Show A mall mail carriers carnera experience A great while ago long before the late J to war there WM was a young man who cart carried led the mail between madison and macon georgia his hia name was waa bob lovic he used his big eyes and ears eari pretty well and never fond foad as aa he was of 01 a good story told lies liea to say bay I 1 bob lovio says bays so BO was to certify to th the e truth of a statement which was co curla to his credit and moreover ho he was aj ad honest as the day and could coald have been entrusted with untold gold or uncounted diamonds bl morally orally you could nat find a fault with bob mentally he was boty well tor for an uneducated man but he had one great tiling failing great particularly in the eyes ot of pretty r annie wesley who otherwise es teamed nd bob perfect perfection io a ile he had allied himself with a certain class of persons who termed thome elves 11 free thinkers this theological difference at last led to a little quarrel and bob tried to get ann annie le out oat of his mind lint but failed to do it and annie WAS very miserable as aa well for the make bake of bo boad Is soul as for herself for though she sh had lisL offers in plenty DOI col fonenot even rich joan G arb who had ever so BO many acres of i land could be compared for a moment in her mind to bob had bad bob only held proper sentiments so though they kept apart for a whole month at last one bright morning as aa bob rode along slowly and stupidly for him he bo saw sitting bitting under a t tree a little figure in a blue dress that 1 he e 00 pass to save his life so h he 0 s stopped his bis horse and called caIle dout out I 1 annie is ia that you yon yes yea bob said maid annie showing a pairoh pair of wet vat eyes 1 I came late here on purpose to see pee you ive talked in my poor weak womanish words but you yon talk so co much better then than I 1 tint that of course its no use usa and all the while while there is ia one who talks so no plainly to ns no and the words worda are here and ive iva brought them to you yon and alease please dear bob to read lead them and per perhaps aps she did not finish the sentence but placed a pretty bible in ia bobs hand baud ive had it bound very nicely lot for you yon bud and ohl obi for or my sake read it it will teach you BO 00 much bob so very much I 1 bob bab took the book for a moment heffell annoyed and much like sneering but annio annie was vory very dear to him so BO to be kept his anger under for her bar anz fake thanked her for her present and placed it in the breatt booket of his cost coat 11 As aa if I 1 were to be converted like a sinner ina in a said bob after he ha lad bad ridden on a little 11 bat women are not expected to lave have minds mind a like lika oars oara and out ont ol of another pocket ha be palled an infidel anndel tract which a friend an ii unbelieving believing doctor bad loaned him and fell to reading it was not a wine vise thing as the event proved for the horse borse left lef V to himself tumbled stumbled over something in the road and won was lamed not badly it ee mod but it forced bob to dismount 7 and stop at a country store to 0 o examine examina and bathe the limb and then hew ha had to let the beast at take his own time afterward so BO that instead of trotting briskly into macon before sundown the young man found foaad himself belated on a lonely rod road some ore e hours alter after the sun had bad quite valli vanished shed his horse growing lamer and his hopes of supper quite gone 11 hang the growled bob what did I 1 bother omeril over it tor for and he ha gave the paper a toss toes into a cla clump in of bushes and then ill bis a mind wont went baet back to annie wesleye We bible Us ha felt in for it it was safe ire he wished that he be was somehow better and to he walked along with the bridle over ever his irm arm in quito quite a melancholy mood Bud suddenly denly a shadow fell ell across the road bob looked up straight before him sit oat a mounted man with a mask black mask on his bis floo abo and a pistol in his hand halt commanded this individual cal ferociously and bob halted 11 it you yoa are quiet ulet you will come to no harm barn so said the man 1 I only want your mailbag mail mall bag Il I 1 happen lappen to know that il Is worth something to tonight might and jve ive followed you from the store back yonder There aint a soul eoal within hearing and y yon may A M well take it coolly I 1 am s armed r onamay al a you ton gee fee you ere are not hand over the tha bar beverl Ne verl exclaimed bob the mailbag mail mall bag Is ia in ray my oare ill guard it il as long as a I 1 have breath in my body that wont be long with a coarse coal no laugh langh 11 I 1 it you yon dont listen to remon leaion bob 1 tor for reply mounted his horse bud and sat la t bellind the mailbag mall nail bag I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 your life aikala is in danger warned the robber 11 I 1 intend to have those letters and a life worth north much to m im in earnest ear neet no fooling anil and ma h ho took deliberate aim at col bat kovios lovios breast iob bob wad VM unarmed armed and ami he be loved life dearly clearl buthe ins no coward it was use less tea to try to overcome the robber ile he had bad only his hia fists fiste rother rather useless weep ono on under the circumstances but he be showed fight 11 and as the robbers robber anger kindled be tired fired tho the a aim im was rood the little ball of lead lodged in bobs cost just jast where his heart should have been uepa and bob staggered ne ile was wa shocked rather than hurt hart and iu in tb that at moment of excitement le la remembered haying having heard that it was often so BO in mortal iD injuries juries probably he had received lna his death wound bad and the robber would walk oil off with the mailbag mail bag where bob knew well reposed the money which energetic didolc dorr had sent to take his hia poor old mother from the alms almshouse honse and other trusts were in that leather bag the lit humble hopes and dreams of those who wrote the letters twined about them the doo tor ter and his tract bad dono done bob lovio lovie little good but he was honest and kindly bindl yet ill fight figat while I 1 have a drop of mood blood left he said to and help may como come bud and the mailbag mail bag be saved even it if I 1 die he ha looped leaped from his hia horse and sprang upon the tha highwayman such vigor g dutli that t the he man tumbled team from his hia saddle then bob struggled for the pistol and gaining it knocked the ruffian sense lenso lees leas with the butt end bud and sat bat down on his bia bosom to keep guard expecting to die ever every in moment om t i but proving praying that help might come com e ebe before fore the robber recovered r covers a consciousness about that time a party of young men who were out oat on a coon hunt haat came u up p with flaring daring torches and a seats of dogs doga at their heels they all know knew bob well unil and the most moat zealous were war tor for dispatching the robber but the voice of th the a majority were for binding him and carrying him to the city to meet meat his bia reward at the bonds bands of jast justice ioe and with this party bob I 1 he afelt felt woo weak k and lis bis breast ached and he be expected every moment to feel the tha faintness of death stealing over him tor for there was wag tho the round hole holo just juat over eve r lis hia heart and the bullet mut be somewhere A few unpleasant ant taia mis gly iuga which proved that his hia opinions of the fatura were not so BO fixed as they might have hare been troubled kirn him and he sighed a little as the newcomers new comers ques alonea him the ballet went inhere here he ha said bald touching aching lo the hole I 1 dont feel any pain end and must be bleeding inwardly if rt at all 11 I 1 think 11 he bis bid coat coal and out dropped annie wesleye We bible with the ho bullet deeply imbedded embedded im bedded in its ita cover covar the tears came to bobs boba eyes and the others stared blared for he had bad been in the habit ot of boasting of his hia infidel opinions and it was odd enough that be aa should wear a bible next to his hia heart but bat every one was wan too glad to ind and him unhurt to care for much else AD and 4 so they gave three cheers and a started batted toward the oily city with their prisoner bob followed leading his horse and keeping an eye on the mail mailbag bag and on oatie the way he thou glit what he thought may be divined from the tact fact that six months after annie wesley found her bar lover ever by her side at church and heard from lis own lips that he had not half so 80 high an opinion of his own smartness and that of his doctor friend as formerly and he believed sho she was right after all aud and EO BO they were married and for many years have been living very contentedly tent teut edly in their little cottage on the outskirts of madison millaid george in 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