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Show California Couktsiiip. A young man from down town had been escorting es-corting home a Ticty Hill girl, and while the pair were fondly lingering over the gate to take a long, taarful farewell, not expecting to see each other for twenty-tour hours, they were discovered by the old lady, who instantly in-stantly became irate, seized a broom and started after the young man. Ho ran. So did the old lady. They didn't kick up much dust, for the street sprinkler had been up that way last week, and it ha? been raining ever since. But they made an awful noise, as they rattled over the planks. At last the youug man, finding that his pursuer was gaining upon him, and fearful that a terrible tragedy was about to be enacted, m which he might figure as the principal victim, leaped a fence into Toitf Patton's garden, gar-den, climbed up a gooseberry bush, and took refuge in its topmost branches. The old lady was close upon his heels, and soon discovered him, notwithstanding his elevated attitudo, and the luxuriance of the foliage by which he was surrounded. She upbraided him, called him a right-angied-trianglo, and other endearing en-dearing names, and vowed she would not leave the vicinity until she had taken his scalp. But he only laughed at her taunts, asscited that he would see his girl again, and kept bombarding bombard-ing the old lady with a vigorous fusi- lude ol tho mammoth fruit by which he was surrounded. Finally the old lady wont home or wo suppose she did, as we saw the young man shortly afterward, and it isn't to be supposed that he would descend from thai tree until his prospective mother-in-law had left. Salem (Oregon) Htuknuuui. |