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Show stretched Mm Aa stateless oa the (foetid. At thst or nspeckttd dtltens Srung toward sad seised Ame. "Hold t murderer, ma," says Seta, "sad I will else toe darbies ea him." Every-ene Every-ene present Mrs that k wee a very drama tick moment , ' But at toon as Arm could die the dirt eutea hit mouth be commenced to rave and holler end swear St Sets, asking him whet in tarntthioa he wu thinkinf of. Seth told him that everything ht tald would be used against him, and that he being a murderer needn't expect ao mercy. It wtt almost half ea hour before Mr. Ame ria up from her Mooter, sad being at bow everyone present had eon. , siddered her murdered, the - wat eausinga riot When the teen Ame with handcuffs on the wat a food eal annoyed, an-noyed, tod mtdc the facet plain to Seth Dewberry. Then the polled the bat outea ber hair tad threwed it la Seth't face. About thit time Seth began te wake op te the fackt that he had been mistook, to he took off the handcuffs and departed with the real of our re-speckted re-speckted citizens. At thit writing Mrs. Ame U toully recovered, but Seth still thinks that someboddy ought to be arretted ar-retted and ain't felt quite right fa bit mind ever tiatt MURDER!!! i It Sonndei Uki Knrder anl E-iryom E-iryom Tkouibt It WuCar Hi nick Toxi Constitt!t Rusbts it anl Cits Ltft-Gnti Ltft-Gnti Dsitixnt 111 Cvir Towa-Rni AiOBt tki I'kali Affart Bilow: A ooctirrcace that had all the ear-marks ear-marks of murder, at yon might say. occurred in the home of Ame Hillyer, our talented loryrr and legal Hght, lest T seedy night, Mrs. Ame Hillyer, wife of Ame Hillyer, being the who was popularly supposed to be murdered at that time The occurrence was easily the moat peckuliar one that hat come to our notice no-tice in a great auny yra, and it fooled such discriminating persona as Seth Dewberry, our heroick town cooeUbble, who baa been trained la detecktive work for la, them many yra, to that Seth wat a fretting every boddjr within e radiat of scversl mlt. of the supposed murder. It come about this way: Mrs. Ame T needy night snd she opened the back door and slept out into her back yard to get a breath of fresh air. leaving the door open so that the hght shone out to that ahe wouldn't step on any skunk or anything that was looking around for a chance to swoop in on the chickens. chick-ens. The light attracted a bee, which fly around these parts ia grate quantities during the dog days, and one of the bats swoopted down on Mrs. Ame Hillyer, Hill-yer, snd the first thing- the knowed the bet wat tl! mixed up in her hair, which is wore kind of loose, and not skua back according to the approved Bingville Bing-ville styles, snd was scratching and flapping and tqnecking like ail poe-csted. poe-csted. Mrs. Ame Hillyer, although the weart ber hair queer, it quite a lot like most other women, snd most other women hate bats like poison, and especially have e tumble disgust and loathing of bats when they get mixt up ia their htir. On acc't of this loathing for the bet Mrs. Ame Hillyer lifted up her voice at you might tay and screeched one of the most offul screeches ever beard in this viainitty. The screech wandered all over Bingville, Bing-ville, causing littel children to toes ia their sleeps, snd strong met and women wo-men to trembcL Insidentally it breufht Ame Hillyer out of his easy chair with a bounce, and out into the back yard to see what waa happening to his wife When be got to the back yard she was yelling Murder and Fire and Help till Ame waa almost dittreeVted. ' Finally Fin-ally ahe let him know by groaning end hollering that she had a bat m her hair. Well Ame be dug his hands into Mra Ame's hair to get the bat, and the bat nipped him on the finger, getting him all aroused. Mra Ame waa moaning for hhn to kill it any old way, so Ame he says : "I'll git that bat" snd he rushed into the back entry end got the broom and rushed- out into the back yard again and hauled off and hit Mrs. Ame a terrible whack right oa top of the bat Just at he did it aewersl of ear most respeckted citizens, headed by our heroick hero-ick town constabble, entered, the yard cauthioutly. The way thst Ame swung the broom killed the bat. but it alto |