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Pecember 10, 1881+ =e:GOLDEN DA oS
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will be in an easterly direction,’’ said | thick flannels, heav. f
u s S y outer clothes, rub- | plane one hundred and thirty-five yards Tle told. me that his son—the father of
Max. Any ay, I’m going to doit, if! ber boots, mittens, and sou’westers tied fone, and re-loaded into a cage. Then it | the children whom I saw—was now down
pen find two men in Belton that I can down over the ears—a rig which, as | was taken up sixteen thousand feet to| on the bay after porpoise. Thinking I :
ire to g9 wit hme. id Ned R David Sharp, who_ had begun to realize | the surface. There it was turned into | might find him at it, I rose to depart, :
Q view | one,’ “at X ft aynor. that it was no child’s play in which he the breaker, through which it passed | when my eye caught sight of some I
adds oh. nore 6 other,’? promptly | was now engaged, declared, was neat | with several tons of coal. After it had | queer-looking skins stretched across i
de iv id S arp ist . but not gaudy, and far more comfort- | gone through the breaker, a slate-picker | poles, and dryinginthesunshine. These :
Max looked at his two true friends | able than becoming. saw it and picked it up. Mr. Jones | were porpoise-skins, which, when dried e |
with something suspiciously like moist- |.“ Keep her straight out as you go, | found that the only daimage to the watch | he sold to be made into leather, ' a
ure janis ECS ove me,” he said, «wl Ned,” said Max. “A south by east | was a broken hand. As TI returned to the vessel, [ saw the
I tell you that I did not tor 1 moment Tslanc oa ake «psy uemseen Blook —In the window of a Boston restaurant Jeane T wate ne aie and Agr ag, Be
have you in mind when I spoke. Iam Giving the wheel into’ his cousin's | there isa water-tank, which is the home ina little. bireh manos, whieh he fowed
not so selfish as toask my friends to | hands, he entered the cabin, pulled out ofa number of glittering gold-fish and | glong with a single short paddle. Beside -
share ny perils, as well as my misfor- | a coast-survey chart, and, compasses in dignified bull-frogs. The other day, a | him Tay an old muzzle-loading gun, and
tunes. hho only wasted bi . iand, began to make certain caleula- | bee fell into the water, and was beating | a spear with a handle perhaps fifteen feet .
ww: ut Wet n % we on is breath. Ned tions, the surface with its wings, when a gold- | long. -
* as i y too gi wate e chance of repay- [TO BE CONTINUED.] fish ran up and soleninly snapped it. Whenever a porpoise broke the water
Dovid ‘Shan ike Wet ett tie the bast, and Hardly had the fish started for the bot- | ata distance, he would paddle his canoe
hin rs sae K y et e of the hard- STORIES BRIEFLY TOLD. tom of the tank when it became very | rapidly toa point near the ripples, and
5 Veavell? htt r Pir ack out. . much excited. It leaped into the air, | then, taking up his gun, watch for him.
ui oly re we Max, I’ve got no _—_—— darted up and down the tank, and acted | As the fish again came to the surfacé, he
ine to waste D words now. Some day, | FIVE TRUE ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS | so strangely that the frogs got into the would shout, and then, catching up the
perhaps, I will tell you what I think of THAT WILL AMUSE TUE READER. corners from fright. Meanwhile, the addle, would row up to his game in an
ate K a apeecide s ’ please get the Vi- —— bee had escaped from the fish’s mouth, | Incredibly short space of time, when he
de te in alonasi e the wharf, and fill the} _-Pyoe anecdotes told of Richard Brins- | 204, crawling upon a rock in the tank, | would drop the paddle, catch up the
yer ank rom ne stpre-house pump. | yay Sheridan, who was such a famous began to dry its wings with the greatest | Spear, thrust it down into the water and
t e Md, | van) x u help me carry a wit in London, years azo, s to be al composure. It was some minutes be- | almost invariably bring up the porpoise.
rank down tot 10 wharf, after I’ve told 2 J ago, seem to be al- | fore the fish stopped cutting its capers, | He worked thus rapidly because a dead
A gut Susan a Vitor tad perfect conti me withowt ee on one oO eeeat and when it did it sank to the bottom, | porpoise sinks at once. .
a » Mrs, Rayno a c - | he had a dispute with the Prince Regent | there to meditate upon the uncertainties In a little while he had captured seve-
glence in Max 's ability to Surecoed in what as to how much better turkeys could | of lifes ral in this way, and when the shoal had
upon him rather in tho light of a man of walk than geese. The prince said that a HOW Cee tie aoe oe Taine on ba
t ‘a is - bet . sel. m u-
experience than_asa young fellow but turkey could walk twice as far as a tiously.
lithe older than Ned." fae |e Biven space of time. Sher INDIANS CAPTURE PORPOISE. | °We'showed’ him several things, such
his, in part, arose from her great af- | dan denie: it, and a wager was made. —— asa breech-loading rifle, etc., which we
fection for him, and partly from the fact | The wit remenibered that turkeys go to BY PHILANDER EVERGREEN. knew would interest an Indian, and
that Max hada way of somctiines talk- roost early, and that geese could be ——_ after awhile he became quite free to
ing and appearing ike a matured man, | driven night and day. He found a flock Who that lives near the seashore, or | Converse.
