YOUNG SOLDIERS.—"CHARGE BAYONETS!"
[FOURTH OF JULY IN KERIM.]
BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.
"Now, you boys, what on airth are you a-doin' with that there ellum?"
"Is that you, Squire Garnsey?" responded a very youthful voice from the darkness, many feet above the pile of rubbish at the foot of the tree, and against which more was at that moment heaping. "Now, Squire, don't you think this dead wood has stood here long enough?"
"What are you a-doin' with it?"
"We're going to let all Kerim know Fourth of July's come, quick as it strikes twelve."