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Show TIIE ADrE1.YTURES OF IIUCil.LEBERRr l<'I~N1Y. 1 akc cnrr of 1ne, and so that 'va why I truck out for this 1 own of Goshen. ' G-oshen, child'? Thi ain't Go ·h(~n. burg. Go h n~' ten 1nilc furth<.~r up th this "-a ~ O.'lH'n? ~' \I' ). II '\' 1 This i~ St. Petersriver. \Vho told you li 1 S lt!o: PUTS UP A , NACK. "\\~by, a n1nn I. ffi('t at day-br ak this morning, ju t as 1 wa · go1ng to turn 1nto the wood for my regular sleep. Ife told 1n.e wh n the road fork d I must take t~1 , right hand, and fise m1l ~ 'vould fetch n1e to Goshen." ''l-Ie was drunk I reckon. l[e told you just exactly wrong." GOING TO GO~ 'IIE. .Y. . f.5 "\Vell, he did act like hP '"as drnnk, hut it ain't no n1ai 1 c~r now. ] got to be D10Ving along. rll fetch (]o.·h 11 b •fore daylight." "J[ol(l on a minute. I'll put you up a .·nack to eat . 1~ u 1nigbt 'vant it." So she put m np a nack, and . ny.' : "Say-when a cow' laying down, which <'nd of l1rr g<'l: 11p first? An wer up protnpi, no\r- don·t , top to study oYer it. vrhich rnd g ts up first ? " " The hind nd, mnrn.' " 'V 11, t hen, a h rse '? '' "Thr for'rard end, Inurn.'' "'Vhich ·id of a tree doPt; i he nw~( 1110~ . grow n? '' "NorLh side." "lf fift<.~ ~n co"s i ' brow ing on a hiJlsid , how Jna11y of il1Cnl eats with their heads pointed the ,'<tnle dir 'd ion? ., " Th~ whole fifteen, lnlnn." "'Yell, I reckon you hu/ue liv(\d in ihr country. I t hou ~ltl maybe y u 'vas trying Lo hocus lllP ngrun. \rlwt \; your 1 'al na1n0, now ? " " G orgr P t rs, mum." "Well, try to remember it, G orge. Don't forg<\t aud t ~·ll me it's l~lexa.nder before you go, and then g tout hy :nying irs Georgc-El xander when I catch y u. And don't go about women in that old calico. y · on do a girl tolerable poor, but you might fool men, mayb . Ble. · you, child, when yon set out to thread a ne dle, don't hold the t hrencl 't ill and f(•t ·h t lH' needle up to it; bold the ne dle till and poke the t hrend at it-that's the 'vay a 'voman n1o t alway· doc. ; but a 1nnn always does t'other way. And wh n you t hrow at a rat or an.ything, hitch yourself up a tip-to , and f tch your hand up OY<'r your head as awkard as you can, and mis your rat ab ut ix r seven foot. Throw stiff-armed from the ·hould r, like t here |