Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1890, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1890—TWELVE PAGES. 9 ee LS ee an Hal , i ; : . Lay the back of a chair on a table, encirele one QUEER SORTS OF PLANTS, Dunalian Hall, in St. Mary's county, Md. Thad | that kind-hearted household have disabused her | treat, mind vou, while thisis advance. For-| | ‘And won't them Munnimachers sing small sev |i * <u A CHRISTMAS TURKEY. |2e32ee, te ae it re | marshy, brambly ground we wna suoligtan4 **)TRICKS WITH STRINGS. | seer ei bg BE ome Curtesttivesn Exhibition st the Rattons§ Z £ | ma into ly—-marrying a cousin rs. Q ARS “ 7 d the left end in D (fig. 9); ask! a custom in Marviand to keep | a8 if I had been their dearest child, and. Miss | plunged and scrambled slong until we came to | “Ah!” Teried again, “but don’t you think & ani ak | sg aati cai fhe lard tn the emily seas the Ed ievibodine emg Denpepend owed and” ee onto »eppoalie =— _ Cousin Jo- ey gg yeas: am |fome one to place a cane on the napkin A WEED THAT HORKES GET DRUNK O8—PLowsy o Dunallan Hall fine | to me anair of great condescension. nas wished me over; » bles frightened Something 4 a 7 a aes HOW GRANDMA STOLE ONE| Now Punallan of Ea oe fg him that I had learned some! By | ue away wi ic fring, but it ain't so jolly to Practice Winter Even. Te ee ee eae \deed, grand. | which I wan brosaht A mediow ataed a i . WHEN SHE WAS A GIRL. _| We dmitted that it hed indeed, and iment with whitewsahed walle and ceding Bung | ime. ‘Telimbed to” the top ofthe fence, but | "Wot ts any treat’ erent en course I an- ings Around the Center Table, HEADARIUD AND mow IT OOLLMCTOITSSPECINERS, “Jn fect the Dunallans were descended from | aroun with engravings of Bible subjesta buffeted by the wind and bothered by my long | swered with a toss, for I was as young and & pansy oy jan ancient and noble family in the north of | the front and side windows by blue | cloak and worried by Cousin intecfer~ | sain as Y Vicletta is now and did not stop to re- : XN A GLASS CASE im WRITTEN EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE EVENING | England, with quarterings of the royal arms on | paper shades; a bare floor with a large home- | ence, I once more lost my f and fell over | feo had really been frightened nearly / PTRESIDE AMUSEMENTS. saan a * their shields. this and much more I had | made rag rug before the broad open wood fire | the fence and rolled over and over, down a | out of my wite;‘“but it js wonder that they o — STAR BY MESE D.E N. SOUTHWORTH. — / jearned from Molly Dunallan while she was yet | and rich old mahogany tables and chairs, set | thorny bank and dumped into s ditch at the did not follow us up more closely with their vs partment ars my room mate at the academy and before she | back formally against the walls. Molly took | bottom! Once more my leader jumped the | guns, : 3 = = ae cvltare which - had gone home to marry her cousin, Jonas | away my chizchilia hood and cloth cloak and | fence like a »groyhound anid piked'me ap and | | “Feared to! feared to! Feared we'd return | Games That Two or More Can Play, With ae ae {Copyriichted,} Dunellan. “A death in our family hed prevented | auns made room for me af the fi and re- | shook and wiped and and scolded by | the faror and fire back! re lied Cousin Jonas. | Lote of Fun for All the Rest—A Chance to nae waar on Se 7 me from going with her to be her bridesmaid, | peated all the questions that bad been asked | turns. i fe had now reac oreo, There were | Learn Some Pretty Tricks With Fingers |jaiq ai wal ae noses aes owen py WV BAT sroald you say, my dears, if 7 were fo vou see T never met her husband nor | me by Molly. _Batore I could aanawer, half of | "So much = your obstinacy, oe saattered, | no s eects the windows ee pod pberpcin Md [rand with toe bee of the chats, cer oy there to tell you that I bad once stolen a Christ- | hail [ ever seen her new home. But my youth- | them a colored woman came e door and chee Cousin Dolly that’ the neem the a1 er mpd — 0. ‘Bin ene af te cots ar ae z most inter- = imaginati i i - | said: 4 ble, Miss Peggy.” | fence to climb, and that without any ditch or the light from the fire and can one peg footing vegetchaneusia mas turkey? ful imagination was highly excited by the an-| said: “Supper am on de table, 2 be sealed yy nll oh el poy ay emmy = on oe Amazement petrified us for s moment, and | Meipoton of are eatinner euntely | into the ball fae ripen oy back do J inte | "Wan thare no betior way to reach the man’s | Jonas put the lantern down and knocked. From the New York Herald. — hod begin — stone mansion surrounded by # park and shaded | the dining room, which was in keeping with | place? This is horrible!” I said. Molly's, maid, Ary, christened = PERFORM TRICKS WITH A STRING is re ae by great forest trees; and stone stables and | the rest of the house, whitewashed is, bare eee is @ better way a mile or so | open door. We entered an = = a little society accomplishment. It is much a plant native to Cem kennels and everything that my reading led me | floors, old mahogany furniture and a geriows meer — aes firough his ‘park’ oo speiehs s a oe Peg tt iy pat where congas | like Galug tricks oi and juggiery. It tre] America and knowm in z ane 1e " y seal does ecioer Ge meteen fae ee eee “cred batt | peal table Store thr oped Cont aro sopuped | msds nnterchas sea ot eu ade be toc “A turkey 12" baret forth Whe catches | tionid at the idea of mecting such great people, | But the supper! In contrast to the simplic- | wouldn't suit our purpose! ‘This will. ‘This is | in their usual avocations of knitting or sewing. | preparations, no machinery. ames in a roundelay from Ev, Luand Vi while the! tor my own dear father was only a poor lawyer | ity of the whole house, such a supper! I doubt | the short cut, as I nai A ea Cunt tossed his cap to « distant chair |” Such tricks ere performed from start te flower shes two imps Til and Tim stared opened mouthed | of no it means, though of superior mind | if manyrich peopleever sat down to halfsogood | So throngh the evergreen scrub iar ‘and stood rene Cunorecri ne ares finish right under the eyes of the spectator, head coverings, Defore the bud of this queer asopen eyed at the venerable gentlowoman | and culture. He, my father, put ine under the | @one!” ‘Tea kad oofiee of the best; ereent aud | scratched be the branche reeked by the melt- Secicchstised Malis ts | MuAaRGn Seite aA cage more ane | vegetable opene it ie covered with © brOeR oe the col-| care of the captain of the little schooner that | butter of