The Gazette, 1893-12-21, Page 3_-a .
;ch !a witch ! with her talkYng cat!"
t might have gone very hard with the
Aman, had i t not soon been found that
for a joke, had killed and flayed her
,,,,kin, and dressed wee Jeffrey in its
n knighted by the King, Hudson
d many high and mighty airs, ac-
he was the butt as well as the
pent of the Court ; was once almost
;d in a basin of water, and would
sen blowu into the Thames but for a °
That saved him- But Lord Minimus
vas dubbed) really had his doughty
ares; was sent on diplomatic. mis-
fail 'int,) the hands of a Tarkiali
who carried him off a prisoner to
y; and duaiiy distinguished himself
icing a Mr. Crofts in a duel, that
,an having at first come to answer
iii man's challenge armed only with
;e dlled with water.
,temporary of Jeffrey was Richard
, an artistic Lilliputian who studied
it Peter Lely, painted very credit-
storical pieces and miniature per- .
and taught drawing to the royal
!ses Mary and Elizabeth, who were
6rds Queens of England. He was
44, in his youth, page of the back
and was married to Anne Shepherd,
court dwarf exactly his own height,
a most brilliant wedding, Ring
giving away the bride, while -the
presented her with a diamond ring, .
dmund Waller, the poet to their
ies, composed a poem on the event,
minutive pair, 3 feet 10 inches high.
a long and happy life together, and
ae children, five of whom grew to
Ly and were full ordinary size.—
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I was a new -comer at that time, and un- "I reckon they -thing -she's the w0t' uP ~�� had rm� la
familiar with the aspirations of this thinly nurse,"-aaid the Virginian: atoll iii#��eveL
settled- community. Therefore I treated When .the puppies grew to tie bolster
Y q 4 ons, I Perceived that Em'ly's mission wa3 was - t. hPa 3
the whole thing from the picturesque and
P approaching its end, "They were too heavy` $ 1 the be a
not the human stand- Dint. So I left seri-
our problems, and continned�io divert my' for her, and their- -inoreas seo of _ s
self with the poultry. I had told the playfulness was not in he line
'fin $ . }
p p or twice they . knocked eller over,-= II,pon ` to r a � , � �� ,11
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Virginian that 1 proposed to keep a s eci-
men of every class of chattel'which I found" which sh arose and._pecked tham-severe- ' a ,
Dal 4 aused;s
Em'1 treating as eggs. ly and t ey retired toa safe distance and,. ,_
- I don't mind her an more," I said ; sitfing in a circle, yapped at'her. T think ante
„ y the began to suspect that -she was only a across s .- Y 'W.
I ,n sq� ,for her. 3' g p ex M
" Same as yn' feel," said the cowpuncher, hen after all. So EmIlk rabigiietl wife an p• " _ Italookec a + `
iv�th hirci '✓
" for a .good girl no feller it take an: she indifference which: -surprised Tae; •:-until �I Ili chick`s,. � - �.
tree and �.
gestin' on." # : remembered that d %t had been chickens, gym
But Em'ly'a egg•industry was fermi- ab,o would have ceased to look after them d---- f ,Awls I ,
noted abruptly one moral,;;, agd -her un- ;by this ,time. > is Iob » find t d. L . `grount%
questioned -energies diverted to a ii�w But here she was aaaYi out of a ] Elie fame is
took- the -, + -
channel A turkey R hich had been sit- `as the Virginian said. for• that house. ,
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in the root -house appeared with «She's raised them. puppies Tie time;,d me to
tiwelve children, and a family of baa triflin' setter, and uow she'll be hunt;,' _ Rovo Z ,
tams occurred almost simultaneously. around for somethin' ales useful to do that and -the tLt!4 e:Aitonii _
in the ain't her business." Toad. -serosa `�_
Em'ly, was importantly scratching a11
soil inside Paladin's corral when the Now there were other broods of chickens ouch by wh �:d I
reek Theme
bantam tribe of . newly born came by soon to arrive in the hen -house. and diel •g r
jiown the lane, and aha caught sight of not desire any more bantam and turkey leamve h B li