Show recovering a lost wagon in the village of ofa IN lived a man who had hold once been judge of the co county un ty a and nil was known all over it by tj the ie na name me of judge L lie ile kept a store and sawmill and was always sure to have the best of a bargain on his side by which means ho he had gained an ample competency and some did not hesitate to call him the biggest rascal in the world lie ile was very conceited withal and used to delight to brag of his business capacity whenever anyone was near to listen one rainy day as quite a number were seated around the stove in the store he lie began as usual to tell his great bargain sand at last lost wound up with tha e expression nobody b has as evis chea cheated te atme me nor they can t neither judge said an old man of the company ive cheated you morn you ever did me how illow so asked the judge if promise you on won wont it go to law lav about it nor do 11 0 bothin ill tell or else I 1 wont you are too much of a law character for me lets hearl heart lets lct hear shear cried bal half f ti it dozen voices ill promise said the judge flu and d treat in the bargain well do to you remember that wagon you robbed me out of 1 I never robbed you out of any wage exclaimed tho the judge 1 I only oll y fot got the best of a bargain well I 1 made up my mind to have it back and I 1 you never did interrupted A the cute judge well you see judge I 1 sold you one day a very nice ine log and bargained with you for or a lot more well that log I 1 stole kofl your pile down by your mill the night belate and the next day I 1 sold it to you the next night I 1 drew it back home and sold bold it to you the next day dy and so I 1 kept on until yon you had b bought u at your own log ofine of me twenty seven times v that is false exclaimed exclaim ea the infuriated furia ted judge running to his books and examining his log accounts you never sold ua us twenty seven logs of the same measurement 1 I know it said the vender in logs by drawing it bark back handforth and forth the enda Were Waie off until it was only ten feet long just fourteen shorter than it was the first time I 1 brought it and when it got BO so short I 1 drew it home again and worked it up into shingles and then I 1 concluded I 1 had got gt my wagon back and stowed away in in my pocketbook the exclamation ai of the jad judge e was drowned in tho the shouts of t the e bystanders and the log drawer found the door without the promised treat and to see a man mad you ou have only to ask the judge if te he ever was robbed |