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acknowledgements

VI Henhold til \ % af ColonialIoven af
a eide November 1868 for de dansk
vestindiSke Ger og Low af I9de Februar
1864, opfordres herved de Iudvaanere j
Byen Christiansted og Forst@der, som
matte formene at have havt i Diet sldste
Aar, fra lste Januar til Bite December
1872 en- reen aarlig Indkomst of 500
yestindiske DaIer, og i6vrigt at v@re vaIg-
berettigede / Overeensstemmelse med
fornnvDte CoIonialIovs s is, eller at
Vile opnaae en- saadan VaIgberettigelse
linden den Site Morts 1875 jfr. den
npvnte Lows 5 % sidste Stykke, til linden
indev@rende December Maaneds Udgang
skriltligen at anmeIde saadant for un-
dertegnede Formand i Valgbestyrelsen.
d bemarkes at Exemplarer af en-
tryht Welcoming til ArmeldeIser ON
VaI9berettigeIse heuIigge til Eftersyn i
Retshuset Kongensgado No. 10.
Va'gbestyreIscn for Christiansteds
Byes og Forstrders VaIgkreds den
2 den December 1878.
H. A. JURS.
Formand.
, 1873-12-06
NOTICE

VN conformity with 5 % of the Colonial
A Law of the 9th November 1868 for
the Danish Westindia Islands and law of
18Th February 1864 all inhabitants Of the
town Of Christiansted and suburbs, who
consider that they have had in the past
year, from the LIST Of January to 31St of
December 1872, a clear annual income of
500 westindia dollars and are otherwise
entitled to the franchise in conformity
with 5 IS of the said Colonial Law, or
will attain the qualification of franchise
before the 31st of March 1875 (see s %,
last c)Iause), are hereby requested to fur
nish the necessary Information thereof in
writing to the undersigned Chairmansof
the Electoral Board before the end of this
month.
Copies of a printed Guide for Reports of
Franchise may be seen at the Court House
King Street No. 10.
The Electoral Board for the town of
Cbristiausted aud suburbs, the 2nd Deoem-
Der 1878.
II. A. JURS.
Chairman.
, 1873-12-06
Bekjendtgjorelse

VI Henhold til 5 % af Colonialloven of
a 27de November 1868 for de dansk vest
indiske Der og Low af lode Februar 1864,
opfordres herved de Indvaanere i Christian
steds Jurisdictions Land District som
matte formene at have havt i Diet sidste
Aar, fra 1ste Januar til Site December
1872, en- reen earIig Indkomst af 500 vest
indiske Daler, og i6vrigt at v@re valgbe-
rettigede i Overeensstemmelse med for
nHvnte ColoniaIIovs 5 IS, eller at Vile
Opnaae en- saadan Valgberettigelse linden
den site Marts 1875, jfr. den nevnte Lows
s % sidste Stykke, til linden indeverende
December Maaneds Udgang skriftligen at
anmelde saadant for undertegnede For
mand i Valgbestyrelsen.
bet bem@rkes at Exemplarer af en- trykt
Veiledning til Anmeldelser ON Valgberet-
tigelse henIigge til Eftersyn i Retshuset
Kongensgade No. 10.
Valgbestyrelscn for Christiansteds Juris-
dictions Land Districts Valgkreds den 2den
December 1878.
II. A. JURS
, 1873-12-06

n LIE og Enhver der MATTE have
Ll noget at fordre paa F@lledsboet
efter afgangne Kj0bmand Peter
Wilhelm Schousboe og e~fterleyende
Enke Caroline M%ariane Schousboe
indkaldes herved med 6 Maaneders
VarseI at anmelde og beviisliggj0re
deres Krav for undertegnede Ret.
Frederiksteds Skifteret, st. Croix
den 2lde November 1873.
&. SARAUW.
, 1873-12-06

