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sH[STORICAL ROMANC EF.
W P A TNERFORD.
4G fD...0F TUV, GREEK WAR.
8~q bhidtriins, in narrating the
66 r abond war with reat
Britian, have expressed surprise that
atgra'd ,ttempt to gain possession
-~ote Orleans was not made sooner.
BN 3 ian'rt . the attempt was being
'a t :,ntiro years earliet' than the
A a given in popular history.
0 eclaration of war itself, the
James orghnized a mas.
% M t infesiously.eruel selheme
bi tloto. grasp the 'Crescent
n0*6minercial and militarv key
7tippi valley-and with the
-Ouaz outhey also begun the execu
eth ighty armament- at Vien
=in; 6t.the 8 d of December, and the
S jmrin .lines on the.
amtary, wete. not the
ly the latt bloody steps.
d~*i yand most inportant
as to oxcite the South-wes.
sthostility against the
JABionyso as to occupy the unerring ri.
Iloieen of the ad acent States, and thus
16'e in "ritm of the west in a
r.. er defenceless. Accord.
,d n *Tlnglish trader, nam
ed $lhet,.accompanied by a chief of the
northern- tribe of Pottawatamies-the
farfatnod- Tectimseh-visited tne Al.
ab m"6savages, and by the means of
lxtge .rjbes. pid down in British gold.
audadelusive&.,promises of plunder and
etteiided domain, these emissaries final.
ly triceded in. cementing the formida.
abll Creek confederacy, actually com
prisingfltenpUt9usand of the bravest war
riorWv:and directed- by the unparalleled
geiis of Weatherford, one of the most
remokggddigies that ever appear.
eT ( Q-tnnaiy Of mankind.
~ik orahoncient Gauls, the Creeks
of tihIk'erod might be considered un.
derthiewdivisions. One of these in.
habited'thd~ Alabama, another the Coo
58ad thiuliira the Tallapoosa. The
twA9lattrare the upper main forks of
the>Alabama river. The section of the
Coosat -as~ inuch the strongest, andi
~retched westward beyond the Tomnbig.
The .neighboring settlements saw the
Lominousoclotud gathering, but could con-i
coive no means of shelter from its ter
ror.,'orenfety f-rm seeinly inevita
ble destruotion. As a temporary re
lief, they flewv into small forts. What
then delayed the dreadful blow? W hat
chaie'd 'for a time the lightnings of the
stol-ni, all ready to sweep the whole
west with 'a bosom of fire? Tihe great
generalehip- of Weatherford was not
unquestInnable. Why then did not the
Jndlaii HrInibal-avho afterwards ali
m'opt proved a match for the genius of
Jacgsen-our his ten thousand desper
Atoe wgrriors at once in a resitltess tot
* enb of ruinrover the Mississippi terri
*tor7, before the 'American governimenut
aodld oven issuo a sin.le order? H~ad
he done so, New Orleans, in all probat
'?bility, would now he a part of the Brit
Ish .Eippire. ' 'That such a cloud should
go on atccumulating and blackeniing,
wiiotattfivn for months, pre
sents. a mystery hich the sagacity of
no historian has hitherto been able to
solve. ittle did the' many minds
modf M k'td~io; dream that it
inovarb of efeature'saown thrill
ing romegdf ag 'ni4~a it was un
speakably ,pqurnful ~As the present
~..vriter wasutraveling last summer
b~'rouagh Alabamdbe learned 'the follow
lutio Wr n old farmner of
shapi ,.a whoso house he
d ano.2 ao av9.-,' It agrees
of Watha asto omobstrato its
pwfrthta jlrOi <i gug ~arly to the
excluaske f *OV Ne)sil suppo
grion,
Fort Mimms was situated in a vast
forest, near the forks of the Tombigbee,
on the Black Warier. A qu Adrangu
lar wall of enormous pine logs, anud pro
tected at the four corners by four
strong block houses, it might have been
deemed secure .against any force desti
tute of artillery. It was impregnable
to other arms, if properly guarded.
Its garrison nuibered two hundred
and seventy-five, of whom nearly one
half consisted of women and children,
having left their own homes for this un
fortunate asylum. It was bright noon
day, the 3rd of August, 1813, and
fort Mimms had not yet experienced
an alarm, though it had now been man
ned for two long months. The scouts
had reported no signs of Indians for
several weeks past, and hence a fatal
feeling of security had possessed almost
every one. There was one heart with
in, however, throbbing with fearful fore
bodings.
