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BESIDE THE BABE
Grandmother's knitting ha* lost its charm'
Unit ceded It lies in her ample lap,
■While the smwet's crimson, soft and warm
Touches the frills of her snowy cap.
She is gazing on two beside the bars,
Under the maple—who Utile ear*
Vor the growing du-k, or the rising stars,
Or the hint of frost in the autumn sir.
One is a slender slip of a girl
And one a man in the pride of yon'! -~
Tbe maiden pure as the purest pearl.
The iover strong in his steadfast uuth.
“Sweet, my own, as a rose Of Jnno,”
He says fall low o'er tire golden bead.
It would sound to her Uke a ijeat old tone,
Could grandmother hear the soft words said'
Eor it seems bnt a little while ago
Since under the maple, beside the bars,
She stood a girl, whUe the sunset’s glow
Melted away mid the evening stars.
And little you dream how fond a prayer
Goes up to God through His silver stars,
From the aged woman gazing there,
For the two whd linger beside the bars.
JIaiioarkt Sakostzs.
SOMEBODY.
a
tsomebody crawls into mamma’s bed
Just at the break of day,
Snuggles up eiosa and whispers loud-
“Somebody's come to stay.”
Somebody rushes through the house,
Never once shuts a dear;
Scatters her playthings all around
Over the nursery floor.
Climbs on the fence, and tears her clothe«—
Never a hit cares she—
Swings on the gate, and makes mud pies
Who can somebody be ?
Somebody looks with roguish eyea
Up through her tangled hair;
“Somebody's me,”ahe says, “but then
Somebody doesn’t care.”
SUNSET AND DAWN.
It had been a glorious September day,
and the sun was sinking in a gorgeous
pile of many-tinted clouds, when the
train that was to take me cityward drew
up at the little platform that was the
only railway station at N—-. I had
been rnstioating in that wee country
village for six weeks, my first vacation
in as many years.
- - -wary to.
_ . 1 holding a position in a public
institution. My work was hard, my va¬
cations few, and I sorely needed the rest
I had been taking when the train took
me up at N-.
As I took my place in a crowded oar, I
noticed quite near me, two women, one
elderly and wearing the dress of a re¬
spectable servant, the other very young,
and dressed with simple elegance.
There was nothing in the dress of either
to attract attention, bnt apparently the
younger lady had been faint, for the
other had taken off her hat, and was
fanning her with it. The face that
rested upon the shoulder of the servant
was the most beautiful as to form and
feature, despairing the meet ghastly in color, the
most in expression that I ever
beheld. Clouds of light, golden hair
moved in the cool breeze from the open
window, and the eyes, fixed vacantly,
were of the purest blue, the eyes of a
babe in shape and color. The fair com¬
plexion was perfectly colorless, and
under the large, blue eyes were heavy,
purple hollows, while the lips of the
perfect mouth were p«rohed and wMte,
I stepped to the water-cooler, mixed a
light dose of ammonia and water, and
handed it to the eider woman,
* “I am a physician,” I said. “Let
her drink this. It cannot harm her.”
“Thank you,” both said at onoe, and
the dose was obediently swallowed.
I returned to my seat, but as the
tedious hours wore away, I noticed fre
quently that beautiful, grief-strieken
face. There was no sign of mourning
in the quiet gray dress, but that there
had been some blighting sorrow in the
young life was only too plainly evident
The moon rose, lighting ... the .. pleasant , .
scenes whion we passed at lightning
speed, and it was nearly midnight when,
without warning, there was a crash, and
we were thrown here and there amid the
wreck and the rains of the trains which
had come into collision.
I found myself, as I recovered from
the effects of a stannum blow upon the
head, hurled agamst a fence at some
distance from the trams. The moon
lighted up a scene of horror and confu
sion upon all sides, and tho air was full
of cries of pain, groans, shrieks and a
Babel of voices.
' Clear above all rose one load, com
manding voioe: “If there is a surgeon
unhurt, trill he assist us ?”
