The Newtown bee., 1879-07-16

was one little hop-when her mother drought out her meetin' clothes, stout shoes, tucked pantalets, white skirt with k,itted oak-lesf edging round the bot tem, checked muslin dress, and, yes! ii r ,lly was
 My best bennett" came out in q voice l meant to be calm, but with q little ot | jHughter in it, which two-y -year-old Johnny caught up and echoed so Justify 1 that he had to be set out among his mud-pies again, for fear of waking the baby. Of course, he toddled back again at once tosee what was going on.
 The bonnet was of pink satin, trimmed with ribbon and with bunch of feath- cry-leaved flowers high up on one side. Aunt Sarah had given it to her q year ago, and Dru regarded it still as the ''very han'somest bonnet anywhere ! round these parts a | Mrs. Ide did not think stockings were needful, as the pantalets came to the | tops of the shoes, and the weather was | warm.
 Dru, holding the letter tightly clasped in her right hand, walked by the few houses in the neighborhood with very short steps and extreme complacency. Then came a long stretch of woods and bare hot hills, with only Deacon Jones' | house for more than mile. For the first time, Dru realized the ! distance, and that the shoes cramped her active little feet Arguing that in case she met anybody the satin bonnet, would keep her dignity safe, she sat down on clean stone by the roadside, and, still holding the letter tightly, she quickly united and took off the offending shoes.
 Then sine played they were alive, though it was hardly play with her, big child as she was, for she said, when Lizibuth'' laughed at her once:
 Ut seems to me that everythin's got just as much senses 1 have, only we can't hear 'em talk among the1hselves n
 So now, holding one shoe in each hand, she beat them together. saying:
 You've pinched my feet like ev'ry- thing! n I'm goin' to give you a good whippin'"
 Then she made noise like crying, to add to the effect; but suddenly she stopped, held one shoe above the other, and said, in a creaky voice like squeak ing shoe.
 You gump, to cry! don't You see the beating shakes tke dust off? there's a providence in 't,I do believe.
 "Hullo, sissy!'
 The voice was so near that Dru sprang to her feet in terror, dropping one shoe in her effort to clasp the letter more firmly. This action was not lost on the speaker, whose bloodshot eyes, as he stared sleepily from the bushes, showed the child that she had walked up what we call a '' tramp" but what she would have called an "old trav'ler;" not that this one was old-the name was given because most stragglers were so.
 What we you got there, sissy? Some money for meP"
 Yes," answered Dru, with dry lips, not daring to lie even to him. But not for you"
 She knew this was saucy, and she feared the man would beat or even kill her for it, or to get possession of the money; so, without stopping to pick up the dropped shoe, she started to run.
 Hearing the man spring from the bushes and give chase, poor Dru uttered a wild scream of terror and flew like the wind toward the town.
 "I won't hurt ye, sissy 7! Come back and yet your shoe p called the man, in wheeling tone; but finding she only flew the faster, he yelled with an oath :
 Stop! or I'll shoot vel"
 Dru never doubted he would keep his word, though she had seen no gun in his hand, so she darted into the birches that lined one side of the road, and sprang for the old stone wall that stood back of them. ...- -.....-..
 Climbing this wall too hastily, sine not only dropped the other shoe, but also loosened the stones so that dozen or more fell with loud crash, and, direct ly after, the man heard splash and a cry.
 Squeezing through the thick growth of underbrush, he easily found the gap in the wall. Crossing this, he passed cautiously down steep bank, fors his eyes, dazzled by the midday sun, did not at once become used to the dim light of the deep woods where he found him. self.
 Presently, he saw at his feet dark pool of water, it's surface little ruffied as if a stone might have rolled in, but no sign of the child.
 As he stopped to pick up stick to try the depth of the pOol he heard the sound of a horse galloping along the road in the direction whence Dru had come
 The girl had screamed+she must have been heard ! Worse, she might have fallen into the water stunned by one of the larger stones, and as this tLo,1mht Hachad .crocc Lir mind ho raa-