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Show ' FOUND. A Long Search for a Seboolipanter, Which Was Finally Rewarded. We were sitting on the veranda of a hotel at Niagara Fulls when I noticed the man on my right looking BlArply at the man on my loft, and presently he got up in an excited way and walked about. After a bit he halted before the other man and asked: "Isn't your name Graham?" "Yes, sir," was the prompt reply. "Didn't yon used to teach school at Elmirn?" "Yes, sir." "In 1808?" ' "Yes, sir." "Do you remember a boy named God kin?" "'Very distinctly, sir." "Do you remember that he put a pack-ago pack-ago of firecrackers under his desk itnd touched them off?" "As if it happened only yesterday." "And yon basted him for it?" "I did. I licked him until he could hardly stand, and I've always been glad of it." "You have, eh?" said the other, breathing breath-ing fast and hard. "Do you know that that boy swore a terrible oath?" "I presume he did, as he was a thorough thor-ough young villain." "He swore an oath that lie would grow up and hunt for yon and pound you within with-in an inch of your life." "But I haven't heard from him yet." "You hear from him now! He stands before youl I am that boy 1" "Well?" "Prepare to be licked! My time lias come at last!" He made a dive for the old pedagogue, but the latter evaded hira, made a half turn and hit him on the jaw, and God-kin God-kin went over a chair in a heap. Then the whilom schoolmaster piled on to him and licked him nnttl he cried "Enough," and it didn't take three minutes min-utes to do it. Then he retired to got on another collar and replace gome buttons, and I helped Godkin up and observed; "You didn't wait quite long enough, I guess." "Hay! That's where I made a miscue!" he replied. "I see now that I ought to have held off until he had got to be about 150 years old. The old devil is all of 70 now, but he licked ine right off the reel, and I'll never have the sand to stand up to him again. Here's thirty years of waiting for vengeance knocked into a cocked hat in three minutes I" New York Sun. |