Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1860-06-19

and leading such ine strange horse Her faith
er who had seen her come over the Hlil met her
some rods from the house. excl1imins with as
tonishmeut:
is thatT
Debby, what has thee been doing? said Mrs.
Wilder, who bat a few steps behind her
.'"shand hee dJ' SUI -ok we'll; what Is the mat
terT
As soon as they wer, seated in the house.
I)ebby told them the whole story. MIR Wilder
fTit 80 T'joced ut bis Gaughte : escape. that lie
began to be 10 exceleutsspir.ts aud led the
strange horse 10 the door, and began TO exaim-
inc hIn.
Well. Debby,' said he. 'since you've got horne
sale a last, we my Is we'll begin 10 talk about
business. he huudfed-dollar i,,ii is gone bui
| in thinking, after all, YOU havn't made a tad
bargain. Tnal's The lkeliesi hnrse I've seen
this many day. don't think !. would be a
d-tileuit matter To sell him for two hundred dol
is any rate. n take the horse tor the
hundred dollars, and you pay have the saddle
o the twenty ceIiars eseu we're 10 uaye Of H.
AND tile saddle bags, too, l suppose, said
Dehhy, feeling disposed 10 Join in the iokc
! eS. and the Saddle bags said Mr.. Wilder,
no, stop. We'll see what's IN them first Ec cuu-
ttnued, untyIug them from the saddle. Oh,
there's lots Of SHIRTS, stockings. haudks rch5cfs
and capital ones. too. Is. Debby. the saddle
fags are yours; those things come in very good
time for Joseph, you kunv.
D'o0y coIiorcd. but said nothing.
of thy fun
'Na fan about it. said William. replacing the
articles IN the lea, her bag Here DrLby, take
em aud take care OF en-
Debhy took the saddle bags 20 her chamber
not little gratlied - the valraaie articles Of
clothing they contained. Sue eInltjed the con-
tents upon the bed aud examining. Jo see II ,y-
rYthIng va, ont, she discovered an i. side peck
e 40 one OF The bags. She opened a. and drew
iheretrom az elegant pocket book, and found IL
contained quantity of bills. Sne cnuu ed ;hern
and her heart beat quicker aud quicker. Tor be-
fore she got through sAe had Sl.50J IN good
ban money
Debby kept her own counsel In = f.x DAYS
II was rumored that Joseph Nelson tai pur-
chased an excellent farm lu the ne!ghborhood
that mad lEs, been offered some muutas FIR the
sum Of 5 1909, ani Was considered gceai bar
gain.
Joseph SAID Mr.. Wilder. the next time ,hey
met, " am a-tuHIShe that vou have been run
nlug ID debt Tor a farm Ia such times - these
think You ought to have worked two cor three
years and gel something beforehand. before get
ling into d b so much"
But haven't been running into debt. said
Joseph
Haven't yon bought sandeson's farm . SAID
Wilder
Yes. have" said Joseph
:" At Si.0uHt"
Yes" sad Joseph. " but ] paid for il. don,
run ia debi for anything"
Mr- Wilder Vas too much ;ls.onishcd to ask
further questions.
Jo.eph y eisnn made an excellent farmer and
respectable man; he was industrious and 90,
rapidly beforehand. and Mr. Wilder was always
proud of his sou-in-law. Il was some ten year-
after tins when Alr. Wilder was sitting one day
and jro,tiug his third grand ou his knee, Ina,
he said
Detby, should liI,, 10 s-ow how ,oseph
contrived u purchase this farm al the tlru, yun
were msrficd e.
Dehby stepped TO the closet, brought out tile
=tddlr ba.s, and opening, them pointed TO tl,-
inner rorke;, saying, Ihe money came from
tly<fe sir