EN VOYAGE "I wish, Sam," said Franklin one morning as he stopped at the door of the livery barn--"I wish that you would get me up a good team.

I'm thinking of driving over south a little way to-day." "All right, Cap," said Sam.

"I reckon we can fix you up.

How far you goin' ?" "Well, about twenty-five or thirty miles, perhaps." "Which will bring you," said Sam meditatively, "just about to the Halfway House.

Seein' it's about there you'll be stopping I reckon I better give you my new buggy.