Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-22
Grandmn's Story.

Grandmn's story.
Just obs more story, graru about
when you Woo a little girl ard cu in the
woods" said z nk
Aud grandma drew off her spectacles and
shut her book She leaned her head back
against the large casy.cbair, and shut her
eyes thinking,
al remember as if it were only yester.
day." she said, raising her head and look
ing at the children who had gathered
around her. was only seven, and my
little baby brother wasn't year old.
"'rm going to the spring-house said
mother and you must stay in the room
and rock bpoy, il ne wakes. So | took my
knitting, for | had learned to knit, and was
very prou Of the stocking that was grow
ing under y hand.
at was col day, late in the fall, and
the doors wei all shut Baby slept, and
knitted for half an hour. Then he awoke
and began to cry. As got down from
mothers great easy-chair, where | had been
sitting, | thought heard strange noise
outside T. wasn't Lion for he had gone
off with father TO the mill. Something
rubbed against the door aud made the latch
rattle. felt afraid, and went to the door
and fastened the bolt. stood still, listen.
ing, with baby in my arms he had stopped
crying, and | could hear my heart beat
thump, thump, thump.
"Al at once there came short, cruel
kind of bark, and then a snap. A moment
after the window broke with loud crash
and | saw the long head open jaws and
fiery eyes of wolf glaring in upon me
An angel sent by our good Father in heaven
must have told me in that instant of terror
what to do. The wolf was climbing in
through the small window, and to have
fingered but a second or two would have
been death. Moved as if by power mol
my own, and without thinking what was best
to do, ran, with baby held tightly in my
arms, to the stairs that went up into the
loft. Scarcely had my foot left the last
step when the wolf was in the room below
With savage growl he sprang after me
As he did so | let the door, which shut like
cellar-door, fall over the stairway, and il
struck him on the nose and knocked him
back. A chest stood near, and something
told me to pull this over the door. So
laid baby down, and dragged at the chest
with all my strength. Just as | got one
corner over the door the VOLTS head struck
it and knocked it up little. But before
he could strike it again | had the chest
clear across This would not have KEEP,
him back if had not dragged another chest
over the door, and piled ever so many
things on top Of these. How savagely he
did grow and snarl! But | was safe.
"And now | grew frightened abou
mother If she should come back from the
spring house, the wolf wou1 tear her tC
pieces. T1erc was only one window OIL
opening in the Jft, and that d not look
toward the spring-house; so tn vas nj
way in which could give her rning, OIL
let her know, II she had seen tue wolf, tina
we were safe.
For long time the wolf tried to get a
US, but at last could hear him going dow
the stairs He moved about in the room
below, knocking things about for ever 81
long, and then heard him spring up to tn
window. At the same moment heard m,
|, fathers voice shouting, not far of Oh
, how my heart did leap with gladness
Then came Lions heavy bark, which gre,
excited aud soon heard him yelling dow
) the road 10 the widest way. The wolf wa
still in the window | could hear hit
E struggling and breaking pieces of glas,
/ Lion une Innef unnn him whom nv fatho
e called him OF in stern command A.
was silent nov, but the silence was quick
broken by the crack of rifle, which sent
r bullet into the VOLTS head, killing hir
instantly.
r "'Fa,her father! cried, from the lol
window. lie told me afterward that m
Q voice came to him as from the dead NJ
mother was with him, looking as white a
| a sheet. saw them both clasp their hand
! together, and lift their eyes in thankfunes
. to God
0 when tried to pull the chests away
| | could not move them an inch. In m
e great danger God had given me strength t
drag them over the loft door, but now tina
o the danger was past my little hands wer
s too weak to remove them. SO father ha
= to climb up by ladder to the window, an
< release baby and me from our place ofrefugC
"Mother did not know anything of GU
J, danger until she had finished her work i
I the spring house. just as she came out sh
' saw the VOLTS head at the window, and O
the same moment father and Lion appeare
}, in sight. "-ChIdrea's Hour.