Year: 1876

Why she should be so particular as to
take the stove, we never knew; but We
suppose the reflection that it was the
beginning of long, cold winter, togeth-
er with the knowledge that good COM
Portable fire to sit by was good thing TO
have in the country, made her do as she
did upon this occasion. 1t may be said
that she was selfish to take the only
stove they had, and leave none for him
to warm his poor orphan feet with-for
she had the same old stove to 90 back to
at fathers, around which she had many
and many time lowered when she was
merry and happy child


He did not seem at all dissatisfied with
the course she had taken, or, if he did,
he had strange way of showing it /; for
straightway he went and.took glass of
liquor; then another. and another, until
at last with "all his courage on" he met
the squire who married him, and de-
mande1 to know what his bill was for mar
rying him last spring. He hal never
paid it, but now his wife had run away,
and was willing, nay, anxious, to square
the account. This matter having been
arranged, away he went to the printer
and caused notice to be printed. in
which he warned everybody, in the most
public way he could, not to notice her on
his account, as he would not be account
able for any damage that might be done
in such case.


Time passed on, and he wished to be
free again from the trammels of welded
| life. Then he wanted the stove, for ii
did not seem like home without it, he
missed it so much. So he made up his
mind he would accomplish all this he
would be free and have the stove back
again. With him to resolve, was to do:
and he. did. KS


He consulted a lawyer and had the
freedom papers made out.


| He consulted Mr.. Justice Sutton, and
had writ of ''hdbens stopcns" issued
and put in the hands of the proper officer
All this he did. Then he hired liv-
cry horse and sleigh, and with the officer
started out TO serve the freedom papers
and the stove papers upon the absent and
unsuspecting wife.


They arrived without accident or delay
in good time, at the farm house of the
father OF the bride of less than a year.
What a scene was that. They served
the papers, all in proper form. but the
stove was red-hot. That stove, as hot as
it was, was what they come for, and have
it they must.


They got it, but they handled 1t very
carefully when putting it in the slti.h
Al was ready for homeward start
The officer was nicely seated in the Sleigh
with a hot stove to his back. The other.
the principal in all this aff.lir, was just
about to step into the sleigh, when that
livery horse, seemingly without any prov
ocation, started off so quickly as to be-
come free from his driver.


The officer shouted ''whoa - rolled of
his seat over the stove, then the stove
over him, the horse ON dead run. The
hot ashes from out the stove flying about
the face of the officer, he shouting.


.whOa!" and trying to dodge the hot
stove as it surged from side to side of the
sleigh, altogether made scene for an
artist.


All this soon came to an end, however,
but not until the stove and the officer
had 'bOth been thrown out, in very
damaged condition, and the horse stop
ped by being caught between two stumps,
perhaps half a mile from where the
broken stove and officer had been so in
glOriously piled against another stump.


The man THAT would be free," pressed
on to the front for the horse; reached
him, and disengaging him from the
wreck. mounted him and straightway
rode him to town, leaving the disgust
ed officer to walk the whole distance on
| foot. So,


Moral for the officer: Always drive
the horse yourself, when serving papers.