the richest; bread, hot and cold, of |ing snow; wet and cold, and tired an: fi: ~ aan get r | fibrous case somewhat the shape of an umbrella where very name wisaqyacuym fer the ott | ee ties dave plied between Georgetown and | several kinds; oysters, fish, game, cakes and | gusted, I trudged on after Cousin Jonas to- | finest turkey in the state of Maryland! and not | can be learned without trouble and in avery = on eee rar lective Christian virtues—‘ amother in Israel,” | Nortolx, stopping at all the little river-| preserves. The only drawbeck wes that the | ward the last fence. As we neared it we were 4s ball in us, though we were fired at at least 8 | short time. FIG. 10. cover and about two and n half feet long. This a leader in religious revivals, an eloquent | gide landings and running up all the Post and hostess expected the ‘guests Ge of =r | by the barking at gh gee wd apes hire that be- |, U have said more than enough, says a writer | $204 oUt; ——- bayey J pectin ae oe off by the ee <= oceasion: ine | i f | everything on the table, and to eat plente-| “Oh, Cousin Jonas!” 1 cried, “the dogs have ; Sahin Wace 27 “aria air, and pull the napl ower, and being folded in telescopie Preacher on 5. lameenbagesoererdicgeme| (apd aed yg ame pore Re felt aggrieved that I did not. given the alarm and now the man will come out | came a battle-ax heroine. in the Paris 1: Illustration, to justify the study | air, it wili come loose as by enchantment . Then eae ee ee eee eee ne | recie ene pment aricae aa tke |: hime ee ee (oe a “shot at! Oh, my Lord! My Lord! You | of some of the tricks that I indicate here. THE IMPALPAMLE COND. Shane ts aise shone thet saeameaie spiration as it seemed now with homely, house Een a ee ee ae nes | thin ee este Jom on the river | and shoot ust will be Iynched by the mob!” | might have been’ killed, Jonas!” eried Molly, | Each one constitutes a lewling type, around| Tie together the mene nc oe ick dirtitg ut |eumens on" Teaoes tn ee hold humor es she made this astounding ©on-| took over a week by the little schooner Maidof | duck for you! Molly knows I was,” Cousin | said Cousin Jonas. hysterically, which can be grouped varieties of every kind. | qhouta yard in length. Aska lady to present to | horses drunk. ‘The taste for this “loco” plant fession. All Work. Beset by head winds, which com- | Jonas complained in an injured tone. ‘But that wouldn’tdo us any good! That ‘You will bring my Sreg— greg gray In order to follow me with profit in my some- 7 : : is uot natural, but the entando ant th eamelnaee She steal a turkey! Steal anything! And pelled her to tack from shore to shore, it was} I did my best to satisfy him, and soon, to my | wouldn’t bring us to life again!” I cried. hairs—” began Aunt Peggy, but she at ‘whiak Guy Gecatuslralions tha confiacs @aukh 40 Db when other forage is short. Having ones look so sly over the self-accusation! I said | not until the afternoon of Christmas eve that | relief, his thoughts reverted to something else. | “Don't you be afraid, Cousin Doll!” overcome by the difficulty of expressing her meer a Hr = acquired the appetite in this way they prefer 18 nothing at all. I thought her mind going. She| she reached Blackstone's Landing, where | “Molly, what do you think Iheard at Black-| “Buf oh, how those dogs bark!" emotions. ition | ree, 8 Piece of string in hand, to reproduce to anything elw our it greedily. b was over seventy! cousin Jonas had been notified to meet me. | stone's today? | “Never you mind, the brutes know me. Til} | “And while you were out on your expedition | the different phases of the operations and, as eaves tag te 4 tg “Yeu, a Christmas turkey!" added grandms | And there at Blacksione’s Hotel large barn | (What "ingired his wife. ans | sear Tees sett, Soot a we get on tho other | £0 the poultry hones ofthe low-born person, | fast as they are explained, verity by the iius- it tne Diind ecet af hardened toue. i i house—cousin Jonas with a| “Why that fraud, Munnimacher, swears side o' yy at ad by , youn i preness way, ec el mee eee 1 SChrintnas tarkey "echoed Vi, as if that pee reamet ous close carriage and a fine |i anybody comer after his turkeys tonight he'll} | We tradged on a few yards farther and then | man,” began Miss Penelope P- Poindexter, | trations. : 5 | barred gate, and otherwise conducting them added heinousness to the humiliating con-| pair of bay horses—the wedding present of | shoot‘em like any other thief!” he stopped. _zgur own premises were raided and your finest | _ For the purpose of abbreviation we will desig- ‘d sclvea absurdly. “Finally they ewell ap and feasion, Miolty's tather awaited me. The carriage and| | Exclamations of disgust and abhorrence | | “Here we are, Cousin Doll! Over this last | turkey taken off. : ‘ »» | Bate the right and left hands of the performer | actnatty bors open. At one time a bounty waa “Yes! a Christmas turkey,” ted grand-| horses were all that could, be wished. but | broke from all the eompany except Mixs Penel-| fence and then we aro at our journey'send,” | ‘Great whaloe and little fishes! Is that 60?” | by the letters Dand G: hand @ will be the offered te 1 plack up ed ma. with a solemnity that was belied by the it-| “Dunallan of Dunallan Hall” was ‘a trifle dis- | ope P. Poindexter, who drew. herself up in | said Mr, Dunallan, cried Cousin Jonas, starting back aghast. of the amateur who wishes to try the expe! c |na' Sept tee ny id Sow agen reprossible humor that twinkled from her eyes | appointing. A tall, awkward, red-haired and | dignity, and myself, who felt ond no doubt | “Ob, but the doge Cousin Jonas! ‘The dogs Yes, it iat” chimed in Cousin Molly. “Unele | ment; d and g will be those of ‘x second. aun emai! sane rae, os and the corners of her pursed up lips. | red young man, dressed in an over-| looked puzzled. But nobody was noticing me | just hear them! They will tear us_to pieces!” | Nat heard the by barking. You know his | teur when his help may be needed. you the back‘of her hand and to hold the in- | ‘2% suspicion that Lu and Vi sighed; the imps stared. coat too large for him, and boots and hatditto, |for ‘the ones! "And te the animated disens- | I cried, half dead with fright, and fully con- | cabin is close by the hen house. So he went | “Let us begin with a very simple trick. hex Rumer oath. $0 uhh aon Ee nz | the farmers h profit in cultivating at, “Ob, Linow how it was,” said Vi. “Of course, | came out from the bar to meet me as I ad-| sion that followed I learned some curious facts. | vinced that nature had never intended me for | there to see what