Joe ! CHandler ( Copyright. 1599. by Joct Chandler Harris. ) PAHT MI. The Storr of Sir. Conn. Aaron trailed when the children told him bow Mr. Bobs could set a crow to catch a crow , lie nald the same plan had been practiced for many long years. Ho had heard his father. Hen All , tell about It. In deed , the probability Is that out of this practice the saying , "Set a thief to catch a thief.1 had arisen , for nobody could trust n thief to catch a thief unless the first thief was securely fastened. But Aaron , on his side , had somctthlng quit * RB Interesting to ten the children. From a negro whom he knew be had bought a raocoon , a genuine , full-blooded raccoon. Thli was news. Indeed , and so exciting In Its character that Aaron was compelled to answer , or to parry , volley after volley of question * . " 0 , how old Is It , and what does It look like ? " cried Sweetest Susan. "And * ho Is It to belong to , and Is It tame , so tame that you can put your band on If" asked Buster John. "Why didn't dcy Kill It an' cook It ? " inquired Drusilla. Aaron put his fingers In bis ears. He couldn't answer all the questions put to Mm. rlnaUy there -was a lull in the ex citement. "What did you give for him ? " Buster John sked after a pause. "Something , " replied Aaron , smiling. "But how much ? " "Enough. " "Shucks , " cried Buster John ; "If I had known there wag some great secret about it I shouldn't have asked. " Aaron pinched the iboy's ears gently and paid : "Come ! " He went to his cabin , the children following , and when they went in the fimt thing they saw was Mr. Coon , pac ing back and forth the length of the Email , etecl chain which held him. He paused and regarded them curiously , twisting the end , y of his sharp nose about , and mechanically feeling in the cracks of the floor tslth his forepans.nhlch seemed to be as supple and c * useful as a boy's hands. When Buster John i\cnt nearer. Mr. Coon raised himself on bis hind legs and ut- I JUMPED ON HIS HEAD. tered a cry almost identical with the scream of a roowter when a bird suddenly flics over or a hawk appears In sight. Buster John knew It was a warning , and so he stopped. "What Is the trouble , Frog-Eater Tad- jiole-Catcher ? " the Son of Ben All sharply Inquired. "You can't fool me. " snarled Mr. Coon. "I've seen creatures like him before. They poked my sides with sticks and pulled my tall. " "But this one Is different , Bug-Eater , " eald Aaron. " 0 , call me what you please. Son of Ben All I was glad to come < wlth you , but I didn't Invite mj-solf here , did I ? If you were hungry and thirsty and tied fast and faw coming toward you one of the creatures that had made misery for j-ou , 'would you gnn and .say , 'Welcome , friend ? ' " "Likely not , " replied Aaron. "But you t-ave 'been fed , Frog-Eater. You said you r-art enough. " "Enough of the kind. Son of Ben All ; yes , and too much. If you want mo to cat corn pot some that Is soft on the cob and Juicy. It jou want me to be nice fetch me a couple of j-oung chickens or a handful of black beetles. " Sweetest Susan shivered. "Well , Tadpole-Catcher. " said Aaron , "If you want good things to cat go with these friends. They have been touched. They know everj thing you say , and when you are hungry or thirsty you have only to give the sign. " At this Mr. Coon paced back and forth \rry rapidly. This was the way he thowed his Impatience. He wan anxious to go with them. Aaron unfastened the chain and placed one end In Buster John's hand. The joungsterheld \eryglngerlyand was In clined to "brink when Mr. Coon came too clopo , but he soon got over that feeling , and FO did Sweetest Susan and Drusilla ; so that fn a little nhlle they were more familiar with Mr Coon than they had ever been with anj of their pets. Thry lojit no time In giving hJm his din ner , which consisted of chicken beads and giblets Mr. Coon smacked his mouth over them , and when he had finished declared that he felt better than he had for many a day. and remarked- "Eg liblum gig loblum og Iggle' " which literally translated mcaru * . "Big dinner , bigger bed. " Freely Interpreted , It means : "If I continue to get such fine fare , I'll have to get my clothes made larger. " U may interest readers who are no longer young to know that In the language of animals ( ho root word lablam stands for thing * , and its variations , liblum , loblum , lebllm , llblom , etc. , mean the thing at hand , or. to be more exact , tbe thing under the nose the thing talked about. U U a pity that Joe MaxwclT , who is re sponsible for these dry details , did not take I the trouble to write the language down | from Buster John's recipe. But be put U < off from day to day , and now there Is noth ing left but the rough notes of these stories , and some scattered fragments of explana tion , one of which Is presented above. Well ( to shoo all this away ) , Mr. Coon was highly delighted with bis dinner , and was ready to curl up and take a nap , or was willing to Join the chlfdren In a frolic. So they led him Into their play room In the attic , unsnappcd the chain from his collar and gave him the freedom of the wide space. First , Mr. Coon must poke his nose or his forcpawB Into