The Lady Of The Plains

Ayouug woman frorn the treeless plains of the West had g-one to Boston to a inusfc school on her first trip Kast, and among the first persons she mi't at her board ing house was a youth f rom Bang-or. As their acquaint;ii,ce ripened, she told liim of what had interest! her on the journey. "Why," .she said, with an exuitant spirit, "I saw at onj place in Pennsyivmia a liundred sawlog-s in one p.le." 'A hundredVhcasked, with a tinge of a smilc. 'That's what tliey told me. You know, we don't have sawlofrs where I carne from. ' "Is tliat su? You ought to come to Maine once''. "Do you have thein there?" "Do we?" he replied mag-nificenUv. "Do we? Whjt, mv dear young lady, sawlogs prow on frees in Maine." "Really?" she asked in open-ej'ed astonishmcnt. "It's a literal .fact," he asserted positively. "Well, I don't believe it." she contended, and do what he could, he could not convince her that he was plain, UDadorned truth.