The Proof

-Colonel Hardlej was telling a fish story in the presenco of some friends and his little boy, Sammy. "Yes," continued Hardley, "it took nie half a day to land that catfish I caught him in the Colorado lliver in the spring of the year bef ore the war. He weighed. after he had been cleaned, justl35 pounds. 'You can prove it by me, pa. Don't you remember pa, how I slung him on a stick, and carried him home," remarked the little Sammy. "O, you little liar! I am ashamed of you," ëxclaimed Colonel Hardley. As Sammy is only six years oíd now his tesümony as to what happened be fore the war is almost as reliable as some of Bob ïngersoll's witnesses in the star rout cases.