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The Green Seal
Sy CHARLES EDMONDS WALK
.Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby,"
"The Time Look;' eta.
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CHAPTER XXIII.
We were a cheerful party of three
the aged producer of miracles in
ivory, the as yet unidentified chauf-
feur, and rice Ferris, Esquire, at-
torney and counsellor at law. Not a
wordhad any of us uttered since my
guide h•
e had. threatened ate d to bidr e
ge ne n good -
'by and leave me when I faltered at
the automobile door before entering.
So when he broke the long silence by
Addressing the shapeless driver, and
the latter grunted an inarticulate re-
ply, I jerked out of a gloomy reverie
with a start to listen. Nothing more
Was said; but I knew that the driver
anyhow was not Chinese, and this, for
some cause, afforded me a grain of
comfort.
Next the machine began to slow
down; then it stopped altogether. The
motor was killed, and a dead silence
rushed down upon us out of the night
that was like the smothering folds of
a velvet mantle.
The old Chinaman was craning this
way and that, as if trying to make
out something that lay beyond the
sharply defined limits of the head-
lights' area of illumination. Another
subdued curt utterance from him,
and the lights were switched off• And
then I, too, for the first time in I
don't know how many minutes, again
took note of my surroundings.
It was the season of the new noon,
which, of course, had set hours ago;
but the night 'woe one of those trans-
parent, star -lit marvels that are com-
mon to California's dry atmosphere,
and the landscape lay disclosed in
every direction like a vast relief map
set in luminous black crystal. Larger
objects not in absolute shadow, even
when at a distance, could be descried
with surprising distinctness, But by
and by, I perceived that the broken
nature of the ground, a clump of
agave or Spanish bayonet here and
there, a scattered growth of chapparal
and poison -oak, an isolated live -oak
or outcropping of rock, made of the
whole region a checkerboard of sepia
splotches where nothing but light it-
self could have been visible to us.
One detail, however, impressed me im-
mediately: we were no longer upon
the highway, but upon a dirt road,
and no building of any sort was to be
seen.
Suddenly the Chinaman leaped to
his feet and peered backward, the way
we had come. I knew what had start-
led him. I too had been seneible of
the cessation of a faint sound; a
sound so thin, so diminished by dis-
tance, that only its abrupt discontinu-
ance made it noticeable. But I had
heard and recognized its nature.
Somewhere, back on the road over
which we had come, beyond the range
of eyesight or in one of the areas
of utter darkness, another automo-
bile had halted, even as ours had.
Then right ahead of us, perhaps a
hundred yards, I caught a tiny spark
of light. It gleamed a second, like a
firefly, then vanished. The chauffeur
nudged the Chinaman, who was still
standing and looking with fixed at-
tention toward the rear.
"Hey, John," he growled, "the light
flashed again—if that's what you were
trying to see."
From which I gathered that it had
flashed before, probably had been the
cause of our stopping.
The Chinaman now opened the door!
and climbed out upon the road. He:
went ahead at a trot and presently
was swallowed by the gloom where i
the light had shone.
I had collected a sense of my sur-
roundings, and the instant we stopped
became conscious of a tension, an'
acute feeling of apprehension, as if
something had gone amiss that could
not be accounted for, or else some -I
thing unexpected and equally inex-:
plicable was threatening; some dan-'
her lurking off there in the dark, that)
ad not yet revealed itself, but which:
menaced the successful outcome of.
this midnight adventure. I found my-
self rll at once keyed high with an -1
ticipation, and I was correspondingly,
alert, my receptive faculties keen to
record the first premonitory impulse.
The silent chauffeur alone appeared.
to be unmoved and unconcerned. i
Yet what ensued during the spacej
of the next two or three seconds was)
quite as startling, exciting and con-
fusing as if I had been taken alto -1
gather unawares. All at once the,
chauffeur twisted round toward me1 I
and whispered a terse command.
"Not a word—not a sound from
ypu—if you want to get out of this
alive!"
Now he was kneeling upon his seat
while I sat staring at him in silent
stupefaction. Simultaneously with
the rapidly uttered words he snatched
at the bundle off rugs, which shot
up from the floor to meet him.
