HAS GOD FORGOTTEN SHOCKY?
"Pap wants to know ef you would spend to-morry and Sunday at our house ?" said one of Squire Hawkins's girls, on the very next evening, which was Friday.

The old Squire was thoughtful enough to remember that Ralph would not find it very pleasant "boarding out" all the time he was entitled to spend at Pete Jones's.

For in view of the fact that Mr.Pete Jones sent seven children to the school, the "master" in Flat Creek district was bound to spend two weeks in that comfortable place, sleeping in a preoccupied bed, in the "furdest corner," with insufficient cover, under an insufficient roof, and eating floating islands of salt pork fished out of oceans of hot lard.

Ralph was not slow to accept the relief offered by the hospitable justice of the peace, whose principal business seemed to be the adjustment of the pieces of which he was composed.

And as Shocky traveled the same road, Ralph took advantage of the opportunity to talk with him.