Year: 1873




tain December morning of a certain year
not long since passed away, William Ty-
ner, lumbernIan, wrenched open the door
of the long logging shanty he occupied in
common with half "a hundred other lum-
bermen, kicked drift of newly-fallen
snow from the threshold, with a right
boot which answered, not lily, the purpose
of snow-shovel, and went plOdding out
to the stable with smoky lantern in one
mittened hand, and great bundle under
his arm. "a


Mr. Tyner was tall and muscular. He
might have been compared, and not inap-
propriately, considering his erect and ro-
tund figure, with the best of the straight
pines he slashed about day after day. In
deed, to continue the comparison, we
might add that, like the future lumber
supply, it was his characteristic that he
became unreliable only at the top. Set
him at dead lift, and he was your man
but once set about utilizing the upper
portiOn-which, in his case, was repre-
sented by low, narrow head, covered
with shaggy hair behind and shaggy whis-
l<ers in frontAonce set about utilizing this
supposed location of intelligence, / say,
and then straightway came to view such
fertility of obstinate knots and awry
growths, that anything it worked into was
certain to be Wotully perverse and out OF
shape.


Half an hour passed away; the winter
sun came up with not a cloud between its
round face and the dark stretch of Mich
igan pine lands-and nothing more of Mr.
Tyner He ought to have been done a
quarter of an hour ago. The sun made
noiseless and successful battle with the fire
lit windows of the cabin, and brought
out drowsy men to bask in the benefi
Cence of the victor. Later it peered
over the dizzy height of the roll'way
and pushed icy stalacites from the thaw
ing caves. Later still, the out-pour OF
smoke from the kitchen chimney ceased,
when the chOre-boy went out on an errand
for the foreman, and there was no sign o1
call to breakfast, nor of Tyner coming tC
draw water from the spring. Another
half hour. BY and by a hungry man and
curious man went to the kitchen and
stable respectively The foreman found
only a cold stove and a wondering boy-of
all-work the latter only the oxen chewing
their cuds leisurely, and watchdog
asleep on the hay The two investi gators
mot halfway, and each looked into a
blank, astonished face. Then one sum
med up the case in an emphatic sentence
b "Tyners run away with the cookl" 6


That was all there was about it; and
they had to get their own breakfast, and
content themselves with muddy coffee
halfcooked potatoes and beans, and over
done meat. Numerous and diverse were
the opinions expressed upon the interest
ing occasion The foreman, for instance
vowed, in language as concise as, it was
irreverent, that they should both be
brought back. The scaler was the fail
damsel's brother, and being most interest
ed, said not word, but toyed thoughtful
ly with his measure, and walked away
into the forest, with hard blank on his
down-looking visage. Two sawyers, who
had each regarded the recent new gowns
and bright colors cOquettishlY displayed
their approval only, and who hated each
other cordially in consequence, pitied
"poor Tyner," and shook hands heartily
And all except the brother laughed and
made idle jests over it, and told stories ii
put them in mind of, for that day and a
few days to come, and-forgOt it. r.


Mr.. William Tyner and his blushing
bride had an original wedding tour. And
Jolly" the horse, instead of hauling
water for the cooking of breakfast, and
making himself generally useful about
the camp that certain winter morning, as
a well-behaved horse should, was lending
aid and countenance to the runaWays
and hauling the cook away from theraw
viands. The beast had been dubbed
"Jolly," it is supposed, because he was as
far from being jolly as an aged beast with
few teeth and great many crooked joints
could we'll be; and the countenance he
loaned to the pair on this occasion, and
which got over the deep-drifted path
with its low-hanging boughs, with mighty
breathing and many an awkward stumble
looked more attenuated and melancholy
than ever. What with the load upon his
back-which consisted of cook and the
entire supply of worldly goods belonging
to her and to her steedless cavalier-and
the load upon his feet, for the snow was
wet ana packed, it was the work of an
fentlre DAY TO accomplish the journey tC
the next camp, distance of half score
of miles.


-a- Just as the sun was touching the tops
of the tallest pines with its last light. the
red-shirted Justice, living half mile
from their destination, was called unon
to make Miss Polly Ensign Mrs. Pollv
Tyner-which he did in smutty kitchen
with half dozen young Justices rolling
on the floor; and the .jaded beast stun
bled on, not only with the old weight, bu
with the added gravity of the new re
sponsibilities the lady had assumed


In half an hour Mr.. Tyner put up hi'
'horse-the trifling fact that it had no
been his horse twelve hours before die
not appear TO affect the ownership now