Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-07-17

her face, which she remOrselessly check
ed by biting the corner of her under lip
"COme, ROlla," she called, in a sub.
dued lvoice, acome sir, and go home
and see how you get me into
scrapes again." t
She climbed the bank into the mead
ow, the dag following with a subdued
and culprit-like mien. But suddenly he
gave short, sharp bark, and at the
same moment another and stranger
sound smOte upon Sues ear. 1t was a
low h0arse, sobbing murmer, which
seemed to swell into angry roar.
IF were in Africa, should fancy
that lions roarr' thought Sue, curious
ly looking around.
In an instant her cheek became death
ly pale, and she stood breathless and
transfixed, as a hinge animal, with low
cred head and eyes cleaning through
shaggy forelocks, emerged from the
thicket at some distance, and came slow
ly toward her, tearing up the earth with
hoOfs and horns.
ROlla, after a burst of ObstreperOus
barking, turned, and ANONYMOUSLY
fled.
She strove in. vain to follow his exam
pie. Her limbs felt paralyZed, and she
turned faint and sick.
The bull came slowly onward, now
lowering his head, then uplifting it, and
staring fiercely and threateningly at
the figure in the center of the field.
Suddenly voice shouted: ~ e.rss
Don't be afraid! Throw away your
red shawl Now run run to the near
est fence-while keep him OFF,
The assurance Of help at hand inspir-
ed her. She tore off the light zephyr
shawl, which had attracted the atten-
tiOn of the bull, and ran as fast as her
trembling limbs would carry her.
How she got over the fence she never
knew. Indeed, she knew nothing dis
tinctly until the gentleman whom she
had characterized as an "impudent
puppy" lightly leaping the fence threw
himself, rather breathleSS and heated on
the ground near where she had sunk the
moment she had found herself i'm safety.
"Oh," said Sue, half sobbing, Il am so
glad you came! That awful creature
would have killed mep' -
81 fortunately heard his believing,
and, remembering you, came just in
time to keep him Off" 6JlfSEs
Weren't you afraid?"
'Oh, no! used when boy to bait
these animals for my own amusement.
But you see / can be of more use to you
than the other puppy Where is he.
"GOne. Deserted me in my hour of
need" she replied, smiling family, as
she dried her tears. "But I've had enough
of him. I'll give him away and get a
better and bigger dog to accompany me
on my walks, if they are to be as danger
Gus as this One."L ~ x5Tur NJ
"Am big enOughP" inquired the gen.
tleman.; "I'll take the very best care of
you" ,-ss-
"Oh, don't know you yet, you see.
will ask papa" she answered, demurely.
r. "Certainly-by all means ask papaw
said he, eagerly. 40 ~ 80
Sue blushed, with strong inclination
to smile, which she repressed, as beneath
her dignity.
. I'm going home now" she said, ris-
ing. ~
wont you permit me to see you safe?
There may be more cattle around, to say
nothing of snakes and OWLS
well, think you may come, though
we are near home now. can see papa
sitting on the verandah, reading; and
there, in the orchard, is my basket of
apples, which gathered for the pigs. If
you won't mind, I'll feed them now and
carry the basket back"
"Pll enjoy it of all things" he assert
ed.
Lifting the basket he carried it for her
to the stye, where she amused herself
with tossing the fruit, one by one, to
the eager, pushing crowd within.
$50 you take an. interest in those
poetic animals?" remarked her compan-
ion, as he stood curiously looking on.
II feel sorry for them, they are so ugly
and dirty. Nature seems to have treated
them unjustly, poor things, in making
them so inferior to other animals. But
then, the little ones, with their pink
noses and funny eyes. do look so chubby
and innocent" ~ pd
She tossed some apples to the little
ones and looked thOughtfully.
"They remind me of a picture saw
lately-Circe, surrounded by a herd of
swine, into which she had transformed
her admirers, and would never imagine
how much expression there was in the
way that they wriggled and groyeled at
her feet" 600. ma. ,.-.ts
Il see that picture now, at least some
thing like it," the gentleman remarked,
looking from Sue to the pigs. as
And again Sue repeated to herself,
'what an impudent puppy as she drop
ped more apples into the stye.
And this was the spectacle which
greeted the Mortified gaze of Mrs. Mel
lingtOn as she stepped on the verandah
where her husband was reading, and
looking across the lawn to the orchard.
The table was ready, and she was eX-
pecting Sue.
mercy on mel' she gasped. "Why,
Mr.. Wellington, only lOokl THERE'S act
ually Sue, with Colonel Hanley's son,
feeding the pigSp arI
Mr.. Wellington chuckled. as4r
SWELL, my dear, l don't see the harm Of
it, if they like it. Though where she
could have picked him up can't i'm
agine." ''..'.
Meanwhile, Sue and her companion
leisurely crossed the orchard and the
lawn.
Now, I'll introduce you to papa" she
said. "Only don't know your name."
"Oh, perhaps he knows it,and will In
troduce me to you. Meantime, call meany-
thing you ike q
So Sue walked straight up to her faith
er, and, putting her hand on his should
er, said: III soc n 5gf.I tSt3
Papa, I've had an awful fright.
was chased by raging mad bull, and
my puppy. ROlla, ran away from me, and
another, with the very same name saved
me-" nodding in an Introductory man
ner toward the guest
"Eh?" said papa, looking up; and,
catching the expression of the two faces
before him, he fell into the humor, and,
as he rose, said, with wave of his hand
toward the waiting tea table, Every we'll,
my dear, we'll feed him."