New York is at last alive to the fact
that &" there is an immense amount Of
wealth in Jamaica, if one can only get at
it, and we are told that efforts are now
being made to increase this Jamaica trade
by establishing a line of steamers to King
ston. The owners of the Moro Castle
line, now running betweenl New York
and Havana, have agreed to start some Of
their steamers in this direction. Beyond
question the project will be a profitable
, 1873-12-06

The feeling in favour of a war and annexa-
ton is very strong in New York and other
leading cities of the Uuion Even if Spain
should make reparation, it is doubtful
whether Cuba would be bound by the
decision of Madrid,-Uid
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one in a few years time, while it will be
productive of very great convenience from
the outs0t.-I6id.
, 1873-12-06

ad Member for T~@rLted Country District Isa~ma3 agreed with the honorable Chairman;
could not vel. g"mtt4e amount beres Committee has Investigated the items thee estimate some
you'd more properly appear under the general estimate; but as the proposal has G%e c before the tine
he would. state that the matter of TIT, hospital accommodation had often been spoken of and fhe
Whether the amount here estimated bto high, he could not y; but fit had been on the Budget
very unsatisfactory and as His EzeHeny has said the new system will be better and might
also be LESS "Iesye as u % the present. f&4 a system Gm a great d& @% Of 1 am ra 8a mas 9n no be nw w 3d.
the q m@ p %t "r Wshm3 IT. h@ aG a@ wm%ns M nat the me pW Eyyo on the G %ml De 0m Im Eo
f.t L n 6 prs%1m mHt %a rS" 5d I@g f G5SIrI B%9 % c@ e an n@G 1hf1 Us% noo @o ~% f nrT W%
absolutely necessary. and as regards the p"y on the wharf also a matter of den@. The
a spponnpot a Committee hem % iP%9 Members o%dJo Charged with examining the estimates
un1 &d ode 6@m o d hreae fMd. d 5P@% en- d NJ 4S Th " { %@ 0 g9 or5 %D TO- oo 1g ' @ m54cn 81
| gu a %2 i 81 % cm !" %4%% m[ g bandm6 NEW c %H n49 T an%n 4 4 f % f ynr course e" """"
AZ" 3 3q H@n5sr S fur F% %%S% G c "%SD Ds STIR S Iap eW had % been benE oTmb rd the Building
'""% 1@ % Sa%f % % F "G%&a S country cooy' District BIZ GF E%%% % % bd heard %"l %'o o""ppdrfs made Of
nn '4n 1 @%" for sh F%d Se o%y . District IT, q L Egn z h had also 1 been %% Msb S5% Of the
~ st Member for r%lo1aed Nv@u@ had also been a Member Of the said Committee an!
@ @3' bG C S~pH 5 %% tai to %bG s 0@2e % ten Examine @%%n e f@T lo %@Rsea out n" better P"S"uu"
The P@q%54* made amo further remarks with regard to the localities and also thought that
ofho s Ba H&g cd @@ P% @I %o%Ii T s%%1o: & G@ t % rGy %a @ 6% 1& o him n% o %%o o % %S aIU o tie
f., Ii. Is 3 H%Pa @ to g&%3@ a h. a:S Ssa s @ R 4@sa1s %s% to 5s %:5 @ @% % ns i it y ys5 B@ S%s
how III 5 5%>9s s Ssa. o1 "a sf s3 "s delay ID Ss sso s %s e" a.%g: @ as S ss HE he s DID e% % "@ss
nd 42 2s "S "@ @: S@ @asa 3 @ @12 the y S%Ss s' 5 o%% "s %1 @5 s a2sa % a2 tbs aus osanaa. of
rH@s % S%"5@. for FOR go o%a%. e F% as5s5 D>1 1S| 5 51 3$1 2 2% @ & o9%s3e WITH %A votes
mfHes: II T1h@ Were received Elected voe: s@v With Il and Iodm~ With
j" s %s 2 2eso4 4 2" n%s fro. .n {" s. Pss' ean @%5 9i n3 3 }. I %, 22o.2'"s that a portion Of
'rasI'~d'"9 had Introduced as a. 1 %ol3 3% T42"s:
Comptroller B1rs dr cite cd@"@ Treasury
said q. a%I % "a, WITHIN % nj Il & @3s @551 s has "a @"% Goa5 %" o% o"1 @%" @@ the" n"d @ d@.
3 IsM pG%' ten R gjs1 5 Ba @s s@s GIN n %e9 @5. n.p..5 within closed doors. Tn. President
The o& % %%oo Day 5%s exhaust exhausted, the Chairman appointed the next meeting for Monday
% 1S 0ss' %%@ 4: Bay t. 5 be; +! l. s s5 D Ds %s s m % Draft "5 Fsn I%@os' 5 2.:on" ms. ? D ssa D5
on Draft GO"nanos a5M6ms the prohibition against e sale Of lottery tickets FabeD
amendments =" "' . "'SS" T Te I" @ ing do@@i az 4od I%"'"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30
Bride Bits.

