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Whack bam whack whack whack
echoed through the country stillness of
a South Carolina afternoon as the man
reaching upward from where he stood
on tiptoe on the ricketty step of a corn-
house hammered the big nails steady
and square and drove themhome Hav
ing fastened one end of a narrow board
to Uic upper side of the wall he drew
It down diagonally aero s the dwarf
door and nailed it hard and fast effect
ually preventing entrance This done
he picked up half a dozen fowls which
laid tied together on the ground and
went to the open door of the cabin
brushing ruthlessly against the blooms
of a red japonica bush in his haste
All was dark inside The wood in the
fireplace was only smoldering not
burning The daylight of the gray
afternoon that stole in through the
heavy shuttered window showed that a
woman -sat in one corner
Here you there called the man
you understand that if you rip off that
board and use any corn out of that
house you go to jail you and your old
man both You understand
I know but you aint doing us
right answered the woman Wes
paid out for the things not scusin ex
cepting the picture what you fetched
last Heres the papers what the mens
give us every time they been here
never authorized anybody to col
lect payment and you owe me clear
15 not to say interest since April Ill
send back in a week for that corn and
if youve laid a finger on ityoull be
sorry Wheres your husband
I dunno out gittin wood I reckon
Since youse tooken the feather bed and
the pick of the quilts well have to keep
up a steady fire to warm by
Well you make Riah understand
what I say you hear
Mr Beckwith aint goin to touch
nothin said the woman in a de
pressed voice But youse mighty hard
on us old people You aint leave us
even a pullet to raise from eying
wistfully the feathered bunch hanging
limp and resigned by their yellow legs
Youw couldnt low me dat speckled
hen Shes a sure layer and an awful
good mother Id save you a couple of
the first chickens shed hatch if youd
gree to it
The speaker came forward and re
garded her creditor pleadingly a re
pressed eagerness in her manner as
though she half expected he would
comply She was tall with a smooth
shining bronze brown skin and good
features showing little trace of the
thick lips fiat nose and receding fore
head of the typical negro
Speckled hen indeed said the man
-waving her off Ive got her now the
chickens she mhht raise I might never
see Im un to vour tricks Get some
of your neighbors to raise on shares
with you Dont meddle with the corn-
bouse now he called as he drove off
in his rattling road cart The law J
drove them nails and it will be the
worse for you if you draw any of them
out
Heartsie Beckwith stepped outside
after he was gone and looked at the
cornhouse door with the tell tale board
across its face then she looked pathet
ically at the open trap door of the little
f owlhouse opposite
It wont be no use to shut it to
night she muttered Wes ruinated
plumb ruinated and there aint nobody
and nothin to turn to
Half unconsciouly she looked in the
-direction of the long avenue of oaks
that stretched across the big flat field
In front of the cabin As she stood thus
an elderly negro in a tattered coat
with his head tied up in a motley collec
tion of scarfs and strings came up be
bind her
Is dat debil gone he asked in a
thin high voice
Yes Mr Beckwith Hes gone and
everything gone with him scusin
the corn and that little handful of pea
vines in the corn house what we aint
to lay hands on Everybody goin to
know now that wes been shut up and
disgraced
Is you show him the papers what
the mens give you in sideration of the
taters and cotton and things what we
pay out on de clock debt
Yes But that make no differ He
tell It as how we give the things to the
wrong men rapscallion men hat he
aint send to fetch em He wouldnt
leave me so much as that speckled hen
whats such a regular layer Its wick
ed for anybody to eat a hen like that
what pays for herself over and over
every year
Come in out of the damp baby was
all that Mr Beckwith said and as they
entered the cabin where a light wood
knot in the chimney place blazed up
abruptly in welcome a brazen tongued
clock on a shelf struck thirteen in hur
ried uneven tones Mr Beckiwths
face brightened Its got us in a lot of
trouble but its mighty good company
he said looking up at the tall clock in
its gaudy frame
Peck peck as of a sharp bill striking
on bare boards came from the inner
room Mr Beckwith looked at his wife
inquiringly
The rumplus pullet she explained
While the buckra and the dog was
runnin down the other fowls It fly in
there and squat down under the bed
so I just shut the door and aint say
nothin Seemed like the Lord aimed
for we to keepit
Her companion chuckled xuere
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near bout four bushel of corn down
yonder in the fence corner he said
but it aint gone there itself I took it
out while he was gone to the sto for
nails He aint goin to miss it out of
the main batch
The ramplus pullet released from
