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nd th Che improv amon us butte: cinnamon church and saw: the people on- | asleep, . With a smile, he remarked, foe. For once he had : he | "If only a few more go to sleep 1} jump, and there was no time for a on a | think I may have a nap, too." | second. : i ; arish John Wesley had a gift of repartee] Possibly that cat touched the eproach- | and wit, as, well as of eloquence in ground, but he rebounded again, like a: ntended | preaching. On one occasion, when, great rubber ball, all hair sticking out, st min- | about to dine, in company with one of | and even as the dog's jaws shut-- sking | his 'preachers, with a rich Methodist, snapl-=on the place where he 'should' snubbed both have been, he landed, upon the dog's © Seeking Human Aid. His ride on that strange steed v because the dog ral. : a as. a on ot | what they were formerly. . There is| tively, a nly spit In andy supreme now bap little self-denial among the| moment that beast, which had been et a + | wild in » blackened, stricken land for ~ "My brother," said Wesley, pointing | {welve months, went to the man. to the table, "there is a fine opporfun-} It was a close shave, and nothing ity for self-denial now." earth could have saved puss thing--and it came. True to a hair, the heavy, nailed boot of the. ie 1 Janded just 'abaft the *anines | ble emotion, began to relate his reli- > of wou | Wesley's 'brother; Charles, could not | the 1 . " and eried the man laughed. ' . ] king, Let| The laugh echoed hollowly up But still the| shell-pitted; deserted . street. Then og "Unless he | the man's hand slid up to the cat gooc, stories of "1° stops I'll leave the conference," cried stroking him, and he purred. + = Charles Wesley. | And then, very quietly, almost ". John looked up with a dry smile. thoughtfully, the man slid to" the «Will one of the brethren reach my | ground and was still. He had fainted brother his hat?" he: said. Charles | from 'loss of blood and from starva- subsided. EY | tion. - x It is inevitable that reference should | = + + = « teil aint ain TOR NE 3 It was very still in that desolate street. The moon 'threw squat sha- dows of the houses athwart the road, and made a linge inky blot of a single Ps with a very wide mouth, he remarked, 41 ghould think a man with a mouth| could si a duet 1Lby him-