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Show i c Jkf : 11IS EXCUSE quiet upon the subject, and . not tion the word chicken in public, my Aubrey had serious objections to opinion is that I can find out the thief; wood.' There are many. chopping at least one of them. like him I suppose. When A week afterward the day was bleak, boys and was followed by a very dark night he was called upon for the work " hu Near midnight,, at the signal- of a always found plenty of excuses, and whistle on the rear premises of an in- the family had learned all the old ones expensive mansion, the master of a so, thoroughly that he had sometimes to small family came out quietly,- and was rack Ids brains for a new supply. met by ' a negro man Wjtha basket of . Aubrey said ITT mother one clay, chickens. The price asked being, more go cut a few pieces of wood. There reasonable than when sold by daylight, are plenty of large pieces to cut. Your and a twist or two of tobacco being ac- lame foot is well, anti you, InviVt had cepted in barter, the .buyer and the ai toothache since last .week. "You a seller- the basket held between them, npednt change your shoes, for youve were about to move toward the hen-- . g'ot.on your old ones. And the axis I saw it there roost, when the Sheriff, with a posse behind the cellar door men- s , , , , . , i 0 - ; - - , - i - - of three, headed by Mr. Bigger, rushed five minutes ago1 was-- J struckr forthr' "When a light Now, mother said :Aubrey, in an the two young Dominions, a rooster injured tone, have you looked at thru and' a pullet were taken from the ax? 1 low do you suppose 1 can cut basket, and found to be' sound in Wood with an ax that has an edge on it. wind and limb the good man shed like thei' coast of North America? . , , e Perhaps they were more because the buyer asMr. Cubbadge. - - To h e- c on t in ucuL tears. pro-fous- - s ' - . ' CAREFUL. OF I1IS FA TIIER. - . , 'The boys father - , ' was about to go dovvn:tov;ii. Ood better do out de back door, papa, said the boy; its weinin out de fwont door. ' . 4 L. Done very cheap Of ice. "at tli Herald |