Scarcely day passes without the occurrence OF
an accident arising from bit breaking while in
the horses mouth. There are three ways OF
making thse bits: one is to forge them through
ont of the toughest iron of soft steel; the
other is to use east cheeks and forge the mouth
pieces; while the third is to cast them through
ont. The first is the only method that should be
followed, but buyers will not pay the price
asked, and manufacturers cannot afford to sell
them for less. The wrought mouth is the next
best, and if the cheek has been properly annealed
il makes a serviceable bit; cast cheeks, however,
are not always reliable, and the manufacturer is
rs likely to he deceived in this respect as the
buyer. The cast bit is that never ought to
be used; harness makers should inform their Gus
TONERS of the quality of the article, and leave
the responsibility with the buyer. If for the
sake of the difference in price between the two
kinds, man chooses to risk his life by using the
poorer bit, neither the harness maker nor bit
manufacturer should be blamed. The bit and
reins should always be Of the strongest kind, no
matter what the merits of the rest of the harness
= Harness and Carriage Journal.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30
Fall Rutser-Makinx.

There is fair profit in making good butter in
the fall of the year. even if a farmer makes il to
sell in the winter season, when nice butter is
generally scarce. Cows ought to have pastures
of tame grass pea, corn fields to run in 1t gen.
orally pays to give each COW quart of corn-neal
or more at every milking. 1t tends to harden
the butter and improve its quality. Salt should
be given to cows three or four times a week reg
ularly, but at no time in excess, unless kept by
them all the time. Good feeding pure water to
drink and shelter from storms are important.
As soon as the milk turns sour in the pan, the
cream should be removed into the cream jar and
s1lted to keep it sound, unless in is to be used at
once.
One obtains the best butter when he has cows
enough to churn every morning, never keeping
cream "a hours in jar or crock. Never keep
cream in tin vessel if you can well avoid it.
Nothing is more easily tainted by deleterious
odors than milk, cream, butter aud new cheese.
Hence the utmost neatness in everything con-
nected with the dairy is indispensable to success.
1t is q mistake to agitate cream violently to
bring the butter in the shortest possible time.
1t Injuries the butter. Good cream at the right
temperature (62 degrees) should be churned from
20 to 80 minutes, varying with the condition of
the cream. Butter should be taken from the
churn and worked with wooden ladle or pad
die, and never by the hand. All the milk should
be carefully worked ont, and little pure salt
worked in the butter, and it should be packed
so as to exclude the air as much as possible. A
covering of strong brine is often used. Some use
Q cloth filed with butter.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30