That. Moused me, and I staggered for- {
waid f reea*adn§ myself fully answered;! before I;
spoke. otters had also
that call, fonnd Plenty of work J
for 'lauds. I was rising from
the exs mi of one hopeless ease,
when a and touched mo, and look
i^ 188 ttng girl, who said:
“the two women to our
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SPRING PLACE. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. MARCH 26, 188S.
house. Will you come with me to see
them ?’*
I followed at once. Not twenty steps
awsJ we reaohed a small wooden house,
the door of which opened into a small
room, and there, by the light of two
lamps, I saw the women who had so in
terested me during the first houtsof that
fearful journey. They were lying upon
mattresses, evidently hurriedly spread
upon the floor, and only one glance was
needed to prove the sorrows, which I had
felt were slowly crushing out the
younger life, were over upon earth.
But the elder woman still lived, and I
knelt down beside her, to try to aid her.
too, death had set his seal, though the
pa hlre^M^bn^Rtill
JSEET she ..mITt' * he y 1 fltU1 kn0lt k u
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S, ? y h h t ?
i must * go 7 toner! ^ i'. and , struggling .
to rise, she caught sight of the rigid
vSjw* t” ^ d d -,
’
Thank God!”
iwT^'ErSSL'S’SS Tt
men ^ ,
“You gave me the medicine on the
train ” she said nresentlv “Yon said
you toN^rkr were a doctor I Tell me shall I net
I “D“= hesitated to sneak.
to tell me” ’ she
urged- dying? “you look kind-hearted If I
am will yon not see that the poor
child is taken to her friends ?”
“T will ”T answered ovurete totinw
ad’drasa ^
and ”
"Her name i. Loro. F.irthoror. Too
ttaLZmtzzF* ’
“I will do ss you desire,” * . „ T I said. ..
I hirSrfW Hornebodv w£r ‘inTnfihnd'D 1
must nm fl ttall tell her mother «d and brother. YAn You
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t idli and tell them»”
Yes > t 1 sa1 ^. se f in * tkat * be
wMns citato vm siortedng her
I * 8 0,1 earth ’ 7 may tr ? t 109
ra ffl im f n
nearly a year ago, but her brother knew
hub for a bad man, a villain as he was,
and forbade him the house. But Miss
Lorna worshiped him. He was a p:o
tureof a man to look at, sir, he was in
deed! Well, she fretted so I could not
bear to see her, and I carried the letters
for the both of them, like a wicked,
foolish woman, I can see now 1 But it
was all for love of the child I nursed.”
She broke down, sobbing, but re
gained her composure after a moment.
“The letters made all the preparations
for a runaway match, sir, though I
her Lt of he money her father left her?
n bo pereuaded i her LJ1 , t - nlu away and
’
r keD , L f ° Und Bhe woa d g0 ’ 1 ran a ^ ay
too She was never strong, sir, and I
had nursed her all her life. Mr. lair
thc$»e was none too well pleased to see
me in the carnage that took Miss
Lorna to Central Park to meet him, bnt
he let me stay with her. So we all went
to Boston. He wanted to write to Mr.
Graves and demand Ms wife’s money at
once, but she coaxed him to wait, telling
him it was tied up until she was twenty
one, and that won’t be till Christmas
week, sir. She’ll nev#r claim it”
“When did she leave him?” I asked.
“ Ear y ln Ibh , ... ® ^otmamed , . ,
a week before her husband began to be
^eless of her. But the worst came
^ fore they ware a month married, when
be ™ “ d ^ a forgery and r.t
than tem P‘ a to year mnrder ago. * ^ Then took we P laee knew m his ^ a
aame ^ not 8 Fairthorne , bnt Blake ,
au( j ]j een taking the name of n
{rieild wbo wa8 in Europe. It is all in a
tangle in my poor old head, sir, but the
po Iioe carried him off.
“Weil, sir, all this time Mr. Graves
was patting notices in the paper, with
en t names right out, but we knew who
was meant, begging his sister to come
Home, or write and tell them where she
wft8> She meant to write, until the dis
• Then flhe would , Btjt
^ not
ahe 0 , nng to her hasban(l Every day
she went to the prison and sat with him
for honrs, and he seemed to soften and
feel sorry for all that he had done, when
she was with him. Every night she
cried herself to sleep in my arms. She
was grieving herself to death, and those
who would have oome to eomfort her
did not know her sorrow,
“I cannot tell yon about the law part
of the trouble, sir, for I had my bauds
full in court, watching the ohfld. But
the end was, they sentenced Lucius
Blake to twenty years in the State
Prison. He was taken there this mora
WWfiSHS®
ing, ana I wee taking fek wifehoma If
I had waited she would not have gone
there, disgraced and worse than widowed.
