so!"

"Indeed do I! Your dead grandfather's sperrit comest to me the
tother night."

"Oh no, I guess it's a mistake," said Moses.

"I'll bet two dollars and a quarter he did!" replied Elizy. "He
said, 'Moses is a Disguised Juke!'"

"You mean Duke," said Moses.

"Dost not the actors all call it Juke?" said she.

That settled the matter.

"I hav thought of this thing afore," said Moses, abstractedly.
"If it is so, then thus it must be! 2 B or not 2 B! Which?
Sow, sow! But enuff. O life! life!--YOU'RE TOO MANY FOR ME!"
He tore out some of his pretty yeller hair, stampt on the floor
sevril times, and was gone.

CHAPTER III.--THE PIRUT FOILED.

Sixteen long and weary years has elapst since the seens narrated
in the last chapter took place. A noble ship, the Sary Jane, is
a sailin from France to Ameriky via the Wabash Canal. A pirut
ship is in hot pursoot of the Sary. The pirut capting isn't a
man of much principle and intends to kill all the people on bored
the Sary and confiscate the wallerbles. The capting of the S.J.