Connecticut western news., 1880-08-04

it all this time I was as much at home atop of the chimney as I was on the ground, an I worked on without once looking down, until my job was finished, an was putting up my tools. Then, all of sudden, heard 2 rattling noise, an looking over, saw the plank going down very fast. I called out, Hullo, there send that up again, will you?'' but the only answer I got was loud laugh, for all the world like silly Jerry the natural's; and sure enough there he was, standing by the windlass, jumping an clapping his hands.
 I looked about for the man whose business it was to manage the windlass, but not sign of him was there, an in a minute I heard the rattle of the pulley ] again, an saw the rope was running through it in the wrong direction. made grab at it, but twas jerked out of my hand, an before could catch it again the end had slipped through, an there I was, more than hundred feet from the ground, not knowing how in the world I was to get down, an Jerry dancing an capering below, calling out ::
 "Come down and thrash me now, Mr. Forde, won't you?'
 Then I remembered that few days before I had found this boy annoying Katie, an had given him cut with o switch had in my hand. He had slunk away without word at the time, but it seems he remembered the blow, and took this way of being revenged.
 We'll, at first was scarcely frightened, expecting somehow that once the people below knew of the fix I was in, they'd find some way or other of getting me out of 1t. But, when came to think of it, duse a bit of way could hit on myself, an sure I knew more about chimneys than any one else in the place. Twas getting late, too; there wouldn't be much more than another half hour of daylight, an the wind was rising-I could hear it whistling through the trees.
 By this time people knew what had happened, an crowd was collecting :; I could see them coming from all parts, for of course I had view all about. I saw boy go up to the door of the counting-house, an presently young Squire Philip came running out-run- ming as if for his life. When he came, he took the command like, an began giving directions, an the people, who had only stared at first, now ran here an there as he sent them. First they brought out long ladder, an fixed it on the roof below the chimney. I could have told them that twas too short, knowing as did the length of every ladder in the place; but somehow, though heard their shouts plainly, I could not make them hear mine; it seemed as if the voices went up, like smoke.
 Then there was great delay while they went for long ladder; and this, too, didn't reach half way. A man climbed up it, however, an called out to know had l bit of string in my pocket that I could let down. Not a bit could I find. I had had big ball only the day before, but had taken it out of my pocket an put 1t on shelf at home. I took off my braces, an' fastened them an my pocket handkerchief together but they didn't near reach the top of the ladder, so that plan had to be given up.
 All this time the wind was rising, an I was getting numb with the cold, an stiff and cramped from being so long in the one position. There was big clock right over the gateway just opposite, an l saw that it only wanted twenty minutes of five; it would be nearly dark at five, an once the darkness set in, what little hope I had would be gone.
 The young squire seemed to have gone away by this time, but there was my father among the crowd; an who should l see, standing next him, an holding on by his arm, but Katie! They had forgotten everything but the fright about me, an he seemed to be talking to her, an comforting her. After bit l saw the young squire again he had a big thing in his hand looking like pocket-handkerchiefs stretched over a frame, an I saw that it was kite, an that they meant to send string up to me in that way. But you never in all your life saw such an unmanageable kite. First twas too heavy, an then too light, and then the time they seemed to lose making tail to steady it ] heard after that part of that same tail was made of bank-notes Squire Philip took out of his pocket when he could get nothing else quick enough. He got them all back later, for not a man, wo man or child in the place would have touched one of them when they saw hin using them in that way.
 When the kite did go up at last, th, wind was so high that they could no manage it properly. IL came very nea me once, an I made 8 snatch at tn, string, nearly over-reaching myself il doing so; but missed it, an just the1 there came terrible gust of wind, tn string broke, an the kite was carrie' away, an stuck fast in the branches o a big tree behind the proprietor's house looked over at the clock to see hoy much time was left me, an found tha I could not see the hands any longer the darkness had come on in the las few minutes. Then I gave up all hope for I knew could never hold on til morning.
 I tried to think of death, an to mak myself ready for it, but I couldn't-no ) prayer nor good word could call t
 mind, only going ever an over again i . l my heal the 1ua,r ,t,,.n,,ll aI La,...o.,