fox the Tormi.
"Oh! Pad.lj, pUmr
"I tm alrawl 1 couldn't, nick. Yon omit
mnrmber that you are only a little man,
and that bmnoho u very fnnky."
"1 know, dad, but Tom got a pony (or
Chriatmat, too, and ha can rid anywbtre
b cliootn."
"You furgt tnat Tom it U, while you
are not yet tm. I am willing that you
ahould ride when William can go with you,
but you mutt not go ajoti."
Bo young Dak Wilmer tried to be eon
tented, although there waa a tore pot down
deep in hit heart. All 01 hn chume rode,
and not one of tfiem had to hare a horrid
man trotting along behind. It waan't ritiht
that he ahould be treated like a baby, when
he waa fully at tail aa Tom and the other
fellow, No one could guess that he wai
nearly three yeara younger. He went aor
rowfully out to Broncho atall, and put liii
own curly head aire i nut the eoft dark mane
of the young thoroughbred.
For teveral weeka after hie father's man
date had gone forth Dick turned a deaf ear
to all of Tom entreatira, and endeavored
to forget the neat little footman while dath
tng through the long, winding country
road. But a day came when all of Dick'i
good resolution! were thrown to the wind.
It waa Saturday. Mr. Brown, hit tutor,
had juat left the houee, and the leaaun booki
were put away until Monday. So, with a
free tieart, Dick bounded downttaira,
buckled on hi high riding boots, slipped
into his heavy coat and aet hit scarlet cap
well back on hie curly head. Mr. Wilmer
had gone to Washington on business, and
Mr. Wilmer waa out calling. Dick knew
by eipeiienot that it would probably be
dark before she would return, and it waa
too lonetom in the house. Even Mr.
Brown, who bad been expected to tay, wa
telegraphed for, aa hi wife waa taken sud
denly ill.
So when left atone Dick ran down to V U
liam' room, over the stable. His hand
waa on the knob, and he opened his mouth
to call the groom. Juat then Tom's mock
ing voice cried:
"Go on, baby; call your nurse!"
Dick wheeled around, hi deep blue aye
all ablate with indignation.
"I am not baby, and you know it, Tom
St iraer."
"Then why do yoa always have him,"
pointing a disdainful finger toward the
closed door, "tagging after you? When
yoa are a man youll have a keeper, I sup
pose." "I won't have you talking that way tome.
I'm not a baby, and you know I don't want
William and I only have him because dad
said I mutt!" cried Dick, aturdily.
"Don't yon ever expect to have a mind of
your own I dare yon to go to-day without
him!" taunted Tom.
"Dad said I mustn't."
"William isn't there; he went out juat
as I came in, so he can't go, and you know
Henry is driving your mother' horsee."
"What shall I do, then?" Dick stood for
a moment debating. It was a glorious day,
cold and clear, except for a heavy bank of
clouds slowly rising in the north. It was
tco lovely to stay stuffed up in the houee
all the afternoon.
"It won't hurt you. Ill take care of you,
and we'll only go on the nearby roads.
Come on, Dick," tempted the visitor.
"I ought not to," aaid Dick, slowly. It
was to hard to refute, for he wanted so
much to go.
"Do at you like," aaid Tom. '1 am go
ing." And he carelessly threw himself on
tne waiting pony.
Just at that moment a low, sorrowful
whinny came from Broncho's atall. That
decided Dick; he would not be gone long,
i-H Ire would be very careful oh, very
oarel'ul.
At first his conscience pricked him a lit
tle, but once out in the toft, warm tun
ahine, and (ralloping twiftly down the long
roads, he forgot hit scruples and never be
fore had he enjoyed a ride so much. It was
strange that neither of them noticed when
the sun tank behind the clouds until they
' were completely covered with a soft while
veil of snow.
"Come, Tom, let's hurry home," called
Dick, fiigntesed at the thought of the
hour.
"it s jully now I am not going until the
ground gets covered," laughed Tom.
"1 tell you it's goir g to .be a bad storm.
I am going home now, Tom, and you can
come wnen you please." Dick wheeled his
horse around as he spoke, and galloped in
the oppoMte direction.
"Hi, I fay, Diak, come back!" called the
older boy, but ha was already out of hear
ing. Tom shrugged his shoulders and rede
merrily on.
It was dark when Mr. Wilner rtaiheu
home an:! found his wife in tears', and nearly
wild from anxiety. It was bitterly cold,
and already the anowiall waa quite cup.