eee eae eat so men orgs life of geese, and the prince brought his | jas had occasion to cross any of our great yerom him T learned more particularly
om pany d ged naval ook of turkeys to the starting-point. . , : . . ~~’ | than from his father concerning their
officers like his own father, between | Sheridan so arranged it that the race did ferries, has not had_his attention drawn | mod of living. Ile supported his fant.
whom and himself had existed a feeling | not begin until lato in the aiternoon. At to the lazy tumbling of the porpoise in | ly during spring and autumn by catch-
Peed noe an eee ee ae tee eee Bak | antial tho sewpig? for in many ses | fio etplatied that he mond the ofl ob-
a u he he wit. t r ae ain 1 sold oil o
; S> after Max hac broken the nows of Sheridan only smiled and said nothing. | pects he resembles a pig. Indeed, he tained from them at a dollar a gallon,
is rtun is aunt, who took th hen darkness fell the trouble with i that he also sold the skins but used the
matter rather composedly, on the whole, | the turkeys began. ‘They got into the | B0r8 0° ar ase spend nme of is time | body for food. ,
he told her briefly concerning. his plan, hedges and flew into the roadsido trees, | TOtNS about In the mud with 1S nose, In summer-time he made a living by
and that David Sharp, with Ned, woul and in spite of all their drivers could do in search of food, | fishing on the bay, where cod, haddock,
accompany him, they would go no further. But present- The creatures have some singular | herring, etc., were very plenty. Durin een
Oh, I never think of worrying when | ly the geese came in sight. They walked habits. They live in schools, or shoals, | these scasons he got along very well
Ned is with you, Maxwell,” she said; | along ahead of their drivers, and never of course, for most animals do that, but | but in winter they frequently had a
“and ive ne ror line ‘broker thant offered 2 stop. rhe geese passed the ne porpoise, keeps near the shore, and pretty: hard tine of it.
ten g MLK Or place where the turkeys were roosting, | delights to play around a vessel, e lived by huuting, or tried to get a
have that my dreams lately about poor, | and kept on all night. When the time Sometimes they will run a race with a | living in that way. But he said hunting
dear Mr. Fletcher’s coming home a- | that had been agreed upon for the race ship for several miles, occasionally com- | was poor business. Game was scarce,
bringing that peddler-man with him, his | to end had expired, the geese were far | Ing to the surface, and then disappearing | having been nearly all killed, or driven
two hands tied behind his back and a} ahead of the turkeys, and Sheridan won with a peculiar movement which looks | out of the country by the English of-
rope round his neck to lead him by, like | his wager. as if they were. playing ‘‘turn somer- | ticersin garrison at Halifax, who every
a blind man’s dog, will come true. Only —A-’mouse came near breaking up a sault’’ in the water. all went out in. great numbers and
be sure and not let Edward wet his feet, 1 * Li W. tert C of FO Ps T suppose they live in all waters, but I | slaughtered whatever they could find.
and tie the boat up somewhere every school in Waterbury, Conn., a low w eeks | have never seen them so numerous else- | Then I drew from him what at first he
night.” . ago. The children spied, the little ani-| where as in the Bay of Fundy. denied, but aiterward admitted, and
Luckily, the good lady’s ideas of sea- | mal trotting around the floor, and a buzz IT was once on board a vessel that lay | what I knew afterward to be a fact, that
going were of the vaguest possible kind, | of whispers attracted the teacher’s at- becalined for several hours on that sheet | even asa hunter the Indian can’t hol
and when sho finally bade them good tention. “Now, ehildren,” said the of wator, close up to the Heautiful shores his own with the white man.
by, it was with far more composure than | teacher, a lady, ‘keep very quict, every | Of AAnnapo. is County—that garden of fe has certain advantages, such as a
they had expected, one of you. Don't tabs Torteay a word | the lowland peninsula. stealthy cat-like tread, w tich_ no white
Stay just as long as you like, Ed-| jf the inouse comes toward you. Io is here is nothing very attractive in an | man can ever approximate, and a know-
ward, and oe worty about mo, for T| perfectly harmless.” ‘The teacher had old schooner tying motionless on the | ledge of the habits of game, such as per-
shan’t look for you till you get back. scarcely finished her brave address when water, particularly if one has been on | haps few white hunters ever get, but
W or t his assurance Mrs. Raynor Mousey ran directly for her, and began poard for nweok, and is anxious toreach | these are more than matched by the
waved her farewells, and went back to | to play around her jeet. Away went the | 'S piace 0 destination. . double-barreled breech-loading —shot-
her work, while the three made their breve teacher screaming, ane after her . At_ least T thought so that afternoon, | guns and repeating-rifles of the whites—
way through the light, dry snow that | ran the little folks. In the midst of the and Linduced one of tho sailors to pull | such weapons as the Indian cannot pos-
craunched under their feet, to the wharf, | uproar the mouse retired to its hole. It | ™° to the shore, where I might wear | sess, because of their great cost.
