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Show "Odd Torn." Old Tom Weit had a babit of Aoinf I ' jueer and UDtMpected. thin?, &nd that 1 :TtJT to bw known througbout tbe rvtpon in which he lived as "Odd Tom. Sometimes Some-times his oddity appeared in some peoa-lianty peoa-lianty of dress, as when he wore hia coat wrong aide out, because, aa he said, he had "gut timi of the looks of the right side." One day Tom went to his next neighbor, Zebah Green, to hire his horse (or he day. ! "What d'ye want 'iin forr was Zehah' inquiry. "Oh, jest to go down to the village to do some maxkeun'," was the answer. "P'raiw I might go ou afterward as for ; as Job Stuue'a, V look at hia oxen." "Wal, 1 don't waut ye to have iui," replied Zebah, referring to the horse, but ye may, jest ter 'couiniodato ye, if I ye won't go no futuer'n jest to the village vil-lage ye know that's 'most ten mile," "Why, of course not," said Tom, "not onless you're wiUm'." "Wal, thou. Hike iin, but don't ye drive him uo fu'ther'n the village, ox I'll never let ye have him agiu'." So Tom harneaded the old horse and started for market. As he passed Xe-bah's Xe-bah's house ou his way he heard, faintly wafted from his neighbor, who stood in the barn door, "lie wire ye don't go uo fu'ther'n jest to the villago! Toward night Tom was seen, laden with bundles, coming Blowly up the road from the village ou foot. Out rushed Zehah, open mouthed. ' What ye doue with old Bill?" he crid. "Wal," answered Tom, with the utmost ut-most coolness, "ye seemed so all-fired scant for fear I'd drive him further'n jest to the village that 1 didn't dare drive him home agiu, 'n' so I left him there, under the store shed," Youth's Companion. |