A powerful tug at my feet nearly
jerked me from my seat, and when I
instinctively tried to move farther
' away from this alarming, suddenly
developed Centre of violence I dis-
covered that my feet not only were
bound together, but were made fast to
something animate that was tugging
away at them in a fashion that made
inc cling to the top supports for dedeare.
Two swift, thudding blows the
I driver struck with some short instru-
ment. A hollow groan issued from
the formless heap of rugs, which at
once sank back to the tonneau floor.
The tugging at my feet ceased. Hest-
!ily the driver rearranged the rugs,
and again adjuring me to silence, re-
sumed his place at the steering-whee
and his soundless, motionless attitude
But caught as I was in such a
thrilling situation, I was not to be
1 silenced, though I did follow the
!other's example to the extent of not
raising my voice.
"The devil!" 3 gasped. "My feet
are tied—caught in some sort of
snare."
This intelligence apparently was an
unwelcome surprise to my companion
—for no reason that I could put into
I words I was accepting him as an ally
—for he exclaimed profanely under
his breath. He passed an open pocket
knife across his shoulder to me.
"Cut the rope," he whispered with-
out turning his head. But for Heav-
en's sake, act as if you weren't wise
to anything that's happening. You're
jfast to that Chink on the floor that I
) just slugged, Remember—don't let
Ion that you're loose. Quick, nowl"
I dove and found the cord. A noose
I had been laid about my ankles in such
a way that my first movement drew it
taut, This was severed in a jiffy. I
eyed the bundle of rugs askance and
moved farther away from it.
"Got a gat?—a gun?" the fellow
now flung at me. "You may need it."
I assured him that I had, at the
same time transferring the weapon to
my overcoat pocket.
Again, and quite irrelevantly, he
swore under his breath.
"The dirty Chinks! They've found
out in some way that we're being
trailed. I'm afraid everything's off
unless we can find their hole. It can't
be far away. Keep your gun handy,
but don't use it unless you have to.
Just listen at 'em!" His tone was
expressive of profound disgust.
Heaven knows that the meaning of
all this was unintelligible to me; but
it was clear enough that danger in
some guise was imminent and that I
was expected to be prepared to meet
it. If my enemies' plans were mis-
carrying, the perplexing question
ran in my mind, were not my own
plans, or any that circumstance might
mature for me, being correspondingly
advanced?
The man on the front seat quickly
disabused me of this idea the instant
I voiced it. Said he:
"Our one best bet was to take ad-
vantage of the way old Lao played
into our hands—Keep still! Listen!"
He broke off abruptly.
While events were piling up with.
such bewildering rapidity in the auto-
mobile, something manifestly had
gone wrong off there in the darkness
where the Chinaman had disappeared.
I could hear voices gabbling excited-
ly in the high-pitched singsong of the
Chinese, although they did seem to be
trying to repress their agitation.
f•Iow do you know they've found
out something?" I asked. "Do you
mean to say you understand what
they're talking about?"
"Yep; that's why I'm here"—an an-
swer that only deepened my mystifica-
tion. "Quiet! Here they come!"
1 saw perhaps a half -score shadows
rushing toward us. Next instant the
old ivory carver was standing upon
the running -board and addressing rue.
The others crowded round the car,
"You get out dig place," he said
eu rtly.
This impertinence served to crystal-
ize all my uncertainties.
"I do—not," I retorted,. my hand
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closing upon the pistol grip, "nor
any other, unless you have something
better to show me than this gang of
cutthroats."
In his eagerness the old rogue laid
a skinny claw upon my arm nearest
him and gave it an impatient tug.
"You hully, you," he snarled. "I no
wait.
His barefaced impudence was too
much. I jerked the arm free and aim-
ed a smashing blow at him. But he
avoided it. He leaped nimbly down
and yelled something that seemed to
be the signal for bedlam to break
loose.
Simultaneously, the motor started
with a splutter, all the lights flashed
forth, the car leaped forward, and I
was struggling with four yellow fiends
who had swarmed into the tonneau
without pausing to open doors. But
I had my pistol out, and though quar-
ters were too close for me to shoot
without endangering the only person
upon whom I could reasonably count
as a friend in this crisis, it proved to
be a handy weapon when wielded with
the exuberance with which I laid
about me.
In the same second I heard the chaf-
feur's revolver crack three times.
Then quite as abruptly as it began
my own struggle ended.
