Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-08-12
for taking myself off instanter.--I bad
rather face masked battery. than this
pretty teacher, after making such fools of

pretty teacher, after making such fools of
ourselves ~ .-i eIl .'ib Ten .
II don't care if you had" answered
hissister, Indignantly. asAThe only way
to do is to brave il out. both of you, and
apologize for your rudeness. She is no:
bit stupid, but pleasant aud merry, and
no doubt you will have a jolly laugh over
the affair" pod 1a'v1 n1.- ..s1 igt aar.
"But Sam How the deuce are we to
to get along with him. You know well
enough. Han, We shall never hear the
last of it ffom him; that will be brought
up atlali times and in all places'' .4'''f
"If you two eau keep the secret. III
find way to silence Bridget, and it is a
subject Eva will not care to have discussed,
and, fortunately my husband is away from
home. So 20 to bed and rest contented."
She showed them to the room she had
intended them to occupy, and soon the
house was once more hushed in slumber.
Meanwhile their brother Sam had
reached the depot a few moments too late.
lie found the train he was to have taken
gone, but upon consulting a timetable. he
ascertained that another started two hours
later, and so decided to take it. He fig
ured to himself, as he impatiently crowd
ed into an empty seat and was bein g
whiriled along at rapid rate, how snug.
ly his brothers had ensconced themselves
in tie best room, which by right belong
to him he being the eldest and consum-
mated plan to get even with them.
Sometime after midnight he was depos-
tied at Hollythorne, and reaching the sis.
,ter's house, he scented around until he
found way Of entrance into the Kitchen.
where he deposited his luggage and re-
moved his boots. Then he quietly stole
up the stairs and opened the door of the
best room. "Sure enough thought he,
"my fine chaps are in the covern for
there were rot to be mistaken signs ofthe
room being occupied. Garments were ly-
ing upon chairs, and the bed was pressed
by 2umbering forms.
To think of coping with their united
strength by dragging them forth, was not
practicable; but there the pitchers Of
water, and he knew that good dousing
with the icy fluid would turn them out
quick enough
eff | can't have my old quarters he
chuckled, 'you shan't, that am deter.
mined on. So here goes" '.-
He lifted the pitcher, approached the
bed raised it high, and suddenly dashed
the entire contents upon the sleeper. +.
Such torrent of screams as he had
never before heard rang through the
house, and before Sam collected his scatter
ed senses door after door was opened, and
Hannah, George and John rushed in
clothed in scanty appeared-Hapnah
with a frightened look in her face and a
lamp 10 her trembling hand, that revealed
the entire scene. ~ "
There, sitting up in bed, with her hair
dripping like mermaid, her, night dress
deugcd, her face colorless and eyes look
ing terror, was the young school mistress,
and there was Sam, with the empty pitch
er in his hand, the very p cture of imbecility,
staring about like an idiot at Miss Eva
and the havoc he had made.
Hannah, George and John instantly
comrrchcnded the situation, aud the lat
ter at the command of their sister, drag
ged Sam away, while she assisted the
drenched and terrified girl to dry clothing,
and then took her to her own room and
bed, explaining. for the second time, the
mishaps Of the night. +
"I'll keep you with me now, my poor
child" she said, though with great diff
Guilty keeping back her laughter. "Those
boys are nicely come up with, atany rate,
and if it wasn't for your being so terribly
frightened, and the way my best bed has
been used, I wouldn't care, They do nothing
when they come home but study ur some
trick to play upon each other; and, +" con-
tinued she, by way Of apology, "they are
50 confined to their offices and stores dur
ing most of the year, that they let out en-
tircly when they get out here. But you
arc safe now"
Hannah kissed her charge. and went
down to see about the boys, who, as soon
as they were fairly shut up iu the regions
below, began to thoroughly appreciate the
Joke; and now that Sam was as deep in
the mud as they in the mire, gave no
quarter.
o nI'll be blamed if know what it all
means, - said Sam. looking 10 confusion
at his brothers, who were rolling and
kicking 10 convulsion Of laughter. 9
"Wait," replied George, "until Han