The mob yelled furiously as he advanced, and on arriving' close enough one of the lexdere, wu old man, aimed " murderwwa blow, with a hoe, at the hend of the ey which would have cleft his skull and fini the business had nut Mr, Lenz dodged his {head and received the blow on its vide, glancing off to his ear and shoulder, but partly broken by the head of the hoe falling on the top of his knapsack, Then followed a shower of blows stones; the machine was wrested from its owner and the spokes hooked out, and various parts and damaged, Getting out of the of his asuilants Mr. Lenz made ards a few of " betterslooking dise of natives who were holding aloof in rear and apparently batter disposed, and to these he appealed by gesture to intercede und give him a hearing. In this he sucovaded, and the mob was induced by these better-en to desist xnd listen, The machinist then picked up his machine again just as the vut-distanced mob came in rear, and others closed in from Pus entirely surrounded this it ly in one of the tightest of explained hie machine by gesticul and played some funny tricks with it, until he succeeded in melting the awe-stricken and stolid angry faces xround him and caused laughter to ripple over them, which he eventually turned into peals of laughter by increased fooling. A. spell of this and he made motions to be allowed to proceed, and the botter-diss natives interceding "for him the circle opened and he war allowed to yo; 80 he descended the opposite side of the embankment nud continued his journey again; tu the intense amusement of his late assailunis—the assembled spectators. Pushing on a mile or two not now pursued by the shout of 'Strike or 'Kill!," be found the unrives less hostile and ea put up at an inn, ata little hamlet a few miles distant from the place of the encounter, ty await his soldier; who presently arrived badly bruised and' beaten and relieved of every article of value from his person, 'MR, LENZ'S METHODS, Whether this plucky gentleman will ever succeed in accomplishing the task he has set himself remains fo be seen—pven whether
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