The car had turned off the road
and was making a wild detour across
the rough, broken, stony ground with
complete and reckless disregard for
any and all obstacles. We in the ton-
neau were being hurled and catapulted
furiously this way and that like so
many seeds in a dry, wind-blown pod.
I made a final desperate effort to
fling the last of my assailants from
me, but a violent lurch brought us to
the floor together in a heap.
CHAPTER XXIV.
I am piecing out the details of this
part of my narrative with what I
learned afterwards; my own imme-
diate concerns were much too pressing
and exacting for me to think of what
was happening around me, much less
have an eye for it.
Anyway, no mere verbal description,
however accurate and faithful it may
be, can reproduce the thrill of those
wild, tense seconds. Since then I have
pointed out the route our ear took on
that memorable night to experienced
drivers; not one of them would risk
his neck trying to follow it at the
slowest possible gait and by daylight.
And not one of them believed that 1
had gone over it at night at high
speed, coming out at the cried with a
perfect score!
And I would not voluntarily repeat
the performance.
It was, in all truth, only by a pro-
digy of manipulation that the car was
brought back into the road again, but
now facing in the direction opposite
to the way we originally had been go-
ing. As the brilliant beams from the o
headlight swung swiftly round, a flee -
sling /orals ote the ground, tut bee`
fore he had time to explain I saw and
libiderstoo ,
J� e queues of the two unfortunates
iuid een pae eet in ound a spoke of one
of t to wheels and the ends tied to.
gether.
The eeptives all at once fell quiet,
one regarding Strtlher with a malign -
pet, murderous look, while the other
im�tasatvely ignored our presence.
Funny thing," the detective com-
mented, impersonally eyeing the two,
"but it seems to be only the had 'nes
that've kept their pigtails slime the
new order to out 'em off has been in
force. 131ame seldom wb pinch a
Chink who's trying to sprout a Jim
Corbett co'i'ure—which, take it all
'round, by and large, is a handy
tiling $or ua bulls."
My regard,
however, had
again
wandered to the stranger who sat so
unconcernedly upon his unusual seat
calmly puffing away at his pipe, and
obviously ruminating; but at this
juncture the chauffeur of our own ear
joined Struber and me, and I had my
first distinguishing view of him.
(To be continued.)
WORK OF SWISS RED CROSS.
How Prisoners Are Exchanged Be-
tween France and Germany.
Madam Bohny, the wife of Col.
Bohny, Physician in Chief to the Swiss
Red Cross, has written the following
account of the manner in which total-
ly incapacitated prisoners of war are
exchanged between France and Ger-
many, by way of Switzerland. In one
period of two weeks the number of
those thus repatriated amounted to
over 9,000.
The selection of prisoners to be
exchanged was made at Constance on
the German frontier, and at Lyon by
two doctors belonging to the Swiss
Army Medical Corps. The Swiss Red
Cross organized two hospital trains,
one at each point, to carry the wound-
ed released by the medical examina-
tion.
T'he personnel of each train was
composed of a doctor major, in com-
plete command of the train; a doctor
captain for medical services exclu-
sively, and a secretary, whose task
was to draw up an accurate list of
the wounded. The feminine person-
nel was composed of a nurse in each
carriage, or fifteen to every train, un-
der the supervision of a Red Cross
matron, who had complete charge of
the equipment of the train and the
distribution of the presents received
at the railway stations,
Meals were arranged for in the fol-
lowing manner: The French received
coffee and white bread at Zurich and
warm milk at Geneva. The Germans
received supper at Geneva and break-
fast at Zurich.
Our train was overflowing. No less
than 320 severely wounded distributed
in 15. cars. Amongst them were mad-
men, tuberculous sufferers, and many
sick whose lives were in hourly dan-
ger. The good nurses had certainly
work in abundance. As soon as we
had crossed the German frontier into
Switzerland we were overwhelmed
with ovations. A veritable cyclone of
gifts fell on our train from station to
station. Soon our carriages were
transformed into moving gardens,
fragrant with flowers. All' along the i
way enthusiastic crowds acclaimed ns;
even in stations where the train did
not stop.
Only those provided with a card off
admission frcm the State Department,
had the right to enter the train. This
privilege was enjoyed principally by
members of the various diplomatic;
bodies and by the Swiss Red Cross.)
