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"He won't git a chanst to look in my face for soether they filled the grain sack they had brought and carefully replaced the plank, then, staggering under the weight of the load, ulch, buried the sack, and hteous sense of having acted as instru selfishness, they returned to town to follow such whims as seized them under the stimulus of a bottle of Mr Tucker's excellent Bourbon

The constable had been asleep for hours when a yell--a series of yells--h of resignation got up, dressed, and took the key of the calaboose froht back," he said to his sleepy wife, who seeht in front of the Prouty House he found theuests ere leaning from their s to applaud

"Ain't you two ashamed of yerselves?" the constable de to the fact that Pinkey and Wallie had divested the in their stocking feet

"Ashamed?" Wallie asked, impudently "Where have I heard that word?"

"Who sold liquor to you two?"

"I ate a raisin and it fermented," Wallie replied, pertly

"Where's your clothes?" To Pinkey

"How'sh I know?"

"You two ought to be ordered to keep out of town You're pests Co!"

"Jus' waitin' fer you t'put us t'bed," said Pinkey, cheerfully

The two lurched beside the constable to the calaboose, where they dropped down on the hard pads and te in Wallie's face when he awoke and realized where he was He and Pinkey had been there toothe pencilled es and criticisms of the accommodation left on the walls by other occupants he subconsciouslyof sha himself in a cell

He are that it was accepted as a fact that he had gone to the bad He had been penurious as a es as a coht from the State After that he had never saved a cent, on the contrary, he was usually overdrawn He gaet drunk, since he calculated that he gotelse, even at the "bootlegging" price of 20 per quart which prevailed