confinement stepped out near its mis
tress pecking at the oven against the
rim of which a few crumbs from the
last cooked bread stuck fast
The pullets red feathers stood up
mutinously it was not prepossessing
in appearance but Heartsie took it up
and stroked it gently Its one of the
four that was hand raised she said
That what make it come in here to
hide That white hen what died on the
nest was its mother
A boy of about 10 years came in with
his arms full of wood He put his bur
den down then drew near one corner
of the fireplace and stood silent look
ing into the flames
Is you hungry bud asked his
grandmother Theres a piece of corn
cake in the cupboard Wheres Bol
luin
I left him in the branch He had
jump a rabbit replied the child
That dog got sense pronounced Mr
Beckwith He know when there aint
nothin fresh in the house If that clock
man had knowed hed a carried Sol
ium off long wid the other things You
see If he dont fetch in a rabbit to
night hell get one by sunup Hes sut
tingly a knowin dog
Humpy was asleep and Bollum the
yellow spotted cur dozed fitfully be
fore the fire that night but the excite
ment of the afternoon had banished
slumber from the eyes of Heartsie and
her spouse They discussed and redis
cussed every phase of the situation
Is you think to mention them things
to him baby the old man asked
Them things is rightly worth a heap
more than 15
I aint crack my teeth on him about
em said his wife I just was all
timersome like for fear ho would go
sarchin about and stumble on em It
never curred to him though to look in
that old trunk with the cover all teared
loose and rags stickin out Heda
took em soon as his eyes light on em
but it wouldnt have been for no pay he
would have took Hed a said as we
stealed them things and had us up be
fore the trial justice you as a speeta
ble member in good standin and me
what is always been held to be a right
eous liviu woman Hed a tooken that
ground sure
I believe you ejaculated Riah
looking admiringly at his
partner I never thought of that
Mr Beckwith said Heartsie at
length in an impressive undertone Is
got a notion that them things is a car
ryin us to the devil Is ponderated on it
now a long time when you aint had no
notion 1 was ponderatin and accordin
to my stakin off we wont have no let
up this goin down hill were doin till
we gets rid of them things for good and
all Aint we work hard this year every
day the Lord send she went on
Dats what we done affirmed her
spouse
Well Aint we try our best las
year
Dat we did
And de year before that Aint we
always been hard workin and aint
everything gone against us The chol
era killin off us hogs and fowl and
tings and skippin other peoples Our
cow crackin of her neck in the ditch
and Black Sally just naturally gittin
poorer and more perish away lookin
the more feed we give her Till the boss
say we cant keep her no longer Aint
all this what I tellin you precisely so
Mr Beckwith nodded His pipe had
long since gone out and he did not
know it
Well Mark my words emphasiz
ing them with uplifted finger just so
long as that candlestick and that
breastpin and that piece of watch chain
stay there in that trunk where they is
the old boys goin to follow us
Mr Beckwith groaned with excess of
interest and belief
Well what kin we do he asked
helplessly Fling em away Bury
em what If we was to try to sell
em wed git took up
Fling em away Bury em re
peated his wife What good would
that do Uriah Beckwith theres no
such a thing as tonement tonement
for wrongdoin If we could hit on a
plan to have them things go back to the
fambly they blongs to the old boy
would quit noticin of us so close and
particular Wes in a worse fix than
we evecbeen in yet to night and if we
dont watch out plagues worse than
the white preacher tell about is goin
to stroy us finally
But the fambly all is dead or else
move off even the house burn down
and the laud sell or goin to be sell
said Mr Beckwith
I know Uriah what was it the old
boss used to think more of than any
thing else sides good eatin and drink
in and he wife and children
A good horse ventured Uriah His
wife looked disdainful
His hounds fishin Heartsie shook
her head
I dunno less en you mean his nig
gers Since you talk bout givin of the
things back supposin we dig deep in
his grave and bury em there Hell
have em then for sure nobody else
His grave light there by the chnrefc
without no headstone
Heartsie still looked inscrutable
They aint doin nobody no good in
the trunk and they wouldnt be doini
no gocj bury in the ground she saidJ
Since you aint member nothin
mind you how the marster think
heap of he church how he never mis
a Sunday tendin there and was a high
sitting member thats just the samp
as saying he give money reglar and a
heap of it Now if we give them thing
to the church in he name it would be a
tonement just like it tell bout in the
book
Mr Beckwith was strongly stirred
He gazed at his partner as though he
thought her inspired
If we could give them things to the
same church went on Heartsie my
poor Regina would rest more content
eder in her grave and wed have better
