Year: 1867

Owsley bad now procured his pork
the next thing was - lay in stock Of
beef. This was done In the following
manner. A DRIVER ~ passing through
the neighbourhood with = drove Of
cattle. One Of then broke q leg In a
pole bridge, and thu owner had him
butchered by two OK lhree Of the hands,
while he drove the rest Of the cattle a
mile or two further and put them up
for the night. Aftse the men had dress
ed the beef, they hung the quarters upon
trees and built fire and left one of the
men to watch the besf, rs it had become
dark before they he'd got done. The
fellow who was lelt % take care of the
beef, spread out the hide defore the fire
and laid down upon Il and went to sleep.
About midnight, Owsley and compan-
ion went and carried Off all the beef
When that was secured-Now, says
Owsley, I must hav. the hide. Why
the fellows sleeping on it, said his
companion. No difference, I'll show
you how it's done. He tied a rope to
the hide and the other end he fastened
to his horse, and mounting him made
him jump right over the fire, and while
the fellow was scrabbling out Of the
ashes he got clear off with the hide. In
the morning when the other drovers
came back to carry away the beef, they
found the man who had been left to
watch it sitting before the fire rubbing
his eyes and scratching his head. They
asked him what had become of the beef.
I don't know, said the fellow. Iexpect
the DEVILS got it and believe he was a
going to carry ME Off too. l laid down
on the hide before the fire and went to
sleep, and the first thing knew l was
sailing into the Are. got out of it Us
soon as could, but the beef and the hide
were gone, and if the old Harry didn't
carry them of, l don't know what has
become of them.


The Mystery Of Punctuation.


An old compositor tells this anecdotc
in New England paper:


awe remember, a number of wears
ago, when VIC were working in a book
office near Boston, the copy was re-
ceived for a scientific work. The copy
was manuscript, with every letter
formed, every capital letter In it's proper
place, every word distinct, aud pune tu-
ated. 1t was plain as reprint, and called
by compositors the best manuscript copy
they had seen. This copy was given
out to the compositors, few pages ut a
time, who set it up and punctuated it as
they had been in the habit of doing,
each as he thought the sense required
The proof reader read the proofs, marked
a few changes in the punctuation, as he
did in the most Of the proofs, and the
matter was corrected. Another proof
was taken and corrected, and when
thirty or forty pages were ready they
were sent to the author for his inspec-
ton. In a few days the proofs came
back with the punctuation marked free
ly. 1t was corrected, Of course, and the
compositoss then got orders to follow
copy in punctuation. They did so, and
another lot was forwarded to the author,
punctuated exactly according to the
copy. In due time these proofs came
back, and with the punctuation marked
more than before, if that were possible.
This irritated the proof-reader some-
what, and he sent the scientific author q
not very polite note, saying, If can't
punctuate this work to suit you, and you
can't punctuate it to suit yourself, what
are you going to do?' In reply, the au-
thor said he wasn't aware he had been
correcting the Office punctuation, but, If
the proof-reader would see to the punct-
uation, he would be much obliged, as it
was something he knew nothing about.
After that there was no more trouble
about punctuation OH that work."