was the matter. He got there eat fan Gay preheat eatery hota Sy ,20d the bounty was withdrawn, it was grandpa’s turkey: that was, of course, | vanced, escorted by Capt. Mike Townley and | There prevailed in that county m Christmas |» Di. Vernon or a Holon MoGregor, o& over | jut in time ta sec’ two: persons rusntog neue Mie together the two ends of a sufficiently | ro Tae tee other being bs sscedieopeg yonr own, that you took for some charity.” | followed by a sailor with my trunk on his custom so questionable that we must think it | henroost robbing gipsy ! A with a turkey that was squawking awfully 5 raue§ poe Af gene = atunae iowa. a 5 continued Vi, and we all drew a deep breath of | shoulders. He met. me gravely and politely | ‘more honored in the breach than in the ob-} “I didn’t think you were such a coward!” | ‘Oh! just in time to see them running away. | long string (two yards at least), hold;the knot jana pr esp * m there is the ead. | Covtabaly. Gubeustat | With something of a rustic shynews in his man- | servance"—-a well-understood and fully recog | said Cousin Jonas, with « sigh. Nat always gets in time for that. Well, what | in your hand and spread the string on a table | in question isto regain your = ows in the southern states, which is newly “No, indeed,” said grandma, “it was nothing | ner. and told me that Molly had been at Black- | nized night for any man to get possession of| ‘‘Neither am I!" I cried, my vanity wounded. | then? He gave the alarm, and every nigger in such a way that the | ng into use for such purposes as its name of the sort. The person I went to steal the tur- | stone's with the carriage every dav for the last bis, neighbor's —— eae if he coms nee ies = i Tumble over once more ee ® gun fired. of course,” said cousin tia autraeiiins f° the indicate. ft fs very durable, oomething Mie a e."" cting me, and that he was very | and for his neighbor e e. | if you won't let me help you.” mas. ia : d foe Psy rae : eae Siont Fou Na taeeeer erika is he | ee oe ne And he who could prove that be exhibited on | Leertainly would mot ‘and told him so. I|~ “Ne, Jonas, they didn't, You know very paper toler “pipet waedad prc bes roe He liad stolen it from you first of all,” |" ‘The captain explained the delay by speaking | his dinner table on Christmas day the finest | considered that I had some practice in climb- | well you gave strict orders that not a gun was pec nga Bie aes marse Turkixh towel when empl marty at gested of the head winds and a rough voyage all the | turkey, whether he obtained it by fair means | ing and had gained some experience, so I made | to be fired at oe one who _— come to our pres yb piace “4 th it is found serviceable in ‘o, I never owned the turkey or heard of | way from Georgetown. or foul, was to win prize. “Tom Alston,” | my third attempt. I reached the top of the | hen house tonight. Besides, all the men except na. j sre pe or ‘the man before the night I went to steal | "Then Consin Jonas, after consigning me to| name frequently on Mr. Dunallan’s lips, had | fence in safety, paused, and was meditating a uncle Nat were out on a coon hunt. polgor ye “ee mo is extitbite it egetabl very plant, . the care of a colored chambermaid, invited the | got Cousin Jonas’ turkey last Christmas’ and cgutions descent, when t the burs of dogs npon noObsvet! But Theard firing close to the See pees h ina.cort of palm, ‘native te the tropics, “ some i Urpose, in i e bar to take a drink with him, | thereby won the prige—a ric! mount Yousin Jonas so terri me that lost my | house.” : tl Mf ne ie gro “oa neers mead ee Be seck ina a sen ghia of hot | fowling-picce—for Pihowing the. heaviest | footing and tumbled heels ‘over head with «| | “Sodid we. It was from the coon-hunting Se = Bach pod iw from three te i leasure of steal- | whi i e ami arkey, it was e | Rreat 8] into a duck pon low! Surely a : Leese + . S ind . . which are a aa bd apy Mpa | RE a OU Cede happened to any | “Well; what did Nat do when he got there in to prevent you from re, | draving the ring from the index finger of | shipe of «lnm oge. The matertal of which “Then it was to win a wager?” said Vi as the | "Thad scarcely finished my glass when cousin | to steal anybody's turkey, though year after | of my battleax heroines, The dege were upos | time to see the thieves make off with their : pny ogling} | top ell Alo thes are compowed resembles ory very manclk last suggestion. Jonas came for me, and growing more familiar | year he had lost his own. For, mind you, it | us too! booty.’ - ne aaa 9 of +e Fg 9 Taidiiie i S1pearance, is intensely hard and lets nearly, oc Aca at if yop wil all sop staring | tucked my arm ander Lis and Jed me to where | was the ‘custom among” the cigubors that, | | And just then the report of» gun rang pee ederey ee rap rs (es pee GEE ‘and make it pass above b (fig. | we : m which the cee a exc! i ye wut it. It inge stood. ‘ough the hen house doors mij locked an e air. wget : ee ee ee apron gS, Ranuenea Sante seam saagae ‘and it is | or ‘burly sclored contionnn sud upon the box | barred, and the dogs unchained, no other pre-| “The devil!” cried Cousin Jonas, as he pulled . and sure enough Floppy, our best brood | he he — = — Roagrset te 12); turn over the hand, the palm in the air, b their clothes with, ts & very appropriate time to tell the atory,” said | and a mounted groom rode beside the carriage. | cautions were to be taken to guard the turkeys, | me ont of the pond. “There! Shake the water | hen turkey, was gone Eo Eti away the tring withous ite being bet T tight Gagtiver with tho peck, wha grandma, amused at the curiosity she had ex- | This was even more than imagination jbad pic- | no watch was to be set, no gun to be fired. 