luck to pervide for her orphan chile
glancing at the corner where Humpy
rolled up head and ears slumbered
peacefully Is wished many times I
had had the spunk to own that my gal
took them things and give them back
as was right and proper When Gina
was little and used to lift things out of
ladies rooms and out of the pantry
closet I used to steal em back in place
and scold and whip her but after sire
got growd and was such a likely gal
as could speak up so smart I hated to
own as she was a common nigger
thief
How you am to give these things
back baby asked the old man The
church is shut up these days There
never is anybody stirrin bout there
I hear Em line say yisterday that
theres goin to be preachin there this
Sunday People is comin over here
from the city and they goin to dredi
cate it over again She say its a ver
sary and that its the oldest church in
the whole country Theres to be a
excursion
But how we kin manage
I plan it out like this saidHeartsie
When they lifts the collection dey
calls it the loftory in the white folks
church you could tote up the things
and hand em in and splain where they
come from and how it is a tonement
we made wid em
Before all the people
Yes Course the book say about ac
knowledge before men I would say
it myself but it aint respectful for
women to speak in church and if I
patch you up proper seeming and do you
up a shirt with rice starch youd look
better than me
The rededication of St Judes tooK
place the next Sunday The excur
sionists were there in numbers Many
saw the old negro with his gray wool
combed into order and his shabby suit
brushed slick and span walking up the
aisle at a respectful distance behind the
acting vestrymen Only those nearest
could hear what he said as having
deposited his burden he bent low be
fore the church officers and made hur
ried obeisance to the minister Before
they had recovered from the surprise
sufficiently to question him he was al
ready half way to the door mopping
his brow that was moist with the
stress of exertion
Luck will turn now see if it dont
said Heartsie as she joined him New
York Evening Post
May Be a Prehistoric Boat
Maj G A Vandegrift of the Board
of Administration who was eighteen
years in the lighthouse service on the
Ohio River tells of an interesting relic
of prehistoric ages that lies embedded in
the river embankment a little below
lowr water mark The spot is a short
distance from Bartons Landing on the
Illinois side of the river nearly 500
miles below Cincinnati There at the
rare intervals in which the river stage
is at a very low point is seen protrud
ing from the bank and inclined at a
slightly upward angle a portion of a
flatboat built of oak The timbers as
far as can be seen are rough and ap
pear to have been hewn with an un
evenly edged tool probably of Hint
and are held together with wooden
pegs The protruding portion is small
but there is enough to indicate consid
erable skill in the fashioning of the
boat
Maj Vandegrift and several othei
officers have seen it only a few times in
the many years they were employed
on the river and once they examined
it closely The wood is nowT as hard as
iron and In a splendid state of pres
ervation on account of having been
under the water for such a lengthened
period
From the formations of the bank anc
the surroundings which have not
changed in the slightest within the
memory of man the Major thinks the
subsidence that buried the boat under
the embankment must have taken
place ages ago When telling of it he
said he has often regretted that he did
not make an effort to have it removed
and placed in a museum Such action
mav vet be taken when the fact of the
boats existence and location becomes
more generally known Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune
Killed by Them
A remarkable cause of death from
fright was the case of the famous
painter Poutanan He was at work in
his studio where there were a number
of deaths heads and skeletons when
he happened to fall asleep During his
sleep there was a slight shock of earth
quake and when he woke up suddenly
he saw the skeletons and skulls lancing
round in the greatest confusion He at
once became panic stricken and rushed
across the room and threw himself out
of the window on to the pavement be
low He died in a few days after not
from injuries received in the fall but
from the nervous shock given by the
dancing skeletons though the cause of
the festivity was explained to him
Law Practice in London
The earnings of the average practic
ing barrister In London do not exceed
300 a year
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The author of Degeneration hav
ing shown that the great men of our
time are merely so many manifesta
tions of the human mind diseased was
bluntly asked by a critic to define the
difference between genius and insan
ity Well replied Nordau the lu
natic Is at least sure of his board and
clothes
George Garrick brother of the cele
brated David was the latters most de
voted slave and laborious pack horse
On coming behind the scene he usual
ly inquired Has David wanted me
It being asked once how George came
