Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-12-26

confidence in all.
Do YOU remember Mss Ionges
pretty story of Miss keble: The little
wrens trusted her so entirely that they
came to pick the red berries which
were printed on her muslin dress and.
when they found they could not get
any Of them off, they flew down aud
crept up under the skirt, thinking they
should get at the berries on the other
side. l have seen the little birds do
that with Janet,-not such wrcns as
those, because there are none in Maine,
but some little witches not so much
bigger than an English wren, whose
name do not know. Wren or no
wren, they knew>beuNs.even If she did
not know their name. nor they hers
The pretty picture Mr.. Billings has
made of her just represents both sides.
l mean she trusted the birds. and the
birds trusted her. In the picture YOU
see just how it was. This little whis-
tier has fascinated her, and she has
fascinated him. He knows she will
not hurt him; and 1t almost seems a.
II she were listening to him, and learn
ing from him, as in the Arabian
Nights and in the German fairy-taIcs.
the girls Of the rca, blue blood under
stand the language OF caterpillar.
cricket grasshopper, toad, frog.
weasel. pusscy-cat, tom-,it, ostrich.
eamelopard, and all other vertebratcs
or invertebrates. Dear little Janet.
She - As good fairy as the best Of
them
After the haymow flight. when She
was as big 4 glrl as Mr. Billings has /
made her, We had many a tramp to.
gclhcr up-brook, through moose-wood
and over mountain. | have seen her |
pass from rock TO rock, on one of the /
ridges OF ktaadn, with DO though; of |
taking staff. with no kind of uneasi. |
ness. though sic were just on the sheer /
edge Of that precipice which you re-
member perhaps on the southern face /
Of htaatin. ! have seen it iifty miles 1
away. Yes, and have seen the 4
chiid's father fell pine-trcc a Aundi cd |
and hly years old, that we might walk |
dry-shod across the stream and the /
moment it fell little Janet WAS the first
10 SWING herself upon The trunk. to
r-v,c r-Yus- .srrVwpse@snso1r.
was teckoning and waving her hand I
nom the rocks on the other sAofr.
We could not hear a WORT She said for
the rusn OF the rapids IN the gorge be-
low. Her father, who worshiis her
as well he may,-u~ed TO tell story
of an experience Of theirs in sor, Of
outlying station he hal. hall shAnty /
and half lumbercamp, just on the edge !
Of the woods. Mrs. Trevor had gone /
up with him and Janet and the chill (
dren and they were 10 have i Sort 81 /
picnic frolic for three or four days. |
But one of the little boys wa, hot well /
so their mother had taken them All /
home, leaving Janet 10 cook Tor ..cs
father. who had something in hand. /
Poor fellow In the middle Of the sec |
ond morning, as he prlei up heavy !
sill from its resting place. the ground /
gave way under him, his bar slipped, |
and he and the log rolled down To- +
Trevor underneath, and h!- lc- broken |
Just above the ankle. Janet VA, with .
him in t~o seconds but She could not .
free him, nor could FIVE other, .lAe hcr. /
She did not wait long, he saii. on /
she went like bird, down 10 Ne
Murtrie's pasture. a mile aud a halt
down the interyale. over the root
fence. into the pasture. ami then,
threading through the high ferns. she
began 10 call Dan Dan Dan Now,
Dan was a vicious Obi stallion whom
McMurtrie chose 10 keep ranging IA
| his pasture and in the woods. When
McMurtrie or any of his men wanted
-~rfincs III
a summer. it took peek Of salt. ana
( lurings and chasings. larlats and la>so>
| indescribabie. 10 WOO him and 10 win
him. And now this child-tor Janet
was still not woman grown-only
! called Dan two or three times, and
down through the underbrush came
the great hulking creature. glowering
at her and As she slowly walked up
TO him with handful of raspberries,
he did not turn away; and then and
"a rough bowlder. he nibbling at the
fruit; she rubbing his head between
the ears, he whinnying with satistac-
ton that he had company. And at
last when Janet thought the entente
cor,tials Was attained she coolly put her
little green scarf through his mouth,
behind his great teeth, and, before he
knew it, she had flung herself on his
back, and was away. They were not
long making the six miles to the village.
AS she came in by the saw-mill, she
met DIR. Kittredge. She told him her