New-York tribune., 1901-12-15
OVERHEARD.

seemed to have been flying over me when hred
circled higher and winged their way rapidly out
of sight There was at the same instant dull
thud just behind me, and then tiuttering ana
Topping which caused me to look around quick
ly There was duck in the agOnies of death
L picked it up and took it home proudly, al
though was morally certain another shot must
have been responsible for its fall. Father took
the gun from me and looked it over carefully
You Young rascal said he, you have blown
out the nipple of the right barrel 1t was gone
surely enough. Mother cooked the duck, and L
received for my portion a piece OF the breast
Ny teeth closed something metallic, ana
when I had separated it from the meat l dis
covered it was the missing nipple of the gun!
1t had whizzed by my head and killed duck
approaching from behind
''The evident reluctance of the company to
believe that reasonable and undoubtedly truth
ful warn" said A c. Cornwall, of Alexandria
Bay reminds me of occurrence that has
caused half of Jefferson County to doubt
my sanity and the other half to regard me as
an habftuaI and incorrigible liar L enjoy my
wheel very much, and often ride 1t in sequeS-
tered places in fine weather Last fall was out
one day whizzing along at a ten mile gait on
q fine bit of path when I saw a gray squirrel
pause close by the path as if questioning the
wisdom of trying to cross ahead of me- Just
as NV front wheel came opposite the saucy little
fellow plunged forward and went through be-
tween spokes apparently without touching
There was a general sigh of relief as Mr. Corn
wall added: "A mathematical friend of mine
has figured it all out and says 1 am liar II
that squirrel was not going three hundred miles
an hour; but he was not, and yet the story Is
solemn truth
..One of the most solemn have ever heard ut
tered" said John H. Forey. $50 solemn that L
move we ali go into mourning on account of its
dead veracity."
THAT reminds me-" said Sheriff Leavitt of
Fulton County that stranger once came along
where = lot of boys were fishing with angle
worms on the upper Garoga. 1 was one of the
bows and not bite could one of us get al
though the clear water seemed alive with fish.
The stranger watched awhile and then asked
one of the boys for his rod. He got it, and TAX
ing a small wad of absorbent cotton from his
nocket wound it skilfully on the hook. He
threw it, and almost Immediately mad strike
He landed fish SO rapidly that by the day
there was not a pound of cotton batting for
domestic use in Johnstown. and yet the boys
who bought it never got with it so much as a
nibblep' Mr.. Wood had been writing rapidly
as the story was told and its conclusion arose
and read the following;
"Resolved That prevarication in the third
person is not less reprehensible than in the
first ;, As Charles H Mowry had risen to tell
story the resolution left lying on the table
without definite action
"Anvbodv who says I ever suffered from buck
fever so called is mistaken, said Mr. Mowry.
..l,bodv but John Rierhardt has ever been
o,,;,,y If such base suspicion, and in order
that the matter may be forever settled and the
eternal truth prevail demand that Bierharo'