Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1883-05-10

ness, too; and his horse can't get sight
of mine; and, declare, have mind
to-yes, l will! I'll go this very night
and ask her to go TO the show with me.
I'll show Ed. Wilbur that amt such
a calf as he thinks am, il did let old
Watson get the start of me in the first
place."
Ed. could scarcely help laughing out
right, but he hastily hitched the bags
on his shoulders, and with a low chuck
lie at his success, started home to tell
his news to Nelly, and about 3 o'clock
that evening they saw Bill go by with
his horse and buggy ON his way TO the
widows. He logged along quietly,
thinking of the old singing dag
and what Il pretty girl Susan was
then, and wondering inwardly If he
would have more courage now to talk
to her-until, at distance of about a
mile from her house, when he came to
the bridge, he gave tremendous
sneeze and blew his teeth out of his
mouth, and clear over the side of the
bridge, and they dropped into four feet
of water.
Words cannot do justice to poor Bill
or paint the expression of his face, as
he sat there, completely dunbfounded
at his startling piece of ill-luck. At
ter a while he stepped out of his buggy
and getting down on his hands and
knees looked over into the water. -
Yes, there they were at the bottom.
with "A crowd of little fishes rubbing
their noses against them, and Bill
wished to goodness that his nose was
as close for o.e moment. His beauti-
| ful teeth that had cost him so much.
and the show coming on and no time
to get him another set-and the wide w
AID young Stockrider Well, he must
| try and get them somehow, and no
time to be lost, for some one might
come along and ask him what he was
fooling around there for. lie had no
notion of spelling his clothes by wad-
ing in with them on, and besides, if he
| did, he could not go to the widows
that night, and so he took n look up
apd down the road to see nobody in
sight, and then quickly undressed him
self, laying his clothes in the buggy to
keep them clean. Then I.e ran around
the bank and waded into the almost
icy water, but his teeth did not chat
ter in his head-he only wished they
could Quietly he waded SO as not to
stir the mud, and when he got to the
right spot he dropped under the water,
and came out with his teeth in his hand
and replaced them in his mouth. But
bark! What noise is that! a wagon.
and dog barking with all his might,
and his horse is starting. whoa
whoa! Stop, you brute, stop!" But
stop he would not, but went off at a
spanking space, with the unfortunate
bachelor after him. Bill was certain
ly in capital running costume, but,
though he strained every nerve, he
could not touch the lines that were
dragging on the ground.
After n while his plug hat shook off
the seat and the hind wlIeel went owe I
it, making it as flat as. a pancake. Bill
snatched it as he ran, and, after jam
ming his fist into it, stuck it all wrink
led and dusty on his head. And now
he saw the widows house on top of
the hill, and what, oh! what will he
doi Then his coat fell out and he
slipped it on. and then making a des.
perate squirt he clutched the back OF
the seat and scrambled i'm, and pulling
the buffalo robe over his legs, stuffed
the other things beneath. Now the
horse happened to be one he got o.
Squire Moore, and he had got it fro n
the widows and lie took il into his head