to die so soon after the demise of his
famous brother a wag replied David
wanted him
Once the opposition leaders were very
anxious to find out what course Diz
zy intended to pursue in regard to a
certain matter They turned loose up
on him a well known political beauty
She talked and talked he gazed and
gazed At length she asked him He
pressed her hand looked unutterable
admiration and observed Pretty dar
ling
Sir Albert Pell a verbose and prolix
but very successful English advocate
owed his forensic victories largely to
his iteration When a gentleman criti
cised a jury address of his in an im
portant cause Pell confessed and
avoided the justness of the criticism
I certainly was confounded long he
replied but did not observe the fore
man a heavy looking fellow in a yel
low waistcoat No more than one idea
could ever stay in his thick head at a
time and I resolved that mine should
be that one so I hammered till I saw
by his eyes that he had got it
Two of the best malapropisms I ever
heard says Mr Howard Paul were ut
tered by an old lady of obscure origin
who lived in the West She had two
daughters being educated in Paris She
desired them to return and they plead
ed fJr a longer sojourn Them girls
she said has been so long in Paris
they begin to think themselves Pan
sites These same girls were warmly
devoted to private theatricals and of
ten took part in them Somebody told
theold lady that one of her daughters
had engaged herself to a Frenchman
one of the actdrs whereupon she ex
claimed I always said no good would
come of them amatory theatricals
Maurice Barrymore and some person
with whom he had business dealing
were walking down Fifth avenue to
gether They passed a blind man who
stood with a tin cup in his hand and a
sign to explain the situation on his
breast The man whom Barrymore
was trying to impress stopped With
great deliberation he drew a handful of
silver from his pocket After shuffling
and senrching it over for some time
he at last found a nickel which he
dropped in the tin cup Then he re
placed Hie silver in his pocket and
slowly buttoned his ccat Barrymore
Who was irritated at the interruption
said Oh come along The philan
thropist looked at him full in the eyes
Barrymore he said slowly and dis
tinctlyrather loudly too I always
give to the blind You are quite
right said Barrymore quickly they
cant see what you are giving them
Judge Roy Bean of Langtry Texas
declares that he is the law west of the
Pecos Leslies Weekly tells an an
ecdate told of him when ne sat as coro
ner and held an inquest on the body of
a man who had met a violent death by
falling from the great railway bridge
that spans the Pecos river An exami
nation showed that the man had a re
volver and forty dollars in cash in his
pocket when he was killed After
swearing in a jury and looking over the
effects of the dead man Judge Bean
said Gentlemen of the jury there
aint no doubt about how this man
came to his death thats all plain but
what I would like to know is why in
the name of thunder he carried that
gun Now gentlemen its agin the
law to carry a concealed and loaded
gun in the State of Texas and jist
because this gentleman took it into his
head to get killed I dont mean to let
him offend the peace and dignity of
Texas I fine him forty dollars
Justice of the Peace Bonnefoi is
known in Chicago as the North Side
Solomon Two neighbors had quar
reled over the ownership of a mongrel
dog There had been several contin
uances witnesses had been sworn and
countersworn and lawyers had wran
gled until the justice and the specta
tors as well were all mixed as to the
nature of the original proposition To
ward the close of a wordy session a
butchers boy who had stolen into the
court with a basket of fresh meat for
his employers customers started to
leave the room The dog which had
been tied to a leg of the justices desk
smelled the meat gave a tug that broke
the string and bounded down the
stairs after the butchers boy The
crowd was on the point of rushing out
to capture the fugitive dog when Bon
nefoi sang out Hold on there If
anybody leaves the room Ill fine him
for contempt of court Let the tarn dog
go And the dog went and went so
well that the litigants failed to recover
him and the case was dropped
Drumming Up a Band
The German ship Niobe which arriv
ed from Newcastle England early in
November boasts of the most unique
band that -has ever been seen here says
the San Francisco Chronicle It con
sists of an accordion bass and snare
drums a tambourine and a triangle
When the Niobe left Antwerp about
seven months ago she shipped a new
crew the men of which were sfcraneera
to each other
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Peter Christiansen brought an accor
dion out of his chest when the ship was
two days out and immediately he was
the idol of the forecastle Then God
fried Klenger produced a tambourine
and shared the honors But Peter was
a leader and determined to have a band
to lead Hendrich Willig had an ear
for music and he said he could play a
triangle if there was one to be had Pe
