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cheese to toax the mouse down, but I did not dare to Jet go for fear
it would run up. Matters were getting desperate. I told her to
think of something else, and 1 kept jumping. Just as I was ready to
faint with exhaustion, 1 tripped over an icon, lost my hold, and the
mouse fell to the floor very dead, I had no idea a mouse could be
squeezed to death so easily.
That was not the end of trouble, for before I had recovered my
breath a fireman broke in one of the front windows, and a whole com­
pany followed him through, and they dragged hose around, and
mussed things all over the house, and then the foreman wanted to
thrash me because the house was not oil fire, and I had hardly got
him pacified before a policeman came in and arrested me. Some one
had run down and told him T was drunk and was killing Maria. It
was all Maria and I could do, by combining our c’oqucncc, to prevent
him from marching- me ofiT in disgrace, but we finally got matters
quieted and the house clear.
Now, when mice run out of the cupboard, T go out-doors, and let
Maria "sh o o " them back again. T can kill a mouse, but the fun
don’t pay for the trouble.— J oshua J ^ nkiws,

A LOVER WITHOUT ARMS,

[The figures refer to the corresponding numbers in P jtt I.]
A C A P T A IN went2 to Gettysburg
And plunged into the fray/
A n d w hile he led his brave command
B oth arm s'® were shot aw ay.

This Captain's name was Peter Field,
And he was tall and stout;
But when he found himself disarmed
His courage* "petered out.”

Now Peter, at a country fair,
A fair young maid had m et;