Seated on a wooden stool, in the
company of some dozen others of both
sexes, a beautiful young girl was seen,
whose pale and troubled features attest
ed the keen anxiety of her soul.
'What ails my fair flower, Lucy
Deat, to-day ? Has she seen a ghost,
or been dreaming about Indians?' asked
a fine looking young officer, who had
just entered.
'Oh! she thinks that we will all be
scalped before night, because the hand- 1
some. NInj. Moitgonery left Us this
morning,' cried on of the maidens,
laughing. Lucy's own face colored
with sweeter crimson than ever blushed
on the cheek of an evening cloud.
'No, that is not it, said a merry, mad
romp, arching a ,pair of pretty black|<
eve-brows into a comical expression.- I
She is afraid her old beau, Sultan I
Weatherford, will pay her another vis-|<
it, and she objects to being made 'the i
light of the harem.'
Lucy turned deadly pale at this ral
ly of wit; but she darkened the smile i
playing around the circle, by suddenly t
addressing the officer, in tones so sol- E
emn that they seemed like an unear.a-|
ly warning-'4What said Gen. Clai- <
borne, when he parted with Major I
Beasley?'
'To repect an enemy, and prepare to i
meet him, is the only method to ensure I
success,' answered the officer.
'Then Irok at yonder open gate, and
those children running outside of the 1
fort,'exclaimed the young girl. with a I
slight shudder. 'Is that preparation I
to meet an enemy '
'My spies came in not an hour ago,
and assmued me that there are no Creeks 1
within fifty miles,' replied the comman-|l
der, confidently.
'Olh! then, you do not know the
wonderful art of Weatherford, and we
shall all perish !' sighed Lucy Dean, in
a voice of despair.
Just at that moment a sri.nll boy rush- i
ed into the room, with looks of wvonder
depicted on his countenance, crying
Jut, eagetly -'Ol! sister Lucy, you
ean't guss what I saw in the cane, near -
the river.'
'What didi you see, my son?' iniquir-1
ced Major Reasly, soimething down the
golden locks of the child.
'I saw a negro withI straight hair.
and his face all over- stainied red with
pokebet ries, and he had feathiers on his|
hiead like a bir-d.'
'Indrianis!' shouted Beasly, leaping
c ut of the door.
'In~diains! Indians!' screamed the
w'omen, gathering their chib1irern, and
flying wildly to the block-house.
'IndIians!' resounded from all patt
of the for-t, as the aroused soldier s y ras
ped their- gunls.
But the alarm ckme too late. Tlwo
hundlred painted warr-iers, heaided by
the barbarously brave Weatheriford, ini
person, already occupied the large gate,
wvhieb was literailly bristling with the
steel of British bayon ets, suppJlied by
the inafer-nal felon Ellict, by the ord(er
of the court--a cour-t ever devoid of
counmnon hiumannity as thie dlomestic mn
istry of Lucifer hitiself.
A tr-emuendous contest enasuecd. The
Americans, animated byv the exta nple'I
of Major Beasly, str-ove to push81 the-ir
enemy from the gate. TIhe Creceks,
inspired to phrensy by the trumpet
tongueo of Weatherlord, struggled to
mnaintain their groundl. TIhe weapons
employed by the fronut ranks of combat
ants, werie swords8, knives, tomahawks
and bayonets. Those behind, who
could not get within striking distance,
on account of the throng fighting before
them, resorted to the rifle and musket.
A fter lifteen minutes of frighltful slaugh
ter, the savages entered the fort, but
not till every officer of theo garrison was
dead, or all the soldiers slain or mortal
ly wounded. One might have suppos
ed the triumph of the Indians then com
phete. No doubt they thought so
themselves, as they raised a wild and
deafening yell otinfuriated joy. But a
hnndrad inorn were vat destined tonbite
the dust ero the evening sun should
gild the green pine tops of the western
woods.-'The'y had murdered all the he
roes. What then? They had that day
to learn, if they knew not previously,
that despair can always mould heroines
out of the American women. Sudden
ly the majestic form of the great chief,
We4therford, trembled.--He heard the
voice of Lucy Dean, giving orders and
encouraging the females in the block
houses, to resist to the last extremity.
