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Has Rescued Many.


humber classes. who, on account Of pow
erty, are unable to patronize the railroad,
still cross the st. Bernard in sufficient
numbers to warrant the maintenance of
the refuge upon its summit Scarcely a
year passes without the record of brilliant
rescues of travellers lost in the snow or the
rec oyery of the bodies of others less fortu-
nate.
The Beginning of the Pass.
The pass Is usually approached from the
Swiss side. 1t may be said to commence
at Martingny, tine little town upon the
Jura and Simplon railway, which traverses
the valley of the Rhone. Here commences
the highway which. after passing the viii
lage of Martingny Bourg, divides at the
base of a rejecting mountain into two
roads, one leading over the Tete Noir to
Chamounix. the other following the deep
ravine of the ORANGE, going over the great
st. Bernard to Aosta.
Ancient HosteIrfcs.
The villages along the route are nun,er-
GUS but interesting only by reason Of their
antiquity. Orsiers. with It's curious old
tower, possesses a novel hotel, presided
over for generations by one family. The
dining room in the aostelry is on tie third
floor, while the sleeping apartments are
in the garnet above. Hemmed in by build
ings on all sides, the rooms are extremely
dark, causing one to wonder why, when
there is so much open land in the vicinity
and the tourists are so numerous, such a
site Is used for, an inn. At Liddes Is a
quaint little chapel and at Bourg. st. Pierre
a historical tavern, where Napoleon had
his headquarters, and where, notwitbstan0-
Ing the altitude, as fine a meal is to be
obtained as anywhere in the Alps. Oppo-
site this well-known road house is an old
Roman mile stone, in the form Of pillar
some seven feet high, the letters upon
which are quite legible. An ancient gate
way is also to be seen, together with the
ruins of a former town. This part OF the
highway was well-traveled road in the
days of the Roman empire. Stretches Of
cobbie pavement still exist along the en-
tire route.
The Famous Monastery.
The monastery, which has a branch upon
the Simplon, is maintained by its own
endowments, which in the middle ages
were quite extensive, but which. through
various misfortunes, have been greatly re-
auced and also voluntary contributions
collected all over Europe. 1t is one of the
pldest ecclesiastical orders in existence,
the brotherhood having been founded by
st. Bernard de Mention in the latter part
of the tenth century, from whom it takes
erected by Emperor Constantine. with the
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they only laughed at me and seemed to
think the situation joke. Finally took
my feet off the pedals and, grabbing the
handle bars tightly, hung on for dear life
and let the thing run. 1t went down the
hill and around the corner. where it struck
another grade. I closed my eyes and
awaited the end with resignation. I re-
member darting past several vehicles and
between others, while some drivers drew
TO one side to let me pass. At last we
struck an up grade, and when the wheel
stopped 1 rolled off. Then I got on and
practiced until just naturally worried that
wheel into submission.
Now. old man. If you want to ride go
t. riding school and learn right. But If
any one Is fool enough to let you learn on
MS own wheel, remember these things:
Mount from the sidewalk and get your
trusting and foolish friend to start you.
Don't bear down on your handle bars, but
Keep your feet working, and, for the rest,
put your trust In Providence, for that is
your only hope"
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deeper than any of the others, then she be-
gan to weep. and the little boy cried with
her. Papa had come.
Irooping behind the lifeless clay came a
wedding party. full of life and laughter. all
Of them. and utterly needless of the TRACE
dy upon which they were almost tripping.
Eack Of them an old. old lady was kissing
and flannel. and when The Star writer
smiled involuntarily at the happy young
mother and the charming old lady, the lat
ter said. with an apologetic laugh that was
yet very proud: Its my first great-grand-
child. and such fine boy"
An old veteran sitting listlessly in one of
the hard seats with his head on his canes
he had to use two In walking-roused up to
tell a brisk young man that he had been
fired and was going out to hunt work in q
hay field few miles out" What on earth
the poor old war horse could do is a mys-
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
Station corner Of eth and B streets.
In eject June %, 1905.

