a boys they the it the They him he home They lost came He after inning so creditable A BIT ’O NOTHIN’ Dr. Smiley and ♦crowd who were up Irom Stevens Point a week ago in an auto, surely put a bushel of fear in one of their crow’d while domiciled in the Sfiellhorn cottage on Deerskin lake. Seems as though this fel low was a novice in the north woods and the first porcupine he saw, augmented by tales of their viciousness towards humans, filled him with more fear than if it belonged to the hodag family. With the aid of a basket of dirt suspended by a rope at the head of the stairs in some manner it would touch the steps in imitation of a porky descending in the night time. It is said the ruse worked so successfully that the man became hysterical and the perpetrators of the joke were compelled to work over the vic tim for some time. Sale.