One night last week we were after a mink. We
were sitting by the fire, and we heard onr tone
make a noise, and ran to the r<-rue of the hen, bet
too late. We called the dog, and be got on the
track, and ran very fa-t, barsing. He treed It in
the lumber pile in the lot, and ue looked fbr the
mink. After awhile the dog ran in the lumber, bark
ing, Tom put Lis light atone end, and I hx>kc 1
through andfeuw the mink looking at th< light, and
we tried to get him out of that linni er pih, but he
*Hp[x.‘d out fcomewLerc and run into anotner lumber
pik that is in the lot, and ac threw some iumtx'r
Cut to get him out, but as pa >kx p d down to look
he saw him moving about under it, and the dog
had beratehed a hole out on the other side, ar.d he
got out of that lumber pile, t>o, and ran down
fltrough the woods with great rapidity, ami the dog
right behind him, barking and making a great fuss.
All at < nce lie huslud barking, ami everything was
.*•1111. Rm’ wc supposed he had caught it. It was
mining, and we started to the house, and tlie <lvg
hud treed an oposi-um. Wc went to him, ami there
was an opossum, and we got him out ami went tu
lib - house tatihtied. 1 am 13 years old.
-'hit'.ieJaek<in, Nesbitt, Texas.—My subject is
< leopatra, the beautiful queen, she was one of the
inobt beauti ul queens ever lived, bin very wicked.
