New-York tribune., 1841-10-07

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from your mouth. drove NY little CANADA gray
in p sl-irb that dav twelve miles IN lo1 nv :
rr,;r,.fcs AID fraze Two OF my toes on ny -al19
"a a. ,..,ryo,s Them toes chill d great
- ,i,an Ihev do ON tother ioet- In MY
III - ncver foze the coolest day that ever
l,, But ,hat cold snap, the iv'sniy-aeoohc oat
of Inst Noyeuber If ny little gray Haoh gone
ne = bird. would have done the JOB Tor my poor
ja1ne foot When got nome found Two Of my
.beep dead. aad they were Snder good she'd, too.
And one OF my Heighbors, poor fellow went into
the wood. after load OF wood. and We found MIN
next day icoze TO death, leaning Up against . beech
tree a. stiff as a stake. But h,s oxen was alive
and well. Il 5 very wonderful! how much longer
brute critter Will stan the cold than man Will
Them oxen didn't even shiycr
Perhaps, said the Doctor standing with his
back towards lir. Robinson, perhaps the oxen
mad taken mug OF hot flip before they went into
the woods.
b this time MAJOR Grant began to feel a liitle
spiciou- that he might lose h;s bet, and was set
ting all his wits to work 10 fix question so direc;
and limited IN its nature, that !; could not tan %
draw from Mr.. Robinson u pretty direct answer.
He had thought at first OF making some simple IN
quiry about the weather; but ne now felt con
yinccd that, with Nir Robinson, the weather was
very copioGs subject. He had also several time-
thought Of asking some question III relation 10 the
beverage they were drinking; such Is. whether
Mr. Robinson preferred flip 10 hot sling. And AZ
first he could harly PerceiTe, II the question we're
pu; direct how it could fail to bring ont Il -irect
So or no. But the discursiye nature OF Alr.
Robinson, eoquencc on Hip mad already induced
hm TO turn his thoughts IN another direction Tor
safe and suitable question. AZ last he thought he
would make his inquiry IN reference to Nj ROBIN
son laIneness. He would have asked the cause
OF i.is aurncss but the thought occurred 10 him
that the cause might not be clearly known, or MS
lamcness might nave been produced by q compli-
ca,ion OF causes, that would allow too much latl-
tude for a reply He resolved therctore simply to
ask him whether his lameness was in The leg rim
the foot. That a questioA winch II appeared
10 him required a shoil answer. For II II were IN
leg, Mr.. Robinson would say IN hi .eg; and
if il were in his foot, he would at once reply, N
his ioot and if it were in both, what could be
more natural than that ne should say, in both
and that would seem to be tie cud of the story.
Having a, length iully made up bis mind as TO
tho point OF attack, Ae prepared IN The charse,
and taking careless look at ms watch. kc gave
the Doctor . sy wink Doctor snow, without
turning scarce appearing TO move, drew liS
watch from beneath h. wrapper so far a. 20 see
the hour, and turned IT again 10 bis pocket.
Mr. robinson, said the MAJOR, II ! may
presume TO make the inquiry Is your iameness IN
the leg or in The FOOT
Well, thar reminds me, said Mr. Robinson,
taking q sip from the tunber, winch he still held
in his hand, tha, reminds me of what ny old
iataer SAID to me once when | wa- q boy. SAYS
he. Jack you bl 5c6nead. don you ncyer tell
where any thing is unless ycs can first tell now Il
come there. The reason OF his sayng it was
this. Father and ! was coming IL IN" steamboat
from New J or 10 Providence; aud they was all
strangers on board-we didn't know one OF en-
iiom Adam. Md on the way ono of inc passen-
gers missed his pockei-book. aad Ocsua TO make
a great ouicry about il. He called ihc captain,
and said there must De- !, search. The boat must
be searched, and all the passengers and all on board
must be searched Well. the captain be agreed 10
it ana q, it they Went and oyerhaUed every
thing from end OF The boat to tother but they
coGIdn find hide nor hair OF II. And they search
ID all the passengers and all the hands, but they
'Ouldnt get track ont And the man that
ost the pockc,-book took oy ana made = great
uss. lie sud il wasn't so much on account Of
he money, ior there wasn't great deal in II; bun
he papers in il were nj grsai consequence him,
mi ne offered to give Ten dollars 10 any body that
you'd find IT, fretty sooa after that, ! was fxin'
sleep. and found the pocket-5ooi, rnder The
,lo,hes at the head OF the berth. where the thiei
iad tucked ii away while the search was going on.
So took it, ticked enough. and riln TO the man,
nd told him I had found hi, pacl,et-book. He
,ai-hed It out of my hands and says he, " Where
lid You find p Say, ]. 81 Under the clothes in
he head Of my iaihegs berth.
$50 In your fathers birth did YOU p says he,
,ad he give me look and spoke 50 sherp,
umped il I was going out Of my skin
Says he, Show ne the place
So | run and showed him the place.
Call your father here, says he. So run
md called father.
'''Now Mister, says he to father, '' [ should
ike 70 know how my pocHei-book come in your
,elth.n
81 don, know noihin' about Il, says father.
Then he turned 10 me and says he. e Young
nan. how came this pocket-book in Your father
,eI;h!"
Says l. I" can't tell. l found it there. and
nat : all | know about it
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