80 ae ico out of your clothes, while I quiet these | | Here a deep groan from, Aunt Peges, Mrs. Deel e: waa asiasio a eaten sean rer maha Sear with the vost, cited. tured in the anticipated grandeur of Dunallan | the enterprising turke r would only have | dogs! : 2 garet ee ae a oe ce ena oot {forms wads. Seslians , taanner grandma's story I must give | Hall. to force the door and quiet the dogs if he could. | | ‘They were barking and leaping about him so | lout of her favorite fowl. yon ai e finger be placed aneing their blanket Hs Loner gfabereermeger ‘the dituation. Tt 2 cana Jonas put me in the carriage and fol-| Now, then, because. Munnimacher had openly that Texpectod every minute to'sse ima torn ca Well!” exclaimed Cousin Jonas resignedly, [pode tie freed ves string. The amateur \ WATER PLANTS. was Christmas eve. An arctic night im our | lowed me and st beside me. sworn to shoot any man like » common thief | down by the throat, but he only sPused them | “It's the fortune of war. Maybe this will | then invariably replaces it % ithasensbaiend cibalehaamiabaile northern town. The snow was a foot 2 | We drove along a road that soon entered | who came after his turkey, which was under- | aside, crying: “Down, Tom! What do you | make up for that.” So saying he tossed the tai at bien Do c=, ow water lily, the cells of which are filled the ground and frozen hard as erystal. ie | thick forest, when he began to entertain me | stood to be one of fabulous #ize and weight, and, | mean, Nellie! What are you about? Get out, | huge turkey on the table. this atau. You “ail a a Lo FIG. 13. ; inh at the Cinaae ai in wind blew a gale from the northwest, rattling | with rustic compliments. The sun was not yet | therefore, a vast temptation to the prize es and 80 on. All the Indies suspended their work and bent Sol kia Ranger Se cakeeed and slide the middle finger along between the Dla chidh natiienh it Teen fhe icictes from the frees and driving | down, so whenever we came to a clearing he | seckers, the devil entered Cousin Jonas Dunal-| | Hiang-g-g-g! rang outanother report through | their heads to scrutinize the prize, while by tha cites cf UL two pieces of string toward d (fig. 12); | ™blawhich rattleabout when the podsaredry. them like hail aguinst the walls and windows of | was able to point out the conntry houses that | lan, and he swore with an oath that seandal- | the air. Cousin Jonas and I stood looking proudly on, | by the string, of which Ne Ghrack the index Seete of Dr ta te ins | Indl Ger home. The stars (Blittered like points of | came into view. I thought they ail looked very | ized us all, and made Miss Penelope P.Poin-| “Oh, Cousin Jonas! Dear Cousin Jonaa!| ‘Then suddenly Ariadne, the pretty mets | See ae oe and pull a little ‘toward you. to” enlarge |" dimonds from the blue-black sky. | Early in | plain in contrast to the pretentious namey they | dexter jump in her chair, that he would have | Come away! Let us run! Oh, let ua runaway! | maid, surprised and offended me by bursting by lifting ‘bis finger from Er ages a pte ed the evening we had drawn the red woolen eur-| ore. As, for instance, “Mt. Alston,” the | Mannimacher's turkey and win the prize—a|We shall be shot! Oh, what a disgraceful | out laughing, and before I could recover from ass : . ia ts in * and, pretending that the string will be tains to shut out the wintry scene from grand-| “seat” of Algernon Alston, esq., was a rude | set of double harness this time—or perish in | death to die!” I cried and prayed, wringing | my angry astonishment, Aunt Peggy frightened thier va the rigs ot 5 ina's cosy red room, which was all fitted up in | wooden house of a story anda half high, with | the attempt! my hands. je by an outbreak of exeitement that cansed | this: Inthe fret instance | a7 ee 2 v that warm color from the four post curtained | rough chimneys of hewn logs built on the out-| “Oh, Jonas, don’t think of such a thing! | “Oh! you coward! Don't be afraid! See! I her to stammer worse than ever, and rendered Laetcrge an od oh ~ 4 Hagpmetd bedstead to the cushioned armebair in which | side of each end and a, steep shingled roof. | That cur is just the wretch who will keep his | have coiquered. the dose! They are fawning | her words almost unintelligible. Pieces s and b, cross each other. In the she now sat before the open wood fire, which tely Castle” and “Chester Court” were | word and shoot you!” pleaded Molly. onme now! And—' “Lul-Lul-Lul-Lord a’mghty, Jud-Jud-Jonas | on ible oven on bed age Hined by = my The wpe hae at all Comte becatwe if Teminsled | houses of the sume sort, Andevery one of these | ““Nun-nun-no, Jonas! Dud-dud-don't you| Bang-g--g reverberated a third report! | Dunallan, if you ain't one, and Bil-kik-killed | ceptible movement of the band, you surn the ‘od A her of her young days in old Maryland. You | “castles” and “courts” and so forth had hen | Go nothing of the sus-sus-sort!” commanded clung to Cousin Jonas’ legs in the extremity of | my best brood hen turkey.” & Bh gies en fan — a ste : raced 3 see grandnia was a southern woman. houses and poultry vards and kitchen gardens | Aunt Peggy, who always stammered when she | my terror and misery. joi aint. It ie Munnimacher's gobbler,” | the string are thus cromed a = vn we the “anacar:/ It was getting on toward 9 o’eloc] ‘was | close about the dwelling and orchards and fields | was agitated. ‘Come along, I tell you, Dolly! Don't be | solemnly declared Cousin Jonas. “toligiticiorge Sewer an tech a Caer a aan: Fis. 14. open, is 80 poisonous) _ still at bis store—a large | farther off. Among all that were pointed out | Miss Penelope P. Poindexter drew herself up | frightened! The guns are too far off to hit us!| _ “It’s my hen tut-tut-turkey,” persisted Aunt ri Beye —— athena rts ‘ted "limen. | held, in that way, pose the end of your middle * like and quite as bad as gaged in sending off belated Christmas parcels | to me one country Louse alone seemed suitable | and began: ‘The cowards are afraid to come near enough to | Peggy. a bat beni pe gps etry a. act limited manag finger on the end of the index finger . A bold experimenter te his customers, and also, blew hia dear heart! | fora gentleman's seat. It was « large, double, | “In the days of my remote Scottish ancestors | me to get a sight? ‘Come on’ Failure erala | Von ot i WePioppy. Hehehe,” | toms vil pew sans iwi ae 4 ie Ged Get ner ee jepartment put a portion of the dispatching Christmas gifts of his choicest | two-story house of red brick with a slate man- | cattle stealing among the high nobility"-— | disgrace us now! We will have that turkey on tittered Ariadne, ages string of the indic longi. string will pass between these fingers | Ketual of one of the nuts in his mouth on « stock to the very poor of the town. Mamma |sard roof. The grounds were terraced and But as all were too anxiously occupied in try- | our Christmas dinner table or—we will die “Why, of course, it is. Oh, Jonas,” said THE SNAIL. a a | certain occasion not long ago, and the next day Without ‘any one fecling it; withdraw the | porvin once pootiy anockt oft enous and expt tion. There are shown, too, some skeletons of eneti. The Indians out west’ sowk the prickly pear plant and let the soft part rot away, so that only the woody framework is left. This frame- work is utilized for making baskets, Anything more useless, seemingly, than anysdrt of cactus can hardiy be im Was up stairs getting the baby to sleep: mamma | handsomely laid out in parterres for flowers | ing to dissuade Mr. Dunallan from: his enter Gallantly in the attempt! Here, Cousin Doll! | Cousin Molly, turning the stupified bird over Double a string, making one end about fifty io cleaye boon up stairs getting the baby to | and groves of rare shade trees, which in sum- | prise to listen to her family traditions she sub- | you carry the lan’ ‘Here we are at the door | on the table. 