A Tar-Heel Baron

re's Vinegar a

view on the previous morning, heard a mandatory whoop from without. Thrusting his stockinged feet into his slippers, and laying down the Pickwick Papers with a sigh for the probabilit

ice from the rider on the

Who ar

h. Ah got a le

ol, and put yo' bea

r and shivered back into t

s stamping feet on the porch. "Come in an

k the water from his jacket, and began to untie the

right smart. Doctor, Ah don' know's Ah ever kn

' first babies,"

burlap to dry before the blaze,-"mos' babies ain' overly interestin', bu

ay something a

esire to be hospitable and a ye

ot a lette

in the inner reces

w he cain'

? W

hich had risen when he heard of the admirable phys

to go out in such weather's this

ow the right per

kin' in good sense Ah do anythin' anybody

say he'

-less 'n wild-like. He came over 'bout noon

of the letter's outline under his sweater, and he ex

understan' a word of hit; Ah reckon hit's his foreign words or somethin', but Ah never heard anythin' like hit befo'. 'N th

Doctor nodded and ran his finger

think he

the stable with them bits o' crocus sack fo' mah feet, 'n she said Mr. Bar

letter for the second tim

ou-all thi

e to our house in this weather, not needin' to, 'n t

hile Bud gathered together his primitive panopl

mud dries after this rain. Ah get enough hauling roun

osity was

all goin'

issal. "Shut the do' tight," he called, and then read the same page three tim

ob

ir

, wondering how soon the rain would st

d th

ok the

id, studying the s

it a

an obed

you told me yesterday, you say not the truth. When I demand that you give to me the satisfaction that a gentleman should offer to another under such circumstances, I feel that I am treating you with a courtesy which you do not deserve.

accompanied by a person who shall be suitable to be my second. But I entreat tha

am,

ith fait

hann Ludwig V

tion of amazement,-and then

ll been doing to

en't an

talked it ove

y. "He insisted that Ah knew the drift o' his remarks, which

was

d, the man's sick. He certainly was angry over

ear

ld me A

istled

u under the col

hat, being a foreigner, he didn't know just how strong

nd meant just what he said. It looks as if you'd been too le

Ah had

d his beard

letter thro

regular challenge gets me. I don't know

ays. The State ain't so overly encouraging to them. Hand me

elf against the wall, and the

accept, or knowingly carry a challenge therefor, or agree to go out of the State to fight a duel, shall hold any office in this State.' H'm," sniffed the Doctor. "Strikes me tha

aw it! Perhaps it's a delicate tribute to the des

like the fellow, and Ah don't want to shoot him all up fo' nothing

you goin

if Ah

wer did y

him Ah'd attend to it

days to find out what's the matter wi

with joy at the idea of his father

mes on, won't you, sir

rded novel. "Ah'm laying off to have you governor some da

atively, and again

ee Sydney. May

m" for an assent, and wen

pon the flames that burst with tiny explosions from the logs, and with mind wandering far from tho

Friedrich lighted his lamp and opened his door to look

make in this land of the frying-pan. Still Bud did not come. At eleven o'clock he went to bed, for he knew t

recreant messenger, and von Rittenheim went

rstanding of her English. "He's gone to shoot cotton-tails. Ah 'low Ah'll make you-all a pie, 'f ye

Rittenheim, politely, with vague notions of birds floating through his b

er was about-when the mud dried, 'n Bud reckoned that wasn' no

ebrough. Most remarkable!" he kept repeating to himself as he walked home. "H