1890 AN. PENNSYLVANIA LIMlTED.-Puilnaa
fMIeepang; Dining smoking and Observation Cars
st. Louis. Cleveland and Toledo. Buffet TarIor
1886 An 'i rasT LrxE-ru,lman Butte. puro.
Ga5 to HARRISBURG parior and Dining Cars. Har-
s:4o F H. CHicAGo AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS
ins and pning f css. Harrsbnrs ' to 81 iOuS.
TO ssissHls E sSd HGssssep Sleep
7IS 'iFf oaE sa { rnf1sass rxpnrssrnm..
s r hiFslcfPfs f fRf!ssa Sleeping
,o Niasa1 Falls us daily daily. except Sunday. 80.
sSpsaS M!iia an ans ss SssG M'ep.
s9 M daT HusG and
Ing Car Washington to Suspension Bridge via
1910 pm. for Erie, canandaigun. Rochester, BUT.
ial9 ana NIAGARA Falls daily. Sleeping Car Wash
ESssssss! sss Est sas Z; Tsi' fe,
Esslaf ' esy p e! r e. ssf
sS S aoa ioc g. and ST On Sun:
SSsy 7GS 09i1s cs 7ae so u , 90 Dining
Il:ss Pm. For. Phiiadslphia only: Fash Express
nr :sG Am Am Weekdays Express, 2oi and $40
For mi Pss,.n without change. 7sn An weekdays.
1920 1900, and II 80 AN. l2:ls, 2:ol. s:l5.
3:+0 4:o0 Limited, 4:20. 4:30. $40. Sos. $40.
40: 1000: 1910 11:la. and 11:3s Pm. On
Sunday. 7:05, 100. 900. 9:05. 1890 II 90 AM.
1915. l:l5, POI. S:l5. $40 400 Limited 4:20.
n:i2' 6:o5 $40. 7:1o. 1000. 10:40. and 11:3s
For Pope's Creek Line. 7:2o AN. and 4:ss PM
For Annapolis. 40, 300 AN. 1918 and 40
Pm, daily. except Sunday Sundays. 300 A n.
Atlantic Coast Line. Express for Richmond Tack
sonyille and Tampa. $50 AN. $3.50 T. M. daily.
Richmond and Atlanta, $40 Pm daily. Rich
mond only, 1857 AN. week days.
Accomnoda ton for Quantlco. 7:45 AN. daily. and
4:25 Pm. weekdays
For Alexaparia $50 s:ss. T4s. s:!n. e:4s: 1857,
l:50 AN, 1880. $40. a:20, As. 500. 5:31.
Ss:aaS, s:o2' 1910 and II 30 PM On Sunday az
Leave Alexandria for Washington, Cos 6:43. 7.ns.
500. $40. 1918. 1923 AN. I 90, c:15. 500.
1928. $500. $50. 8:ls, TOO 7:2o. $40. 1852.
and IL :06 Pm. On Sunday at Gas. 9:1o 1923
An. 2:15. $780, 700. 7:20 e:10. and 1852
sEASHoRE CONNECTIONS
For Atlantic City. 900 tSaturdays orlyl. 1n:oN.
i1;00 AN. week days. 12:1b and 11:3S Pm.
For Cape May. 1880 AN oatnr,iays only. 12:ls
Pm. week days, and II :s5 PM daily.
Ticket Offices northeast corner Of 18th street and
streets where orders can he left for the check.
Ing of baggage to destination from hotels and
s. n PROVOST. J.. r. WOOD.
General Manager. General Passenger Agent.
jc9e
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Experiences Of a Man While Learn
ing to Ride.
SPITEEUL DISPOSITION OF THE WHEEL
Hayward Tendencies That Are Apt
to Worry the Learner.
SOME PRACTICAL HINTS

