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"A-a-a-h!" ejaculated Mr Growther, in prolonged and painful utterance, as if one of his teeth had just been drawn "Now that is tough! I don't wonder you think Satan had a finger in that pie Didn't I tell you the editors made up half that's in the papers? I don't knohat started this story There's generally a little beginning, like the seed of a big flauntin' weed; but I don't believe you did so h to have done it myself"

"You, and perhaps one other person, will be the only ones in town, then, ill not believe it againstand like a fool; but what chance has a fellohen he gets credit for evil only, and a hundred-fold more evil than is in hione wholly over to the devil, I ht at his elbow, a-helpin' hi But how did this story start? The scribbler in the German paper couldn't have spun it, like a spider, hully out of his own in'ards"

Haldane told hi the "kind-hearted German" in his true colors

At its conclusion Mr Growther drew a long, meditative breath, and remarked sententiously, "Well, I've allers heard that 'sperience was an awfully dear school; but we do learn in it I'll bet my head you will never pay another dollar without takin' a receipt"

"What chance will I ever have to ainst "

"Why don't you go hoo to the bottom of the river first"

"That would suit the devil, the crabs, and the eels," reh! crabs and eels!" exclaiust

"That's all you'd find at the bottom of the river, except ic and suicidal ideas by his prosaic state to his feet, "I s'pose you realize that you are in a pretty bad fix I ain't much of a mother at comfortin' When I feel most sorry for any one I'm most crabbed It's one of o under If you are rash, or cowardly, or weak--that is, ready to give up-like--you will ht your way up you'll be a good deal of aas you be, I'd pitch in I'd spite ritelse that stood in htin' But I've got so old and rheumatic that all I can do is cuss A-a-h!"