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"Noticing a brown spot on my arm, I touched it It was squashy and pulpy Then it moved! A leech--and it sunk a million feet into me as soon as I attempted to remove it I was black with theusting--blood-suckers, sucking ine my horror"

Mr Cone tried to

"Another wo continued, "but I come of different stock, and ancestry will tell at such ht all through the Civil War as a sutler Not a sound passed ot back to shore, somehow, and, weak froet rid of the leeches

"In e that I had a match--only one little ht build a sether, struck , who had stopped to look after the trunks, scuffled in the doorway, and in his eagerness to greet hi was reciting for his benefit Nor did he ever hear its ter if the later train had brought any als, a commotion on the veranda was followed by the appearance of Mr and Mrs Henry Appel

Mr Appel was using a stick and walking with such difficulty that Mr Cone hurried forward and asked with real solicitude: "My dear friend, whatever is the ot his clutches on you?"

"Rheumatism!" Mr Appel snorted "You lie on your back with 2,000 pounds on top of you and see how you like it!"

Mr Cone was puzzled, and said so

Mr Appel explained tersely: "A bear walked on me--that's all that happened A silvertip stood on the pit of round his heel into

"If it were not for the fact that I'm quick in the headand saw the bear co to happen, and that I had one chance in a thousand It flashed through er will inflate itself to such an extent that a wagonthe toad uninjured I drew a deep breath, expanded id It was all that saved me"