Buren
threw his cigar out of the window.
IT appears that coining copper is not
proitable. The government has not made
a half cent since 1857.
in,' • .• -'l ,
The House that 9crwit n goat.
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meil th.et liy in the hem.• t hli NOW.
built.
I'►r•..r7/fl4'l/ A" ism-- This is the. swipe
that hid in the need tint Iny in the foram
that Wirers built.
G.,42;p—Thie is the mit that boatel the
monsz• that hi.; in th.- went that isty in the
home !hat Rowell built .
DiA.V . ?li Ili —This in awing that wor
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hid in Ow moal that liy in elm hn that
Bowen hni:t
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pled heet that kicked till the fi n wee ow
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the Me !I.e. that hid in the anal List Ear Is
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S:r .Irrniadyk.—This is the swain all
tattered and torn wbo eambed the mew
with the ern:spied heel that MAIM till
the dolf, win nom spiel the worried
the cat thit hnntod the mom that bid
in the men; that lay in th^ holm that Bow
en bait:
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Eilvi , , , th--Thno io the maiden nil for
lorn wh., peed the aam all tatteettd and
torn 'h.) curried the row with doe sari
heel tbat kicked till the doe one p
Tie! that wqrrierl the cat thin hentoill the
atottoe that hid in the meal that lay is the
ho'l'e that Bowes bnilt.
ix.
It W.—'rn'e is the priest all .6*w,
and .horn whn atomic wished be bed •ev
er been iv,rn whoa bs kneed A* maks
all for:or3 who ji.tea the mai. an :matter
ed awl torn who enaze.i the eow with the
lively hr^l that kirfie44 tin the Jog wee
f fr• that wqrrieci the ens that blew
el the nion4e that hi.! in di. aril tine by
in the h. , n..0 that Bowen boils .
Mrs. .Wrlm•—This ie 3 -Slix of the
Judgment Day ' whose-4re" riche troth
folne.e- earricol dimits• to the uabty
prieq in -the ease of xionee - whit -eft ow
the ragte4 elke - of hie dome whew I. haw
ed the maiden all ferlerie who likes. the
man all tattere4 and tors wits *incited tie
with the viriono h.-4 that li;e4te.l tin
the thl trxe ams '1• .rpi.l that werrie4
the .it that hence.' the ante..- that 114 in
the m...;,1 that la; in the beam, •lrot linwPes
• • ify li..rr VP4 Naar. - —This i 4
name of tho Matto, fries.; who earrife4
the lerrety tbenottit in the .64 Ow doll,
id prie.t is the rave et shim who hews
a dan;,-;erwas eiap in big vies. whew he him
the asai.len ail fertwa who jilted der
NUM an grOrTl...l 311.1 worm wilwr Prose& de
elle with the rerwiti!e heel that kicked till
the (1(1 wr, axe rip«. 4 that teamed time
eat that hanteci the twevere that bid is
the meal cleat lay in the bowie that SWIM
built.
XII.
31-1. *war—This in the typical root
in-law with the terrible to said Grub
ble jaw. the eazle eye nod dor.
who tohl ail that she bespil sai taw, wimp
indulpri in sarion4 amsonoto alrtld. seed
made it sultry for the erow4—far the Xis
teal Friend who 'land to refuge to let her
go at hi. lridget of new, ; foe the privet
who when ameba in 'As{ be had I
said "Mother. I wig!, you would eall
son ;.' her desolate risligider all hams
who jilted T. T. Tattered sod Two) Aar
curried the cow with the frieby heel that
kickel till the dog was fres ye eleivi that
worried the eat that hunted the that
hid in the weal that lay in the house that
Bowen haat.
XIII.
Th Grviphie—This is the emit that via
craw in the morn when leant Mons her
delinquent bon, ansonashag 33 to ac
knowledge the eons; for the router-in
law with the liugwei thorn for the Mond
Friend with his lofty SOWS ; for the IFsee
of the Day of Jadpneat born a enonfirt
and scare and guide and wars far Ilinsie.
who as she has swine. by Maranhao fans
her bra was torn. sad into hie, setestagg
and sleeping horse ; for the social priest
all shaven and shorn who hissed the nail
en all forlorn who jilted the mean all wor
ried and worn who soothed the eow with
the limber heel that kicked till she
wet sun ! le spiel that worried the eat then
hunted the mowse that bid in the mess:
that !ay in the home that Rowen beat.
Rocking !lie may.
I Waishint7too Fell4olll •
°sea team at !trat‘trotr.;'s nil!. fit wk a
lank. e2thverotts-lookieg isditidual. awl
maintained the di arty of fairer bj wi rade
familiarity with it we possihie. lit bad.
howere.-, an extenAre family. and as they
would eat, he had to Ain. sowsisbers.
feel them. When the Lieteel Said war
lurreptitiowiy abstracts.' frets OM seizb
bor'a tine. or whee the fuser VIM is
harvest his swe-zt potatoes, be lowed then
minas the tubers. the Festees were ale.
king cottage eheeie or firietiss no ?writes(
Carolina...
One bright. .Lay Mr. Wilke'?
slanghtere4 a rat pi;. and hunt: it me it
the 4meke-b..nse. Next neorniac it wan
Walker and his s./n JAn t Fratim
at himse. and. in his wife*seberivee,rnekinz
the craille and
The ~ b jeet of the visit hiring mole bows.
Fent.n. with a hemorrhsre of . wove. pr ,
teste,l hit innocence, aria t,4.1 thous to
seareh the home?.
••I would ircnmpiny you. - he added, in
a ha.heti voice, fearing to disturb the
by. ••btst if this littk one awakes he will
howl like a trooper. -
Walker wouid not seerrlt the house with
out his oresenc.,.
"John can rock the ermlie until we re
tom - said Walker .
John seated hire - elf at the cradle and
rocked diligently. .letter a thofeeeh has
fruitless search, Walker returned mil liesed
John still rocking the cradle and the bay
still sleeping. Fenton theeited the hoer
profusely fur his service, es nom and the
neighbor, departed. Whore Jew. Teethes
ezecuted a war donee. by way of rejeieise.
He had stolen the pig. awl espeetieg the
call, had laid the pork in the cradle 214 •
substitute for the baby. env. nisi is op
nicely. John hadquietly meted the object
of their search while his father was wehiug
for it. Consequently the Fewest Wei a
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