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Show THE H'EBER v His gabled house with its imposing stoop became a regular emporium for various articles beside furs. Rum, tobacco, glass beads, gewgaw, and, in fact everything found in the script stores or tradingposts of those . HERALD. r 1 i I i! days. As for Mynheer van Poffenburgh, Done very cheap5 at the Herald he was both farmer and miller. The' Office. i rich bottom lands bordering the winding Mohawk were covered with Congressman John Allens very latest his pale green cabbages and rustling story is about a tire that was lately discorn and grains of various kinds, while covered coming from the roof of a the afforded fine pastureage prominent citizen of a little hamlet down for his herd of sleek, in ltawamby county, Mississippi. The spotted Dutch cows. church bell sounded an alarm, and the As for the Mohawk, it did good populace' ran pell mell toward the service in turning the big, lazy wheel of burning-buildin- Therc.was no the mill in which Van Poffenburgh in town, and nearly everybody ground grist for himself and neigh carried a pail. While an official of the bors. county was making a break toward the But to return to themain subject of burning building he passed a strapping oitr story. Never before, as we have negro walking away-frothe scene of said had there been any misunderstand-betwee- n excitement. He had his hands in his the two Dutchmen. The cause pockets, and was whistling the Mobile of the trouble now was so trivial a tiling Buck. , - as a cheese. In settling their accounts, Were, you black rascal, whar you which they had a very lax, careless, Dont official asked. goinat?the way of doing, Myheer van Poffenburgh you see that Mr. Taylor s house is on found himself charged with this cheese fire? Why dont you go back and which he declared at once that he had help put out the fire? never bought. The negro stopped whistling and To be continued. drawing his hands from his pockets he said: Ise got great respect for Mr. Taylor, sah, but how does I know dat Too many men try to pull tliemseh-eMr. Taylor wants de fire put out? r out of trouble with a corkscrew. Boston Herald. - , , or-fla- i ts hill-slop- es black-and-whi- te - fire-engi- g. - . w ' - s J ne |