II see by the paper that there are over
800 bicycle manufactures in the United
States. and that they are working full
time" said Jimmie Wheelright to The Star
man the other day.
'1s that so?"
Yes: and their total output this year will
be 100000 wheels. 1 tell you, this bicycle
riding Is getting to be a great thing. Say,
old man. why don't you ride a wheel: 1t
would be fine thing for you. Why don't
you do it?'
"Oh: it's too hard to learn"
Hard? Why, it's dead easy. Say, you
ought to have seen me learning. 1t GER
tainly was a picnic. People who saw the
performance said it was well worth the
price of admission. I was SO busily en-
gagged In playing the role Of the low come
dian. however, that 1 could not join in the
applause. But I said I was going to learn
to ride that wheel. and I did SO. Now, II
you contemplate learning to ride, you'd bet,
ter let me tell you some things to do and
others, to avoid The trouble with me was
that went right into it, like going to split
rails, by main force and awkwardness.
Sometimes you can win out that way. as
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ly and unexpectedly on horseback
and have the animal shy at an OBJ
ject in the road, and 1 reckon ITS
about the same way with a wheel Any
how, there was some kind of sudden and
entirely unexpected motion Of the Wheel.
a sort of starting one way and then sud
denly changing it's mind and going an
other, and over I went. The wheel went,
too, and I honestly believe that If 1t had
been In its power the thing would have
got up and run over me while I was down.
say this bee ause there was something so
spiteful and uncalled for in its antics.
But didn't 1t hurt you to be slammed
around that way?' asked The Star man.
timidly.
well, I'll tell you about that afterward.
At that time I was not conscious of any
thing except kind Of white heat of rage
in my soul against that wheel. I tell you,
old man, you never imagined how revenge
full you can get and what an un-Christian-
like spirit you can entertain until you
have a controversy like that with an liz
Misunderstanding little arrangement Of
steel and wood. was fairly burning up
inside of me with venomous hate toward
that wheel To make matters worse, some
Of my acquaintance had come around the
corner and were lined up on the steps of
a vacant house like crows on fence, APP
parently getting great deal of amusement
out of my efforts. Katrina was there, too,
laughing at me.
This time 1 made up my mind to do
things with rush. put my foot on the
hub, and. giving the wheel vigorous
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enjoy their hospitality and the gratuitous
food. as well as their wine. without con-
tribut.ng toward the maintenance of the
refuge. They never accept money, and
whenever contributions are rendered they
politely refuse, the donor being advised to
deposit the same in the aims box in the
chapel connected with the cioister.
The rigor of the winter climate of the
summit of Great st. Bernard, which, next
to the refuge Upon the Stelvio, is the nigh
est inhabited point in Europe. is so severe
that II is wont to shatter the constitution
Of the mo1ks during their fifteen years of
active service After the lapse of that
time they are transferred broken In health
to the little asylum at Martingny, in the
halmy valley of the Rhone. whore amid
the foothills of the mountains they ter
inmate their worldly existence ministering
to the wants of the poor.
The WOrld-Famcd Dogs.
AS regards the st. Bernard breed of dogs
1t has become extinct, apd although the
CANNES now employed are noble and sa-
gacious animals. and are looked upon as
descendants of the breed coming from the
Pyrenees, they are at the most nothing
more than Newfoundlands crossed with the
original stock. Barry, the most celebrated
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portunity afforded of spending night with
the Augustine monks and their famous
dogs.
- In late yeas. owing to the inroads made
By the numerous trans-Alpine railways in
diverting the channel of transportation
the traffic over the pass has suffered to
such an extent that none save the poorest
make of this celebrated mountain
thoroughfare during the nine months that
1t Is covered with snow. However the
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terry. By the door
stood a lot of rose
buds" with their
chaperon. going to
the seashore for a
week, and some white
duck youths were
lowering about In the
vicinity.
A bicycler in full
"regimentals" was
carefully herdfng his
machine while i'm
patiently waiting for
someone to arrive. A
ministerial gentle
man walked solemnly
back and forth pauS-
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happened to do, but
you are more likely
to smash a wheel
and lay yourself Up
for a few days.
when I deter
mined to learn I sent
down and hired a
wheel. They did not
know it was for me.
or they never would
have let a beginner
have a good wheel.
They'd rope You into
the riding school and
sell you - worth Of
lesson tickets. which,
~ l. -.
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gloating. that sense
of mastery over an
inanimate thing, a
feeling that you want
to religiously eschew,
old man, came into
my mind. Just at
that m o m e mt the
wheel saw a piece CT
paper in the road,
and, / suppose. SHE'D
at 1t. That's the
only way I can ac-
count for what fol-
lowed. You know
there's nothing so
unsettling as to be
riding along SmOot h.
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RAILROADS.
BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAuRoA;

BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD.
Leave Washington from station corner of New
n, c,,.. Jersey avenue aud c street; -
Trims, ~ 30 am. $40 pm.
buisG nisa s. Louis and Ssys ves
For and and aeselsnG cypress. daiy
For Lexington and staunton. 1880 am.
c F., Iuray. Sstarsi Bride. Rosnets knO1yls
p For dia afsy sleeping q cars through
.T;oS; lilo $500: ss:a5 $50. 1850. 1000:
.5so $50 1sso go 800
ss!a a Ilsse :sso e. sss .sSs
100 and ssJ ann .li Els ps and
.fp! F.sdsSisI $500: a : go D" :i,:so Am.
For For Rass .s u, 20 and $50 pm
issC .soo ana ss ga! gs1f' 7os
s. wssSesssn Junction ies points point: :.sss:
at r srinss, ss s Stations only 40 $50 pm
'f Sorl rs Blue LIE Fs l ST% rSSR SsD
ro All s1nins inmins.ed win Pnt.sh light
ESs,. week days a:sS Dining Carr. Goo plsiss
n fs seq 1890 sco an D DIn;n, ca 200 n2s
bssRes eaI spsSS b s. hScs fe'ss
Am Am Dining Carr. $3.50 Dining Carl. 800 1:os
Dlning Carl, 500 n2:0l night. Sleeping Car opens
Buffet iarior Cars on aft day TRAINS
For Atlantic City. week days. Ass. 700, 1000
1890 pm.
For Cape May. 1855 am 600 am. Saturday
ONLY, 12S pm. Sundays 4:55 am.
Except Sunday. s"Daily. s'sSunday only.
xErpfess trains.
Baggage called for and checked from hotels and
re4dcnces by Union Transfer Co. on orders left at
ticket ofices. $40 Pennsylvania avenue northwest,
depot.
cHAs. o. SCr1L. Gen. Pass. Agt.
r. B. CAMPBELL. Cen Manager. jy1z
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than anybody would
imagine possible. One
would scarcely think
tina. a station wait
ing room was a good
Counting" place. but
there is lots of 1t
done there. Runaway
couples land in Wash
ington before it is
possible to get into
the Office of a justice
of the peace. or to
waken a minister of
the Gospel, so they
sit on the hard
benches and snugGle
IN to each other with
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ing once to tell a friend that he was wait
ing to break the sad news to the son Of
and tired mothers white-faeed department
clerks and loudly dressed confidence men,
There were husbands and wives quarrel
ing disgraceful1y about family affairs, and
a group of Congressman discussing silver,
a foreign minister en- route to his post, with
group of admirfng friends about him,
and a United States Senator taking his
wife home to die.u And so they come and
go. cradle and coffin touching, honor and
dishonor shoulder to shoulder. smiles and
tears SO close that they mingle, the proud
poor and the proud rich. and like the river
Of time. the same train carries both, just
as safely, just as securely for one as the
other: 1.-THE ways, 'rthey are many and wide,
but they meet at one gate when alls over"
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/, anu went GOWN Inc
next street, inwardly
| wondering what made
the wheel so docile,
but absolutely un-
suspicious of what
|, was up. In a moment
1t dawned upon me.
That wheel was de-
coying me on to play
me another trick. I
was Oh a down grade.
The more I pedaled
the faster / went,
and the grade was
getting sleeper. I
shouted for some one
a. had ma nf hi 4
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had always blown In
her face, 1t was so
wan and worn. and
a little boy in much
too large new clothes
kept asking impa-
tiently If papa had
come yet. At last
the woman got up
YEARLY when the
hands touched 2::39
on the face of the
clock. and made her
way to the gates.
Wistfully she watch
ed the baggage carts,
till one brought a
vnSr,o h@~
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Piedmont AIR Nne.)

