on the lounge,
but you can have it, and I will turn in on the floor. I ain't no hog.
Sometimes they think we are a little rough up in Wausau, but we always
give the best places to the wimmen, and don't you forget it," and he began
tugging on the boot again.

By this time the elevator had reached the next floor, and as the door
opened the woman shot out of the door, and the elevator boy asked the
Knight what floor he wanted to go to. He said he "didn't want to go to no
floor," unless that woman wanted the lounge, but if she was huffy, and
didn't want to stay there, he was going to sleep on the lounge, and he
began to unbutton his vest.

Just then a dozen ladies and gentlemen got in the elevator from the parlor
floor, and they all looked at the Knight in astonishment. Five of the
ladies sat down on the plush seat, and he looked around at them, picked up
his boots and keister and started for the door, saying:

"O, say, this is too allfired much. I could get along well enough
with one woman and a man, but when they palm off twelve grown persons onto
a granger, in a sweat box like this, I had rather go to camp," and he
strode out, to be met by a policeman and the manager of the house and two
clerks, who had been called by the lady who got out first and who said
there was a drunken man in the elevator. They found that he was sober, and
all that ailed him was that he had not been salted, and explanations
followed and he was sent to his room by the stairs.

[Illustration: "THIS IS TOO ALLFIRED MUCH!"]

The next day some of the Knights heard the story, and it cost the Wausau
man several dollars to foot the bill at the bar, and they say he is
treating yet. Such accidents will happen in these large towns.

SEVEN YEAR OLD HORSES.

An old farmer once said, "What a year it must have been for colts seven
years ago this spring." No person who has never attempted to buy a horse
can appreciate the remark, but if he will let it be known that he wants to
buy a good horse, he will be struck with the circumstance that all the
horses that are of any particular account were born seven years ago.
Occasionally there is one that is six years old, but they are not plenty,
Now, those of us who lived around here seven years ago did not have our
attention called to the fact that the country was flooded with colts.
There were very few twin colts, and it was seldom that a mother had half a
dozen colts following her. Farmers and stock raisers d