Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-20

for me to throw myself You are now my
guest. Come with me and will show you
where they are going to build the new
bridge across Craig-y-Nos creek"
He rose and we went away together. As
we passed the store / invited him in and we
got some seegars. At our store here we
have nice, smooth seegar, with MANILA
wrapper, which is free smoker, and if kept
well tipped up so that the filler will not
sltt out, affords much pleasure to the user.
oALAMUs ROOT AND MUSHROOMS.
We lighted these seegars, which are called
the Belle of Tailholt, Indiana, and as we
pulled them along the road we seemed some
how to warm toward each other, and told
him that knew where we could get some
calamus root if he liked it and some mush-
rooms-at least they looked like mush-
rooms. He said he was passionately fond
of calamus root, but still more so OF mush-
rooms. So we gathered some Of each and
had the latter for dinner.
None of the rest of the family would eat
any OF these mushrooms, for never gath
cred any before, and to be q good mush-
room gatherer one should have killed of
camping party or two for the experience.
But my guest ate heartily of them. He
ate them all My wife winked hopefully
at me as my doppelganger ate the last one
and carelessly ran slice OF bread
around over the platter and breathed
long, delicious sigh
After dinner said: "Come on; we will
go up on the top of Mount Busbee. From
there we can see almost to Asheville."
Really, my object was to get him off the
place before he died. 1 hate to have
guest die in the house, and if can help It
l will see that it never occurs, especially
when he has letter Of introduction from
someone I know.
HAD A MEAN REVENGE.
We climbed the hill through the swell
tering heat, and he seemed to hold up under
it quite we'll All at once, like a clap Of
thunder from clear sky, came the terrible
thought, "Oh, heavensl oh, heavensl After
all, perhaps they were really mushrooms"
The thought maddened me so that as I
pushed my way through the underbrush
ahead of my guest pulled back hickory
sapling and let it fly back with such force
as to knock him across the Gothic oat farm
of General West, of this place But my
guest did not mind it at all, for he came up
later with glad smile and humming bit
of an old love song.
That evening he took from his valise
puzzle and gave it to my children. They
tried to do it, but could not We were
smoking q couple of store cigars and the
butler was burning q rag. Finally the
children brought the puzzle to me. It
looked simple, and as am great hand
to work out difficult things, like mathemati-
cal sums and social problems, I told my
colored amanuensis to keep my cigar going
for few moments and I would show the
children how to do it
1t consisted of circular box with q
glass cover, and inside were five brass pins
with five little brass rings lying on the
bottom of the box. ALI there is to do, as
may say, Is to flip this little box SO as to
hang the five rings on the five pins.
WANTS MORE REVENGE NOW.
That was week ago. I have not done It
yet. Neither have 1 done anything else.
The children's voices are no longer heard as
they romp and play. Each one is trying to
do this fool puzzle. That is not all. I am
away behind on my autographs. Hundreds
of such letters remain unanswered, aside
froLl those answered by my colored man,