rcules cleaned the Augean stables.

And so my humble, homely Hoosier story of twenty years ago[29] draws to
a close, and not without regret I take leave of Ralph and Hannah; and
Shocky, and Bud, and Martha, and Miss Nancy, and of my readers.

* * * * *

P.S.--A copy of the Lewisburg _Jeffersonian_ came into my hands to-day,
and I see by its columns that Ralph Hartsook is principal of the
Lewisburg Academy. It took me some time, however, to make out that the
sheriff of the county, Mr. Israel W. Means, was none other than my old
friend Bud, of the Church of the Best Licks. I was almost as much
puzzled over his name as I was when I saw an article in a city paper, by
Prof. W.J. Thomson, on Poor-Houses. I should not have recognized the
writer as Shocky, had I not known that Shocky has given his spare time
to making outcasts feel that God has not forgot.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 29: Written in 1871.]

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