But she was stunned like, and did what
ever I said.”
“And have her mother and brother
known nothing of her marriage?”
“Not a word, sir 1 You will find her
marriage certificate in her pocketiwok,
and a pioture of her husband in the
locket on her neck. You had better taka
them now. Tell her mother I never kft
her, and would have brought her home 1
But her Heavenly Father knows beet
You started when I thanked Him that
„j ie was deal I Is it not best so ? Think
of twenty years of misery, watching and
waiting, sorrowing and weeping. Bet
ter she’s gone, poor lamb, than living to
to by totes.”
“ Bat the law W0 uld 1106 her from her
husband -” 1 sai<L ,
“No law would take the love out of
her heart, sir. Bad as fie was, a forger,
a WO ald-be-murderer, she loved him!
That’s the strange part of life, sir, how
» pn». good woman will cling to a bad
mam Bat they do, they do.. Oau you
idt me a uttl °* **’ 801 oan 800
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that she oould rest upon my arm, and
866 tbe ,aoe deatb bad lei * misoarred
and peaoefuL -
<'Itislo.gsincesheresteasoqmetly, rt • i • n ,, . ,,
theoldwoman] said solemnly; sleepwas
^ Wh ° W ° U m <i W “ m h V t6
"poor child!” I said softly “she
sleensquietlynow slee P 3 qmeuy n »
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JS StS.’S ? “ M L “ e
, *time i yoa'ewry’ua r bo^b.'
tb wlmu home i
“Not long, I said.
I returned to the wreck outside
^ bere was am P la ^ olic f° r me, and I
tried with aU my skill to meet it coming
to the httle house whenever I oould
8 P are a uootoent.
Each time 1 fonnd m7 patient weaker ’
carefully tended by the girl who had
summoned me to her side. Tender
118,138 had P re P ared 1,orna for the K rave
rsrriSSI «
(he end of the faithful servant’s life was
very near. She smiled as I knelt beside
the mattress, and put my finger upon
the fast failing pulse.
“The pafn is all gone, doctor,” she
whispered faintly. “I shall not be long
separated from my child. She would
m i 8s po or Margaret, would she not?
Will you carry mo home with her?”
“You shall not be separated,”
promised.
“You have the looket and the oertifi
oater •
..yes, I have both.”
— death!”
8ke 8m “ ed “fl?’ ^P^lng the
words l and w,th tbe smile upon her
lips, her spirit joined that of the poor
sorrow-strioken child she had loved so
dOTOtedly .
I waited beside her till she was oarried
to the fiide of ber u urs liug, and promised
to re turn to carry ont the mission upon
wll ich she had sent me, fulfill the trust
re posed in me.
Tenderly, upon that fateful night,
j p i a0 ed old Margaret beside her charge,
aud gi v i Dg orders that they were not to
be removed excepting in my care, went
again to the scene outside to give what
service I could to other sufferers.
And as I opened the house door, hav¬
ing seen the last of the tragedy ended in
the little room, the early dawn was
lighting the soene outside, and the glow
of sunrise was reddening the east.
And I may say here that I kept my
.vord and saw the dead safely under the
roof they had so rashly forsaken, and
told the story entrusted to me to the
sorrowing mother and brother.
Fine Sentiment^ to Order.
A rather funny thing in connection
with the suit of breaoh of promise
brought by Miss Fortesone against Lord
Garmoyle comes to me from across the
water. When the case was brought up
in court, a letter from the lady to her
betrothed was read, and it expressed
sentiments of snob a lofty oharaoler that
a very profonnd impression was made
upon everybody, even to the Judge
who heard them. It raised the young
lady very Mghly, in fact, in the estima¬
tion of tbe whole pnblio. But the
letter is now found to have been copied
verbatim from a book of correspondence,
where it appears under the head of
“Letters from a young lady on receipt
of a valuable gift.” Everybody in Lon
don is said to be laughing over the
discovery. But as Miss Fortesoue has
received her $50,000, she will probably
not be muoh affected.— Boston Herald,
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ffISTEB AMONG THE WOODSMFN.
