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Show wo hud to let tho hogs nut ot the pen, or they would have keeled over. " Hill,' I myj, whi n I got where I could breathe again, 'you said you'd strike Minthin', and you have. You've wasted three months' time gfttiu' down to whar Christopher Columbus buried about a thousand torn cats, and wo'vo all been driv off t he farm in cousckenco. ll s my turn now to strike Minthin', and you kin git ready for theall-firedest lick- in' a boy ever pit.' "1 give it to him, gentlemen, and then I went, spookin' around to find somebody who'd buy the farm at about tho cost ot? the barn. A f-IIor who seemed to hev ratanh and didn't mind tho nmell closed up a deal with me, and 1 had to grin aa I walked oh" witli his money under my arm. I kept on grinnm' fur about week, but. then 1 lieard Home news that Hopped mi', and I guest) it'.s three years much I've opened my mouth sideways. Them dead cat :i wa i worth a hundred thousand ilul'itu'S to me, and I sold 'em for an,l walked iii'ound putting myself my-self on i!i b'ick fur bein' so nil-fired cuto." i:w York Hun. A Vrail Cut Minn. It was the man on vvhte 3;ind natural "pas was first ntruck in the Findlay, O., 1 district, and he wait telling f-onie of us about it us w waited ia the depot at ' Colmnbus. , 'Wall, you know," he begun, "my i eon Bill was a great hand to read. On day he laid away a book he had been ; reading and says to me: " 'Dad, I've been reading up on miner- '. als and I'm goin' to find suthin' right here on our farm.' " 'SIiik), Bill, says I, 'but yon won't (trike nothing outside of cobble stones and worms.' "But he went at it and begun" to dig and bore and fixd around ami leave me to hoe the corn, and one day lie struck i mvnthiu'. There emu web an infernal , nuiell that both of us was drove to the j .house, and then the swell got so bad , that we whs drov to a neighbor's, and j |