Immediately every angle .of. the fort
roared with exploding rifiesi touched
off by the wives and sisters of the slain,
and fifty Indians fell to rise no more.
A conflict, still more terrible than the
first, followed, which was finally termi.
nated, when the enemy fired the strong
holds, and with a single exception, all
the women and children perished in the
liames.
"Come down Lucy; you shall not be
harmed. Oh! come down,' cried the
chief of the Creeks imploringly, as lie
saw the red blaze mounting over the
house where he had distinguished her
voice.-.-But his words were drowned in
the shrieks of mothers and their babes,
burning away in the agonies of the
mort tomrtuirinig of all deaths.
"Five thlousand dollars,' exclaimed f
the frantic chief, to the man who breaks
>pen that iroin-bounitd door!' and soon
the shutter started from its hinges, be
1oeath the hail of blows from rocks, I
ammers, and hatchets. Weatherford
nut loose with his sword from the friends
xho would have detained him, and dis- 1
ippeared in the burning building. Af- I
er some ten minutes, the chief issued
orth from the flames, his face blacken. E
d his hair crisped, and his clothes on I
ire, but bearing in his arms the fainting
'orm of Lucy Dean-that precious bur- t
len; for whom he would have plunged, r
vithout shrinking, into fathomless hell e
tself. t
Oh! miracum flo t r Itilove. thou art
n truth the orly ray tlgever reacoj.
hia dark dungeoni of a. world frdo a '
un which bean5s above all the stars; I
mid thou bright essence of celestial b
ther, such as the angels breathe, it is e
Jod gives thee even to the hardest at I t
avagest.hearts. pure as rain drops, and J
a sweet as the cream of Olympian nec- -
ar.
That evening the Creek commander, <
vith one division of his army, set out <
or his own plantation on the Alabama <
-iver. The reader needs scarcely to
)e informed that the beautiful young t
)rphan was carried along with them. r
Five days afte.- the Mussacre of Fort 1
\Iiinns, a man and woman might have I
)een seen conveising inl the Porch of a t
'raimed house, overlooking the Ala
iama. 'I lie woman was seated, and
ippeared to be weeping. The man was 1
itailing, and gesticeilated with much I
miimation, as if engagod in the delive ry
>f an eloquent speech. The world f
:ould not have offered to the view a no
>ler specimen of human organization.
I'al in person, straight and admirably
)roportioned in figure, with every mem- t
>cr cast in classic mould, he might be
pronouniced matchless in material per
ction. All who have perused Clair
orn's "Notes on the W ar in the South,'
w ill recognise in our- portrait the dread
Fu Creek hialf-breed Chief, Weather
uord.
"Yonder is my farm, and fity- slaves,'
uid the Chief, pointing his finger in the
'lirection of a fertile plantation; I am
'issured of a General's commission,
moon, from the greatest nation oii the
earth; and when New Orleans and
~Ismisiania are conqi~uered, I shatll bo a
IH- tish Governor; and all shall be yours,
f you will share my fortune, as you al
readyl~ possess my' heart, undivided.'
WVeatherford pausedi for an answer
ni vain, anid theni continued:
"I have loved you for years; I have
iven yovey 'poss 1e~ile 'proof of ten
.ieriiess. TIhe fortune of war threw
you in m power, and, although my
pasoins are arent as theo sun1 in sumi
1uer, I have never even breathed in
your- ear an immiiodest wish. Oh be!
juist, he generous, dearest Lucy; at least
be imereifuil to onie who has done and
2induiredl so imuchi on your account.'
Thle d~eep~ earne(stne-ss of the speaker
it lenagthi al~peared to produce its effect
."n the young girl. She raised her pale
Face and~ tearful eyes, and remnarked
miournifully.
"You say you love me; then give me
one more evidence, andt I nmay think
better of your proposail.'
"What is it?' lie asked with a look
of intense anxiety.
"Break off your bloody alliance with
the enemies of my country, and bid
your warriors cease to murder innocent
women and children."
"Never!' replied Weatherford, in ac
cents of unutterable determination.
"Your artful deception misled me once.
It cannot do so again. Six toonths
ago you encouraged me to hope, pro
nided I should nt take nart in tba w.,
as a confederate 9 'I . Did you
make good that iM dMi. pledge? Let
your conscience a 4!.r But for my
foolish reliance on Jr Jord, I should
be master of the V# issippi ter.
ritory.'
