p that
made them lie quiet.

Sherman was a man of hard sense and native resources that rendered
him ready for any emergency. Once when we had won some money from
a man, he began to raise a fuss and carry on like one bereft of
reason. Sherman humored him. He locked him up in the car, and
told everybody that he was a lunatic that he was removing to the
asylum--to keep away from him, as he was dangerous and entirely
irresponsible. Then when the fellow got too noisy, Sherman went
and said, "See here, old fellow, you had better keep still, for
gambling is a penitentiary offense in this State, and you are just
as much implicated as the man who won your money."

That settled it, and the man quieted down as mild as a pet lamb.

SHE KISSED ME.

A woman's heart-rending shriek rang through the cabin of the steamer
_Huntsville_ one afternoon, as she lay taking in wood. I was
standing on the guards watching the jolly, happy negroes as they
seized the huge sticks and ran to the music of their camp-meeting
hymns and piled it near the engine. Rushing back, I saw that a
little girl had fallen overboard into the water. Losing no time,
I jumped overboard and got ashore with the little one. When I
carried her, dripping and wet, to her parents, who stood on the gang-
plank, the mother caught the baby in her arms and nearly smothered
her with kisses; and my turn came next, for she began to hug and
kiss me, pouring forth her gratitude; but I pushed her away, as I
did not want her husband to see her kiss me. The little one was
taken into the ladies' cabin and dry clothes put on her, and the
father came down and wanted to recompense me, but I would not have
it, for I said, "I have only done what I would for any child that
was drowning." Years afterwards I met the young lady and her father
traveling on one of the New Orleans packets. She had grown to be
a beautiful young lady, but her mother had been dead many years.

THE TRICK KNIFE.

There are a great many devices, some of which are very old, some
a little more modern, and some new ones are being manufactured
every day, to catch the uninitiated, all of which are more or less
successful--for there are just as many suckers to-day as there were
forty years ago.

I remember seeing a knife that was so constructed that the blade
could not be opened without pressing upon springs. It had one
spring that if pressed would allow the blade to open; and there
was another spring t