Give your hogs all the milk you can spare
Winter your spring pigs in the pork barrel.
Keep late fall pigs by themselves, and feed
well.
Gull your sheep. Keep only the best and the
strongest.
1t pays to give mich cows qnart or two OF
meal per day.
Put all your farm Implements under cover for
the winter.
Scatter. dry earth on the floors of lighthouses
and pig pens.
Feed early fall pigs plentfulIy to prepare them
for winter.
Keep your horses up at night. If pasturing,
feed them hay extra.
See that your stables are banked and battened,
yet well ventilated.
Give your breeding stock plenty of exercise,
your fattening stock little.
Keep your poultry in warm place. Clean out
their house frequently.
If grass seed is sown with wheat the harrow
ing must be dispensed with.
Merino sheep will always be wanted in this
country. Improve them.
There is no better food for fattening pigs than
sound corn. Grind and cook it if possible
Sheep are looking up again. On grain farms
a small flock can be kept with little expense.
Kill ticks with solution of carbolic soap. Do
it now, or in the spring they will be troublesome.
Get in store of dry earth for the winter use
in hen-houses and pig-pens, and put it under
cover.
Forcombing- wool and mutton combined. grade
Cotswold and Leicester erino are profitable
sheep.
Sheep for winter fattening should he three or
four years old Give each half pound of grain
per day, besides pasture.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30
Cur Scrap .gouk.
SUMMER DYING.

Beauty IL waning. voice of complaining
Comes from the hill side and den;
Dirgr notes are ringing. and crickets are singing
To Summer a song of farewell
Day brightly closes, but where are the roses
june vreathed with her tresses Of gold
Soft winds are signing where darkly are lying
Their rain beaten leaves on the mould
Sadness comes o. me, for barren before me,
Lie fields that loved when q boy;
No more In the shadows Of oaks on the meadows
Stout mowers their incoming enjoy.
The stuobe. how lonely weeds shooting up OILY,
Where grain clothed the generous soil,
And reapers were swinging their cradles and singing
Blithe strains to enliven the toll
Cattle waiing where willows are shading
The low shallow bed Of the stream;
Thistle-down floating. is sadly denoting
That Summer will pass like dream
The haryestmoon sailing thrO' mist. Is unyeillng
Her disc like a blood painted shield
While schOolboy and maiden with baskets fruitaden,
HE home from the blackberry field.
Dark swells of ocean with long measured motion,
Moan a. they break on the shore;
Airy tongues, wailing for beauty's cheek palng.
Chime In with the desolate
Stars have grown DINNER, less dazzling the GUNNER
or FREELY lamps on the lawn;
F1Ower-cups unfolding. are honey -drups holding.
But light from the landscape Is gone.
Throned on the thistle the bobolink's whistle
Mead-larks, saiuting the morn with their nuting
Replied to his rapturous tune.
Hoarse calling and first leaves are falling,
But still mild loneliness reigns
sweet. haunting sadness, tho vanish d a gladness,
And glory from nature remains.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30
M. P,,,inr,or on ver,iIa,iou.

ave have got a new veuerator on our meeting
bouse.p sad Mis-. PartiDgtOn, but how on airth
,h.y can coptrv. TO climb up there to let the exc
crations go out is more than can see INTO. But
IL is sicb \ nice intervention for keeping house
,.rnw aWhat sort of a yentilator is IL asked
we, anxious to get an inkIiag Of the old lsdys
philosophy. ut is one of the Emmissary's," re-
plied she. sagely, "and it is ever so much better
tbap Professor Epsom's, because room is kept
50 warm and comfortable by it-not the least
danger of taking cold from draughts of too fresh
air. 1t will be a great accusation in cold wealth
er.n "Bnt how will it do in SUMMER" we again
asked The dame for a moment was puzzled.
She had not Thought of this contingency. "0hm
cried she, after few moments reflection, aided
by the merest trife of maeca boy, at the same
time profering US the box, al suppose then they
will stop it mp altogether and open the windows"
1t was an idea worthy of the profound black
bonnet and far seeing specs before us. She left
Us then We watched her from the window, and
felt axions about her rheumatism as We saw her
right foot sink in puddle, in attempt to reach
q Canton street omnibus.
ANY one who brcathes the suffocating air of our
concert rooms, will be reminded of Mrs. Parting
tons "yeuerator," for keeping q room warm.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30

