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Show A Scnred Illrrd Miin. A native of the verdant isle, who bad newly arrived in America, was hired by a gentleman as a gardener. The country coun-try place on which be was to work was on the shore of Long Island sound, the waters coming to wilbin a few rods of the house. Besides his care of the gar-don, gar-don, Pat was supposed to be the custodian custo-dian of an ancient donkey, who had many eccentricities, arid who Pat declared de-clared to be the "cleverest baste that iver wore a tail." One evening, as tlie family were at dinner, the Irishman came tearing up the veranda and into the hall. "Come quick, sor!" he cried, I through tlie open door. "Come quick, j The ass is in the say, and a-lcpping to I get out." And hurrying his master to j tlie shore he pointed wildly to tlie I creek, where, in the placid summer ! waters, a school of porpoises were roll-j roll-j ing in uncouth gambols, looking really I not unlike an enormous beast strug-j strug-j gling in the waves. 2s ew York Tri-' Tri-' bune. |