Uetween her sob Mrs. Wi.raer told Urn
that Broncho had just come nome wna tie
mojd.t ii.rr.ed.
Mr. Wilmer did not hesitate an insant.
Tnere wan only one boy with whom Die
could have gone, and very soon the anxious
father was catechising Tom Stinier.
"Dick hasn't got home yet?" Tom asked,
a ten iiied look coming over his faoe,
"So. Did you make him go?"
Tom locked down. There was no use in
denying it. Suppose Dick was lying hurt
yr fioztn in the woods.
"Yes, fir; I asked him to go, hut I didn't
think it would hurt," said Tom, eloivly.
"Ccme with ma, air, and show me wnere
he left you," commanded Mr. Wilmer,
iternly.
It was not an easy task, for the blinding
snow made them almost lose their way in
;he moat familiar roads. Hours were sjicnt
in the ticarch, and Mr. Wilmer, Mr. Stinier,
their pervanls and the neighbor lonki'n nn-
lil they were discouraged.
Suddenly a joyful yelp from Dick'i dog,
great mastiff, brought the half frojen
nd t.-,;:ttter, and tne dim lanicrn light
ihed a faint red glow upon a small (igure,
ying hail buried in a drift, while beside
him, with head drooped, stood the mastiff.
Tenderly the father lifted his unconscious
boy and carried him home. No one suffered
as mud as Tom during the doctor's con
notation, huddled up in a little heap out
ride Dick's door. Hours wore by, and still
no ound from the room. At length the
door softly opened, and the, kind old family
phyicia:i c-.me oat.
"Why, Torn, what tre you doing here?"
"Is he is he dead?" sobbed Tom.
"No. my boy; he is very much alive, and
in a few weeks he will he a well as you are.
Was it you who took him?"
"Yea, doctor," aaid Tom, manfully; "1
despite myself for it; he didn't want to
go, and 1 taunted him into it. Iam much
older than he is, too. Don't you think he
will always hate tne?"
"I think, on the contrary, that you and
Dick will be betUr friend than ever. You
save learned the the way of the trans
gressor is not aa enviable one," remarked
tb old doctor, aagely.
And the doctor's prediction came true,
for- in their boyhood, university and man
' hood day Dick Wilmer and Tom were n-parable.-N.
Y. Tribune.
THE CATFISH
AND THE CAT
OF POCHUCK
WHEN th man who alleges
that his residence it over to
ward Pochuck cam this time he
seemed laboring under an emotion
which he w aa endeavoring ti suppress.
"If newt from Pochuck," aaid he,
dropping into hi chair and mopping
hit face on hi sleeve. "It's news from
Pochuck, and it' great. But I wouldn't
'a' believed it. Ho, air, I wouldn't 'a'
believd it."
"And I won't I" taid Bald J, the land
lord, quickly and positively,
"But I teen it!" (aid the alleged Po
chuck citizen, reproachfully.
Yet doubt ttood revealed on th
landlord' face plainer than th wart
on a crook-neck aquaah.
"You believe there' holler itumpa,
don't you?" aaked the man.
The exittenc of hollow (tump
couldn't be denied, even by Baldy, the
landlord.
"And a to jailer cat," the man
went on. "There ain't no doubt about
jailer cats, it there? And jailer cat
hat kitten, don't they?" taid the wan
derer from over toward Pochuck.
"Not if their name i Tom, tbej
don't," aid De Witt Green, of Jollj
Farm, who i bound to have thing kept
atraight or know the reaton why.
The Pochuck citiaen having ettled
that point to th atitfaction of all, it
wa admitted that thr could be no
doubt that jellow cat had kitten.
"And there' catflth, ain't merer
the man asked.
"You'd think thre wa," aid Baldj,
the landlord, "if jou'd be here tome
time when I've been fishing for 'em!"
Some folk would have wondered' whj
nobodj aaid anjthing after that for
quite a tpell, and whj even the man
from Pochuck educed: but the land
lord didn't eem to notice thi behavior.
"And aa to familie of young cat
fish." aaid the man, after awhile.
"Sech thinir hea been heard of,
hain't they?"
Of eourae theT had. Certainly.
"Catfiah and their joung Uvea In
water, don't they?" asked the bearer
of new from Pochuck, intent on set
ting himaelf trair .