everything. He paced round and round the room , smelling at or feeding In every nook and cranny. When he was satisfied with his Inspection , noth ing would do but he must feel In Buster John's pocket. He pulled out marbles , nails , fragments of chlnaware , which the youngster used In place of money. With a few fragments of fine chlnaware In his pocket Buster John always fert rich. With this form of currency he had bought whole droves of ponies and large arsenals of guns pistols , swords and war cannon from Imag inary vendors. Piece by piece Mr. Coon brought Buster John's treasures to light and examined them carcfullj- . The children noticed that Mr. Coon's forepaws were very much like tiny hands , and that his hind feet made tracks In the sand that looked like those of a wee babjOf course , It was Sweetest Susan who made this discovery. Whenever Mr. Coon left the prints of his feet visible one could almost Imagine that some small goblin in human shape had passed that way going on nil fours. Almost ! Why. Sweetest Susan did imagine It was sure of it , indeed whenever she was in Make Believe land , where she lived most of the time. Surely It could not be more wonderful than the country next door to the world , where old Mr. Rabbit and Mrs. Meadows and the looklng-slas * children had their abode. 1'or a few days Mr Coon feasted and then the children thought he should 'begin to pay for his board ; first , by giving an account of himself , and next in any other way that might be devised. So far as Mr. Coon was concerned he was perfectly -willing to ac commodate the children. He was never bad- tempered unless he saw p. cat or dog and such of these as were about the house and yard soon learned to give him a wide berth , for his claws and teeth > were sharp and he was a born fighter. In Joe Maxwell's rough notes Mr. Coon began thus : "If I had to tell my tale from tbe talk- think , as you talk your talk , I'd talk no talk of this thing. " As this would be hard to follow It has been rendered Into a free translation from first to last. "It I had to learn my language out of books , as you do yours , " said Mr. Coon , leaning back In a corner of the play room and rubbing his face and nose with both hands. "I wouldn't have much to say about myself , for I wouldn't know how to say It. My home was In the hollow limb of a tree and I can remember how nice it was to sleep In that soft , warm place. There were four others besides me and -n-e used to sleep close together till our mammy came home. We were alwaj-s awake when she came , for we could hear her climbing the tree , and then. If it was not raining , she'd sit on. the outelde and dry her feet and clothes with her tongue. Sometimes we'd get Impatient and begin to cry and once one of the others -went to the door ; the slap he got made 1081."I bothered our mammy any more by going to the door. But , my ! How hungry and angrjI used to get while mammy sat out there cleaning her feet and drying her clothes. But she always took her own time , and then , when she came In. what a scramble there was for the right teat. Mine was the middle one. but I always had to claw and be clawed before I could get it We were all ravenous and I never did get as much food as I 'wanted at one time till I came here. I think our kind are born hungrj- and kept hungry that we may be able to escape from those that follow us. The first thing I really remember was once when I heard a bird chirping and whistling right at our very door. I trembled and shook all over. The others were asleep and I was glad of It Shaking and trembling , I crept to the door , and there , right at me , was a bird with a long bill , which he was poking under the bark. Shivering and shak ing , I Jumped on him , but I came near fallIng - Ing to the ground. He was stronger than he seemed to be , and he had claws , too. He clinched me with these , and beat me over the head with his wings , but I didn't mind that. I didn't mind anj-thing. I shook no longer. I felt my hair rising on my back. I heard raj-self growl. I didn't know why , but I was furious. I crushed the bird In my teeth until his wings ceased to move : but I was still angry. I had tasted Hood ; I had made my first kill. If one of the others bad come out Just then. I think he would have been sorry. But they were all frightened by the noise and were huddled In the farthest corner. Then , when I was no longer angry , but proud , I went to the door 'carrjlng ' tbe bird In my teeth. They smelt tbe blood and rushed at me , and then there was a fight ! " "Why , you were fighting your own broth ers and Bisters ! " said Sweetest Susan , sevcrelj- . "So would you , If j-ou were of my kind. " replied Mr. Coon. "There was a fight , but they all got a piece of the bird After that we were changed. It seemed as If we bad been asleep all the time , and something had suddenly awakened us. Then mammy came home. She sniffed around and smelt the J blood and saw the feathers. She nosed un- I der us as we lay and rooted us out of the i way , but she found nothln' more than feath ers. 