Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1872-12-31
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on her muslin dress; and, when they
found they could not get any OF them oil,
they aew down and crept up under the
skul, thinking they should get ut the
berries on tho other side. | have seci
the little birds DO thai with Janet.-noi
such wrens as those, because there arr
mono in Maine, but some little witches
not so much bigger than an English
wren, whose namo | do not know. Nrou
OF no wren, thcy know Janet, even II She
did no, know their name, nor they hers.
The pretty picture Mr.. Billings has
made of hen just represents both sidcs
mean she trusted the birds, and tho
birds trusted her. In the picture You see
just how it was. This little whistler ha,
fascinated her, and she has fascinated
him. lie knows she will not hurt him
and it almost seems as ii she were liiten-
ing to him, and learning from him. Us ia
tho "Arabian Nights" and In The German
isiry-tal.s. the girls OF the real blue
blood understand the language oi cater
pillar cricket, grasshoppeI, toad, frog
weasel, pussy-cst, tom tit, ostrich, camel
opald, and all other vertcbrates or in.
ycrtebratcs. Dear little Janet. she is u:
good a fairy as the best OF them
Alsr tho haymow flight, whom she
was AS bi. girl a. Mr. Billings hs,
made her, we had mauy 4 tramp together
up, brook. through moose ood aud over
mountain. have seen her pass from
rock TO rock. OH one OF the ridges OF
Katahdin, with no thought Of taxing q
staff. with no kind Of unea,lnsss, ,hougl
she wero Just on tho sheer edsu OF that
precipicc which you remember perhaps
ON the southern face OF katahdin
have seen i, fifly miles away Yes; and
have seen her father fell pine tree =
hundred and fifty years old, that We
might walk dry.Shod across tho stream
and the moment il fell liltlo Janet MAS
the first to swing herself upon the trunk,
to run across rs lightly as one OF her
own h,tlc birds would, aud in ten seconds
was beckoulng aud waving her hand
from the rocks on tho other shore. We
could not hear word sh1 said FOR the
rush of the rapids in the gorge below,
Her father, who vorships her, well
he may. .-uscd TO tel! story o! Hn OK
perisnce OF theirs il sort OF out lying
station he bad. half shanty ard half
lumber camp. just on the edge OF the
woods. Mrs Trevor had gone up with
him and Janet aud the children; and
thoy werc 10 haye sort of picnic lrolic
for three or four days. Bat one ol Tho
little boys was not well; SO their mother
had taken them all home. leaving janet
10 cook for her father. who had some
thing in hand. Poor fellow. In the
middle of the second morning. as he
pticd up heavy sill nom its resting
place, the ground gave way under h':',
his bar slipped, and hc aud the log rolled
down together in the hole he had made,
poor Tlcyor underneath, and his leg
broken Just above the ankle. Janet was
with him in two seconds; but she could
not Tree him. nor could five others like
her "She did not wait long he said.
or shc went like bird. down to Nc
Murtre's pasture, mile and half down
the intetyslo. Over tho root-lence, into
the pasture. and then, threading through
the high ferns, she began 10 call Dan |!
Dan Dam Nov, Dan was vicious
old stallion whom McNurtric chose to
keep ranging in his pasture and in the
woods. When NcMuuric or any of his
mcp wanted Dan. which WAS perhaps
four times in the summer, il took n peck
Of salt, and lurihgs and chasings. laria,s
and lassOs iudescribable, TO WOO him and
win him. And now this child-lor Janet
MAS still not woman glown-- only called
Dan two or three times, and down
through the underbrush came the great
hulking creature, slowering nj her; and
rs she slowly walked up TO him with a
handful OF raspberrles. he did not turn
away and then and there he stood and
she slood,-shs on Il rough boulder, he
nibbling At the lruiti she rubbing his
head between the ears, he whinuying
with satisfaction that he had company.
And at last when Janet lhouht the entente
c0rdiGle was attained she coo!ly put hsr
green scarf through his mouth behind
his gteat teeth. and. before he knew it
she had flung herself on his back. and
was away. They were not long in max
ing the six miles To the village. AS she
came in by the saw mill. she met DR..
kittredge She told him her story; and
in three minutes he aud four or five other
men were in lumber wagon on their
way 10 The rescue kittredgo told me
this himself. They asked the girl II she
would not go with them; but Janet said
no; somebody must take Dan back 10
the pasture. and so she went ahead of
the psrty Poor Trevor was released in
less than two hours from the time he iell.
Bat you want 10 know how Wildair
first met her. 1t is John Widair, re-
member, mot Taylor Taylor is in Aus.
tralia John is Taylor's brother. That
is just the way with you young people.
All you care about is the love making
and the wedding Now. might enter.
tain you for an hour with pleasant ac-