" Good-day, friend ; will you please direct me on the right road to Squire Smith's ?" "Confound your infernal picttr ?" roared the now excited farmer brandishing his olub in a meuacnig and fuiious mantif-r. "I'll Sc.it) ye ! Clear cut ! Make tracks, or I'll smash jonr outside in !" The alarmed Snubbs retreated ; then passed the house on the double quick. Seeing be wis not followed, he resumed his walk, thoioufthly astonished, confounded at sucu tx' raodii aiy treatment. After walking onward a few hundred yards he came to iour cotnt rs, *nd not knowing n!m h course to take, he sat down in a recess of a Virginia rail feoce to pon ler en his situation. Tbecrosa-roßd in front of bim formed tbe top of a small abrupt bill. In a shnrt time a meagie-lookiug y< utb, but of a man's height. isceßded the hill without observing our hiro, until dirtctly opposite him Snubbs suddenly arose, and waving his cane, approacLtd the youth rapidly, exclaiming : " Where does Squire Smith live ?"

The terrified youth, with outstn tchen arms sprang some two or throe feet in the sir, and yelled: "fjr.cious goodness !" He then darted to the opposite side of the road, jumped the fence at a bound, and ue'ther stumps nor ditcbes were auy obstacle to tl e continued progress of his long legs. The feel ings of Snubbs at thin particular time it would be impossible to d«scribe. He was abeut re tracing his steps, but seeiug a small, one-story school-bonne a slort distanoe oft, the idea occurred to turn that the children might give him the desired information. As be reached thf school-house, the children, who hsd juet brer dismissed, speedily scattered in vaiiout direc tions, except a tew of tbe larger and mon courageous boys, who, til ing their pockets rrith stones, aeceuded tLe school-bouse by means ol Udder which Lbey drew up. " Boys, wLurf; does S.juire Smith live ?'' was answered by a shower of stoies. hootings, and yellings. Si übbs now beat a baity retreat in the direction of tbe iun. On reaching about three-fourtbs of the dis tance he heard shouting aod hallooing behind him. Looking hack, he observed ten or fifteen iiimi armed with various weapons—guns, axes, spsdes, pitchforks, and ropes running toward.' bim.and gesticulating violently. 