"Then never spial t4 me again of
love,' retorted Luy Dean, bitterly.
"Very well,' asise" the other,
sadly. 'And now IlA 'y fixed re
sohution.-I shall iet' harn you, or
suffer you to be bafmed; bt Icannot,
will not live withouhge. light of your
sweet face.-You leie yola. 'They
shall attend you always, and you shall
go with my army. YoT'shall bie in hear.
ing of my battles., *'' shall see you
every day, but wilt *dver speak to you
more-no, not one syllable-unless you
get on your knees and 'pray to 'me as
God. Thus we two lfve in a strange
md terrible wedlock atd *hen you die,
[ will die also; and #6 sball be burried
n the same grav'eiiAnd the chief
:alled the savage gNarcl who bore off
Lucy to her apartmen.
Weatherford wasrii to his fearful
romise. The wretoled girlwas in the
ear during every aqceq ig engage
nent, and was carried away by her
lusky attendants'inite v4h of every
ight. How awful tifst have been her
motion amidst the horrors of a dozen
ombats. At all Dean
ras in hearing of th ept by
icr unchanging gua a still, every
lay the great chief ld,*ast his eyes
vith a melancholl A e fading
icauty, and yefa ne sed her
gain! -
Never did the ri
hino on braver ol eek
ndians; and neve OWMA
D battle by a mor
han Weatherord
oism was foicd'
qual courage,ai
-Oil the' lon A - o o
nes of Weatherforti, entinched in a
end of Tallapoosa, called, firon its
ingular shopethe 'Iforse Shoe.' As
he position in front was stormed, the
ndians turned for shelter to their
own, in the rear. But lo ! no town
ras visible only an impenetrable sea
f rolling smaoke surmounted by pillars
f soaring fire. During the obstinate
ngagement, the Cherokee allies of the
mericans had swum the river, kindled
he dry huts, and cut off all chance of
etreat. From the first moment of the
ttack, foremost amongst the self-ap
>ointed 'forlorn hope' who ascended
he perilous wall, was the accomplished
dnijor General Montgomery of Virgin.
a-(the capital of Alabama speaks his
kame to all time.)-After the route,
iis humanity urged him to rush through
lie blazing village, to rescue from the
lames the women and children. Sud.
lenly lie met an American girl flying
vildly forwards. She was so pale, and
ier features were a> distorted by terror,
hat he did not know her until she sunk
ainting into his arms.
"Oh, Lucy! my own Lucy!' was all
he astonished officer could murmur,
cissing her clay-cold cheeks. Then
~ame a quick flash and a sharp roar,
md Major Montgomery lay on the
;rouind a corpse. Weatherford, in pias
ing, hotly pursued by a score of (Cher
kees, had fired a pistol at Lucy Dean.
hich took effect in the heart of her
:hoacin love.
The Creek chief' himself appeared to
ear a charmed life. Without a wound
mnidst ali the carnage, he distanced
lie swiftest racers, and plhnging into
lie river, through a rain of hissing hul
ets, escaped to the farther shoro, and
vas lost in the loft y forest. M v infor
nant near the point where Weatherford
oughut at the storming of his lines, and
ieard him exclaim in tonies of terrible
lespair: "God's curse he on England
ternally, for the death of my nation!'
NOn:.--Lucy Decan residea in the town or
uIontgomnery, Alaniamn, andu is~ the wife, of a
e~spectable mnerchuant, anid mzothier of several
irc'mising chil~dre,,
Domt sTIC END EARIMENTS----I hold
t indeed to be a sure sign of a mind
iot 1,oised as it ought to be, if it be
usenstible to the pleasuro of home, to
lhe little joys and enidearmenats of a
hmuily, to the affection of relationus, to
lie fidelity of domestics. Next to be.
ng well with his own conscience, the
'riendshaip ad attachmient of a man,s
'amily and dependanits seems to me one
f the most comfortable circumstances
>f his lot. Ihis situation, with rogard
:o either, fornns that sort of bosom com-.
bort or disquiet that sticks close to him
it all times and seasons, and which,
hough ho may now and then forget it,
urmidst the hustle of pub'io or the hurry
>f active life, will resume its place in
ais thoughts, and its permanent effecta
n his happiness, at every pause of am*
jition or or husimca
T DZNARCLB.
