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Miss Mercy snickered

"You see that p'int ahead of us? Onct a feller ridin' a bronc backed off there They rolled two hundred feet together Wonder it didn't kill 'e: "Oh, how dread-ful!"

"Jest around that bend," went on the entertainer, expectorating with deliberation before he continued, "a buggy tried to pass a hay-wagon It was a brand-new buggy, cost all of 250, and the first time he'd took his family out in it Smashed it to kindlin' wood The woood out of one eye afterward She caught on a tree when she was rollin' and broke four ribs, or soht to a-knowed better than to pass a hay-wagon where it was sidlin' Good job, says I, fer havin' no judgh I was one of his pall-bearers, as an acco, and Miss Mercy's toes were curling and uncurling, though she preserved a cole went on hu spaciously while the slack of the lines swung on the single-tree: "On this here hill the brake on a dude's automo-bubbly quit on him When he come to the turn he went on over Ruined the car, plumb wrecked it, and it must a cost 1,500 to 2,000 They shipped his corp' back East so tightly to Miss Mercy The scenery was subliaze was riveted upon the edge of the precipice soht inches from the outer wheels of the surrey, and life at thewith one hand and pointing with the other, McGonnigle went on with the fluency for which he was celebrated: "That sharp curve we're comin' to is where they was a head-on collision between a chap on a h the cañon He was goin' too fast, anyhow--the ht say, all over the front of the en-jine"

Mr McGonnigle put the lines between his knees and gripped them while he readjusted his hat with one hand and pointed with the other: "You see that hangin' rock? There where it sticks over? Well, sir, two cayuses tryin' to unload their packs bounced off there and----"

A shriek in his ear interrupted McGonnigle at this juncture He turned, startled, to see Aunt Lizzie with her fingers in her ears screa to have hysterics