She Rode the Pony.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 165, 14 August 1886, Page 3

She Rod e the Pony.

Deacon* Bodkin's daughters, Samanthaarid Martha, have for a long time watched with longing eyes the young ladies who frequently pass and repass, seated in the beautiful and fashionable dog-carts. - t * They are just too lovely for anything,* said Samantha. *We must tease pa to buy us a pony and cart.' 'Indeed we must/ assented Martha, ' » ' What on airth do you gals want of one er them stuck-up sorter things ?' inquired the Deacon. * The pesky thingll run away with ye, likely's not. 'Oh ! no, pa, we can drive him. Now, please do say yes,' cried both maidens in unison, till importunity won. 'Wall, wall,' said the Deacon, *e£ you two gals will jest stop talking long enough for me to get a nap I'll think about it.' A few* days thereafter a beautiful little white pony made its appeal ance in the stable. 1 Now gals,' said the Deacon, ' I've got the hoss. but you'll have to wait a day or two tor the cart. Don't go to bein' oneasy now. He'll keep, I'll warrant ye.' The Deacon had scarcely left the house before the two young women led the pony out into the back yard and were admiring his beauty. ' I do really believe I could ride him,' said Samantha. 'I mean to tiy it, any- j way.' " j •You haven't any paddle, nor habit, ! either. Suppose somebody should see you,' warned Martha. ' Who is there to see but you ?' asked Samantha, as she led the pony up to the Jooijstep, and, giasping his mane, mounted • man-fashion.' The pony sprang forward and dashed around The yard as in a rinir, at the top of his speed. Samantha screamed and cla-ped her arms around the neck of the animal, and u-ed all her powers of persuasion to induce him to cease his peiiormiiice. Eut all to no pmpose. Kound and round he went, suddenly he turned v. ith a whirl and plunged ton aids the gate Shucks of hoiror bui&c from the two uiils as the gate yielded and the pony, with San.untna, no* 1 in a state of marvellous, deshabil'r, clinging to his back, iushcd out and toie down the street at the top ot his speed. Shriek after shriek rent the air, and the Deacon, who was quietly wend in j; hi^ \wiy to his oiHce, gUtncinff about, i>tt.w the llying uteed and its rider ; ' Mercy's >ako ' -aid he, ' I ortcr told tho ffala I bought that air pony from the circus man.' When Samantha and the pony bmst into the eiicus-'ent and m.ide a ciicuii of the iin^ the etfect was certainly thiilliu^ and fully worth the price of admission.

Good lead oie gives 70 por cent, of lead, anil in smelting it takes tv o tons? of coal to produce thiee tons of lead,. The Cordoba mines in Spain are said to be the lichest in the world. Thellissouri lead fiel 1, near Chicago, is l^miles in. length, the ore giving 70 per cent, lead The importation of lead into the United States fell from 42,000 tons in 1870 to 1000 in 1880. Ei'jht thousand ladies of Cork County have soul a petition to tne QnPBM ajrainpt Home Rule One thousand of the signers arc Catholics.