2 centimetres (eighteen inches) longer than the slcep ever since I can remember, and that was | mer must have been very beautiful. Near the | sided into haughty silence. Mr. Dunallan was | of the hen house!” said Cousin Jonas aa he | — Aud so it was ques pamela bed Uaever | ac Ticdd che te wells elon ta eee when Twas about three years old, and dear | house, which was partially veiled with ivy, | saying: shook me off, stood me up and thrust the | been near Munnimacher’s premises! Indeed : a af Minny, who is now an angel in heaven, was the | there were clumps of evergreens and one large | I will give that low fellow a chance to shoot | lantern into my unwilling band. he never would have taken a young girl on such and the index finger after baby. We gurls had finished all our house-| conservatory. In the distance were stone build- | me this night and see if he dares to draw a Bang-e-4-8! Bang-g-g-g! rang and’ re- | an improper expedition. toh Be of a les- f the saris y Rages ins Keeping dats, [hich were more than usual on | ings, evidently offices connected with the estab- | trigger! And I will have his big turkey on our | verberated a volley of slurp reports. son or a practical Joke, or both together, he oo aS this night. | We had put away all the mince and | lishment. This was #0 different from every- | dinner table tomorrow and the prize harness | “Je-ru-su-lom! That sounded nearer,” he ex- taken me on a round about tramp over his bond: Teen spree your nberry and pumpkin pies, and lady cakes, | thing else I had seen that I looked at it and | on our horses the next day or my name is not | clai e must hurry up!” own ground and brought me to his own hen louble string in the form ound cake, plum cake and other Christmas | it as long as it was insight and then asked | Jonas Dunallan!” For the love of heaven, | house, and had stolen his own hen turkey mak- ofa spiral line w the duinties in the pantry, and had set the table for | Cousin Joms who lived there. te dine most horrible “Maranding among my Scotch ancestry,” I cried, praying and almost | ing me believe it was Munnimacher’s prize table, the ring in the cen- ployed as fodder fe ng red, Christmas breakfast. and had seen to the fire | Oh, a mere nobody, cousin’ An upstart! A began Miss Fenclope P. Poindexter, but her | weeping. gobbler. The d he had so deftly quieted ter, and avoir Feeasge! the Fie 15. partly to remove the prickles, and then choppe wi lamp in papa’s little smoking room, and | fellow who used to come down here twenty | voice was drowned in the answer of the oppo-} “If vou area coward yourself don’t hinder | were his own hounds and house dogs, and the fir- two pieces and stop when | a4. finger of D from its ring and pull bard | ud mixed with other fodder, Another sort laid his gown over his armchair and his rsago peddling shoe strings and needles | sition raised against Mr. Dunallan’s resolve. me, Doll! There, turn the bull’s-eye of the | ing we heard was from his own men on their coon the end x of the shortest | monly utilized for fodder is the pers on the hearth; and now we were free. other stuff, called under the general name | “{ must have one of the nigger boys to hold | lantern on the lock! So! That's the way !”” hunt. Floppy recovered under good treatment, Sexeept just one thing! we had not yet notions ! piece reatn on ‘the “table to you with G: the string ix withdrawn, seem He's a decent man enough. He | the lantern for me while I open the door of the | He took the lantern from my trembling hand | and lived ou ew bean,” which resembles exactly a bunch Ks; nor could we do | made a fortune somehow. but, the Lord knows | hen house,” persisted Cousin Jonas, totally ig- | and arranged the light to suit his conveniones | broods. 4 the children’ log’ the FinGUaee ok meee ee have in your hand | ®&t0 pass between the two fingers, ‘but in itockiny the end of the longer piece, | Tedtity escaping by the side. This trick, dedi- | ti is i cated to lovers, allows @ lady to make the most SPECIMENS BY THE THOUSAND. i until those isaps of Old Nick should be in bed | how, and bought land and settled down here. | noring remonstrance as he rose from the tablo | aud then ‘returned it to. mes and ite rays fell | “There, children! there is the truth about my ¥#; do not show it. Ask | OF ry di ed teste abe and addeep. but they seemed determined tostay | Anl'yeatne toe te gees fg carriages, | and went and brought his shaggy surtout from | upon the building that I saw for the first time, | stealing a Christmas turkey! I did not feel : some one toplace the point | P14 Pretty hand in public." She will be grate- | Tn the herburiam at present are about 10,000 awake all night. Uhave said it often, and I say open and close, saddie horses, race horses, | the hall and began to draw it on. He set to work on the lock and ina few minutes | much like Helen McGregor when I went to bed | of a fa pencil in the blind alley a, formed by the | fl to you. different . that if ever there were a set of spoiled | hunters and hounds and fancy poultry, and he | “That you sha-sha-shan’t, Jonas Dunallan! | opened the door and then took the lantern | that night!” ring; it is clear that if you pull on the two ‘THE KEY. ren to take their elder sisters’ lives a | has a tooter in the house for his boys.’ One o' | If you choose to ris-ris-rist your own life, you | again and disappearcd in the darkness within. | | “But, grandma, didn’ you gita awful tooth- | ends, x and y, the spiral will be destroyed and | Number one extends to you his two thumbs them it is —— But there! it is no | them boys, the eldest one, wanted to pay atten- | sha-sha-shan't rist one of them poor nigge ecies of plants belonging to the United States, this number constituting very 4 x ~ eit if not quite per cent of the entire | !” | “Tay down flat on the soft snow and slush to | ache gittin’ wet? iageined Tim, who was cut- | the string will be held by the point of the | a and g; you fasten on them a closed string, number fart oc in this country. Thus it will Only I know if ever I marry and | tions toJobr Alston's daughter, but he was | Aunt Peggy declared. keep out of range of the shots, a ng ting his second set of teeth and having trouble | pencil. opps “the tenis | Of Which the ends aand b through the ring of | pe seen that tre eeliecnne in pretty nearly a family to bring up—but no matter. showed the door in double quick; I tell you. |” Jonas did not —— her in thie,but laughed | from head to foot, alike from cold and fear, ith them. ice ut when the entl x been ae table |. key; inthe picture a is at first behind and b | complete iu this respect Di J ’ Now on this arctic night we gathered around | Rudolph Munnimacher making up to Polly | and caught my eye and anid: listened and waited for what should happen} ‘An’ didn’t you gita awfur sore t’roat?” in- | make one more turn by means of the end of = constantly engaged in Ten: grandma's great wood fire which, as 1 mid. she | Alston, indeed! I wonder John Alston didn't |" “Cousin Dolly, 1 bet my boots you're game | next! Quired Til, whose tonsils were her weak points. | the long piece of string, indicated in black in states trying to secure ne would k ite of furnace and steam | shoot him at sight!” enough to go alongo’ me and capture old} ‘Squark! squark! squark !” sounded from the ‘Nor pleurisy? nor——” put in the elder | the picture. agent is provided with a press, the simplest pipes. in spite of expense. We | Why, Cousin Jonas, what was there against | Munnimacher’s turkey!” hen honse, as, evidently, the invader of the | girls. = - ‘Take (fig. 4) the endszand_x in the hand; form of which is two rectangular pieces of jae to gather here and listen to her stories of | him?” . I know not what demon of mischief took | birds’ dormitory groped his way along, feeling ‘No, children, I got no harm at all. Young | the amateur suspects noth: he again places board with many sheets of loose-tibered paper: old plantation life in Maryland as she knew it | | ~Why, he was one of the Munnimachers. His } possession of meat that moment,but I thought | the roosts and handling fowl after fowl to test | women were not #0 delicate then aa they are | the pencil in a, but this time it does not hold held between them by a strap. When he goes in her younger days, more than half a century | father peddled notions,” said Cousin Jonas, | of Di. Vernon and Helen McGregor and other | its size and weight in order to secure the larg- | now. Evvy, dear, there is your father’s latch | the string. It is b, in ef- out on excursions, boweve:, he carries with jow here she sat in ber large crimson | turning around and looking at me in surprise | venturesome heroines (though in justice to | est and heaviest. key in the door; go see to “him. Lu and Vi. | fect. which has become him énly a book filled with paper sheets, cushioned easy chair. with her feet ona has-|thatI should ask such a foolish question. | them I have never heard of either robl ing hen-} | “Squark: squark! squark!” shrilly screamed | the little ones are almost asleep; put them to| the closed end of the between which he places whatever he collects. sock and her hands mechanically plying ber | jut here we are at Dunallan Hall,” he added, roosts), and Lanswered: ‘That I am, Cousin | the frigutened cocks and hens. bed. Dolly, you stay and help me to undress. | donble spiral Jine. Or it may be that 2 box serves the purpose, knitting | needles “another relic of her old | as we drew up ata gate by the roadside and the | Jonas!” and I sprang up from the ‘table to| Bang? bang-g-g! bang-g-g-g! rang out | Good Cu children, and a happy Christmas| ‘The operator who is vio. 16. i te pkntation life—while Evilina (“Ev”), Lucinda | mounted man servant rode forward to open it. | fetch my cloak. another report of the gun: to you all! a doing the trick keeps the Lat) and Violeta (oVi") lolied on the rug | Not all that Thad seen during our drive of | -“Jud-Jud-Jonas Dunallan, you've gone mad! | "“-Oh, the man is mad! mad! mad! And we supplemental end of the ( defore the fire with their arms around each | the discrepancy between names and places in| ra-ra-ravin mad! Dod-Dod-Dolly Phippard: | shall all be murdered 2" Tgronued not daring to CREATURES THAT ARE FUNNY. _ | string in bis hand or un- other's waists ina very foolish and inconvenient | this old neighborhood bad prepared me for the | sed down this minit, mis!” stammered. and | raise myself from the ground. i was atedies ———_ rolls iton the table, ac- manner, but suppose they thought it pretty | disappointment, almost amounting to mortifica- | spluttered Aunt Peggy, leaving her place at the | by the -glare of thelagterm and. the fawn cd Birds, Beasts and Fishes Which Play Comic | cording to the position ., and so kept it up although there was no man to tion L experienced in first looking upon Dun- | head of the table and coming around to me. cousin Jonas whispering hoarsely yet triumph- look upon and admire them. The two imps, | allan Hall. Some hundred yards back from the | « Upon returning home he transfers the speci- in front: second person, g, holds the key in jrece amd leaves them there his han pint is't0' take it from him | mce* {0 hin prow and leaves them there until . The p ey are dry. e them between Yithout withdraming the rings from the two | fresh shevis of paper. and formats them Na = that shupe to Washington. Here they are care- Pat yourself to the left of G, place your two | fully classified and arranged on paper sheets, Parts in Lite. of the pencil, whether it- hands, the palms in the air, above the two ali the varieties of a species being pat together Come along o'me, Cousin Dolly! I'm boss | autly: . isin A or B. ’ With only : ae cho ale, ; oll tho variotins of a epocios being pa patiida (“TH”) and Timotheous (“Tim )saton | road stood a rude wooden ‘building of a story | in this house! commanded Cousin Jonas loft. | "Here, Dolly! here's the bully boy! Weighs | 6¢7]VHERE ARE CERTAIN ANIMALS in the | 9 few spirals the trick is Shane ring sand b, pass the end of the little |inside @ brown paper cover, ‘the different see ate bows, cides of the chimney |andabalf high, with double front and | ily, but laughing all the time, as he lighted « | twenty pounds, 1 bet" Hold Inia while t ene a 3 : finger of G under a, the.end of the little finger | spocies belonging to a family being placed various forms of animate existence which | soon detected. A supple ai ot under’, and pull D to the right and G to | together within a outer cover to include them seem to have been singled out, for reasons not | piece of Hjeend = td rage the left (fig. 16); this crossing effected, fasten | all, the families being arranged in groups and altogether easy of