416 Lafayette Moonshine, Sfc. 
sessor, he may apply to the supervisor of the town, and upon 
producing to him the certificate of the fence-viewers, (assessor 
and commissioners of highways,) made as aforesaid, and his own 
affidavit that he has not been able to discover such owner or 
possessor, or that he has failed to recover his damages from such 
owner or possessor, the said supervisor shall lay the same before 
the board of supervisors of the county, at their next meeting. 
" The board of supervisors shall issue their order on the county 
treasurer, for the amount of the damages appearing by the certifi- 
cate of the fence-viewers, to have been sustained by the owner of 
any sheep, killed or injured by dogs, when they shall be satisfiecf 
that the owner or possessor of such dogs cannot be discovered, or 
that the party injured has failed to recover such damages of such 
owner or possessor; which shall be paid by the county treasurer, 
from the funds constituted eighth section of this title, and from no 
other monevs." 
LAFAYETTE MOONSHINE, OR THE BOY THAT DISLIKED 
FARMING. 
BY WILLIAM BACON. 
"I always had an antipathy to farming," said Master Lafayette 
Moonshine, as he entered the field on a rosy morning, where 
Charles Wiseman, in all the glee that youth, health, the beauty 
of the season, and the scenery around him could inspire, was 
hitching his team to the plow, "I always had an antipathy to 
farming, it brings so much hard work, so many exposures to hot 
sunshines and cold storms — so much toiling and drudging in dirt. 
Besides being laborious, it is not a very genteel employment, 
taking care of calves and lambs, pigs and chickens, and all that 
servile sort of thing. Then one's hands will become so hard 
through toil, and his countenance so dark from exposure to all 
weathers, it really makes him look coarse and vulgar. So I've 
concluded to submit to this drudgery no longer, and as an oppor- 
tunity now offers, I am going to the city to fill a clerkship in a 
retail store. Come Charles, you had better relinquish this plodding 
after the plow to the old man and go with me. I'm sure you'd 
enjoy yourself better than you can in this clpdpole way of living." 
Thus on as beautiful a May morning as ever broke upon a world 
in all the smiling lovliness of spring spake Master Lafayette 
Moonshine to Charles Wiseman, and as he closed his grandilo- 
quent harrangue, he gave his head one of those significant tos- 