SAVING SEED CoRN.-One of your correspon-
dents CIV. NJ. b. writing from Vermont, asks
your farm readers TO give their methods of saving
seed corn. I will give mine, which has proved
very successful with me, and any one else can
follow it with good results. The time to pick
seed corn is in the fall, as soon as the husk is
about half ripe. Pull off all the husk, but leav-
ing enough to tie with another one; then hang
until wanted for planting. BY following the
above for several, years have succeeded in i'm
proving my corn far beyond my expectations,
and feel amply repaid for ali my exertions
when l see my corn is now about two weeks ear
lier than any of my neghbors who go it on the
slip-shod plan of picking seed from the crib.
While they are replanting l am blowing my corn,
because seed saved in the manner describud sell
dom fails to grow. But some have seen the fruits
of my labor, and as am perfectly willing that
they should share with me, divide my seeds, Civ
ing them equal chance for early crops with my
self-Aoore's Rural Ne1c Yorker
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30
ALe,.on In Roy..

Boys who disturb camp-meetings by crying
"Amen" in the wrong place, and remarking
"Glory" with more zeal than Judgment, should
take warning from the fate of bakers dozen of
small boys in Kansas. These thirteen ill-advised
boys were guilty, the story goes, of disturbing
Kansas camp meeting by insisting upon shOut-
ing "Amen" when very muscular preacher, who
prides himself on his voice, was singing a hymn.
The preacher bore ii for some time, bnt finally
ed from the pulpit, and, never once interrnpting
his hymn, successfully reversed AMI spanked the
thirteen small boys. As his avenging hand de-
scended and the dust of the small boys filed the
air, the rest of the congregation shouted in rap
on, brother, go Onr Then he returned to the
pulpit, still singing and those boys went half a
mile away, behind a haystack, and lay down
with their faces to the ground, weeping bitterly.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30

SOMETHING OF A FoG.-During a very heavy
fog, away down East, yOung man was sent ont
to a meadow to nail few shingles to an un-
finished roof At dinner, continues the farmer,
who tells the story, the fellow came in, and says
he, "That's mighty long barn you've got down
there
"Not very long" said /.
"Wal," SEE he, az have been at work all the
forenoon, and haven't got to the end of it yet"
Then, SEE l, "YOu must be a mighty lazy fell
low, that's all I've to say"
So after dinner went down to see what he
had been about, aud may be goldarned to dar-
nation if he hadn't shingled the whole length of
the barn, and about hundred feet right out into
tbs fog. Fact!
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30

A BRAVE BoY.-Governor Letcher the Other
day, related an incident of the war. He said that
in one of the battles below Richmond, four flag
bearers had been shot down, and a call was made
for volunteer to carry the colors. A STRIPPING
took the torn standard. In few minutes the
staff was snapped by shot. The boy sat down,
in front again. Another bullet splintered the
staff. 1t was then fastened by the other shoe
string. He had hardly shook the folds out the
second time, when down fell the flag, struck by
a ball. The shoe-strings had given out He un-
buttoued his jacket, ripped his shirt to ribbons,
and wrapped the broken rod and carried the tat
tered ensign through the fight. Governor Letcher
said: when they brought me the boy with the
shattered staff patched up with shoe-strings aud
shirt-tail, made him an officer and gave him
the best sword Virginia had,
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30

APPLE JELLY.-Take golden pippins, pare, core
aud quarter them, and boil in water enough TO
cover them until soft; then turn into a flannel
jelly bag and let the Juice run ont without
squeezing at all; the jelly bag is made like an
enormous funnel, with q short nose and sewed
mp in one seam; take square of flannel and
double over in two points, tapping it in the mid,
die, and you will see how it is done; tie this
bag by fastening tapes to each side of it, to chairs
and let the juice run into dish; to one pint OF
juice put one pound of white sugar and boil for
twenty minutes; then turn into jelly cups, add
sugar to jam and boil for marrnalade.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30

