Colusan, emerging from an adjacent forest with a strong faggot.

Then this Colusa young man unto the appalled Professor thus: "Ther
ain't no good place yer in Kerloosy fur fittin' out serpence to be
subtler than all the beasts o' the field. Ther's enmity atween our
seed and ther seed, an' it shell brooze ther head." And with a
singleness of purpose and a rapt attention to detail that would have
done credit to a lean porker garnering the strewn kernels behind a
deaf old man who plants his field with corn, he started in upon that
reptilian host, and exterminated it with a careful thoroughness of
extermination.






The Glad New Year.





A poor brokendown drunkard returned to his dilapidated domicile
early on New Year's morn. The great bells of the churches were
jarring the creamy moonlight which lay above the soggy undercrust of
mud and snow. As he heard their joyous peals, announcing the birth
of a new year, his heart smote his old waistcoat like a remorseful
sledge-hammer.