No one had anj record of catfiah
livintr more than a day or 0 on
o - -
land.
"And nobodj that ha read about
Xoah and the flood ha anj doubt
that water gits high, now. and then?"
asked the man.
The fact waa well known.
"Well, then," said the Pochuck cit
izen, with a look of triumph at
Bald v. the landlord, "I seen 'em all!"
"When did TOU see the water?"
asked Baldy, the landlord, malicious
ly, and ' Farmer Bill Leonard, who
lives opposite Goose Pond Moun
tain, said: "Shame!" and Farmer
Green aaid? "Tut, tut, Baldy!"
The man who stakes hi word on
his home's being over toward P
chuck cracked the thumb on his
right hand and three finger on his
left, as if defiantly, ana saia:
"Them's the news I've brung over
this time, and I wouldn't 'a' believed
'em. First place, I'd been down to
a Sprout Hill stone frolic. If jou've
never' been to a Sprout Hill stone
frolic it's a leetle hard to give jou
all the n'ints a Sprout Hill stone
frolic has.
"When I got home from the frolic
in the evenin', Uncle David looked
me over and I ee he was kind o'
begrudgin' me.
" 'I see it was a hummer,' sajs he.
"I said it was and I went to bed
and forgot to milk the cows. Next
morning I thought I'd walk over to
the river to see if the water had fell
much, 'cauae it had been uneom-
promiin' high. I ee that it had fell j
consider'ble, 'cause a big holler i.
stump that had been alL covered with
water was showin' sbove it for more ;
than two foot, but the holler in the
stump was full o' water jit.
"I sot down to rest a spell, and as
I sot there what should 1 see Dut a
catfish raise up in the water inside
that toiler stump and peek down
over the edge o' the stump. I never
seen a bigger catfish than that one.
and I've seen some all gozzlin' big
ones in them Drownded Lands waters.
"When the catfish seen how far
below the top o' that stump the river
had got, it looked scared, I tell yon,
and it dropped back into the holler.
'That catfish has been hatchin
its young ones in that stump, not
tliinkin' about the high water, I'll
bet a hoss,' I says, 'and it has been
ketched there unbeknownst to it.'
"I hadn't more than said it, when
up to the top came the catfish
again, and she had her mouth full
o' joung catfish. She give a flop,
and out o' the stump to the water
she went. She released her mouth
ful o' young ones, gethered herself
together, and sprung back into that
tump. In less than ten seconds out
she jumped ag'in with another
mouthful o' joung ones, released 'em
and back into the stump.
"Five time that catfish went in
and out o' the holler stump before
she got all of her young ones out
safe, and awaj she swum, the whole
big litter of kitten fish finlerin'
along in her wake.
"This was interestin', and I sot
there wonderin' on it, when down in
to a dead tree that lny out from the
bank into the river maybe ten foot
or more a yallrr cat came trntiin'
She was the vallerest cat I ever 'ee
and the little kitten thnt waa fc'ie.
In' rights at her heels wasj jest as
jailer as the cat was,
"The old cat prnnced out on ti
the log as fur as she oMl git. am.
that brung her close to the water
She lerooched down, and tha kitten
squatted on the log Jest behind her
and said nothin'.
"There's golnVto be some doln'
here,' say I. 'I feel it In mj bones,'
I ays.
"And sure enough. It wasn't long
before the (loin's begun. Thej start
ed in with the old cat jnbbin' one
of her paws down and snatchin'
somethin' out o' th Water.
As she rix her paw I see It waa
full o' somttli!n' that wiggled anil
squirmed like all possessed, tryln'
to git away. When tha cat sea what
was that she had she spread a
Notice.
My wife, Julia Cyrus and I huve
('liortitod for all tinio to cunio, and
I will not be roejHin(illo for her in
anyway, or any debts she may con
tract. "
V. II. Cyhus.
TO CUHK A 101,11 IN ONK DAY.
smile all over her face. Hr paw
was full o' joung catfiah, and If
there Is one thing that creep or
flies or twlmt or run that cat
like better than another It's cat
fish.
"The old cat picked out a couple
o' the fish and passed 'em back ti
her kitten do the log, and gobbled
the rest o' the handful herself.
