ook his head again.

He asked her if she had been exposed to any contagious disease. She
didn't know what a contagious disease was, but on the hypothesis that
he had reference to sparking, she blushed and said she had, but only two
evenings, because John had only just got back from the woods where he
had been chopping, and she had to sit up with him.

The doctor got out his pill-bags and made some quinine powders, and gave
her some medicine in two tumblers, to be taken alternately, and told her
to soak her feet and go to bed, and put a hot mustard poultice on her
chest, and some onions around her neck.

She was mad, and flared right up, and said she wasn't very well posted,
and lived in the country, but if she knew her own heart she would not
play such a trick as that on a new husband.

The doctor got mad, and asked her if she thought he didn't understand
his business; and he was about to go and let her die, when the
bridegroom came in and told him to go ahead with the marrying. The doc
said that altered the case. He said next time he came he should know
what to bring, and then she blushed, and told him he was an old fool
anyway, but he pronounced them man and wife, and said the prescription
would be five dollars, the same as though there had been somebody sick.

But the doc had cheek. Just as he was leaving he asked the bridegroom
if he didn't want to ride up to Ashland with him, it was only eighteen
miles, and the ride would be lonesome, but the bride said not if the
court knew herself, and the bridegroom said now he was there he guessed
he would stay. He said he didn't care much about going to Ashland
anyway.

THE DIFFERENCE IN HORSES.

There has been a great change in livery horses within the last twenty
years. Years ago, if a young fellow wanted to take his girl out riding,
and expected to enjoy himself, he had to hire an old horse, the worst
in the livery stable, that would drive itself, or he never could get his
arm around his girl to save him. If he took a decent looking team, to to
put on style, he had to hang on to the lines with both hands, and if
he even took his eyes off the team to look at the suffering girl beside
him, with his mouth, the chances were that the team would jump over a
ditch, or run away, at the concussion. Riding out with girls was shorn
of much of its pleasure in those days.

We knew a young man that was going to put one arm around his girl if he
did not lay up a cent, and i