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Dicky.
Sav,ye aint never hyeard ’bout Dicky?—
Dick Dumnj’g we boys used ter say—
Whv me an’Dick’s set here a hundred o’ times
An’ drunk the hull night away.
It’s nigh on ter twenty years past now
Sence Dick used ter be erround here:
Twenty? No twenty-three last December,
The’'it’s all jes ez plain an ez clear
Kz ef- ’t wu
’t wuz J
Time skips now-a-days
xt-r what it did back long o’ then:
An’ Dick—ez big headed, kind hearted a feller
Kz you won’t find one out’n ten.
Narv felfer'in town but liked Dicky,
Tho 5 there wan t nothin’ specially great
Er bout "im ez I could see. only
Hesself—nigh two hundred his weight.
YVe all liked him. nohow. Ez fer Dicky.
He loved everybody, an’ me
An' Tom Smith—Tom’s dead now—especially:
Cnz’t wan't mighty seldom we three’d
Gitx>ff on a big spree together.
oh. ho! Thar's where he alius would stick;
Drink tell he’s dead ez that door-nail!
Yer couldn’t er told it w uz Dick.
Bttt after’t wuz all done an’ over.
He’d solter down quiet ergin.
I tell yer them tares they wuz awful!
ides’ pass me some more o’ that gin.i
Wall. Dick he wuz mighty soft-headed.
An’ somehow he fell in with a gal:
You know her—old sain Higgins'darter
As married that yankee. La Salle.
Howsomever. Dick kinder took to her.
An’ we boys u^ed ter tease him er sight
’Bout how he went round with his fiddle
Ter serenade her of a night.
’C’uz Dick could sing splendid. Well, somehow
He wuz lovin’ that gal pretty hard.
He didn’t tell me, but I seed it.
An' I sez ter him. sez I: “Old pard
‘•What ails yer, old feller? Come, Dumpy.
My boy, I’m yer friend, don’t yer’know ?”
He jes’ gripped my hand an’ sez*. -Johnny,
I swear not a cu'ssid drop more!”
Then he told me the story, how Mary
Had done broke his heart all to smash.
An'he'd been an’ teld her erbout it—
Bet on Dicky fer doin’ it rash!
An’, sez he. -Mary jes’ broke out a cryin’,”
An’ took Dicky’s hand into lier’n.
An’ her tears jes’ trickled down on it —
Eord, but it give him a turn!
Then she said that she loved him—poor Dicky!
But she never could be the wife
Uv a feller that drunk ez poor Dick did,
So wouldn’t he stop it fer life'/
Then Dicky he cried, too, poor feller!
An’ he tell right down on his knee
An’ sez, “Mary, my darlin'. I swear it!
The Lord jedge between thee an’ me.”
M ali, ter cut short the story, the devil
Got into we fellows 'bout town.
An’ we put up a job on poor Dicky
Je»’ fer fun. fer to see him come down.
So one night, right here in this gin-room.
We fellers coaxed Dicky in. too.
An' we jes’ tried our level’ter tempt him,
But nothiu’ nobody could do
’D git him ter drink, till one feller
Commenced ’bout his gal: then we roughs
Jes’ belt up our glasses afore him —
Poor Dicky! Ah, that wuz enough!
We filled him right full lip with whisky.
An’ we laughed when he half staggered out:
But he looked kinder wild ’bout the eyes, like.
An’ I wondered what Dicky wuz er bout.
So I went out next mornin’ ’bout daylight
An’ found him. all white like an’ poor.
Stretched out at old Sam Higgins’ house-steps.
With his face turned up tow’ds the door.
Ez I stooped an’ looked at him a minnit.
A feelin’ right guilty o’ heart,
On a suddin Sam Higgins’ door opened
An’ Mary co ine out! Fer my part
I jes’ hung my head an’ felt willin’
Enough ter swan places with Dick:
’Cuz the way she knelt down an’ looked at him
Made me turn kinder weak like an' sick.
When her tears dropped down on his forrid
He kinder stirred like an' looked—but
I can’t say ezzactly what follered,
’Till she left, an' I hyeard the door shut.
Uv course’t wuz all over with Mary.
Dicky he left an’ wentWest.
An’ he ain't touched a drop since that mornin’,
So maybe ’twuz all fer the best.