They tickled her palate so that she
dabbed both paws down In the wa
ter and brung up a mess o' jrouni;
catfiah in each one, and her and the
kitten got awaj with them and
smacked their Hps,
"Then I looked a little closer and
seen the old catfish that had
rescued her family from the hnlrer
stump. She waa lajin' bj the leg.
lookln' scared, and I seen thst most
of her family o' joung ones was
missin'.
That cat,' savs I, 'la swoopln'
that catfish's familj off the faee o'
the earth, so to speak,' says I, as
lure as wasps astingln'!' anys I.
"The old catfish haon t jest got on
to what was goin' on y it. but when the
jailer cat on the log reached down and
scooped out another handful of the
satflsli familj and divide up with her
kitten, that old catfish actuallj turned
white around the gills. -
She seen it all at last, and with one
all-wollopin' slash of her tail the
jumped onto that log like a britrhj
cow goin' over a barnyard fence, and
Je-e-e-willikens borax! maybe she
didn't swat that yaller cat! She swept
that jailer cat off o that log as if she
hadn't been nothin' more than c
feather.
Then the catfish stepped bsck Into
the water and waited to se. The yal
ler cat scrambled back on to the log,
and her dander waa up as high at it
could git. Oh, but she waa mad.
"She prnnced up and down the log o
minute, and at it ag'in she went, scoop
in' out young catfish and scatterin' 'en,
to the winds so fast that I see there
wouldn't be one of 'em left to tell the
tale unless tile old catfish got her sec
ond wind pretty quick and done some
thin'. "And she got her second wind, and
riz up ag'in that yaller cat ag in most
exilaratin' for to see. Seems to n
for five minutes here wasn't nothin'
to be seen on that log but a whirlin'
streak o' yaller sort o' mixed up with
a whirlin' streak o' black, and cat
cussin'. Merciful man! I jest bail to
plug mj fingers in my ears, I couldn't
bear to hear it so!
"When the whirlin' and back-tnlk
quit, the cattish waa back inithe vvMer.
There was catfish hide stretched here
and there on the log 'most enou;li to
make a raddle, and enough yr.licr had
scattered about to stuff it with. The
yaller cat was sort o lickin' hersell
here and there, and the cattish wus
glarin' at her.
"The kittin' was standin' on the lojr
with her back 'way up, and her tmi
swelled like a roliin' pin, and she win
spittin' away at that catfish fierce a;
wildcats. Tne last one o' the cattish',
family had been swept off the face oi
the earth.
"The catfish, seein' thnt the old cat's
kitten was still left, made up her mind
that she'd put an end to the cat's fam
ily and sort o even things up, h. si.e
sprung back on to that log, grabbed
the kitten, and swallowed it, whole
and alive, right before its mother's
eyes.
"Jumpin' back into the water, the
catfish turned and stuck her big head
out, close by the log, and as the ;ld cut
was tearin' her hair, as you might boy,
or leastways what little she had left,
and was mournin' and miianin' for her
lost kitten, the fish opened her mouth
from ear to ear, bo as the cat could
hear her kitten cryin' 'way down in
the catfish's depths. Say! I could
hear that kitten cry myseif, nay opt
' on the bank where I was settin'!
"Well, that voice of her kitten was
; more than the bereaved yaller cat
'could stand. She pounced square on
I top of the catfish and they both went
! down together.
j "I didn't see nor hear nothin' more
: of either of 'em for maybe three min-
utes, and I made up my mind that the
' cat had gone to join her kitten, when
I see a ripple on the water, and the
next minute the jailer cat come to the
top.
"She swam ashore, and she had the
catfish in tow. The catfish was dead,
and considerable clawed up.
j "The jailer cat drug it out on
: shore. Then she ripped it open with
her claws, and out stepped the kitten,
big as as life and twice as natural, it
'was dazed a little fer a spell, but soon
'got it's bearin's, and trotted away
with the old yallercat as if nothin' hud
happened, and I didn't see 'em no more.
"There," concluded the man from
Pochuck, "them's the news I've brung
1 over this time. Don't jou believe 1
'seen 'em?"
j Baldj, the landlord, lit his cigar
butt, put it in his mouth and said:
"Yes, I do. But jou wouldn't 'a'
seen 'em if jou had tUyed awaj from
the tone frolic."
Thi view of the case seemed to af
fect the man from Pochuck so that he
'got up quick, and without even inquir-
U i tli.r. v .r. nn rw.int ..iiiihd
here in anj waj reaembling those of
the kind he said he had run against at
Sprout Hill, he turned hi lac Po-
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