These visitors made themselves useful
by distributing gifts and speaking'
words of consolation to the wounded.;
After Ieaving Geneva the wounded;
received at Beliegards the first wel-I
ome from their compatriots. To the
straits of the Marselllaise the train
ing Chinaman was outlined for the
fraction of a second, and the remark-
able man at the wheel took a pot shot
at him; with what result the dark-
ness that instantly encompassed the h
target concealed;
The lights of another automobile
were now visible, It had arrived and t e
halted upon the very spot where we
had paused, and in a moment I real-'
ized that it too must have been a tem -1
porary storm -centre of turbulence
and excitement. It must have plung-;
drew slowly into the railway station,:
which was sumptuously decorated, as
on great festival days. The guard 1
presented arms. Ilandkerchiefs and
Cts were waved. All voices were
mingled in a thunder of patriotic wol-
ome.
It is impossible to describe the re -1
ception which we received at Lyon..
An innumerable assemblage,—officers' 1
in resplendent uniforms, high funs-
tionnaries of category, numerous
ladies of the French Red Cross in ele.
gant white costumes, the richly de-
corated station, all formed a setting
of extraordinary brilliance and mag-
nificence.
As soon as the train was emptied
of French prisoners of war, it was
filled with Germans and proceeded on
its way to Switzerland. Every night
from station to station were renewed
the joyous demonstrations above men-
tioned, as well as a rain of gifte of
every variety, During all these journ-
ies to and fro, animated by an en-
thusiastic feeling of charity, the in-
habitants of the dietricts through
which the train passed flocked to the
railway station at no matter what
hour of night.
Thus journeyed for three weeks
from Constance to Lyon and from Ly-
on to Constance a whole series of
trains, exhibiting always the same
spectacle and giving rise to sympathy,
the same demonstrations and the same
heartfelt welcome, but also affording
always the snore spectacle of the same
misery, of maimed unfortunates, gal-
vanized into a momentary life, by the
joy of seeing their native land again.
Once, during this period of loge -
rims exchanges, two trains stopped
or a moment an opposite tracks in
e middle of tine night. Heads lean -
d out of windows. Flowers were
Town from one train to the other,
he one train sang the Marscilleise,
e other Deutschland cher Alles,
hap the wheels moved and the trains
simmered in the darkness,
ed right into the moist of the rascals,
we left behind.
A man with hair and mustache as
grizzled as a badger, with one arm
iu a sling and n perfectly. contented
expression irradiating his counten-
ance, was sitting upon a Chinaman
who lay face downward in the sand,
anti calmly puffing a short briar pipe,1
In another figure, to my amaze-
ment, I recognized Stt•uber. He was
standing over two other Chinaman
who lay sprawled in the road at one,
side of the second automobile, and,
who were going through a series of
extraordinary gymnastics. The do-'
tective, with derby on the back of hist
head and hands upon hips, stood pant-
ing and surveying this strange spec-
tacle with undisguised delight,
As we stopped close to them, the
man seated upon the Chinaman nod-
ded and grinned amiably.
"We bagged three," he announced
in a matter-of-fact voice. "How
many'cl you get?" Then to the pro-
strate creature beneath him, who had
developed fresh signs of protest; he
added a curt word or two in Chinese,
accompanying it with a cuff upon the
head that had an immediate (ittiet-
ing effect.
I gave the man a sharp look, for a
white man speaking the Chinese lap.
+:uago was strange to me, and here
was my second experience of the kind h
mnight,
Strube'. drew my attention. th
"Coma esta, usted ?" he hailed me
n Spanish. "Either o' these Chinks e
viands o' yours?" th
Regard for Itis inquiries was nivel fh
owed up in curiosity.
"What the (tenet:
demi that mum?" T
returned, watr•hing the two wrig- di
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Farm Notes.
Sheep are very dainty, Keep the
feed troughs clean.
Tho legumes gather nitrogen from
the air for the building up of the
soil.
Prevent waste and make every
pound of feed bring the best results
possible,
Before calving, the cow's food
should be reduced in quantity and of
a laxative nature.
Fat hens produce fewer eggs and at
the same time a large percentage of
them are infertile.
Carrots and beets steep better if a
tittle dry sand is put over them. This
prevents drying out.