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A sixty acre farm within the incorporate
limits of the town of Mt. Airy, Ga. This place
lies between the Richmond & Danville R. R. on
the north and east, and the public road leading
from Mt. Airy to Demurest and Clarksville on
the west.
The land is in good condition, and well adapt
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There are also two orchards of fine young
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The dwelling house has been recently built
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Tne stables, wine cellar and fencing are in
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A well of pure, cold water near the house
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The fine scenery which surrounds it adds an
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On the east side can be seen the entire village
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Petrified horse tracks are among the
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thus have present-day rivals.
(Continued from page 2.)
A WITCH OF TO-DAY.
“Then ^t’s all right old man, and
we’ll say good nighr ro yo»,” said his
new ac jqaintance. “We won’t go up;
it’s too la e, and you’re tired. See you
down town to-morrow. By the way;
I’ve moved my office Here’s my new
7 '
The two men shook hands wit h Y**rk
and walked away. Van Zandt, keys in
hand, went op to his apartments. He
had not the slightest indea where they
were located, but it was not quite mid
night, and the elevator was running.
The janitor offer-d to go up with him
t-» see if Martin was on hand and if
the gas had been turned on in the
rooms, so that it could be lighted.
Thee evator stopped at the third
story, and they stepped out. The jani
tor knocked at a little end room and
called and eall-d :
“Jack, here’s Mr. Van Zandt, sure
enough.’’
There was no response, and the jani
tor said tha’ Martin was likely down
in the kitchen, taking a night cap of
beer, or “may he he’s been off to the
theayter with his girl to-night. Mar
tin’s a great fellow' after the girl’s—a
regular masher. I'll unlock t*-e door
nieself for you, sir, and i’ll light your
gas, and give you your letters. I’ve
put all that came here in your disk
with n.y own hands, not knowing
wher * to mail ’em, for we couldn’t hear
from you, sir.” ■
He had lighted the gas and given
York a double handful of letters when
Martin came up. He proved to be a
dapper, well-built little fellow, with a
red head and a good-natured, self-as
sured face. He was delighted to s-e
his master, but at the same time a lit
tle embarrassed—a fact that was ex
plained when the janitor had gone by
Martin saying:
“I hope you won’t think hard of me,
sir, f«*r'propriating your Prince Albert.
It was that bad eat up by the moths as
I knew you’d never wear it again, sir.”
“You’re quite welcome to it, Martin,”
said York, generously. “1 hope you
didn’t let the moths destroy all my
things?”
“No, indeed, sir. I kept’em all aired,
and with cedar shavings and camphire
put among them. The Prince Albert
was in one of the back closets and got
overlooked. Your full-dress evenin’
suit is as good as ever ir were. It was
bran’-new when you went away, though
you wouldn’t let me pack it up. You
hadn’t ever had it on your back. You
was a-savin’ it for your weddin’, if
you’ll excu-e me, sir. You’ve brought
back a finer suit from Paree, I haven’t
a doubt.”
“I’ve not been staying in Paris or
any place where I needed a cutaway,
Martin.”
“We heard that, sir. We heard you
was in some wild country on t’other
side the world a-goin’ in for huntin’
tigers and kangaroos and buyin’ gold
mines. That’s more the fashion now
than Lunnon and Paree. Well, its
agreed with you, sir, and your mother’ll
say so. She’s been awful uneasy about
you. She’s been writin’ to ine,and one
day about a week ago she came here
and asked if we hadn t heard anything
about you or where you was. She said
she hadn’t had no letter in month-.
She looked at your things and cried
over ’em. She’s been down South
among her relations for her health.”
“Where is she now?” asked York.
“That I couldn’t tell you, sir. She
ain’t at her house in town. Her maid
told me that, but she wouldn’t say
where it was they were living. She
said she wished Mrs. Van Zandt would
come back to her apartments on Madi
son avenue. You ain’t opened your
letters, sir; there’s a lot of ’em and
cards as well. There’s been a good
many callin’ for you that didn’t leave
their cards. The agent of the house
has been here several times lately
askin’ where you was and when you
was cornin’ back. He said your lease
had expired, and you was owiu’ for
back rent. Your business man—Mr.
