Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-24
a Foreign ..Nasiyc.~

Atts>Lk WVtHecSSCiENCEA AID WHAT CANE OF IT.
10 you remember, some weeks since was
CfeatR annoyed oy an lnquisitiVe mau down ia
Maine. ARD abruptly closed nv letter for the
purpose of stulfing the aforesaid mani
Wei, stuffed him.
. Much OF place. your town. ht. ASKED
on yes, said. with the matter-of-cn;Ir
cafeiesSneSS of citizen OF the great western
metropolis. '.about forty hive thotisa nd ,-,.
The man eyed me with keen awakening in
teieSt- - So big as that" he said.
nodded. ana lie presently said: Wen. l had
state mrst be pretty well settled up i reckon
| said, Yes ii was Some portions OF 1t pretty
wild. though"
Any large game In the state:"
Herds or 1T | said. 81 killed deer last
winter not two miles from the Burlington Court
House
| paci1ied my conscience for this lie bv ex-
planning 10 that rebelliouS and vOcitcrouS mon
itor that there was no Burlington court House;
that Ii was burned down seven years ago. and
the county was waiting until ii could buy
placing IL Therefore, | could trUthfully say
that Killed all the deer that came within tao
miles OF our Court House.
:" want 70 know the native exclaimed.
do you, though ;" thought /. Then III tell
YOU. And so went on: why. the wolves
only two years ago made raid right into
Kfurlington and Killed all the chickens on South
Conscience raised terrible protest at this.
out nuSiled IL up too quick by citing the well
known case OF Meigs Schenck'S vol thar cnt
Dose and in one single summer night ale un
everything on South tItll that Wore feathers
Tie ratiTe looked astonished and doubly inter
eSted..
9 Any Iudians?" he said.
Land. yes told him, awning YEARLY, as
one who talks OF old. stale things. sitting
sui was educated at the Baptist Collegiate IN
Stuute In Burlington, and was expelled for ny
ing TO scalp Professor Workman with a horse
shoe magnet
You don tell ne :" exclaimed the native in
wild amazement. 81 this time was perfectly
a n. a
shut and give me a Chance
Ion. yes" | said. yellow WOlrS Old mpIf-
cine lodge is Sttil standing. right out on We,t
htii. The Indians come into the city very fire.
WHY little ponies
-, ;, Ever have any trouble with theme the
''oa, no., said carelessly. 1.-THE citizens sell
aom do. The COW boys. who come up from
Texas With cattle, hate them terribly. aud oc-
c2slonally drop one OF them III the streets lust
ioFfeNoAer practice. But nobody else intertcre5
ID tlielr tights"
- i suppose" the man said YOU all carry re-
Nolters strapped around you. out lherp"'
oh, yes, replied. ''of course We have 10.
a man never knows when he is going to have
trouble with somebody. and in case OF any littie
not TO be heeIed." " ~ ~"
l think the man Shuddered a little. Then
fearing he might ask to look At nay revolver /
casually remarked that never carried my bark
efS when | came east.
lie SAID no, he supposed not Then he looked
out vi tht "Ihden long time ana said nothing.
Finally asked him in what part OF Maine he
made his nome. He looked up at Inc in sur
prise.
Me- he said. Lord. I don't live in this
rock patch. I'm only on here visiting some rel
ativeS.>
In a feeble voice asked him where did he
live. then.
The man yawned, and again looked lstlessly
out OF the window
oh" he said. - live on farm. lust out by
Letters. about six miles ont OF Burlington. !
wish was back there now
So did |. SO did |. wished he had never left
there.
We didn't talk together any longer. Shortly
after that the weather changed, the air grew
very cold. ana / went intO the smoking car TO
look tor a lire Eudeites Letter to tie Brli,,y-
ton HGrkeyc.