THERE is great knack in husking corn, and
some mems hands and strong, horn-like thumb
nails are peculiarly adapted to rapid work. The
operation Of breaking off the husked ear from
the husks is very trying to the bands, and the
skin between the thumbs and forefngers if not
unusually tough and leathery, becomes blistered
and sore, Mittens are inconvenient; gloves
ing Gloves armed with metal claws etc., and
have gone back to the simple old fashioned husk-
ing pin made of hickory, scraped smooth, with a
leather thong to go over two fingers while the
pin is held within the hand, across the base of
the fingers.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30

PRESERVED fruits often either ferment, mould
or candy, unless they placed in air-tight cans
and these are not always within reach of the
housewife. Now these three effects produced
by three separate caases-they ferment because
they were not boiled enough, they mould from
being kept in damp place; they candy from be-
ing boiled too long If papers dipped in whisky
or alcohol are laid directly over preserves and
jelles it will often prevent them from spelling.
Preserves should be kept in a dark bnt dry place,
aud IN arranging them on the shelves of a store
closet they should not come in contact with the
plasterinp.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30

Two young ladies, one of whom is named Julia,
enter the store. of an acquaintance and, observ-
ing kitten, Miss Julia takes it up to fondle.
"Oh, my, what sweet, darling little kitty!
What's its namep alt has not been christened
yet" "Oh, the dear thing! Do call it Julia,
won't youi" "Should be very happy to do so, -
said the gentleman, "bHt it isn't that Kind of cat,
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30

BOILED ToMAToEs.-Cut medium sized toma
toes in halves, and put them upon a gridiron, cut
surface down. When the surface appears TO b,
somewhat cooked turn them down, and finish
the Cooking with the skin towards the fire. The
skin. Place upon dish, and put little salt
aud lump of butter upon each half and serve
quite hot.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30

GHS.sE UPoN FLooRs.-An Iowa lady writes
that grease can be readily drawn from an un-
painted Kitchen floor by putting plenty of soft
soap on the grease spots and rubbing hot fiat
iron through the soap. One application eener.
ally sufices; sometimes another is required.
washing thoroughly Afterwards.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30

A YOUNG lady in Fond du Lac, while ont walk
ing with her lover, was attacked by a savage
dog, who seized her by the breast and tore it
from her body. The lover tainted with horror at
the sight, but the young lady, much mortified,
went for the dog with 8 picket, remarking that
"that ere cost adollar aud half, and want made
for no dog TO chaw up1
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30

A BosToN merchant relates the following con-
yersation between two bell-hoys at the Filth Av.
enue Hotel New York: Pat asks Mike, whats
this suspension of the banks I" Mike replies I'll
tell ye. Suppose We have five cents" "Yis.'
"Lave it wild me-" "Yis." Next day We want it,
and We AK me fur it," "Yis." al tell We No
sir, have used it myself"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30

soUEAKING Doors AND SHoEs.-To prevent
the soles Of boots and shoes from squeaking
SAYS the boot and shoe Chronicle. rasp the outsoe
and insole, and every other piece of leather that
comes in contact in friction BY the action of the
foot: Then apply freely good wheat OF rye paste.
III this Is well attended to from heel to toe, the
boot or shoe will not squeak,
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30

TOMATO SouP.-Take six large tomatoes, boil
in one pint Of water until done; then take them
on the stove and stir in one teaspoon of salora-
rus; linen add one quart of milk, and season
with plenty of butter, pepper. and salt. Let ali
come to a boil, when it is ready for use. We
think it tbs next thing to oyster soup. Try it.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30

TO KEEP ONIoNs.-The best way of keeping
onions for family use is the old fashioned one Of
stringing them. Gather them without breaking
on the tops Take up three or four and string
through the tops, and tie string around them
To secure them firmly. Add more onions and tie
until you have string foot or more in length.
Hang them in dry place, and they will keep
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-30

4 TRAVELLER narrating the wonders of foreign
parts, declared he had seen cane mile long.
The company looked incredulOus and it was
quite evident they were not prepared to believe
it, even if it should have been a sugar cane.
"Pray, what kind of a cane was tt" asked one
sneeringy.
at was q hurricane" replied the traveller.