Gibbs, as manages your work at Meri
den—he’s been coinin’ here pretty ofren
lately. He was here yesterday. He
got all in a Hurry when I told him
ttiere wasn’t any news from you. He
said—”
“Well, what did he say? ’ York asked,
as the man hesitated.
“You’ll excuse me for repeatin’ it to
you, sir. 1 think Mr. Gibbs said it
without thiukin’, he was so worried
like. He said : ‘Van Zandt’d a damned
sight better husile back if he doesn’t
want Ms business to go to all-fired
smash.’ That’s what he said, sir. It
was a queer speech for Mr. Gibbs; he’s
so quiet-like. But he was mightily
worked up.”
York smiled. “Any more visitors
been anxious to see me?” he asked.
“Well, yes, sir. Your tailor’s been
around, and a young man from
Tiffany s, with a bill, and the one from
the boarding-stable on Fifty-ninth
Street. And there’s been a crazy old
fellow here three or four times—a red-
nosed battered party—a-swearin’ he’s
goin’ to bring you up in court.”
“What do I owe him for—beer?”
“Well—no, sir. He’d never sell any
beer; he’d drink it all. He’s crazy
like, as I take it. He was sayin’some
thin’ about his daughter, and the dam
ages he was goin’ to sue for.”
“That’s pretty hard lines. Any more
of that sort?”
“Well, no, sir. T believe not,” the
man said, eyeing York, half wondering
at, half admiring his indifference.
“I’m glad you are back to get the
crocks out of everything. It’ll all be
right now, you’re here. You’ll
straighten things.”
“ Thank you, Martin. Now you may
i feel H£e I COiiltf out§leep
gotfloed.
old Van Winkle to-niirht.”
“Your sheets is fresh and well aired,
sir,” Martin said, turning down the
coverlid. “And so is your night-robe,
sir. I’ll not come in to wake you in
the morning till you ring for me to
brin* yoor coffee and shaving water
I’ll take your shoes with me to clean.
You’ll find your slippers there a? the
foot of the bed. Good-night, sir, and
I hope j oil’ll sleep sound.”
York did not go to bed at once after
the door had c'osed upon the natty
figure of the red-haired serving man.
He pulled off his coat, put his feet into
his slippers, and marveled to see how
perfectly they fitted.
“Nature must have used the self
same mould in turning us out,” he
said “I never heard of anything so
wonderful. This day’s experiences are
the queerest a fellow ever encount
ered.”
He lighted a cigar and walked about,
surveying the comfortable quarters it
had fallen to him to occupy'—“for one
night only,” he said to him-elf.
“Tomorrow I doff the king’s robe
and become the beggar again—that is,
[ go back to the Fourteenth street
top-story cuddy and the twenty-five
cent dinners of the Third avenue eat
ing house; lucky if I have the quarter
of a dollar to pay for them.”
He admired the outer room, the low
rich tones of its furnishings in dull
Japanese blues and reds and light yel
lowish browns, from carpets to lounges
and picture frames. The quaint Japa
nese designs in bronze and silver that
filled the brackets and niches, the b t*
of tapestry on the wall, carelessly
looped, the draperies that half hid the
corners, with their shelves full of curi-
uo- bric-a-brac, all satisfied his eye.
“Ah, ha! a piano! My double has
my liking for music also,” he said, as
his eye caught the carved, uprighr case
of a handsome piano.
He opened if, sat down and ran his
finger on the keys. He had inherited
musical talent from his father. It had
never been cultivated, but he had been
wont to cheer his mother often in the
lonely evenings on the ranch by play
ing on the old fashioned instrument
every tune his quick ear had caught.
He sighed, shut down the piano,
then rose and opened the door of the
adjoining room. It was fitted up in
oak and moss-green velvet—a dining
room, evidently, where meals were
up from the regions of the chef below,
and where Martin could brew French
coffee on occasion over the tiny gas
stove. Behind the glass doors of a
pretty cupboard he saw a dainty coffee
service of handsome painted china
likewise a wine service and a Japanese
puncu-bowi.
(to bk continued.)
trouble with the varmints?” asked
Ken i on.
“Nothing serious,’’ replied young
AshbruJge; “we didn’t see a sign of
the Indians until most of the land was
cleared and the cabin finished. A
coupleof Wyandots^I think they were)
came out of the w’oods one day, arid
had a talk with us. One «>f them spoke
English quite well; we cooked some
venison and the^ate with us.”