Discard the cow which has failed
at the end of the year to pay market
price for all the feed she has con-
sumed.
Exercise is an important factor in
keeping hens healthy and in laying
condition. Scatter all grains in deep
litter.
Better have a stable too cool from
too many cracks than too close and no
fresh air at all, This has proven true
in poultry culture.
The production of milk is a great
draft on a cow's vitality and she
needs to be a rugged animal to endure
the strain for a succession of seasons.
Dock the lambs at a week or ten
days old. A block, a sharp hatchet, a
whack, and it's done. Pull the skin
towards the lamb before giving the
whack.
In behalf of every living thing,
your stock and your family, we plead
for a good supply of fresh air, the
staff of life, It is free. Make use of
it in the barn, the home, day and
night.
The mill' of cows, goats, mares and
camels, is used as an article of food
consumption, but in the economy of
production cows stand at the head of
the list of milk -producing animals.
At the Ohio station, silage pro-
duced milk for 68 cents per 100
pounds and butter fat at thirteen
cents per pound. The grain ration
produced mill' at $1.05 per 100 pounds
and butter fat for 22 cents a pound.
Have little bedding in the pen at
farrowing. Wait until the pigs get
large enough to take care of them-
selves before bedding heavil
the pen dry and clean and keep it
thus. Make liberal use of the well-
known disinfectants. Prevention is
cheaper than cure.
Caring for the Colt in 'Winter.
As the pastures dry up and winter
approaches, the question of how to
care for the growing colt through the
winter confronts the farmer. Many
colts will be taken from pasture with
a goodly store of fat only to be turn-
ed out to a straw pile for feed and
shelter, and will come out next spring
Ighter in weight than they are in the
fall. On the other hand, not a few
colts may he ruined by heavy feeding
n stalls, where they cannot take ex-
ercise,
1
The ideal shelter for colts is a
tightly, built shed, open to the south,
where the animals may go in and out
at their own pleasure, and where they
may have the run of a good big field
for exercise. Idle farm horses can
best be sheltered in the same way . A.
dry bed and protection from cold
winds and rain is all that is needed.
Two parte of oats (preferably
crushed) and one part of bran, makes
a very suitable feed for growing colts.
In cold weather a Iittle corn may be
added not to exceed 25 per cent, of the
ration.. If clover or alfalfa is used as
half of the roughage ration, no oil
meal will be needed, but if the rough-
age .consists of wild hay or corn
stover, about eight per cent. of oil
meal should be added to the grain
ration, Where oats are high in price
and barley Is plentiful, a ration of
crushed barley 60 percent., bran 30
per cent,, and oil meal ten per cent.,
should give good results.
Sunflowers for Poultry.
This feed for chickens is not valued
as it should be. It is easily grown
and very productive of seed.
In the winter and spring it increases
laying to a marked degree. One-
fourth of an acre will give feed for a
large flock the season through. Some
plant the Mammoth Russian variety..
It will grow even under great neglect,
and a little attention makes it very
productive.
The seed finds a ready market i
the States at five or six cents a pound
for use by poultry men.
The plant thrives best on sandy
soil, and the cultivation is similar to
that of corn. Birds begin picking
out the seed before ripe. On a small
scale one can prevent this by covering
the heads with mosquito netting.
When the seeds begin to drop, the
head should be cut and hung in a dry
place; never put in a heap after cut-
ting.
,
pure air of the alfalfa, clover or blue-
grass fields will tone up the system so
that disease is not readily contracted.
Yet with the best of care and feed
new forms of disease appear to baffle
us, and when it comes, it is not safe
to daily with it, especially if it seems
infectious. Letting sick hogs have
the run of the herd is sure to spread
disease, therefore, it is a safe rule to
lose no time in removing the first sick
hog to some remote lot where it can
not infect the herd as its disease pro-
gresses.
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Less grain, more asture 'less Con-
finement and more exercise in the
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Nothing more surely gives a farm
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care when building the gate will save
time, money and labor, and greatly
improve the looks of the place.
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GERMANS BEATEN'
COMMERCIALLY
THE BRITISH NATION MV '
STAY SUPREME,
The Ownership of Real Property ' B
Allene Ilan Proven 4
Menace,
"As far as commerce le concerne
Germany is a beaten nation, and it I1.