ter tied a string to a marlinspike and
told Hendrich to use his sheathknife to
beat a tattoo Julius Hallock cut the
heads off a herring barrel and covered
both ends with canvas which he soak
ed with water and lo he had a snare
drum Carl Hensen sawed the ends
off a flour barrel and stretching canvas
over the apertures created a fine-sounding
bass drum Then Carl took the
heads off a coal oil can and made a pair
of cymbals and the little German band
was complete
THE LONGEST RAILWAY RUN
From London to Exeter 194 Miles
Without a Stop
The longest regular daily run made
without stop by any railway train in
the world has just been placed on the
schedule of the Great Western Rail
way of England
It is made between Paddington sta
tion in London and Exeter a distance
of 194 miles in three hours and thirty
six minutes by wThat is known as the
Cornwall express It is remarkable
not so much owing to the time as for
the fact that not a stop is made from
one end of the run to the other There
have been longer runs made without a
stop but they have been made by spe
cial and not regular trains The aver
age speed attained by the Cornwall ex
press when making this run is 517
miles an hour although owing to a
peculiar construction of the road at
Bristol 118 miles from London the
train is obliged to slow down to a
speed of ten miles an hour
The express train is composed of six
long coaches a tender and engine An
American Avould call it a vestibule
train but the English prefer to call the
cars bogie clere storied corridor
coaches bogie being a term applied
to the trucks They are fully as heavy
as an ordinary drawing room car each
one weighing about 47000 pounds
while the train without the engine and
tender weighs 140 tons The weight of
the engine and tender is SI tons mak
ing the total weight of the train as it
rushes along on its long run 221 tons
During the run it is necessary to take
water for the engine twice This how
ever does not necessitate any stop as
it is taken up from a trench beside the
track as the train speeds along at near
ly a mile a minute
The engine which draws this essen
tially through train is a curious-looking
ponderous affair quite unlike any
locomotive seen on American roads It
has on either side a single huge driving
wheel seven feet eight inches in diame
ter while what must by comparison be
termed the small wheels of the engine
six in number known as trailers are
four feet six inches in diameter
The water tank of the engine holds
30000 gallons and when running at
full speed there is a steam pressure of
1G0 pounds to the square inch while
there is a heating surface of 1501
square feet
Each day the run is made the train
leaving Paddington station at 1025
oclock in the morning and it never
fails to roll into St Davids station in
Exeter exactly on time The time al
lowed by the schedule for this run
makes no allowance for delays of any
kind Even the time lost in going over
the loop around Bristol and the neces
sity of slowing down when going
through Bath is not allowed for New
York Herald
Indian Relics
An interesting find was made lasx
Sunday by two young geologists from
Allegheny near the old log house on
the McMahon place just south of town
The find consisted of three flint hatch
ets or tomahawks twenty two arrow
tips one large and one small clay mor
tar supposed to have been used for the
grinding and mixing of maize and a
number of small stone dishes
These stone dishes were likely used
by the medicine man of the tribe for
mixingmedicineor probably were used
for mixing war paint as they were all
stained with a red substance that very
much resembled ochre These young
men are the same that made the inter
esting discovery at Dugans run last
summer and although they were not
looking for Indian relics they value
their find highly Beaver Falls Repub
lican
A Queer Chicken
Mr More a chicken fancier of Great
Bend Pa has a queer chicken It
is a Plymouth Rock two years old
that in addition to all the characteris
tics of a fine cock possesses the natur
al instincts of a hen He crows and
fights and conducts himself as most
chanticleers do yet he has been known
to adopt chickens mother them scratch
and pick for them raise a note of
alarm when danger appeared and fold
them under his wings at night He
raised two broods of chickens last year
As soon as the chicks hatch under a
hen Mr More removes them to a small
cop in which the cock is placed He
immediately adopts them and is a
model mother until they are ready to
shift for themselves New York Press
Horseflesh in London
The meat inspectors of London have
discovered that not only is horseflesh
served to unsuspecting customers In
the metropolis as beef but also that
goatflesh masquerades as venisco at
many restaurants
Not Plagiarise
Spats Hackley Is being accused of
plagiarism in his last book
Socratoots I would not say that He
was merely collecting his thoughts
Pittsburg News
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CURE FOR SNORING
Hott the Advice of a Ifewapaper Par
agraph Was Used
When the landlady asked the book
keeper in the second story front room