'.0 that he wers here to w.emu down--an
as I but, renhemIer,.maatoIs, that I am an -se;
though it may not be writion down, y5iforgot
not that I am an l -:-" -,
Shuball Watson was a true sfecrAen
of a live Yankee pedlir; shrewd, cau
tious and perserverin "At tprgain
ing he was8'whole tenisi ho ex
pressed himself, and dould sell inoe 'tin
ware in a day than any other man in
the Bayitate. .e d- ? d occu
pied a'sainll old fsbiip a- eoy
lookiig h6ti tsn-o der aIn qcre
lot;de I irqni~o s' "dthi
birth-place of a lodt lgine 'of Ma t ns,
which fate, fortune, and th 9owing
tide of population, willed should nunvbe
the very centre of the aristocratic 'l
lage of C-. Several large and ele
gant- modern mansions, looked dqwn
with a true lordly air from what had
been a few years since vaca'nt lots, p
on Shube's humble hame,- and seemed
to be thoroughly diagusted with the
view and ador'of his p6tato patch and
barn yard. Squire Wigglesby, the
Dogberry of C-, and fully worthy
the honors of his celebrated prototype,
was Shube's'nearest neighbor, and was
particularly ashamed of his proximity
to the moss-covered and dirty red hov
el. He, together with his ypathi
sing neighbors, heartily wishe it at-,
any where rather than1 where it' was,
aind had made several Je'w-like effo a
to purchase from Shubj that sjn;1e
acre; but he was in no dispositioui to I l
ever replying: 'Dod rot it.Idor't sac
ly like ter sell the hifmistead; I adon'
know what I might be teinpted tu du,
for mopey; but dod ro't'it - don'
like ter sell.'
_or this, if for no other reason, thoy
hated him, and-felt a dispostion to an
noy hin as' much 0 6A6seb4--.4noug
pe4a tinfo- fore hir t._ si af their
price. Nurzberlsts, rhen, were the
they never returnedlivefif
t6ok a notiet's adat air
gate and wandereadinWthe ,t'h" a 0
wah int pound as -if by c; faiidio'
Shube summoned before SquieW ig
glesby and fined to -the extent of tle
law. At ws no use to rerkonstrate,
the Squire, with all the inflation' of a
little brief authority, only put it dn har.
der, and Shube wassoon unhappy'Ah a
'cat in a atrange garret.' One morning'
this winter he prepa.r4 for. profes
sional tour among the neighborimg
towns. io first packed his wares in
an old, unpainted', steep-roofed, box,
placed upon a sleigh bottom, and cov
ered it with sundry specimens. of his,
wares; such as tin lanters, pans, pots,
enIlenders. wooden ware, &c., and or
namented in the rear with a huge bay
to contain miscellaneous plunder; he
then fastened between the thills old
'Barebones,' as he was generally known
in the neighborhood, a sleeply looking
skeleton of a horse of a tarry white col.
or, whose head and tail felt the attrac
tion of gravitation forcibly, and then
finished off b'y buckling around 'Blare
bones's' neck a string of large, old fash
ioned bells, many of which were so worn
that clappers had fallen out long since.
Thujis equippedI Shube wrapped an old
patch quilt around his feet, flourished
his stick, and proceeded down the
street at an ambling pace, whilst the
fewv deep, frog-croaking base bells at
01(1 'Barebone's' neck, like the casta
nets in the Cachuca, kept time to the
motion of' his feet. IIe had not pro
ceeded far- before lie was suddenly as
tonishied to see two myrnmidons of the
lawv in the shape of constables rush into
the street and seize old 'Blarenones' by
the bridle, who not being accustomed to
o"ch high4wayman-like proceedings,
raised his head fur once in his life and.
snortedl.
'llollo ! yeou--I say--what are yeou
about ?' asked Shube, with astonish
ment.
'A bout ? about to take you before
the Squire.'
'What for ? I shu'd like ter know!'
'Never you mind wihat for; como
along and you'll find out fast enough,
'Git cout, now-yu don't fool me
I say--let go, yeou.'
'Make a fool of you ? no, no, some
body ahead of us there--but come,
along quiietly or we'll complain of you
for resisting an officer, and then 'ti be
double fine.'
'Fine ! 0 snakes and beeswax!