comprehension, as repre- | four yards long should be used, which will per- | the ring of the little finger of G to the thumb the groups in orders, so that after the collec- mit of a great many spiral lines. The best tion is numbered and catalogued in this way. Setnet ozs ee eenat detot any Gierenss any plant that is wanted can be got at in a between the two. . moment. ‘The herbarium may be called the ‘This trick and the preceding one have re- staring as if they never meant to close their | steep shingled ‘roof and_rdugh-bewn stone | candle and stuck it in the lantern, ee Bonk, chines, ss long as life should | chimneys at each end. Little log buildings | "I put on mg cloak, butioning it from throat | rough, scaly legs of the struggling wensee Kast. | Dells sat at the ceuter table with a book, | near the house seemed to serve for kitchen, | to feet and pulling my bood over my head. | inte tay heads. telling me totold hin, igs | tena ike some wislot oventiens”” aka ace not reading, but watching and listening and | store rooms, &c.; and a winter-seared garden | And then I drew on my woolen mitts and was | with his head down and he would soon be too | enting the comic side of a te oe noting all that passed before her. I'm Dolly, | lay on one side. The groom opened the gate | ready to follow my’ leader, amid the aghust | giddy to heave and plunge. uralist to a writer for Tur Star the other day. writing down grandma's story. ae |Sndwe drove up « common, unshaded and | looks of our relations and the muttered com-|° I had struggled to my feet, in too “For example, take the batrachians. In that hema ican ar Geo teait Bale beer you! Neither of the others could do it | uncared-for road to the house door. ments of Mise Penelope P. Poindexter, who was | despair to resist or remonstrate ‘any more. I family of creatures the frog is the comedian, | placed the game of “bonuctory” in cerita fre. Sor oh any thueal tho your so any plas Ghab tosave their souls, though we are all geniuses | Cousin Jonas got out and helped me down to | waying: did hold the creature with both hands, my fin- | snd in this eapacity he serves most profitably, | ign festivals. In indicating how the inexper!- grows and Rad outall chout is of in paya's and mama's estimation. Ev. paints | the soft snow, and then assisted the man ser-| “Even in the lawless days of my remote an- | gers scarcely reaching around his rugged legs, eae ie ‘ bs ”Y | enced person is sure to lose I have shown. that atites : oil colored pictures and sticks eards | vant to take my trunk into the front “hall.” | cestors no damsel of degree—" while he still screamed and fought, leaping | the purposes of the caricaturist. Quite as dis- | s'string in the hands of a swindler evn bens FROW SVERTURERE in the corners of the frames to tell you what | Then the man took the couch and horses to the But we lost the rest as the door closed behind | and jerking so ae as to pull me nearly | tinguished humorously among the birds is the | dangerous as cards. At all eventa. as they are Although the collection of this berbagium is they are are: otherwixe you might not know. | stables—the row of long buildings at some little | us and we went out into the wild winfty night. | down upon my face. I had given myself up for | owl So universally is the essential funninesa | now exposed, the tricksters will have to find 80 nearly complete, as far as United States Lu- sings and plays the plano, but she has taken | distance on the right, as I had guewed. A glow |" Heaven and earth, what a black and loweting | lost and did not cece what might happen next. | of the owl and the frog recognized that itis | something else. plants are concerned, it contains as yet only 41 ‘8 dislike to music lately itwas the occa- | of red light came thecugh the windows oneither | sky. Nota star visible and the semcyitony: My “mad man” digappeared once more in the difficult to car dhe iponkara 6? Gomtal oh ‘THE PENKNIFE. sion of breaking off her engagement with young | side of the middle door and through the door ground only dimly seen in the smoky light of | darkness of the hen bouse and the squawking “ (opens, 4 a Pa Pince yourself in front of a tree (in the Victor de la Mont. You see, this is how it was: | itself as Mr. Dunallan led me into the “hall.” | the lantern. ‘The snow was deep but soft and | and screaming of the poultry recommenced, | tres could get along without them at all. The yourself in front i rio One night while she was arociliann%,, in more | The all was a square place, with bare floor and | came up over my boot tops, wetting my stock- | The doge began to bark again and momentarily | Japanese, a people highly gifted with the sense | house any vertical stick will answer the pur- | of g, and withdraw G from this ring: G bei senses than one, the Marseillaise be thanked | whitewashed wale and four doors front and | ings, before T reached the gate. An easterly | I expected another volley of firearms, with the | of humor, never tire of employing both in | Poe), encircle it with a cord, making each end | free’ take with her, between the thumb an her with effusion for the pleasure she had given | back and on each side—and furnished with an | wind was blowing a gale and rose in such guste | danger of being shot down. but, as I said, I did | their art.” Go into ‘any Japanese shop and you | of the cord forma complete circle about the | index Singer, the piece of string b between the 4 r him, adding that be had always wished to hear | old-fashioned mahogany nideboard that stood | as nearly inverted say clock. end If st bast ict | Con eete e no apathetic, like one in a | * ‘ of aan P tree, the ends a and b, which were in the hands | ring of key and d and encircle with it the | not hitherto in the collection. our great national song. The Star Spangled | aguinst the back wall, a tall, coftin-shuped clock | been buttoned down ss closely, would certainly | heavy nightmare dream. will find the frog and the owl figuring every- | OFT and G, returning respectively into their | thumb g from left to right (fig. 17). from abroad are constantly being Banner. but never had that pleasure before. | in one of the back corners and a couple of old | have taken it over my head ‘and off my back. No more worth bringing away, Cousin | where in designs and in the shape of absurd hands. Underneath this ligature insert * with whom the Department of Agri- She thought he was mocking her and she never | mahogany chairs. And if it had not been for the lantern we car- | Dolly,” said Dunallan, reappearing with | toys of all sorts of material from china to is in correspondence all over the earth, forgave bum and he is breaking his heart. Vi.