Year: 1875

out that night in the character of long, haired. big-whiskered Frenchman. Twas dressed in a suit of black broadcloth worn smooth and shiny, such as seedy foreign gentlemen mostly do wear, and pretend ed to take snuff every five minutes. The police searched me carefully and found nothing but my snuff-box and pair of spectacleS. In the morning I was exam ined before some sort of city magistrate. Idon't know how he was called. I spoke the worst English with the best French accent I could. Old Broadbrim and his family appeared against me. We'll. he told them how he caught me and held me, and how smote him many times and in divers places, trying to get away from hlm, and he was sorely tempted to smite me in return. The people in the court room all laughed, but they seemed to be laughing more at the Quaker nor me. His catching and holding burglar seem- ed to be looked upon as mighty good 'oFA WheH WRHGP esllle eesallled upon to give an account of myself, labbered away at great rate Frenchman uses; I said that the old Qua ker and l had been out on spree togeth- CT, that he had taken me home with him

 

 pie all laughed at the old Quaker again, was falling from grace. I made such work talking English, pretending not to know the right word, and humping up my shoulders and spreading my hands abroad. that the magistrate began to jabber at me in French. Oh but didn't that make the cold sweat start out of me

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 ''The magistrate then gave me a fine lecture, in the coors of which he got off some French lingo from one of the poets of my own country, as he said; Moleery, l think he called him. He committed me to jail to wait for an indictment, because I couldn't give two thousand dollars bail

 ''Two policemen started off with me at once. The police of Philadelphia do be mighty proud of the little trouble they take. They walked along with me between them. and never bit of iron about me. Going to the jail they passed the house where I boarded. The street door stood little ajar. tripped the heels from un- der the star next the house, and jumped over him and through the door and locked 1t behind mo There was nobody in the hall but an old Irishwoman, and she was kilt with fright and ran screeching into the kitchen at the sight of me. bound ed up the stairs and into my room at three leaps. While the policemen were ham, mering at the door and ringing the bell and sending men to the rear of the house to look out for me, changed my clothes. I then went out and joined the general hubbub, which was good and loud by that time. The bloody French burglar could nowhere be found. Nobody seemed to think of searching for his coat and breech- es and hair and whiskers. The papers had mighty quare accounts of the myste- rlOus affair that evening and next morn- ing.

 ''I was tired of Philadelphia and bur. glary. A nice, cream-colored mare, that could run bit, turned jet black one night, and she and l came up into this part of the country, where have been off and on ever since. .s-..z...

 My little place Is short days walk from here. Tomorrow we will go there and fix ourselves up so that we can strike out boldly for Canada. We can easily bedevil ourselves so that it will be safe for us to travel by stage coach if we loike."

 We mended our fire, and slept and watched by turns till morning. The next day, after tramping and wading about an hour through the swamp, we struck mar TOW. .kcrooked limestone ridge, which seem- ed to separate two great swamps. This we followed until about six o'clock P. M. We then turned to the left, and followed a spur of the ridge down to it's extreme rocky point, just beyond which was @ deLse thicket of alders and dwarf cedars.

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 The mosquitoes were now as trouble some as they had been the evening before. We built our camp fire against great powder, upon the ashes and cinders of many aburnt-out predecessor, and set our picket-line of smudges. While was busy with these Mick disappeared around the point of the ridge, and soon returned with some crackers, dried beef, ground coffee, loaf sugar, and pickles. He made another trip and came back with an arm- full of cooking utensils, tin cups and plates, knives and forks. I had shot a brace of squirrels that day, and we made a sumptuous supper while the mosquitoes were being driven back by the smoke. I then called upon Mick to look the fact in the face that we had but four cigars left. Mick started as if to go around the point of the ridge once more, but changing his mind he went to the side next to us, lifted a large flat stone, and disappeared, feet foremost, into the ground. He soon re- turned with liberal supply of smoking tobacco, half a dozen new pipes. and a pint flask of brandy.

 ''What sort of a den have you here?" said I.

 '1t cost me many sore back-ache, that same hole in the ground" said Mick. "You see this spur of yon long ridge is mighty steep and narrow. It is so rocky that digging in it is just quarrying stone. Before I had been in this country many weeks had occasion to go into the woods and dress young filly's hair I happen ed to come to this very place. When I had finished the job looked around me and thought this was as good place as another for gentleman of retiring dispo- sition. ] had some hair-dye and some oth- CT traps that I didn't care to carry away with me. so cast about how might hide them. I bethought me to make hole in the steep hillside here and cover it with one of these big fiat stones did so, and when I did be here afterwards would be enlarging my cellar every now and then, until at last I had a gallery, 1oike, from one side of this little ridge to the other. I'll show you tomorrow how you can go in at one side and out the other"

 We were stirring betimes next morning. will not trouble the reader with a cata logue of the wonders of Mick's cave. It contained varied and extensive assort- ment of tools and implements. fair dye and herbs for the manufacture of more, wigs, false whiskers, and disguises ofnear- ly all kinds; dried provisions, tobacco, pipes, liquor, matches, candles, and can dlesticks. These and many more miscel- lanies were slowed away with an economy of space equal to that observed on ship. board. Having fair knowledge of the German language and literature, and be- ing found upon trial tolerably proficient Tn that peculiar style of broken English affected by educated Germans, it was at once decided that should travel in the guise of German saUGsat, making book on America. A pair of specsacles, a flax. en wig and whiskers, an outlandish, long,