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Show PRETTY TOUGH YARN. Inbl by nil Aiirlont 11ml Tliltlifill Mntlnof nf tlin l.itlirB. "Talking uf hfo pioservcrs," said the tiulhfiil uiiuiiior, ns ho knucitotl tho ushes out of his plm, tn it Now York Dispatch mini, "jnu iruiciiilvrr tho old htoamtr ltoustahout thut used to lun fiom lluffalo loClili'Bgnf I wuh niatoon her tho year bo foio sho wnt lost. Wo woio about sixty miles nut from Chicago when Mikn Luu-iiuun, Luu-iiuun, who was doing Buinethiug Uhhi tho I mast, fell, sli licit on his heiid un tho lootol tho cabin nnd bounced clean out Into Iho lake Well, thn captain hn seo him full, and he Mi pmd nnd bucked that old ltoustaboutqutrker'11 you could say 'scat' ' Mike wenldown like u plummet, for ho wns knocked Insensible, and I know'd thero was no use tn heave 11 lite preserver for hlin, so I Just hurried up thu boys in getting tho boat down, although 1 didn't expect It 'ud do much good. Wo had Jim iCing on board Passenger fiom Chicago. You remember Iliu King, don't youf" "Can't sBy that I do," rematked a bystander. by-stander. "Well, .Tim was tho champion quoit-thrower quoit-thrower In them days. He's dead now, imor follow, but Jim wns a hoss on throwing throw-ing quoits, I tell ox quoits wero a great (tame lliein da s livery vlllago had nquclt club und the bova on the farms medio thinw hoss shoes It wns something llko base ball in llu'so tlints, although 1 uccr coulil sen nsimuh fun in busn ball as I cmld sou In 11 gmid game of quoits " "Oh, coma off, 'tried tho lmpiillcnt listener. listen-er. "What did Jim do, or did ho do uny thltigl Did Ihuiii.iudtownl" "Now, don't bo too fly. Who's tOu1 tils nml'' "Well, j ou don't seem to bo." "(loon I Onniil" Bitld thocroiTvLv "Well, you know, lu quoits a 'ringer' wa when 3011 put Ihn quoit around tho stake, it counted double. Well, Jim ho plcka up tho rou id llfo preset vcr it's ltko a great, blgquolt, jou know nud aa thn Cap'n camo running nft, Jim ho sings outt 'Cap'n, 1 I'll bot you llvn dollars I'll makn n rmger on thut man If ho comes up within tho length or thislmo.'" "'Het jou twenty dollars you can't,' snld tho Cap'n. '"Take jou,' said Jim, aud just nt tltct mitiit up bobs Mike's head about sixty feet a stern. Jim threw it, and I'll bo darned It that life prose.'vor didn't go plump over on Mllto's bead clear down ou his shoulders, nud there ilstuik. Wo gut ilouit n boat, nud n hen wo got to Mike ho hadn't como to jet, and didn't for somo tlmo nfter, Ho'd been 11 goner If it hadn't bin fur that linger, although it look tho sklu often his noao," "Did thn Captain pay tho twenty dollars!" 'Tay III inujnt bet ho did. And Jim he handed it o or lo Mike, und Mlko ho blow it all In when wo got to IletroH. I wish somo of It wns Iiim enow, fur I'm mighty Irv. Thauks Don't mind It 1 do."j |