Hard W IJT Day and Jolly Time* at
N * Abe lartiu of Maine.
past Despit^fco in thflittober unprofitable business, year just
havegfene the woods
men in swarms^from Bangor,
as usual, As winter, to cat spruce and
pine on tM upper Penobscot One in
duoementpjthe lorijjtooat lumbermen to operate
is the of provisions, it being
possible centj| Mfboard a brew of men 20 to 25
per cheaper than a year Ago.
Labor alstt.i» low, as the Prince Edward
Island bowihave poured into Bangor by
the hundrK this season looking for cm
ploy men Vfeid they have put wages
down and kept them there. Think of a
stout you% man swinging an ax all
winter for&O to $15 a month and his
board - aro the w «gea accepted
by f jfiierp tbe PrblC0 Edward Island
loggers, was a time in the days
of big piteSS nap by, when a woodsman
was lesrned looked trade.! iftijp as a man who had
a
loggers Many live peoj&%o in thmwooda. queer ideas They of build how
if there is hot cme
and are sewom more than a '“e* day about
The » simply a log house,
with low sides and steep-pitched roof,
The ohinfe: of the walls are filled In with
mnd , moss.and leaves', and a high bank
ing o{ S a- lh or 6110W rea0 , ie8 almo3t to
eaves, outside. The entrance is
inone ^| eti|> ( and tho only window is in
° P P ^ The cook andhis as
S off “ t “‘“f at t the|wmdow . a ®° rt of end, 5»W and there loIlea are
side of ^#ntranoe. The remapider of
b " W ‘®‘“ r “ f*”*’'.
and ploi!|^s, On ihe on which the side men sleep in
a opposite is a Imig
table, madeof small logs, hewn smooth
0 n top, on ^ioh the food is served. Id
fron t of it is a big log hewn out for a
settee, and called the deacon seat. The
men « whep,;done eating, have only to
turn arealte in their seat to toast their
ahins at a big fire of logs, which glows
like a smal vooauol in the midst of all,
tsx
but wholesome and substantial Pork
and beans, bread and molasses, and
p 0r k fat, the latter nsed for butter, moke
up a breakfast at sunrise. Then the
crew goto work, and, if near by the
camp, they oome back at 12 o’clock for
diuner, which is beans and pork, with
perksoraps and doughnuts. Thenien
work until it is too dark to tell a hem
look from a spruce, and then come back
to eat a supper of the same viands,
varied with dried apple-sauce. Fish is
sewed once or twice a week. Thebev
erage is cheap tea.
Evening, sad Brad.?,u» PjMd in
tellmg wonderful yarns, singing ear
splitting songs, and smoking. In some
camps toe men play cards, and gamble
for tobacco, clothing, and even wages.
The -roods beans are the ^est of all
baked beans, and put Boston in the
shade. They are oooked in an iron pot
placed in a pit surrounded by live cools
and oovered tightly with earth over
night. In the morning they are done
toa turn. No range oan oompete with
the bean hole of the woods.
The woodsmen range in age from 16
to 65, dress in heavy woolen or knit un
derwear, cheap ready-made clothes,
cloth or knitted caps, moccasins, and
many socks and mittens. They work on
an average fonr months, come out as
fat as bean, and with from $50 to $150
due them. They speifid the money, and
then are ready to work on the river or
go driving.
Every Day.—A n old broken-down
gambler of Puis may be seen daily
promenading in tbe shabbiest attire,
with a magnificent white oamelia in his
button-hole. Some years ago he won a
great deal of money and determined to
make sure that he should always be sup¬
plied with his favorite flowar. He there¬
fore paid a large sum in cash to his
florist who agreed to supply jiim with
a white oamelia every day for the rest
of his life. And now the deoayed old
sport struts up and down the boulevards
with a comelia worth more than the
coat which it adorns.
Cost Too Muoh. —A lady of refine¬
ment and well dressed entered one of onr
principal grocery stores a few days ago
and ordered a quantity of sugar of such
quality as had been advertised at very
l9 w figures. She said that she had
bought a barrel of the same grade a
short time ago, but as it had cost her
was now asked she had Con¬
eluded to wait until the price advanced
before using it. She had an eye open to
economy, but hardly knew where to
commence.