(Continued from page 4.)
SHOD WITH SILENCE.
off some land, and got things ready for
the folks. He left a couple of weeks
ago for our old home, to bring down
mother and Mabel. I stayed behind to
look after the cabin, but it was mighty
lonesome. I figured out that it was
about time for the flatboat to be in
sight, and started up the river to meet
it. There are no animals at home to
look after, and I don’t believe any one
will run away with the house while
I’m gone.”
“Not likely; but if any of the var
mints happen that way they’ll be sure
to burn it down.”
“They would do that if I was there.”
“Not if you made as good use of your
rifle as you know how. I was on the
way to call on you, meanin’ to stay a
day or two.”
“No one could have been as welcome,
unless it was father and mother and
sister. Shall we go back there now ?”
“You’re looking for the flatboat?”
“Yes, as L calculate, it must be due,
unless,” added the youth, with a dis
tressed expression, “somerhing has
happened.”
“Let us hope not, though there’s no
saying what may come in these parts;
I’ve never knowed the redskins to be
uglier; one of them two that slipped
away was that confounded Wa-on-mon,
or the Panther. Me and him have got
to have it out one of these times; he
knows it as well as me, and I was
hoping we’d wind up the business to
day.”
While the two conversed they walked
in the direction of the river, which now
was not far off. The youth as well as
the elder, did not forg**t their vigil
ance, and proceeded with the utmost
stealth.
There was some fear that the
Panther and his companion might at
tempt to steal upon them unawares, but
had they tried it they would have fared
ill.
Such a proceeding as catching the
white men oft’ their guard ranked
among the impossibilities.
“Have you and your father had any
f “TIiatVTfJjtff enough, only I want to
warn you not to be fooled intothinkin’
that it has made ’em friends. Did you
ever see anything more of ’em ?”
The face of young Ashbridge assumed
an anxious expression as he answered :
“I’m not sure about that, Kenton.”
“How’s that ?”
“About a month afterward, as it was
growing dark, two Indians paddled
past. They kept so near the other
shore that. w T e couldn’t sen clearly, but
when they weie opposite they fired at
us. One of the bullets wounded father’s
hand. He said he believed they were
the ones that we had fed, but I was
sure he was mistaken.”
“The chances are 10 to 1 3'our father
was right and you war w'rong,” was
the comment of Kenton.
“And father has g-»ne back to our
old home to bring mother and my little
sister Mabel,” repeated young Ash
bridge, with such an expression of
anguish on his face that Kenton’s
heart was touched.
“Here’s hoping it’ll come out right,
but I hear th^t Pres Washington is go
ing to Fend soldiers in these parts to
bring the varmints to tarms. That
will be a good thing, provided they
don’t get sarved like Col. Crawford and
the rest of ’em that don’t know any
more about fightin’varmints than I do
about playing president of the country.
Hello, here we are!”
For some minutes the light had been
increasing in front of them, as though
they were approaching an opening in
the forest.
Instead of that, however, they came
out on the shore of the beautiful Ohio
river, lined at that time with vast for
ests and containing only here and
there the germs of the populous cities
and towns which now mark the flour
ishing West.
As the couple halted on the bank of
the stream, standing w'ithin a couple
of paces of the water, the scene resem
bled that which would have presented
itself had they made their vis t hun
dreds of years before when Columbus
first set foot on the shores of the new
world.
Not a living person besides them
selves was in sight, nor did they catch
the first view of a dwelling of a human
being.
A mile below the river wound
througo the luxuriant forest, as though
it were swallowed up by it, while a
sweeping curve a shorter distance
above shut off all view in that direc
tion.
The vast gloomy wilderness stretched
lo the horizon on every hand, coming
down to the margin of the wat r and
overhanging and shading the clear
current that flowed beneath.
Looking directly across an inland, a
faint shadowy line showed against the
blue sky.
It might have been caused by the
smoke from a pioneer’s cabin, but more
likely ascended from the campfire of
some of the red men wandering
through the forest and looking with
savage hatred upon the efforts of the
palefaces to wrest their hunting
grounds from them.
Kenton’s familiarity with the region
told him that no Whiteman had settled
near that spot, and unless some of his
own friends had halted there and kin
died the fire in defiance of the warriors
it belonged to the latter.
(to be continued.]
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