'Well , I declare1' she cried , 'who's been bringing you a bird ? " " " 'Is that what you call a bird ? ' asked one of the others , and when she said it was , they all equalled out'O , mammy , mammy ! Fetch us some more ! Mammy , fetch us ' some more ! "But she kept on asking'Who brougb thlb one ? Who brought this one ? 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" "Not the kind that live on land " ex plained Mr. Coon , making a wry faie "but the kind that hide on the bank of tbe creek and Jump In when they hear you coming You ba\e to take many long and hard les sons before jou can catch one Fish are easier to catch. You turn jour baik to the creek let the tip of your all touch the top ft * ' : WWrf " $ " u m DOGS CAME CHARGING. of the nater , and move It about and wait. " "Huh" I see myserf ! " exclaimed Drustlla resentfully. "Hush up , " said Buster John ; "he'.s talk ing about coons. " "Well , some folks call niggers coons , " r - plled Drusilla. "All this time , " Mr. Coon continued , payIng - Ing no attention to the interruption , "you leave your body turned half around eo you can see what Is going on In the water. When the fish shows himself you reach down and flirt him out on the bank , and In reaching you have to be quicker than the fish and fish are mighty quick. But a gnawing stomach ( dag is lublum ; literally crying- for-jneat-thing ) makes a quick hand. "Well , mammy was trying to teach us all these things , and we were learning very fast. She took us with her when the sun was low , or when It had just gone away , and , though the light was trying to our eyes , we did very well. Once mammy heard a dog barking , and she hurried us home , making us run as hard as we could. I asked her what the trouble was , and she said It was the barking of the dog that scared her , and she told us that when we were oluer and heard a dog bark we must hurry home by a roundabout way and run In the water whenever we could , be cause dogs had a way of smelling where we went along and following us wherever we went , and if they followed us home they'd sit at the foot of the tree and bark until a man would come with a sharp cut-thing and hit the tree until it fell. "All these things we learned , and a great many more , but you know what fool things young things are. " "I ain't ol' . but I know I ain't no fool , " interrupted Drusilla. "O , will you hush ? " cried Buster John. "You know what fool things joung things are. " repeated Mr. Coon. "They listen to what their elders say and think It Is noth ing but talk. The young thing is always a smarter thing than the old thing , and some times he Is too smart. I remember that one night I slipped away from the others after mammy had been gone a long time. I was careful to make no noise on the tree , but when I reached the ground I felt so happy that I Jumped in the air and whirled around for Joy. The air was cool and fresh , the swamp smelt good and the dark was fine I could eec everything ever so much better 'than ' I when the big shine-thing Is blazing o\er the trees. "So I shook myself and started for the pond In the swamp. There I caught some small fish and they tasted ever BO much better than those mammy brought home Then I wandered out of the swamp and went on the hill where the brambles are hunting for birds and birds' nests. I found two birds and one nest with tiny eggs In it and the eggs tasted so nice that I wanted more , and I went rambling all over the hill t\er BO far Suddenly I heard a dog bark The sound of It made me shake and shiver and I stood listening Presently I heard the bark again and It was so close at hand that it sounded like a dreadful roaring " "I boun' you had ter hump yo'se'f den. " suggested Drusilla 3Ir Coon , with his ejcs half shut , for he was sleepy , kept right on the track of bis narrative. 'A dreadful roaring. I went away from there as fnst as my legs could carry me and ran right to the swamp. I could hear the dog coming , too , and far off I could hear some one crying out. " "Thai was the man cheering the dog , " Buster John explained. "The dog. " said Mr. Coon , "seemed to be coming closer and closer , and I began to run harder than ever. I remembered that my mammy bad said something about water and dogs , and I ran straight for the big pond In the swamp , the Son of Ben All alno knows where It Is. I slipped Into the water and swam to the middle , where there's a stump of an old tree. I had hardly reached it when the dog came in Bight on the bank of the pond , and began to whine and bark. He ran around to see if I had gone out on the opposite side , and then be caught sight of me. He Jumped Into the water with a great splash , and when I saw him coming fear teemed to leave me. I climbed upon the stump , and when be came near I Jumped on his brad and bit him on the neck with all my might. He went under , but I turned him looee , and came to the top and swam round and round. He came up trying to shake the water from his ears , and they flapped on the pond like the wings of a duck that Is trying to rUe In a hurry Before he got through flapping I had Jumped on bis head again , and when be went down I clawed him with my hind t He tried to cry out. but all he could do was to make bubbles on the water I lumped on bis bead twice lifter this , and the third time he never came up any more. I went out on the bank shook the water off uy clothes , and cantered toward home. As j I wrnt along , frellng > rry proud , I hf rd the mm callinc hit doc , First he blew a The Cream of the Midway 7 in number count 'em 7. Nothing Shoddy Nothing Cheap. lint every thing furnbhed on magnificent \ scale * H regardless of expense. MOORISH PALACE. The Cycloratna of tlie Battle of Missionary Ridge and The famous battle above the clouds A $50,000 Painting 400 feet long 50 feet wide. 