Now ii this don't beat all!I Wa'alj
now I shu'd jist likater know what on
arth I've done; soliloquized the poor
victim, as he patiently followed like a
sheep to tbeslaughtor. Ia fet inin
utes the party were in the presence of
the veritable Squire Wigglesbyhimself.
'Wa'al, now, Sqpiaro, isn't thi8.hI
shu'd lika ter kriew,' cdrnaood dli
*onideig Shuball.
'Silence ! thundered ob~ Si
elen~ds of frowns bathred n~ his how.
eg yert9nor.
fef p~o~gets the string of bells
liellfrist ftom. Bareboneaa'. ndck
were in the.courts
'Examing and- report' -aidhe s
plenteJustle, - 4 -
h 6 e ry 1d t
son', said gleuly, as uming 4 Lo
vpre look p mfop ts he turn
qto hamsed -psdlar, 'howis I that
ou 4ily bigr mebow-is it thai
yos are evon kreakighelaws ofI& f
conUtry ? trespassing upen the -rights
of-your neighbotasinterfefing -ritb the
regulations of the bommonwealth? ati.
sing--'
'Now &fte I awo s 'tis, pr
that- -
'Silence' no f d of nteim._.
Shubl a n edollars
and costO o~ p6t Ir beig 1upon .
higway of the9; Qm9nwe4lh, to the
great danger of the liif and limb 9f the
commonwealth, with but thee bells at
tached to your sleigh or vehible wheti
the law clearly and-expressly bafs that
the number shellbive oro,'-'nd
mhy this boa ileti noth n"tb you tn
futuenid siidiftd *to your d
'Whew.!.Je. i 'at 1. -godoS.d
felWellus9 , ap': yqi~
Neusd sa rwho goiod
0ess0ka0 a,0 them1re thre'l nake
more nioise tlhat aul bushel-basket-full
of the-little thimble-i glingIings that
are on your slej
knows no distidetin bet*i t
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edlbo itohjteslf
The followiniiXraght .wss.brigbtV ad,
clear, ad the sars twinkled-out iobldiF
from their cov'erts in the sk. The
earth- was Clothin its intry mantle,
and the ice covered trees glis4ened like
daiinonde. iTh'ai as frand-bitin' 1
whilst-the 'woe stgori an the I
Ja! were fasp e s
ry sleigh beNs, had cease them nusie, A
and the inbabitants of C-.-adlong a
since retired to. their slumbers, 'wben:
suddenly a terrific crash and ringing i
was.heard in the stridets that started 1
every one from thei' -beds. What i
could it be ? was it Efrt? was it the I
dreaded Peter Ru'ng? Windows few 1
up, and night' caps protruded, despite
the severity of the atmosvhere. On it
comes -crash-ban gin-dongroit,
tlety whang ! and to the wonder o, all,,
old iBerebemes' ambles along,,his head.
and tail drooping as usual, Shubo sitting.
bolt upright, and flourishing his stick,
with- five large cradked church-bells at
tachedto lisa cart in various places ring.
ing on horrid discordant pealk ujon the
night air. Some- wondkerd, .~ 50ome
laughed, some swore, and closed their
windows with an. impatient blam~
'H~allo ! hallo ! what is this? who are
you that thus disturbs this neighbor
hood, making night hideous?' cried the.
enraged dispenser of justice; Squire
Wigglesby, as lie learned from his 'win.
dow? ?'who are you? I'll have you ta
'Bells! is bells .' shricked Shube as
lie shot round the corner of the Squire's
house, whilst Wigglesby drew -in his
head like a turtle. Dowrn Chbstnutgiup
Grove, through Walnut andi along Co
udar street hurried Shube; old Bare
bones seeming to gather life at every
step, and evidently well pleased with
his 'iiseion.
'Good heavens! has that demon
come again ?' eried many inr dismay;
'shall we never get sleep i
Old 'B~arebones' was aboard again,
and Shube flourished his stick and harn
died his ribbons as gracefbi I fina~
king time 'inside ei'2:40.
'Mr. Watson! Mr. Watson! ceded
Wiggleshy fronm his window; 'do. g
home, Mr. Watson, and let usr l~
come, that's a good fuan, da; t e
A joke, but this is d#rying ij
too far.'
'Bell.i belly &qire e
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cried Shuebe as he
weneat thib epp
matsin~ % drivo sleen from the Hetof
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