| THROUGH THE TUNNEL. |
| INDEPENDENCE-DAY. |
| BURNING THE "TORO." |
| MR. STUBBS'S BROTHER. |
| PERIL AND PRIVATION. |
| THE LITTLE PATIENT. |
| A FOURTH-OF-JULY WARNING. |
| ONE NIGHT. |
| THE OLD, OLD STORY. |
| OUR POST-OFFICE BOX. |
| vol. iii.—no. 140. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | price four cents. |
| Tuesday; July 4, 1882. | Copyright, 1882, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
"ORDER ARMS!"THROUGH THE TUNNEL.
BY EDWARD I. STEVENSON.
"Halloa, the house! Jedediah! Jedediah Petry! Mrs. Jedediah! Cadmus!Are you all deaf this morning? Come, come!"
Dr. Flaxman stood up in his old chaise before the door of the last whitecottage in Wicketiquok village, and shouted until he was purple in theface. The nine-o'clock June sun shone bright upon the closed greenblinds. A broom and a watering-pot rested in the open doorway; but thebroom and the pot seemed to be the only members of the Petry familyready to receive an early morning call. No marvel that Dr. Flaxman grewimpatient, said several things to himself, and was just making ready toget out of the chaise and tie his new horse, when all at once a boy camerunning around the house corner, calling: "Good-morning, Doctor. Did youcall?"
"Did I call?" echoed the Doctor, cuttingly. "Well, Cadmus Petry, Ishould rather say that I did. Are you the only member of the family upat this time o' day? Cadmus, I want your father."
"Can't have him, Doctor," replied the lad. "Pop's gone up to Lafayetteby the early train."
"There, now!" exclaimed the Doctor, appearing much disturbed by thisanswer. "So I've missed him, after all my troub