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If he wasn't caught , she hoped he wouTd be badly scared , it would ser\e him right for not obeying the rules she had made. "Wif-n I got home , you may know I was tired. Mammy dried my clothes while I told her what had happened , and she would hardly believe It , but she could plainly hear the man calling his dog , first with his voice and then with his horn. He kept that up for some time , and , finally , on hie way home , ho passed right under our house , calling bis dog and tooting his horn and I was. the only onp'of the family that dared-to look out as he went by. "Well , I had no more adventures until one night , having come home myself , I heard a crowd of dogs barking. The noise they I CIU'SHED THE BIHD IN MV TEETH. made grew louder and louder , nnd presently I heard mammy climbing the tree as hard as the could She came up so fast that I could bear pieces of bark fall to the ground. She was scared nearly to death. " They are after me , ' she cried , 'and I didn't have time to take to water" Sure enough , the dogs came charging through the Tjushtts , ( howling and panting like mad , and they gathered around the tree and howled and barked until the men came up with torches. I was curious to see what was going on , though the others were too fright- tined to mo\e. I came out and sat on the limb and looked down at thorn. The one that bad the biggest torch held It behind him and moved it back and forth behind him. " 'There he is , ' he yelled , 'I see his eyes ! " The man with a cut thing begin to hit the tree. I never knew what wan going to hap pen until the tree began to swaj. Then I could feel It falling. As It fell ] ran down the tree until I came to one of the largest limb : , and by the time I had climbed that the tree hit the ground with a uoh > e that sounded as the clouds eound when they clap together and make a big , quick shine. The limb sbrok so hard that I came near falling off , but I held on the best I could , and in a moment I toeard a great nolso of fighting , berraming. howling and growling , i was wild with fear , but I could do nothing. Close to tbe limb I was clinging to wan a blackman man holding a torch. The light blinded my ] eyes and the hot smoke stlflea me. I thought none had seen me , IHI'I the man ' who was not a black man was standing apart from tbe others , and when I looked at him I found he was looking at me. "I kept looking at him and he at ma until I was no longer afraid. I had the feeling that he was a friend ( close to cousin- thing ) and I wnntrd to go to him. But bow could I ? It was the Sou of Ben Alt , and he said something to the others. But the thick smoke came In my nose and I sneezed. The black man jelled , 'Here's an other ! ' and climbed on the tree He was about to strike me with the torch , but the Son of Ben AH said , 'Walt" He came 1 to the limb , stretched out his hand to me and I touched It with my tongue. 'Come. ' he said. I Jumped to his shoulder and felt safe , but when he carried me among the strange ones , when I saw the dogs nosing around with blood on their ears and when I saw my mammy and the others lying there moving no more , fear came again , and but for the Son of Ben All's hand and voice I should have Jumped down Into the middle of the pack. "The Son of Ben AH gave me to a friend to take care of , and though I went hungry many a time , it was not the fault of the I black man. Maybe he was hungry himself , I ' and his wife and children , too But now I'm here , and if you'll excuse me I'll take a nap. " Mr. Coon opened his mouth wide to Rape , cuddled down In tbe corner , and was soon sound asleep. n YI3M.P. WrIIr ler' ; tlir Only Olio "Siilrt o Fir Truly llnrinnnloim. The most musical the only musical col lege jell in fact , is that which the Wellcsley girls have originated. College yells , as a ntle , are far from melodious , and it Is a constantly recurring source of satisfaction to Wellcsley damsels that their jcir Is the yell musical. This Is the way of It Tra la la , la , Tra la la la , Tra la la la , la la la , Wes Lcs Ley Welles ley. In contract to this Is the cry of the Uni versity of North Dakota , which more nearly in bound and meaning resembles an Indian war whoop- "Odz dzo d7l' Rl rl rl ! Hy ah , by ah1 North Dakota ! " Williams coirege boys iwent rather far afield to find a rhyme "Uah1 Rah' Rah ! Yums , yams , yums' Will jninu ! " The West Pointer also shows some In genuity In this respect : "Rah ! Rah' Ray' Rah ! Rah' Ray' West Point' West Point ! Armay ! " "Rock Chalk Jay Hawk K. U" Is the cry which d'oes great credit to the ingenuity of the Unherslty of Kansas boys. 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