Schedule In effect July q, 1885,
An trains arrive and leave at Pennsylvania
Passenger Station.
500 A.M.-Daily-Loc&l for Danriile. Connects At
Manassas for Strasburg, daily, except Sunday, and
at Lynchburg with the Norfolk and Western daily,
, Ills A.M.-paily-The UNITED STATES FAST
and Washington to Jacksonville, uniting at Char
man sleeper New York to Mcntsonery. With con-
Pullman sleeper for Birmingham. Memphis and St.
Louis.
I:4s P.M.-Daily-Iocal for Charlottesville.
1913 P.M.-DaiIy- WASHINGTON AND SOUTH.
WESTERN vEsTIBCLED LIMITED. composed Of
man Sieepcrs washington to Chattaroosn, Via salts
bury, Ashevilie and Knoxville. New York to Mem
phis via Birmingham, New York to New Orleans Via
Via Charlotte, Columbia and Jacksonville vesibuied
Day Coach Washington to Atlanta. Parlor Car Co
lunhla to Augusta Dining Car from 1rcensboro'
to rk MNnssoRBfE.ffw EEN WASHINGTON AND Round
BILL leave Mashington 0:01 AN. daily. 100
Pm and so Pm Pm daily e.segs sunday sad sss
daily except Sunday fer Leesburg; 6:25 PM daily
for uernion. Returning. arrive at Washington s:2e
An sunday snS SoS from RM ho daty spd
cePt Sunday nom Leesburx and 700 AN. datiy,
except sunday. from Herndon only. -A''
ton sH M a r. south ana ass =
Manassas Division. 9:45 AN. daily except Sunday
apd $40 AM. daily from Charlottesvilie
furpsSed at o1ces 5ii and 1900 PsnEsyssnIn y
nue.. and at Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Sta
W f. GREEN. General Superintendent.
]. NJ. GULF. Trathc Manager.
". A. TURK. General Passenger Agent
my20 L. 8. Brown. Gen. Agt. Pass Dept.
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shove, jumped into
the saddle and start
ed off at a lively
pace. The thing yaw-
ed right smart. and
made some tacks
from one side of the
street to the other
that would have fill
ed a yachtsman with
envy. But 1t kept an
even keel, and I was
getting up speed on
it, and gradually
Strengthening out on
a level course, when
a b!ock-headed man
had to go and get In
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The Famous Pass and Its Comfort
able Hospice.
MONKS AND THEIR DUTIES
How the Monastry Originated and
is Kept Up.
THE WONDERFUL DOGS
Written Exclusively for The Evening Star.

THOUGH 7 Fl E
scenery. along t h e
Great st. Bernard is
less attractive than
that of the other AL
pine passes, it is fire.
quented, neverthe-
less, by more t b Il n
t w Q nty thousand
tourists annually, the
greater number of
whom cross the pass
on account o ( t h e
convenient approach
w.t.
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wheel tried to kick he as I got down, for
that would sound foolish, but it wanted to,
and I'll bet on it.
Il mounted again and started back to-
ward the other end Of the street, and made
such nice progress that I turned the corner
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How She knew,

From scribn,r's Magazine.
Ethel-'so Arthur proposed last night?"
Maude-"Yes."
Ethel-"And did you accept him?'
Maude-"I was so awfully excited don't
know whether / did or not If he comes
tonight did. and if he doesn't, 1 didn't"
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Better OF.

From TIL, Chicago News.
'"Toughrut is dead"
well, he's bette: off,
so they say. Did you know his wife,"
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At the Children. Party,

From III, New York Weekly.
Mrs. De Fdshion-"ilrrirr'
Nurse Giri-''Yes, lnaam."
Mrs. De FasnioI,-"ft's time for lis to go
home. Which OF these children IS mine!
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person is prematurely old when badness occurs
before the f0rty-ffth year. Use Halls Hair Re-
newer to keep the scalp healthy ard prevent
badness.
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CHIROPODISTS.

