Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-11-26

mufled and hoarse, but still familiar.
and sounding ike sweet music to Aunt
Doxy's ear.
20 Miss Appleby, num-" said Mrs.
O'Flanigan, ''it's kilt intoirely l am,
mum, wild shame, an the HART " me
is broke, SO it is, that liver I'd see the
day whin me own boy-an' his fayther
as sinsible man as liver shtepped in
two shoes-wudn't know the difference
betwane turkey an a paycock. Shure,
he SEE yersilf was away an the young
Teddy guv him lave to pick out turr-
KEY for himsilf, and he TUX this wan,
so he did, for foine large turkey, and
him a-thryin' to wiring the neck ov it
when l hears the quare voice ov the
craythur. And SEE l: WHATEVER air We
about, We spalpane?' SEE 1; it do be
Miss App1eby's paycock We have there.
An he havin' the neck of the poor
haste half wrung, an the craythur
near kilt, was afeerd to bring her
home til We. An shure, l spklinthered
up the neck ov her and doc:hered her
up wild swate lie, an last night she'd
ate bit. an this marnin' her voice had
grown that swate and nAt-chooral
'twould bring tears to the DIES ov yer.
And, seq to Barty, SEE l: Come along
up to Miss Appleby's wild me- sez 1,
AN if it isn't hangin' yell get, SEE l,
it's in the cowld Jail yell spind yer
Thanksgivin' Day. SEE l, fur muir
sherin' ov her poor basic ov paycock
an ye wud have murthered her but
for me- seq L.
Barty looked as detected as anything
so small could well look, but he lifted
up his gruff little voice courageously.
"Shure nivver knew that a cray
thur could be paycock widout tail
at all, at ALL" he said piteously, ''an'
seen it warn't manin' any harrum !
was, an the HART ov me quite broke
intoirely, an me mither's-an' we not
havin' anythin' barrin' praties for our
Thanksgivin' dinner, shure We mott
lave me off, Miss Appleby, mum-an'
shure I'll nivvcr come where l hear the
voice ov paycock agin."
Aunt DoSy was so happy to have her
dear Princess restored that she could
blame no one. ''Nevcr mind, Barty,
you needn't feel badly" she said.
'.You shall have the turkey promised
you; fine, fat one, and all ready for
the oven. But, oh, DEAR" she ex-
claimed, ''if only hadn't written that
letter."
Barty's woe-begone look gave place
to beam of happiness; but as he and
his mother went off with fine turkey
in the big basket he still protested that
"shure it was not right haste at all,
at all, that pertinded to be paycock
an had mt no iligint tail-feathers.
Aunt Doxy was still bemOaning he,
sad mistake when Martha Washington,
who felt that perhaps she was some
what to blame in the matter, came in
with letter.
"Oh, dear, is it the answer" said
Aunt Doxy.
Reckon not, Miss Doxy, it done
come froo de post-offis, " replied Mar
tina Washington, scanning it closely.
"'Pears like it might be from Miss
Sarah Wilmelmina.
"Oh! OH" cried Aunt Doxy, as she
read the letter, ''what do you suppose
Sarah Wihelmina says? She says that
Mrs. Gracey knows the people in the
cottage very well, and that she con.
graduates me on having such delight.
full neighbors. They are Mr.. A,
the celebrated artist, and his family;
and Mrs. A is the daughter of my
old minister, DR.. Forristall, who is
going to spend Thanksgiving with
him!f'
Aunt Doxy dropped the letter in
her lap. "Oh, that letter, that dread.
full letterr' she said. "What must they
think of me?''
But now Thaddy looked up suddenly
from thoughtful consideration of the
yellow kittens eyes.
care you sorry you wrote it, Aunt
Doxy; true as you live, and never dc
so again?' he asked, solemnly, land
would you be little easy on a fellow
if-if-if an accident had happened te
that letter."
..Why, Thaddeus, what do you mean:
Tell me instantly" cried Aunt Doxy.
"Well," confessed Thaddy, ''you see,
before l rang the bell at the cottage
Rupert asked me to play with him, anC
we went ont to the grove back OF the
house. and he was making kazoo OF
a comb and wanted piece of paper
and so pulled that letter out OF my
pocket, without thinking what it wa:
and tore it up and I'm awful sorry
but"
''Thaddy, it was very, very wrong
of you to be so careless and disobe
dent" said Aunt Doxy; ''but this time
1 do believe it was an interposition O
Providence e.
And soon another letter was dis
patched to the cottage, and Aunt Dox!
followed it with an invitation to din
ner. And Mr.. A. and Mrs. A
and Rupert and Marguerite all came
up from the cottage, and so did DR.
Forristall. And so it came to pass tina
they had jolly Thanksgiving at Pine
Hill Farm after all. And Barty O'Flan
igan had his turkey, too. - Sophi
S,cett, in st. Nicholas.
ALUM IN NEVADA.