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The boy stood on the back-yard fence, when all but him had fled, the flames that lit the his father's barn shone just above the shed. One bunch of crackers in his hand, two others in his hat, with piteous accents loud he cried, "I never thought Jmjhat ? " A bunch of crackers to thej tail ijnme small dog he'd tied; the dog in anguish sought the barn and mid .the ruins died. The sparks flew wide and red and hot, and lit up -the brat; they fired the crackers in his hand and eke those in his hat. There came a burst of rattling "sound —the boy? Where was he gone ? ask of the winds that iac round strewed bits of meat and bone, and scraps of cloths, the balls, and tops, and nails, and hooks, and yarn, the relics of the dreadful boy that burned his father's barn. An Ohio politician was boasting in a public speech that he could bring an argument to a pint as quick as another man " You can bring a quart to a pint a good deal quicker," replied a Kentucky editor. ■ '■■ '*'

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