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ler us to see it does not move
Waiter Runciman, president of t
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British Board of Trade told
1 n
House of Commons rete ntY z
avis
ing the stops taken by the Board lot
the reorganization of British indtitt
tries after the war.
"There le scarcely a singIa depart
Ment of public life," Mr. Runciman
said, "about which we have not been
thinking what Nicely will happen when
the war is over and how best to pre:
pare for future contingencies. Notlt.
Mg in commercial life will start off
when the war is over in the same
condition as when the war began, and
in every one relationship with the
central powers, Zoilverein is bound tri
conflict with our interests."
Alien Ownership.
After enumerating the number of
subjects which the Board of Trade
was specially investigating, among
them being the ownership of real pro-
perty by aliene, Mr, Runciman in-.
etanced the danger of such ownership,
stating that he knew of one coal field
in the Micilande owned by Germans
and trading under an English titld,
which now was idle, and that the Bri-
tish were prevented from exploiting
the coal field. He added: "That can-
not continue after the war. The
Board is taking great care to allow
no German to stand in its way in Eng-
land. We are not going to be espe-
dally tender to the Germans."
Control of Oil Fields.
Mr. Runciman specially referred to
the German control of ell fields in
Europe, remarking that his raw ma-
terial was of such vital interest to
Great Britain that the Board was tak-
ing special steps to see how much of
the German control of this product
could be transferred to Great Britain,
so that the latter's interests would be
safeguarded. Continuing, he said:
"German trade in South America and
the East has received a serious blow,
and it is the duty of the Board to see
that our business men have every ad-
vantage." -
lliistaken View.
Mi', Runciman referred to tine indi-
cations of a belief on the continent
that Great Britain, in thus looking
ahead, was inclined to think of the
return of her commercial prosperity
rather than of "throwing ourselves
heart and out into the attainment of
the main object,"
"That is entirely untrue," the Presi-
dent said. "I would not like it to be
imagined in France, in Russia, and in
Italy, that in preparing for future
contingencies we were contemplating
an early peace. There is no peace to
which we could be a party if it would
in any way conflict with the interest
of the entente allies,"
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CANADIAN FISH IN LONDON.
Trial Consignment Brings Fancy
Prices Overseas.
A trial consignment of Canadian
fish, shipped frozen, has just been
sold for fancy prices on the London
market. The British Government is
said to regard the experiment as ex-
eeedingly important, in view of the
Ottawa assertion that with proper
facilities 2,000,000 pounds of fish per
week can be supplied for English
markets,
Those who believe that such a trade
on a permanent basis would prove
beneficial to both Canada and' the mo-
ther country are urging that a small
guarantee per pound be placed on con-
signments for a time for the benefit
of shippers.
Little Pete's Defence.
At a meeting of the Canadian -
American Society in a Maine town
one evening recently, two members of
tate organization fell to disputing
which had the smtu•ter children, .Toe
IIalanget' was proclaimed the victor
when he came to the front with the
following:
• "De nochler day uty leetlo boys fete
nvas go on de schoolhouses wits hoes
leetlo dog, De teacher gets mad tvicl
do boy and tol' neem fur go bask on
cis house jes' so quick he ctut't and
took de clog and never lu'ing heem
hack son' more, Letitia Pete do jes'
w'ttt de teachers is cul' it, llimeby
Leetle Pete is ge leek on de 50 onl-
houre and ,les' so :•n(111 he set heen,sclf
downs, sem' leetlo dr.>ts wee coin' in
and sten' ftp oil ;vont c•1 beetle Pete.
1)o teaches' was got lttnt,ch mad ami
say, 'Pel.', w'at ler ;.rt bring kaiak
clot dog w'en I tai' ,tan never bring
mach dot dog sotn' 1n,',,?'
'Leede Pett 1/ slim' up and ,ay,
'Tete.hers. tits don't was do sum' dog;
site's milder one. I trot tee of it.,,
Crowned Bing.
'•i l,'ttt' ilfr(,itie;s 11 kit,g of his
Lousohuldl'
"Stn c ht wtie 1'' hoed tore with
the ranee lin: 'Wise tire o,'e laurrt y t tnt.11 the moat
f,.1(iving brings: on mirth?" "tie -
c: as tlrr 111010 culls y911 give them
ill -e more they do fur yeti."