Two Very Curious Arrangements

"Yon don't understand this arraugement," said the proprietor of the hotel; "you seo vou have lived out in the woods all your lifc and don't know anything about smch a civilized instrument as a piano." "Mebbeso, sir; nielibe so," said the squatter. and the old fellow went away. About an hour af terward he carne back, bringins a curious arrangement made of se'veral leather straps, a lot of cords and two pieees of pine board. "Got er sorter curious aransrement here myself," he said tothe proprietor, "but I don't un'erstand it. Now I'H give you a tune. Hold this with yer right hand,' thum,' an' fore-iinger, an' this with yer lef." The man took hold and the si"uatter continued: - "You've been livin' intown all the time an' don't un'erstan' this arrangement," and he pulled the strings and sent two large lish-hooks into the llmmbs of the proprietor. "That's the mosto," he said when the man yelled, "but 1 don't reckon yer un'erstan" it," and leaving the viciim to take oare of the trap, the old fellow sauntered away. Vcils are worn short, barely reaching below the oyes, and are omitted altogether by those whose comploxions do not need protet'tion.