VOL. V. New Series. No. 7.
TWO BRA YE YOUNG GIRLS. .
Row They Kepnlecd a Cane of Bnr«la>»
until Frieudd Came to tlie Rescue.
Two young ladies, the Misses Idalie
and Jeanne Guthrie, living a few miles
east of Erie, Pa., had a thrilling experi
enoe with a band of masked burglars,
The sisters had been left in charge of
their home, their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Elisha Guthrie, having been decoyed to
Jamestown, N. Y., by a spurious dis
patch, and soon after dark fonr masked
men knocked at the door and demaudod
admittance. The house being strong
and well secured owing to its lonely sit
nation, the girls resolved to stand the
siege. They barricaded the doors and
windows with furniture, a precaution al
m06t unnecesssrv owing to the strength
of the looks, bolts, and bars with which
the lower part of the house was secured.
The burglars tried every horrible threat
that suggested itself to induce the young
ladies to surrender, but the heroic girls
held out resolutely. The men com
menced to file away the staples or bars
of a lower window, which had the effect
of ^ greatly terrifying though W not of sub
y ™ 8 .
er brother, Henry, was absent at the
home of a schoolmate named Higgins,
between whose house and the Guthrie
home was telegraphic connection, tho two
boys having fixed the wires and batteries
{or the parpose of stu had^also dying telegraphy.
Miss Jeanne, who acquired a
knowledge of telegraphy, rushed to her
brother’s room and frantically called him
U P- « the hope of transmitting intelli
# *genoe of their danger and obtaining help
from Uio Higgins folks. M***
dismay there was no response to their
^ “ d He "rJ “f
him part of the way. In the meantime, partially
the burglars had succeeded in
cutting away the fastenings, and the
ghrle began to lose all hope. In the dis
' tance they could see the light of their
young brother’s lantern, as he come
across the fields, a circumstance that in
tehsified their terror, believing the vil
% ins would kill him. In their telegraph
varites they had practiced signaling or
tion and in making known their peril,
The boy hastened back for help, and
two of the ruffians were captured, one of
whom has confessed that the scheme to
rob the house was planned by the
nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie, one
Ed Camper, who had manufactured the,
daeoy telegram,
Alleged Penitentiary Abuses.
CHARGES OF INHUMANITY WHICH HAVE
CAUSED A SENSATION IN TENNESSEE.
A few days ago the Nashville Banner
published a report of Dr. E. D. Sim,
chairman of the Committee on Prisons
and State Board of Health of Tennessee,
making a severe criticism on the present
penitentiary system. The Banner in¬
dulged in some strong editorial com¬
ments upon tbe system as represented
in Sim’s report and was sued for $60,000
for an alleged libel, and two of its pro¬
prietors indieted by the Grand Jury.
The Banner insists that its assertions
can be snstained by proof, and publishes
an interview with Dr, J. W. Reed, rep¬
resentative from Campbell county.
Dr. Beed said tho convicte at the coal
mines have been ornelly treated; that
he and Drs. Smith and Britton bad dis¬
sected the body of a convict fonr honrs
after death; that it was customary to
furnish physicians with dead convicts,
and that he never knew the body of a
convict to be buried. He also says the
convicts are whipped unmercifully. Sick
or well, if any fail to complete the task
set for them they are whipped.
He continued: “I have known some
to be so Biok that they could not com¬
plete their task, and others have volun¬
teered having to help them ont to keep them
from the lash applied to them.
I remember that not long ago the bank
boss forced some convicts to go into a
mine when it was suspected to be on fire.
He refused to go himself, but pushed
the convicts in and two of them were
killed. One was blown seventy yards
and crushed to death. There has not
been a single charge brought against the
penitentiary system that cannot be
Droved.”
Doesn’t Know.—T here is a young
man in Allentown, Pa., the Register
sayB, who is quite a ladies’ man, knows
all the steps in dancing, and is up in
the fashions, and is otherwise accom¬
plished, who, when asked to name the
President’s Cabinet, could not name a
single member, nor conld he say who
were the Senators from Pennsylvania.
