The Democratic advocate., 1905-10-07
Selett Sturp.
FOUR PIGEONS.

Nv Iseot- 9" Cosmopolitan Magazine.
The old man took up his mug and shifted
along the bench until he was IN the shade
Of the elms that stood before the Cauli
aower The action al~o had the advantage
Of bringing him opposite the two strangers
who we're refreshing themselves after the
toils u long walk in the sun,
My hearing ain vol Is used 70 be, =
he said TREMENDOUSLY When you asked
me 70 have mug ale. srily heard
! yOu aDd if yoa wss TO ask me "a ave
+ another, | migb,n hear You a. al.
I tine q the men nodded.
Not over there. piped the old MAJ
That's why eome osog here He
/ added, after pause. Il al be ruds-hke
In take no nesiee, II YOU was 10 ask me.
/ lie looked roand a. the landlord sp-
/ preached. and pushed has mug gently in
/ b. direction. The landlord, obeyiag
us,d fron, the senond stranger. 6lled II.
/ Il, puts hie irso ne, SAID the ED
naa, raisiag ,t Ia bis lips al IL usakes ne
{ talk
Time ne are moving, Jack. said the
/ 6r.t srayeler. The secot,d expressed, hos
F ever. determination to finish his pipe
Il heard yoa sayiee Something about
I shoosiag. congInacd the Old man, and
I ghas reminds me u sofne shooting We al
here once in ClAybary We ve always al
10 Q game in these parts and II Il
WASH for Iow raehing fellOw named
Bod Po1ly ly-Ciaybary disgrace, call
im-we ave Ios aoFr He went
on
|, happened in this way Squire Rork
cit was going abrOAd TO foreign parts lot a
year and he Ies the Hall 10 gentleman
from London named Sutton A real gensle
man was, open andeI and iIee and just
aiors ucsober be ad 10, Of r. frends
o0uae down from London 10 ely im Kill
the pheasants-
The frst day they frightened more than
they killed. but they enjoyed themselves
all right until one gentleman, who adm
she, single thing all dAy, shot Bill
Chambers, not was beating with about
dozen more.
Bill gos niost Of Il in the shoulder and
4 li,sle 10 the cheek, but the ruw be sex
it to make You ha thought he been
killed. He laid ON the ground gToaning
with Is eyes shut, and everybody thought
he was dying till Henery Walker stopped
down ard asked i'm whether was hart.
Il took four men to carry Bill ono, and
lac was that particular YOU wOuldn be-
lieye. They al TO talk in whispers, and
when Peter Gubbins forgot i;nself and
began TO whistle, he asked him where his
art was. When they walked fast he said
they jol,ed i'm, and when they walked
slow he asked em whether they gone to
| sleep, or wotE
Bill was in bed for nearly a,week, but
the gentleman was very nice about 1t and
said that it was his fault, He was very
pleasant spoken gentleman, and arter send
Ing Doctor Green TO him and saying he d
pay the bill, e gave Bill Chambers ten
pounds To make up for is sutferings
Bill al intended to lay up for another
week, aud the doctor, wot ad been calling
twice day, said he wouldu' be responsi-
ble for his life if e didn t, but the ten
pounds was too much for im, and one
evening just a week arter the accident he
turned up at this Caulidower and began to
spend it.
His face was bandaged up, and when E
come in he walked feeble like and spoke
in faint sort of voice Smith the land
lord got i'm easy-chair aud couple of
pillers, and Bill sat there ike a king tell
ing us all his suiferings aud wot it felt like
to be shot.
I've always said wot good thing beer
is, and it done Bill more good than doe
tors medicine When he came in he
could ardly crawl, and at nine o clock e
was out OF the easy-chair and dancing on
the table as well as possible. He smashed
three mugs and upset about two pints o
beer, but he just put is and in his pocket
and paid for EN-.
There plenty more where that come
from, he ses, pulling out handful of
money.
Pete Gubbins looked at it, ardly able
to speak. ''It's worth while being shot
to ave all that money" he ses at last.
Don't you worry yourself, Pete, ses
Bob Portly. There 5 plenty more of you
as Il be shot afore them gentlemen at the
Hall as finished Bills the fust, but e
won be the last-not by long chalk.
''They're more careful now, ses Dicky
Weed the tailor
''Al right, ave it your own way, ses
Bob, nasty like. Il don't know much
about shooting, being on y pore lal9rin :