Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-03-09
ODSTOCK, vT., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1881.
they 90 by, Oh, | know, There Is
the old Pound III go there"
"lhe old Pounds

there was the pound. Dear nc ! I've
known about II ever since the hrs
afternoon. Ben told me think. Il
always seemed rather interesting
somehow, but I never took the trouble
to 90 inside before, They haven
used II for years, but il will make
very good retreat ill you come back,
Just as good as IL was a cow And
laughing galy, though with a brow
twisted by pain Kitty. hoped across
the road, and into The small walled
inclosule opposite,
"There that " beautiful" she de.
clared, dropping intoa ccrrer, "fhis
wall makes good back for mo to
lean against, and no one but you will
suspect that ! am here. Don't run
and don't heat yourself, pitha, or you
will have u headache to morrow, I'm
doing very piccly and don't mind
waiting n Bit Take your lime,"
With this injunction, Judith de-
parted. For few minutes her foot
steps were audible on the stony road {,
then they died away, and perfect
quiet took possession OF the hilltop
and the old Pound, broken only by
drowsy chirr Of glasshoppers in the
soft yellow grass. So silent was IL
that when flying bird dskimmcd across
the walls with a sharp call TO its mate
Kitty qaite started in her corner
About her stretched a carpet Of low
aromatic growths--tansy and sweet
fern and white blossomed immortelles
with here and there u tall spike Of
golden-rod fiuniing its yellow flag.
The sun was nearing the horizon now.
Crimson tin,s flushed the soft valley
in the dlslpnce, and little fleets of rose
and purple cloudlets began to fieck
pure sky overhead. After while
Kitty heard the rattling of the stage
wheels and the snap OF the drivers
whip, as i, crunched by on the steep
road. Then came silence again, brok.
en- little later, by the sound Of dis.
tant voices, which she guessed to be
those people on the lower crossroads
but they did not come nearher retreat
nor was she startled when the soft
thud Of hoofs drew near, till a loud
''Haw close TO her ears made
her jump, and at the same
moment big red COW vaul,ed into
the Pound with bounce and Il clat-
ter. There was u rattle Of bars,
dance OF boyish boots on the road,
aud before Kitty could realize the sit
uation, and scream, it was too late.
The boots were tar down the hill,
and there she was, Kitty Roach, shut
yes actually shut into the old Trev
ertcn Pound with red Ayrshire
she, whose horror from childhood had
been a COW, to whom the fear of a
lion was nothing in comparison. 1t
was too terrible.
Fright, no less than her disabled
ankle kept her perfectly motionless.
Even had she been able to stir, moth.
ing would have Induced her to reduce
the distance an inch which lay be.
tween herself and that terrible crea
ture, which was now cropping the i'm
mortelles in the immediate neighb Or
hood of the gateway. Frozen by fear
she sat, her one hope beng that Judith
might return soon, when suddenly the
sound OF many footsteps on the road
restored Ne. faculties of speech, or
rather OF schreech, and, with wild and
desperate energy, she screamed, "Oh,
please come here whoever you are ]"
"Come where = asked voice
and above the wall, close to Kitty's
corner appeared head--a well known,
determined, handsome head. with
thick wavy auburn hair and beard,
whose eyes melted into warm color
still-the head, in short, OF Ben Haz'
zard, the very Benjamin from whom
Kitty was: proposing to run away the
next day save one. Poor Kitty, run
ming was the last thing possible now.
"Why. whatever does this mean 7"
he demanded, while Kitty, flushed
and half crying, between pain. vex-
alton, and alarm, faultered forth lame
explanation.
$50 Judith went to get Mr.. Bar
rett and the carry-all," she concluded.
"Aud I came in here to be out of the
way, and then some one turned that
dreadful COW in, and oh, please. won't
YOU drive her outi I am So afraid OF
cows and I am expecting every min
ute that she will discover I am here,
and turn upon me! t- .'. is
Had Ben Hazard had the good for.
tune to he born a decade or so earlier