Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-03-01

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To certainties have grown,
You'll reach the star that leads your feet,
Nor find the fancy flown. H|o >jI3a UH
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,ss iii0 Tommv,s Adventure.rgdl ,s'7po
Tommy was standing ON a cricket, by
the west window, flattsIling his nose
against the pane, and making tracks
all over the glass with his tongue, when
grandma drove up with Dolly and the
red wagon. Dolly was the horse, and
she and grandma had come to take
Tommy out to the farm, in Pearsfeld,
you know, where his grandparents lived,
to stay two whole days. And he wasn't
going as a baby with somebody to take
care of him, but as young gentleman,
who could look out for himself e3
i" Nobody amt goin' wiv me" he said
to Ellen, triumphantly. >" Pm jes goin'
all myself, alone, men gamma
It was the grandest thing that ever
was heard of, to 60 as far as father did,
kissing them all good-by, and perhaps
seeing his mother cry a'little. 9ai'aH
If she felt ever so much like crying,
she could only cry with laughter, when
Tommy came down from the garret,
covered with cobwebs and dust, and pre-
;sented himself in the parlor, dragging
an old blue umbrella and a carpet-bag
bigger than himself. q9l sFT ~ Sauao
"There, now, my fngs are all ready"
said he. 8axsh I@ taa is2HsE5 .lt I'll 60
Grandma laughed heartily, too; yet
she made no objection to the outfit of
the young traveller, but slowed the tag
and umbrella into the wagon, while
Tommy was lifted into the seat, and
Dolly's head was turned toward Pears
feld. ~sgaH u djiV H41 IS wa
The Journey was not long one, and
only one thing worth mentioning hap
pened on the way. They were passing
great clover field, just at the edge of
the pine woods, when Tommy cried out:
ooh gamma, gamma, | see bear,
a-sittin' right up on the end OF his tall"
Grandma looked where Tommy point
ed; and Dolly stopped to look, too.
"Dont you see him p" cried Tommy.
"Put on your spectacles, them" Il
The spectacles were put on, and, after
a long while, she saw what the young
eyes had espied so quickly, anold wood
chuck sitting at his hole. just as Tom
my was proposing to capture him in the
carpet-bag, he whisked out of sight;
and Dolly started off at brisk pace,
which she kept up without stopping
till she reached her own hitchingpost
at grandpa's gate. a31 II
Grandpa himself was there to meet
them, and lifted the funny little boy
and his funny baggage out of the red
wagon. When he heard about the
bear, he told Tommy that there were
plenty of such bears in his fields, and
that perhaps they would 60 and catch
one after dinner. s.......f .',.te.r
"In the carpet-bag?" asked Tommy.
eyes"
"We must have the 'brelley to spear
him wiv.' ........
''Of course" "''
Long before grandpa was ready to go,
Tommy was parading the yard, spearing
imag aginary bears with his umbrella, and
putting them into his bag. He had just
caught fine large one, when he heard
a loud rumble, and looking up saw
man run large yellow stage out OF the
barn on the other side of the street.
Tommy ran to the fence, and squeezing
his chubby face as far as possible through
the pickets, watched the man while he
washed the coach, creased the wheels
one at a time, then lit his pipe and went
away. When he was quite out of sight,
Tommy unattached the gate and went
over to the coach. Finding one OF the
doors open, he climbed up the iron
steps, tugging the bag aud umbrella
after him, to try asshort ride by stage
a standstill ride, of course, He played
that he was papa, going to New York;
then that the great hole under the seat
was den full of bears; and then he
was bear himself. He crawied into
the den. 1t was a funny place, with
nice straw on the floor, and long cur
tain of leather in front. He lay very
still, and softly growled to his make
believe cubs to look out for that terrible
hunter, Tommy. - .4s..-
Now, you know that bears are very
sleepy fellows, and it is not strange that
this little wild animal by and by fell
asleep in his little den. ~ - H :
Meantime grandma had looked out Of
the front door, and not seeing Tommy
anywhere. thought he had gone with
grandpa; while grandpa himself had
forgtoten the young bear hunter alto
gether, and had gone to the field alone.
/ After a while the stage driver came,
harnessed. his four horses to the coach
and drove away. He, stopped at the
store 10 get the mail bag and take in
several passengers. There was fat wo
man with baby, an Irish servant girl,
one-legged little French peddler, and
stiff old gentleman with a gold-headed
cane. With this load the yellow stage
started for Byetown, twelve miles away,
and Tommy still asleep under the seat.
When he awoke he couldn't tell
where he was, and wondered what made
| his bed rock and bounce so. Then he
heard the people talking right over his
head. He peeped under the leather
curtain and saw several pairs of shoes
Too frightened to know what he did,
he lifted the curtain and gave one
desperate spring, thrusting his curly