Max and David carrying a small trunk, | was a good while before the teacher | SWAY the time by strolling about. Ibe-| Then, boos hunting for the Indian isa
containing some thick clothing and warm | gould get the children to stop laughing | 8" rambling along the rocky coast, in- | matter of dull business, and, with his —
under-flannels, between them. at the difference between “ preaching tent upon seeing whatever curious thing | native and inherent laziness, he onl
‘Now, where are you fellows going?” | and practice.’ S| nature had put there, and had gone per- | works hard at it when hunger compels
shouted Tom Branscomb, stopping with Elephants aro very fond of babies haps a mile, when I suddenly came up- | him.
astonishinent as he met them just at the —t ants ‘ a S$} onan Indian wigwam. But his white brother hunts for plea-
corner of the warehouse. and dogs. .\ keeper in a certain mena- In front was a smouldering fire, above | sure, not for gain, and usually, having
“Yachting; don’t you want to take a} gerie now in this country trusts his little | which hunga pot containing some savory | but a little time for it, he throws himself
trip?” returned Max, with rather a sorry | gson—who is not quite two years old— meat—as my senses told me. Near by | into the sport with an ardor that succeeds
attempt at pleasantry. . ; on * mr Outer sat an old man mending a fish-net. Un- } in anything, and without which nothin;
p' . with the huge animals, knowing that , Ss gs
“Well, you’ve chosen charming wea- they will not harm the child. ‘The little deratent made partly ef boughs from will succeed.
ther, I must say,’ said Tom, shivering 7 . evergreen-trees, and partly of bits of o But the Micmac left us, alight breeze
in his warm wraps, as the keen north-| toddler is fondled and caressed by the | sails from some vessel, ‘sat a woman, | sprung up, and as our’ vessel slowly
west wind whistled about their ears | huge, clumsy creatures, who wind their | holding a babe, and singing to it in real | made her way up the coast, I could not
while they were putting the trunk on | trunks around him ina most affection- | Indian dialect. A number of young | rid myself of thoughts about the red
board ot the xen which. with wer ate manner, A pet dog that belonged to redsicins were playing among the bushes man. Beyond peradventure, it was the
mainsai ioiste ay alongside 1a he same menagerie was recently run | not very far away. esign of Providence that he shou is-
wharf. oy © ° a wagon and killed. The dog At my approach, a miserable-looking appear before the march of the white
“ Necessity knows no law,” said Max, | had been the particular pet of one of the little dog yelped fiercely, and when man; but even that great fact may not -
hurriedly. “Pll tell you all about it | elephants, named “Queen.” She missed | found they quicted him by talking Eng- | excuse the crimes which the conquerin:
when we get back. Good-by, ald chap tr the dog “ Spot? an Ye signs of great lish, Ova ked up to the old man and sa- racg have been guilty of in dealing with
And before the astonished ‘Tom cou distress, She kept looking round and uted him. im.
ask further questions, the jib was hoist- | round, and, when night caine, she was IIe could make use of a little ‘ pigeon Soon the few remaining families of the
ed, the yacht swung out into the stream, | very unhappy. A dog that looked some- | English,” and after patiently waiting till | Micmaes will have gone, and soon, too.
and began her voyage. . thing like “Spot” was taken to “Queen,” | his proverbial taciturnity: was overcome, | the powerful tribes of our frontier will
Belton River, being so near the sea, | but she rofused to have anything to do | I drew from him somo interesting things. | be extinct; and then, in the light of re-
has astrong current and great depth of | with the new pet. It was several days He informed me that he belonged to | trospect, perhaps, we shall be able to
water, so that it has never been known beforo “Queen” could get over her | the Mictnacs—a once powerful tribe, who | sce wherein we have been unjust in
to freezo over within the memory of | grief. formerly owned the entire peninsula of | dealing with the sons of the forest.
ane —Mr. David Jones is one of the many | NOFA Scotts. . ee
There was no ico to impede them, and . conte ; Ile said there were now but a few fam- .
the yacht dashed tho here from’ her | ™e" who work at tho mines around flies left, and that they mostly lived —“\What is wine made of?” asked a school
win gallant style, as fhe snow-covered Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Ife owns 8 | along the coast between there and Grand | teacher of little Johnny Jones.
banksand hills slid rapidly past them. watch which ho prizes much more now | Pre, en t eee for last summer I
Ned started a fire in tho cook-room, | than he did a few weeks ago. The other He was too old to do much work, but ous! now, for last su
and before the mouth of the river was | day it slipped out of his pocket and went | lived with his son, and tried to *help Sa Tet ikare grepearbor What got yon
reached, each of the three had changed | down a chute with the coal. It was | along by doing little jobs such as he was | get there?” .
his ordinary clothing for two sets of | shoveled into a wagon, taken down a| now engaged upon. “\ bad licking,” said Johnny.
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