Year: 1878

TO go 10 the snow with me. III
show Ed. Wilbur that [ amt such
a calf as he thinks | am, If [ did lei
old Watson get the best of fnc In
the first place =


Ed. could scarcely help laugh
ing out-right but he hastily hitch.
ed the bags on his shoulder, and
with low chuckle at his snccess,
started home to tell the rews to
Nelly ; and about five O'Clock that
evening they saw Bal go by with
his horse and buggy, on his way to
the widows. He jogged along
fqnietly, thinking of the singing
school days, and wondering inward
ly if he would have more courage to
talk up to her, until at distance
Of about mile from the house, he
came to bridge, he gave a tre-
mendous sneeze and blew his teeth
out of his mouth and over the dash
board, and striking OH the plank,
they rolled over the side of the
bridge and dropped into four feet
of water.


| Words cannot do Justice TO poor
Bill or paint the expression of his
face as he sat there completely dum-
founded at his piece OF i!l-luck.-
After awhile lie stepped out of his
buggy, and getting down on his
hands aud knees, looked over into
the water. Yes, there they were,
at the bottom, with crowd of lit
tie fishes rubbing their noses against
them, and Bill wished to goodness
that his nose was as close for one
second. His beautiful teeth had
cost him so much, and the show
coming on and DO time to get a
new set-and the widow and young
Sockrider.


Well, he must try and get them
somehow and no time to be lost,
for some one might come along and
ask him what he was fooling around
there for. He had no notion of
spelling his clothes by wading in
with them on and, besides, if he
did, he could not go to the widows
that night, SO he took look up
and down the road, to see that no
one was in sight, anG then quietly
undressed himself, laying his
clothes in the buggy TO keep clean.
Then he ran around the bark and
waded into the almost ice cold wa
ter, but his teeth didn't chatter in
his head, he only wished they could.
Quietly he waded along SO as not
to stir mp the mud, and when he
got to the right spot he dropped
under water and came up with his
teeth in his mouth. But hark
What noise is that A wagon, and
dog barking with all his might,
and his horse starting.


whoa whoa! Stop you brute,
you, stop


But stop he would not, but went
off at a spanking pace, with the I'm.
fortunate batchelor after him. Bill
was certainly in a capital running
costume, but though he strained
every nerve he conlj not touch the
buggy or reach the lines that were
dragging on the ground. After
awhile his plug hat shook off the
seat, and the hind wheel went over
it, making it as flat as a pancake.
Bill snatched it up as he ran, and
after jamming his fist into it, stuck
it, all dusty and dimpled on his
head. And now he saw the wild
ow's house on top of the hill, and
what, oh +! what will he do


Then his coat fell out and he
slipped it on, and then making a
desperate squirt he cIutched the
back of the seat AMI scrambled in,
and pulling the buffalo robe over
bis legs, stuffed the other things
beneath. Now the horse happen
ed to be one he got from Squire
Moore, and he got it from the wild
ow, and the animal took 1t into his
head to stop at her gate, which
Bill had no power to prevent, as
he was too busy buttoning up his
coat to his chin to think of his do
ing much else.


The widow heard the rattling oi
the wheels and locking out, and
seeing that it was Smiley and that
he didn't offer to get out, she went
out to see what be wanted, anG
there she stood chatting, with hel
white arms on the top of the gate
and her face towards him, while
} the cbills run down his shir.less
} back clear to his bare feet beueatl
the buffalo robe, and the wate
, from his hair and the dust from hi
: hat had combined to make som,
nice little streams of mud tha
+ came trickling down his face.
She asked him to come in. No


he was in a hurry he said. Sh,
did not offer to go. He did no
!, ask her to pick up his .eins fo


him, because be did not kEow wha
excuse 10 make for not doing S,
' himself. Then he looked down th