A POINTED REMINDER. | A partv of adventurous lads, myself among the number, were out for a glo rious holiday. Each had his canvas bag across his shoulder, and we stole along tne stone wail yonder, and en tered the woods beneath that group of chestnuts. Two of us acted as out posts on picket guard, and another, young Teddy Shoopegar by name, the best climber in the village, did the j sha ing. There were rive busy pairs of bands beneath these trees, I can tell you, for each one of us realized the ne cessity of making the most of his time, not knowing bow soon the warning crv from our outposts might put to headlong flight, for the alarm, 1 ur- , ner's coming !" was euuu/h to lift j hair of any boy in town. But luck seemed to favor us on that , day. We "cleaned out" six big chest nut-trees, and then turned our attention j to the hickories. There was a Splendid . tall shagbark close by, with branches f a j r ]v loaded with the white nuts in their open shucks. Tbev were a.l j readv to drop, uod whtn the once commenced, tbe nuts came down like a shower of bail, bounding from the rocks, i attling among the dry leaves and keeping up a clatter all around We scrambled on ail fours, and gather- j ed them by quarts and quarts. There was noo need of poking over tbe leaves ; for them, the ground was covered with their bleached shells, all in plain sight. While busily engaged, we noticed an ominous lull among the branches over bead. "'Sst! 'sst I" whispered Sboopegg up above; "I see old Turner on bis white daown the road yender." "Coming this way ?" also in a whis per, from below. "I dunno yit, out I jest guess you d better be gittin' reddy to leg it, ler he's hitcbin' his old nag't the side o' the road. Yin, sir, I bleeve he's a cummin'. Sboopegg, you'd better be gittin' aout o' this,"and be commenced to drop hap-hazard from bi» lofty peach. In a moment, however, he Beemed to change hismiue, and paused once more upon the watch. "Say, fellers," he again broke in, as weae proparing for a retreat, "he's gone off to'rd the cedars; he ain'tcummin' this way at all.'' So he again ascended iDto the tree-top, and finished his shaking in peace, and we our picking also. Tbere was still another tree, with elegant large nuts, that we had all concluded to "finish up on," It would not do to leave it. 1 hey were the largest and thinnest-shelled nuts in town, and there were over a bushel in sight on tbe branch tips. Sboopegg was up among them in two minutes, aod they were showered down in tor rents as before. And what splendid, perfect nuts they were! We bagged them with eager hands, picked the ground all clean, and with jolly chuck les at our luck were just about think ing of starting for home with our well rounded sacks, when a change came o'er the spirit of our dreams. There was a suspicions noise in the shrubbery near by, and in a moment moA we beard our doom. "Jeat yeu look eeah, yeu boyn," ex claimed a high-pitcbed voice from the neighboring shrubbery, accompanied by tbe form of Deacon Turner, HJ>- proacbing 4t a brisk pace, bnrdly thir ty feet away. "Don't yea think yeu've got jest about enuff o' them nuts ?" Of course a wild panic ensued, in which wc made for the bagH and dear life, but Turner was prepared and ready for tbe emergency, and raising u huge old shot-gun, he levelled it, and yelled, "Don'i any on ye stir ner move or by Christopher I'll blow tbe heads clean olTn tbe bull pile on ye. I'd oahot ye quii-ker'n lightnin'." And we believed him, for his aim was true, and bid bole expression was not that of a man who was trifling. I never shall forget tbe uncomfortable sensation that I experienced as I look ed into the muzzle of that do' ble-bar relled shot-gun, and saw both ham mers fully raised too. And I can sec now the squint and the glaring eye that glanced along those barrels. There was a wonderful persuasive power lurking iu those horizontal tubes; so I hastened to inform the deacon that we were "not going to run." "Wa'al," be drawled, "it looked a leetle tbet way, I tbort, a spell and he still kept us in the field of his weapon, till at length I exclaimed, in desperation, "Point that gun in some other way, will you ?" "Wa'al nol I'm not fer pintin' it enny whar else jest yit —not until you've sot them ar bags doawn agin, jist whar ye got 'em, every one on ye " The bags wer- speedily replaced, and he slowly lowered his gun. "Wa'al, naow," he continued, as he came up in our midst, "this is purty bizniss, ain't it ? Bin bavin'a purty sort o' time ten, I sb'd je'lge from the looks o' these 'ere bagfc. One—two— nix on 'em; an' I vaow they must lie on toll two an' a half bushels in every one on 'em. Wa'al, naow" —with his peculiar drawl — "look eeah : you're a putty ondustri ous lot o'thieves, I'm bleat il ye ain't." But tbe deacon did all tbe talking, for bis niauonuvres were such ns to render us speechless. "Putty likely place tou cum a-riutin', ain't it ?" Pause. "Putty nice mess o' shellhai ks ye got thar, I tell ye. Quite a Right o' chestnuts in yourn, ain't they ?" There was only one spoken side to this dialogue, but the pauses were elo quent on both sides, and wc boys kept up a deal of lull thinking as we watched the deacon alternate bis glib remarks by the gradual removal of the bags to tbe foot of a neighboring tree. This done, he seated himself upon a rock besides them. "Thar," he exclaimed, removing his tall bat and wiping his white fringed forehead with a red Imnriana handkerchief. "I'mmuch obltfjed. I've IMien a-watchin' on ye gittin' these 'ere nuts the bull afternoon. I tbort cz haow yeu might like to know i ." And then, as though a happy thought had struck him, what should he do but deliberately spit on his hands and grasp his gun. "Look eeah"—a pause, in which be cocked both barrels—"yeu boys wuz paowerful anxyis ten ((it away from eeah a spell ago. Naow yeu kin git ez lively ez yeu please. I hain't got nothin' more fer ye teu d»?u to-day." And bang ! went one of tbe gun barrels directly over our heads. We (jot arid when once out of gun range we paid tbe deacen a wealth of those rare compliments for both eye and ear that always swells a boy's vo cabulary.—Harper's Magazine for November. Advertise iu tbe CITIZEN. MRS. LYBIA E. PiNKHAM. ; OF LYNN, MASS. _ W) DISCOVERER OP LYDIA E. PINKMAf^g TSSSTABI/B r:!?3ui:D. Tor all Female Complaints. nuimi-iti'n. atiti nvne eon .. s of kaSelnraLd. t'.-xm otjtrialC.j of t.-la Cora, poendwiabwreeccatod," relief Is l—jnedlitc ; a:.J T-cnlt.iujel3C -.nt:.. J, In E'acty-cine cava lie* trcd, apera&nert arelieTr. - adi will to t ::j. Oa account of It • r-tTca inc- :• i, it i t.x ij ro comaieadedaadpTessrijeiby tha U-.t pbysSolaaa la thecoui.try. 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