if he would object to a room mate he
said he didnt think hed mind it just
so the other fellow didnt snore
The landlady promised to be very
careful and question all callers closely
on that point It was two weeks be
fore she found any one whom she con
sidered nice enough to share the room
with the bookkeeper The new comer
was a dapper little fellow who had
his trousers creased every other day
and who was in all respects the quin
tessence of cleanliness
The two young men got pretty well
acquainted the first evening and the
bookkeeper thought he should like his
companion immensely Before morn
ing he changed his mind and knew he
should despise him The room mate
snored It was not an infant snore
but a fully developed mighty snore
such as he had never heard in all his
varied experience He spoke about it
the next day
Snored did I said the room mate
Thats funny Nobody ever told me
about it before
Maybe you never slept in the same
room with anybody
Oh yes I have lots of times I tell
you I dont think its natural for me
to do that I think I did it last night
because Ive got such a bad cold
The bookkeeper accepted that expla
nation and both men set to work ii
cure the cold At the end of a week
there wasnt a trace of it but the snor
ing continued at a more lively rate
than ever The bookkeeper complained
again The room mate was very nice
about it He said he was sorry and
if anybody would recommend anything
that was good for snoring hed be will
ing to take it no difference what it was
That night the bookkeeper brought
home a newspaper clipping which he
had run across in the course of the
day
If people who snore will take a ta
blespoonful of cayenne pepper and a
tablespoonful of olive oil before retir
ing they will find the mixture a posi
tive cure of snoring
That was the gist of the paragraph
After dinner the bookkeeper went to
the drug store and bought a plentiful
supply of both ingredients
I tell you what it is he said when
he came back if a little of anything
is good a good deal ought to be still
better Instead of taking two table
spoonsful of this stuff you ought to
double the dose
The room mato demurred a little but
the other persisted and after much
gasping and weepirg the fiery mixture
was swallowed One room mate had
taken to the sofa several nights be
fore that and the bookkeeper went to
bed and slept peacefully the whole
night through without being disturbed
by a single snore The next morning
he arose and looked at the silent form
on the bed
Hello old man he said Tbj
stuff worked like a top didnt it Nary
a snore eh
No answer
Say he went on are ycu still
asleep
The figure sat up then Its face was
flushed its eyes blodshot and its hair
rumpled
Dont speak to me it bellowed I
hate you Im burning up If the fur
nace of the Hebrew children were in
my stomach I couldnt be any hotter
than I am now No Im not asleep
I havent been asleep all night I never
expect to sleep again No wonder I
didnt snore
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Bogs and Woodchucks
To show that dogs have the power to
intercommunicate ideas the power of
conversation allow me to tell a story
which- came to me from a Mr Wood
ruff of this State There were two
dogs at a summer hotel in the Catskill
Mountains They were once noticed to
chase a woodcliuck into a hole To this
hole there were two openings one on v
each side of a stone fence The dogs
saw the two openings and each of them
took one and began digging Because
the day was hot and the work hard be
cause they saw that the stony charac
ter of the ground would not allow the
sufficient enlarging of his opening to
let the larger dog in or for some other
reason the dogs simultaneously quit
digging and met in consultation on the
wall When their plan was completed
the smaller dog who had sufficiently
enlarged the opening at which he had
been working for the admission of his
body entered while the larger dog
took his station at the other opening
What took place in the hole I do not
know All that I know on the very
best evidence is- that the woodehuck
soon appeared at the larger dogs open
ing was nabbed dispatched and the
two dogs had a great feast
As to how these dogs carried on their
conversation I can not say but that
they did so there can be no doubt
They formulated a plan Their knowl
edge of the plan was mutual Their
snouts were together as they talked on
the wall Their interchange of ideas
may have been telepathic if there be
sucb a thing as telepathy of which I
am not sure
An Island and a Peninsula
At a school the other day a teacher
having asked most of his pupils the dif
ference between an island and a penin
sula without receiving a satisfactory
answer came to the last boy I can ex
plain it sir said the bright youth
First get two glasses fill one with
water and the other with milk Then
catch a fly and place it in the ghiss of
water That fly Is an island because
it is entirely surrounded by water But
now place the fly in the glass of milk
and it wall be a peninsula because it is
nearly surrounded by water Th boy J
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