| But instantly, before I could notice all this, | ried we could not have kept the path leading to | the lantern. “Come on; we have got the famons | cotton batting, some of them equipped with A system of exchange exists among botanists Fee Her admirers say that if she should go | out burst Cousin Molly from the room on the | the gate. ‘The black sky the blastering wind, | prize tarkey now in spite of Munnimacher’s | the on the stage she would rival Rachel, Ristori and | left and threw her arms around my neck and | the spectral snow, all made a scene #0 Wierd ce | locks nnd belts ond dogh ena guns! Hurrah! all the great actresses. As for me, I write. 1| and get the next best!” And he thrust the gift of making strange noises and in different countries. : It must be understood that the 10,000 species smothered me with kisses and crushed me with | I shall never forget so long as T live. hip! hurrah! We shall have that tarkey on | fimaces and even of hopping around. Even of United States plante in the herbarium only do not expect to succeed or to rival Mr. This or | hugs and deafened me with welcomes so-| On we trudged slowly through the deep soft | the Christmas dinner table tomorrow and | the children are fond of making funny little include the hi Mrs. That or Miss The Other. All the good and | licitous inquiries. Did I have a good vovuge? | snow till my stockings were wet almost up to | shall get the great prize for the capture the | owls out of peanuts and mounting them ina lower orders, such as the ry ople I know fail and the wisest and best | Was I tired? Had I been sea sick? Wouid I go | my knees; and with the cold snow chilling my | next day and give it to you.”” fr must. , row on twigs. Wherever bullfrogs are to be paris Hest oF would T come into the | limbs, the sharp wind cutting my face and ears, | "I could not respond to his raptures Just then. | sorn ative &y reatucnent wader, eenlinee Ma parlor? | the darkness blinding my eyes and the lantern |I was too miserable. I cannot describe the Sed nad Gaben Fon pill Bad atecieeen, Te of which I replied as well as I could | dazzling them, I had enough to do to keep on | manner in which, burdened by that heavy and peas ‘bout samuaaeal had a rough-and-tumble roll all the | my feet asI stumbled along after my leader, | floundering gobbler and my dripping garnients, ered al re - pesere way from Georgetown to Blackstone's landing; | who stumped sturdily before me bearing: the | I once more scrambled over the fence, tumbling | * abl Elnegrnds looki so that we could qttern our last duties for | that I had not been sea sick, that I would go | light. I began to think adventures were more | as usual on the other side, wet cloak, flounder- | ¥®b1i rellaciien them and feel to enjoy ourselves | right into the parlor, and that I was not in the | heroic than agreeable and ing gobbler and all in & heap and’ struggled | in wise reflection, dma. At last 1 burst out. for I could not | least tired and was quite ready for a dance | than discomfort to beat. through the evergreen thicket, torn by the oe ip it. Iwaid: “Who can doubt the doctrine | after tea if she bad a fiddler on the place and | Jonas “belt ter tren heres thorns and caught by the branches, but strug- But,““to our mutton” o rather our “turkey. ‘There we all sai as Lhave described. Secretly we girls were fretting because the tormentors | that of our lives would not consent tv be put tw bed, > of original sin and total depravity when they | enough to make upa set. All of which she| “About a quarter of a mile by a short cut. | ging on until ‘ : . ° “Weil, I have learned one secret of success,’ Jook at these imps!” ¢ assured me would be forthcoming at the proper | It is a mile ours by the pend You saw the EB “Bony -8-8-¢! rang another ‘and the ball . said a successful young merchant, whose show Vi. answered: “All the world may call itself | time. place as we came along today,” he answered; | whi: so close by my ear that I dropped the PI ania window attracted me by reason of the plaim totally depraved if it wants to, but defy any | I thought Cousin Molly had grown very stont | and then, as we had reached the outer gute, he | turkey, which, however, Cousin Sener caught tly i one to dare to bint that grandma ig or ever was | since I saw her seven months before, at which | gave me the lantern to hold while he took down | before it could recover ite lege and oan aa 5. the i i totally depraved! So there now!” she burst out laughing and drew me into the bars. We soon omerged upon the same| “Never mind, Cousin Dol ‘This challenge brought out grandma's awful | parlor, where she introduced me to the three | road b: i which we had approached the house confession that she had once stolen a turkey! | old ladies present—Mrs. Peggy Dunallan, her that afternoon, and which ran a mile or so Ugh: It makes me shiver now to only recall | mother-in-law, a short, ‘plump, roay-checked | allel to the east boundary line of the Duncliaa wy sensations at that hearing. And now she | little body in a black “stuff” gown and white | estate. A few hundred yards up this road we 4s going to tell us all about it. muslin cap; Miss Becky Dunallan, the maiden | cate to's feree in aha ny posite side to my he “thee > aunt, stout person, with iron-gray hair | cousin's land and he stopped and said: “Cousin screwed plainly back from her forhead and | Dolly, I must lift you over this.” tucked up behind by a tortoise-shell comb, and | “No, you musn't!" I said, and I climbed also dressed ina black gown, and Miss Pene-| clumsily enough to the top of the fence and 3 lope P. Poindexter, a tall, very tail, stately | tumbled incontinently over the other side into - | dame, in a long, straight black silk dress and a | a ditch full of soft now. pt plying her knitting needles | voluminous white muslin turban and black silk | Cousin Jonas set down his lant mechanically and commenced: mits. “I do not suppose that in any Christian and| Such were the Dunallaus of Dunallan Becond—Cooling of the ‘from 99 degrees tots of atmompor, neal ‘% hours or r Hall the snow off my cloak as well as he could civilized neigh onearth at any stage | and their permanent guest. The latter was one | with his mittened hands. of the worlds pr so strange a Christmas | of those “genteel” dependents who are so fre- |" “Never do that again, Cousin Doll,” he said. custom as the one I'am about to describe ever | quently to Ses Ss she oomnier pestet the “Tl never go hen-roost robbing with you ateee. He z E