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mou5ht as well, for the whippin won't do
you any good, and as for Bunch, nobody a.
bout the plantation won't ride him, but
me-"


Simon" replied the old man 81 agree
to il. Your old daddy is in close place a
bout payia for his and and this here mon
ey Its Jist eleven dollars, lackin' of TWEEN.
ty'five cents-will help out mighty. But
mind. Simon, efany things said about this,
hereafter, remember, you give me the mon
ey."


Very well, daddy. and eff the thing
works up instid O. down. [ s'pose we'll say
you give me Burch-eh2n


on won't never be troubled TO tell how
you come by Bunch the things aein ma
ter, and can't be done. What old Jed 'diah
Suggs knows, he knows as good as anybody,
Give me them fxaments, Simon,n


Our hero hands the cards 10 his father.
who, dropping the plough-line with which
he had intended tie Simon's hands, turn
ed his back to that individual, in order 10
prevent his Witnessing the operation of
miring, He then sat down and very leis-
ly commenced shufling the cards. making,
however, an exceedingly awkward Job OF
It. Restive kings and queens Jumped from



into the company of the rest OF the pack.
Occasionally, sprightly knare would in.
slst on facing bis neighbor; or, pressing
his edge against another's, half doable
himself up, and then skip away But elder
Jed 'd:sh perseveIingly continued his at
tempts to subdue the refractory, while
heavy drops burst from his forehead and
ran down his cheeks. All of a sudden, an
idea, quick aud penetrating as riae-bal,
seemed 10 have entered the cranum of the
Old man. He chuckled audbly The
devil had suggested 10 Mr.. Suggs an ina>
promPtu, "stOck," which would place the
chance OF Simon-already sufficiently lin
In the old mans opinion-wi.hout the
range of possibility. Mr. Suggs forthwith
proceeded to collec; ali the picter cards
so as to be certain to include the jackS-
and place them al the bottom with the ev.
ident intention of keeping Simon's fingers
above these wi hen he should cut. Our he.
ro, who was quielly looking over his faith
er'S shoulders all the time, did not seem a.
larmed by this disposition of the cards; on
the contrary, he smiled as if he felt perfect>
ly confident of success, in spite oft.


"Now, daddy" said Simon, when his
father had announced himself ready, "nar-
ry one of us aint got to look at the cards,
while I'm cultin'; if we do, it'll spile the
conjuratlon."


very we'll"


''And another thing--you've got 10 look
me ght dead in the eye, daddy-will you?'


"To be sure-to be sure" said Mr..
Suggs; fire away"


Simon walked up close to his father,
and placed his hand on the deck. Old Mr..
Suggs looked in Simon's eye, and Simon
returned the look for about three seconds,
during which close observer might have
detected a suspicious working of The wrist
of the hand on the cards, but the elder
Suggs did n ot remark it.


Wake snakes days a brakin'! Rise
Jack r' said Simon, cutting half a dozen
cards from the top of the pack, ard presen'
ting the face of the bottom one for the IN
specnon OF his father.


Ii was the Jack of Hearts


Old Mr.. Suggs staggered back several
steps. with uplifted eyes and hands


"Marciful master - he exclaimed, ''ef
the boy haint well, how in the round cre
alton of the! Ben did you ever to be
sure and sartin. Satin has power on this
yearth u and Mr.. Suggs groaded IN heavy
bitterness.


s'You never seen nothin' like that in
AgustH cid ye, daddy p asked Simon with
malicious wink at Ben.


Simon how did you do it - queried the
old man, without noticing his sons question.


''Do it, daddy? Do it2 'Taint notbin.'
done it jest as easy as-shootln'."


Whether this explanation was entirely,
or in any degree, satisfactory to the per.
picked mind OF elder Jed 'diah Suggs, can.
not after the lapse oftime which has inter-
vel ed, he sufficiently ascertaired. 1t is
certain, however, that he pressed the in>
| vestigatIon no farther, but merely requested
| his son Benjamin to witness the fact that, In
consideration of his love and affection for
| his son Simon. and in order to furnish the
donee with the means of leaving that por-
lion of the state of Georgia. he bestowed up
on him the impracticable pony, aBunch." I"


"Jist So daddy; jist SO; I'll witness that
! But it minds me mighty ofthe way mann
my girc old Trailer the side of bacon last
week. She a sweeping up the hath ; the
meet on the tabIe-old Trailer jumps Up,
gethers the bacoa and darts. nanny arter
bIm with the broom stick as far as the door
but seein' the dog has got the start. she
shakes the stick at him. and hollers, You
SASSY aig- sukkin'. roguish. gnaity. fop-ear


varnint, take it along. take it along!


only wish twas full of d'snic and OK vomi


and blue visrul, so as to t'wouid cut you


;ntrils into chitlins'l-Thai's about the wa,


Won give Bunch to Simon
II was evident 10 our hero that his fatae


;ntendad he should remain but one NOR
, n,ght beneath the pateFnal roof. VIVA