We are afraid there are lots like him
here and elsewhere.
STRAY BITS OF RUMOR
FOUND JN THE UPWOKOUN COLUMNS
OF OUft EXCUANUK8.
Not tea Fresb-^Vlhere Interest Ceneed-A
Seller Indian—The »tel*h Belle-On *
Car, Ete.
SOT TO BE OUTDONE.
At Potftluma, a small milk-can station
on tbe Napa road, a fervent appeal was
made last Sunday by the pastor of the
proposed church there for funds to build
said edifice. Not a cow-punoher moved.
The entire congregation of teat-squeezer*
seemed wrapped in slumber. As the
minister gazed mournfully around a hen
suddenly flew out of the old plug hat
used as a contribution box, making •
terrific oaokling.
The pastor approached the hat and
beheld a new-laid egg.
Holding up the hen fruit, heexalaimed
sarcastically:
“She has contributed her alL Will
you allow yourselves to be outdone by a
hen?”
The effect was electrical I
In less than twenty minutes there was
over forty-five cents in the pooh —Sat
Francisco Post.
THE SLEIGH BELLS.
T.Ho sleigh bells tinkle merrily,
The moon shines cold and bright.
And Clariboll’s laugh shesrily
Rings out upon the night.
The grind and crackle of tho snow
Is music to her ear,
She only thinks “How fast ws go P’
Nor has she care nor fear;
Happy behind the flying spaa
She sits beside her Will,
■Who thinks “I wonder if I can
Get trusted for the bill V”
—Boston Post
SO STMPTOMS.
Mother—Are you quite sure, dear,
that yonng Featheriy is not fond of
you? He certainly seemed very de¬
voted las t night when he buttoned your
glove.
Daughter—Ah, yes, mother; but his
hand nev;r trembled.
A MATTER OF INTEREST.
“Oh, Mr. Smith,” said a young lady
at a churoh fair, “I want your help for t
moment.” \
“Certainly,” replied Mr. Smith.
ISHiHJRMvs what percentage that is.”
me
“A transaction of that kind, my deal
Miss B.,” Baid Mr. Smith, who is a law¬
yer, “gets out ef percentage and into
larceny. "—Drake's Magazine.
A FOLLOWER.
An American strolled into a fashion¬
able churoh just before the aervieeB be¬
gan. The sexton followed him up, src
tapping him on tjie shoulder, and point
. ing to a small ear that had followed him
into the saered edifioo, sauU
“Dogs are not admitted.”
“That’s not my dog,” replied th«
• visitor.
“But he follows you,”
“Well, so do you.”
The sexton growled, end removed th.
dog with unnecessary violence,
a black am
“Johnnie, have yon been fighting?*
gravely inquired Mrs. Muggins,
“No, ma’am,” promptly answered the
heir of the Mugginses.
“John Muggins; how dare you tell me
an untiuth!” exolaimed his mother.
“Where did you get that black eye,sir?”
“I traded another boy two front teeth
and a broken nose for it,” replied John¬
nie as he crossed the woodpile .—St
Louis Post,
THE INDIAN WAS SOBER.
The other day a rather fresh tourist
got off the oars at a way station on the
Atchison, Topeka, ancl Santa h'e. Seated
on ft.stone, with a dirty blanket wrapped
around him, was an aborigine. He had
on moccasins and wore a soalp look, and
was just such a wild Indian as tbe imag¬
inative tourist desired to meet The
latter danced before him, waved an im¬
palpable tomahawk in the air, gave a
whoop and yelled:
“Big Injun? Great chief? Wahl”
The buck granted.
“Killum heap 1 Heap so&lp ?” shouted
die tourist Again the buck grunted
and looked surprised.
“Where’s wigwam ? Love pale faoe ?”
“What in .......
thunder are yon talking
About?” said the buck. “Are you
drunk ?”—Pittsburg Chronicle.
DAVE WAS ELECTED.
“Well, Dave, you got elected, aftei
all, didn’t you?”
“Yes, I did.”
“It was a mighty tight squeeze,
though, wasn’t it ?”
“It was, for a foot.”
“Took a heap of hard work, didn't
it?”
“No, not such an awful sight, but it
took just oceans of behaving. ’’— Chicago
Ledger.