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Kumara Times, Issue 592, 21 August 1878, Page 2

rise, ' come down—come dowu this ', minute, or I'll cut down the trpe and j let you fall.' You see my poor old ! limbs wouldn't permit mv shinnin' up the tree after the boy, so I had to t*k* other means. ' Oh, no, you won't, dad !' says Zeke. 'Only thint how you'd mourn if ye couldn't sell the apples to stuff the old leather wallet that's looked away in the bureau!' That was too much—to have my own boy accuse me of parsiinuimy, : So wh&tdoes Ido but git the axe and'cut away at the bottom o' the tree. *Zeke,'l cried when the tree was about half cut, 4 will ye come down now H and Have yerself ? ' * Never spid haj 'I ain't spilin'.' It\e%nd use; I couldn't fetch him that way; go. I chopped away at the tree till at last it began to sway, and fell to the ground with a cr— —" " crushed your dwn boy ? " ejaculated his horrified listener. " Not by a long chalk !" : replied Hobbs, winking knowingly. •' You couldn't; come it over Zeke so. He crawled out on a limb, and, while I was choppin' at the bottom o'the tree, he was cuttin' the limb off with his jack-knife, and when the tree fell, there he was, still up there od the limb."'.