Life — May 9, 1895 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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THE cowboy was sitting in a chair tilted back against the shady side of the saloon, taking it easy, when one of his friends came by. ** Hello, Dick!" he said. ‘* What's this story about the barkeep over the way calling you a liar yisterday and bullyraggin’ you around for an hour or more?” ** That's what be done,” admitted Dick boldly, “What did you let him do it for?” “bad my reasons.” “ "raid of him?” Dick jumped up. ‘Hold on there, pard,” he said.“ You ain't in the same fix that the barkeep was, and it ain't safe.” “Don't you worry about me, What about the barkeep ?” “Well, it was this way,” explained Dick.‘ The barkeep was negotiatin’ fer a policy on his life fer $10,000 in favor of his widder. The business wasn't settled till this mornin’. Now it’s in working order, an’ I'm going over after a while and give him a chance to bullyrag me some more. Then Vil go round and have a little talk with the widder, You must think I'm a chump that can’t see past the end of my this spirit of independence was early manifested in a school- girl living in a Massachusetts town. She had, too often, perhaps, been made to acknowledge the superiority of her brothers, One day her mother remarked upon the apparent utter lack of intelligence in a hen. “You can't teach a hen anything,” she said.‘ They have ruined more of the garden than a drove of cattle would, You can teach a cat, dog or pig something, but a hen—never !” “Hm” exclaimed the child indignantly, ‘I think they know just as much as roosters !"— Youth's Companion, How true it is that a guilty conscience needs no accuser was well shown by the following little occurrence : A gentleman went out of town for a day’s fishing, taking a luncheon with him, When he reached the creek he dis- covered that he had dropped the luncheon somewhere on the way, and hastened back to look for it, By and by he met a burly negro, who looked very well pleased with himself and was picking his teeth, “Did you pick up anything in the road as you came BIGLTRY. By Mary Kyle Dallas. New York: ‘The ‘Merriam Company. ict O Boon. 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