PAINFUL BUNIoNS, CORNS, ENLARGED JOINTS,
ingrowing and club I.alis Instantly relieved and
otred without pain SORENESS afterward; modest
charges. Prof. ]. ]. GEORGES C SON. Ills Pa.
charge for examination and consultation jy226d
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CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY.

Schedule in effect July 1. 1896
Trains leave daily from Union Station (B. and
P.), 9Th snd sts
Through the grandest scenery In America with
the handsomest and most complete solid train serv-
ice west from Washington.
2:25 Pm. DAILY.-'Cincihnati and st. Louis
speciai,'-Soiid yestibuled. Newly Equipped, Elec.
tric-lighted, Steam-heated Train. Pullman's finest
sleeping cars Washington to Louisville. Cincinnati
indianapolis and St. Louis without change. Dining
Gar from Washington. Arrive Cincinnati 500
am; indianapolis, 80 am, and Chicago. $50
p.m:; st. Louis, GAS Pm; Lexington, s35 m. !
Louisville, l1:50 an
11:10 Pm. DAILY.-The famous 'FFv Linn
tied" A solid vestibuied train, with dining car
and Pullman Sieepers for Cineinnat. Lexington and
Louisville without change. Pullman sleeper WASH
ington to Virginia Hot Springs. without change.
week days. Observation car from Hinton Arrive
Cincinnati $3.50 Pm; Lexington. 500 pm; Louis
vile, $40 pm. indianapolis II. 85 D. IN. Chicago,
1880 am. and St: Louis. 1880 am; connects IN
Union Depot for all points.
1887 n. EXCEPT sUSDAY.-For Old Point
2:25 PM. DAILY--Express for Gordonsvi1le,
Charlottesville, Waynesboro', Staunton and princi-
pal Virginia points, daily; for Richmond, daily
cept Sunday.
Pullman locations and tickets at company's Of
fees, 5i3 and 1921 Pennsylvania avenue.
H. W. FULLER
mia General Passenger Agent.
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A Difficult Remedy.

From Life. T.,
The suffererA"Do you think 1t would re-
ueve my toothache If should hold little
liquor in my mouth?"
His wife-"It might, If you could do it."
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OH. Tome mere ana row, ana let me snow
you how to catch log"
jeff obeyed: not 50 much that he wanted
to learn as that he had done enough log
catching to last him for the day. Still, he
Clay took nail and az in hand, first plac-
ing the rope with slip-noose Just where he
could handle it quickly.
A saw log afioat in a rising river looks as
going out melon stealing; it moves along
silently and swiftly. not disturbing any
one, but intent only on going its way. It
Is bigger, though. than a boy-much big
and from one to three feet through the
chest. so to speak, exclusive of its clothes,
which are very slippery after it has been
in the water few hours and has rolled
circumstances: The first log which Clay
tackled locked as innocent as a big post
that had fallen asleep while taking a
bath, but no sooner did Clay press the
rolled sidewise toward him, and acted as
II 1t wanted to get into the boat and argue
the matter.
Clay lost a bad word, but he did not in,
the log came to its senses; then he in.
serted the point of the nail in a deer
crevice of the bark and struck vigorous
blow with the ak. The nail went to Its
the bottom Of the river was the place II
was aiming at
"Confound itw exclaimed Clay. THAT
ak. II the owner misses 1t, will cost as
much as we will get for the log" Then he
took a clean shingle and bit of charcoal
and said as he began figuring. I'VE may
as well charge it to profit and loss while
we have 1t In mind"
''Better charge the log to profit and loss
too" said JEFF, for it's slid away, nail side
down."
Clay looked. but did not say anything.
which was about as well, In the circum.
stances: then he did some hard thinking,
after which he took off one of his shoes