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Show ! Kol en bj Mire. In Mr. Davin s "Irishmen In Canada"" Is told a very good lieur and mouse story which is lietter than the average inven-: inven-: Lion in that line A settler had gone into "thu bush" and worked one season be-I be-I fore bringing his family to their new ; home. Having built his house and cleared ; some land, he thought of returning for his wife and children j He had, with other money, $1-10 In sil-, sil-, ver This, on uccount of its weight, he : determined not to take with himt but to ) hide it in the hollow of a tree. He put it in a stocking and hung il up in a hol-! hol-! low trunk When the settler and his family came 1 home the next summer, they found lhat 1 an old bear hud made the (ioubc his abode i during the winter, und on going to the tree for his money, the man was not a little disappointed to find it gonel il la in i nd hoveled round his money and he haunted the Iree At last he de j tertnined to cut it down At the base j hope revived when lie saw portions of 1 the paper and the slocking cut up fine forming, together with grass and leaves a wood mouse's nest Beneath the nest wnlhu1)U in the mKlsl of mold and rotten wood |