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Show NO STAIN ON HIS RECORD. That's Where the Driver Had the Dest of the Preacher. A New York clergyman, who often spends his vacation In fishing tho streams of tho. Adlrondacks, was on one trip adopted by n handsomo setter set-ter dog, which Insisted on following him from camp to camp, as ho moved along tho stream. One day ho met a party of mon working upstream with n natlvo guide Tho guide Immediately recognized tho dog as Ills own property. "Trying to steal my setter, nro rou?" ho shouted at tho clergyman. 'I'll havo you to Jail for this! Thoro's a law In tho woods Just as big as you Unvo In tho city." Tho clergyman endeavored to explain ex-plain thnt he was an unwilling companion com-panion of tho dog, which hail refused to bo driven nv;ny, but to llttlo effect until ho ndded a two-dollar bill to his arguments. "It's queer what1 Btrnngo things Imp-pen Imp-pen to a mnn up lie re," ho said to tho stage-driver who jlater carried him away from tho ods. "That Is tho first time I was fever accused of stealing steal-ing a dog." J "Yes, sir," reiod tho driver, sympathetically, sym-pathetically, am added, after a moment's mo-ment's pause, "ljr myself, sir, I hnvo never been ncciised of stealing anything." any-thing." Youth': Companion. |