Show A puzzled yankee I 1 the fo lowing following extract of a letter from s yankee coi respondent correspondent of the Galva galvestor Gal vastor newa NT is highly hii n tily amusing amusing well ell I 1 put up with alfirst a first rate good ria na aured fellow that I 1 met at a billiard table I 1 went in in and as introduced to his wife 1 fin efat woman looked as though she I 1 lived 1 ed on 01 laffin laff iri her faces faced was so full of fun fun after a while after abd talked about m gill gal and about the garden and about th weather in come three or four children fin and as aa meny as a crickets there was no candle lit but I 1 could seo sec they were fine lookin fellows and I 1 started for fo r my saddlebags in which I 1 put dal I 1 a lot oi 01 sugar candy for tho the chil children childred drei as I 1 went along 1 ong come here bere 5 3 said 1 I ayou you little rogue come here and tell me your name is the oll oldest lest one came to me and says my name is peter smith and you your name name sira sir bob smith the next said his name w was bill bi 11 smith S athi and the fourth said his name was tommy smith I 1 some sugar candy and old mrs smith was so tickled that she laughed all the time tame mr smith looked on but say much I 1 why says 1 I mrs smith I 1 would not take a good deal for them four boys if I 1 had 9 em they are so beautiful and sprightly u no said she bhe laffin 11 1 I set a good deal I 1 on e em but wo we spoil lem em too much no no says 1 I rate rale well behaved children and ay my graci gracious gia cious ous says 1 I pret pretending pretend eudin in t to 6 be startled ed by a striking resemblance between the boys and the father and I 1 looked at sir lit smith 11 1 I never did see anything equal to it says I 1 your lyoa own eyes mouth mouth I 1 forehead and perfect picture of hair sir ir 1 tapping the oldest on on the pate I 1 thought mrs smith would have died lafflin af that her arms fell down by her hei jide and ana she shook the whole louse laffin do you abu think s so 0 I 1 col jones said she looking toward mr smith and I 1 tao thought shed go off in in a fit gyps yes 1 said laid I 1 1140 iao r raily 11 ily I 1 I 1 I 1 aya in ha haw bawl I 1 I 1 a said mr smith 1 kind 6 15 half half laffi laffin lyba you are too hard on me now now with your yo joke I 1 balsome I 1 aint bokin at all says 1 I giey we are handsome children and do look wonderfully like you I 1 just then a gal brought a light in andell and V 11 be darned if the lute little brats I 1 turn 94 out to be liggera bigge rs every one of deml and their hair was as as curly burly as the blackest ni geers mr I 1 and mrs mis never had any children aaen and they sort soft of petted them biggers nig gers as 0 1 pl playthings 7 thin g A never felt as I 1 did when J found out jiow how things sto stood 9 d if 1 I kissed the n nasty ast y things I 1 could a go got t over it but qt kis kissin 1 App em I 1 showed oWed that I 1 was in eap nest though I 1 was wap soft sohpia lem em aalthe all the miniie ian q I 1 I 1 how to get over the scrape I 1 andrt know mrs c smith laughed lailah ea so iia hard when she saw how low contused cont used A I 1 was that chat s she he almost suffocated r 1 1 A there was a whole fim ly of rel relations iian arrived from froin the abee city X tl 1 aud and arned ed the matter affy but the dexa biorn ing could fla did not like icae remembrance of said and I 1 foont dont be i eye he hell 11 vote for me jewhen when the pest elea fion cion fellow comes cc es I 1 inspect mrs smith kept tho the old aid fellow under the joke for some time |