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Show I.Ik, a lllul. A worthless old vagabond had annoyed an-noyed tho good people of a western tovvnfor Mvsral years. Do hod been arretted for drunkenness and vagrancy vagran-cy lira without number, but to no purpos Moral suasion had been tr.od updn him without clfect lie steadily grow worse. An Impromptu vlgllanco committee was formed ono day and a lot of cltl-sens cltl-sens whose patience hail become el' I huusted, and whllo they deprecated I mob violence they agreed In the opinion opin-ion that It was tlmo to shift tho bur-uni bur-uni of this partioular vagabond upon some othsr place. Accordingly thoy went to his lodgings one night, llftej him up, put blm on a tall, rodo hlra to thd outskirts of the town, dumped Mm Into s shallow rreek, and loft him there, with tho Injuhftlon that It would ba sataat for him to get out on the farther tide and keep moving "Hy sjura!" he grumbled, aa he rrawlcd oat on tho bank, aersped the mud from hi i clothes and looked back at tho vanishing vanish-ing "regulators." "I don't b'llovu tl oy want me to live In this town any longer!" long-er!" Youth's Companion. |