The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-08-04
TIMOTHY HORN.

me most marvellous mortal that ever wa.
= born,
You would say, had you known him, was Tim
Tail. bony and broad-an angular giant,
And awkward as wel; yet his limbs were sc
plant
Whsse motions no word could describe except
sswabble.
And vet, strange to say, in the country, where
Tim
ralt confident no one was looking at him.
Ills step was as firm and his carriage as free
And stately as ever Apollo's could be.
II was only habit, through modesty born
f)ftryine to walk without drawing attention
Which gave to the movements of Timothy
The boneless, loose, timber appearance ]
mention.
Always first at fire and first through the
To resoues the 1nmates, hafroasted and
choking.
He returned with his arms full of people, but
withnIs hairand his eyebrows white-crinkled
and smoking:
And then, If they thanked him, so strange was
his habit,
He'd take the first byway and run like a
One night, as be sat by his mother and read
4Miles Standish's Courtship," she stopped him
Very gem gently: is'a Dear Tim. you are now twenty
eight.
Don't you think it is time you were taking a
"0s Mother who'd havesuch great, awkward
fel--'
But the word was cut short by the clang of a
bell,
And away to the fires sped Timothy Horn.
Twas the six-storied house of Professor Van
BE had built it, expressly, uncommonly high.
The better to study the air and the sky,
With vision unvexed by the smoke from the
The Professor himself had gone upto an air.
To shut off the draught, and he couldn't get
down, ~ s%4 F8a - J
For the demon Of fame was cremating the
stairway;
But, forgetting himself in his love for the sci
Van Dorm brought some strange scientific ap-
pliances sA
70 the sixthstory window, sat down his barom-
And holding alofta new patent thermometer,
Grew absorbed in theme he would call thera-
The effect Of the heat on wart on his cuticle.
aney shouted 10 warn him, but, horror appall-
ing.
The roof was abiaze and the rafters were fall
Alasl be was far above human assistance.
For their ladder would only reach half Of the
and son of old ireland muttered: a Begorryi
be only had builded his bashtely sixth shforys
9lshst under the third, we could rishcuea him
Butnow he z be cooked and dishagured COM
Athousand pale faces looked up at van Dorm.
'nen IN through the circle sprang Timothy
Caught shawlfromtheform ofthescientist's
daughter, q 2 II
And, plunging it deep in bucket of water,
SSnseioped SsNa nls head before any one spoke,
0pfang up the req stairs, and was lost in the
Rnvemen held their breath. but they saw in
minute -
The shawl I. Y at the window, the Professor rolled
men il, i vanished, and then-the roof fell The
Were torn from their rfaces and hurled to
Inc ground,
:, With such concussion the air all around !
!, Mas a chaos of ashes and cinders and thunder.
Iney are lost!' They are sayedl" Asif
:, blown by the tall, ~ - Z
I'm shot from the house like blazing red
Annything ~ sudden, and shook from the shawl I;
Inc rroiessor, still holding his precious
Nv, thermometer,
W Mao snileden his daughter and tenderly said,
z AZ ~ as Qusted the ashes of hair from his head:
=, = eep not for our lost scientific appliancesl
1ue DIGEST as OF blazes cant burn up the sci
fat Tim; i'm. what Of himl When he heard the
" tne people, he tried to, but could not, get
out; - - - -,s' 80
for 1neir praise ran SO high, and still higher
n and higher, -
ae wished in his heart he was back IN tbe fire
Ano'e wasn't much left of his facial express
= sion ,eaS15s& & III -
ioa wouldn't have guessed him to be a eau
cAsian; q 1rr1EF 1--Fe,Sss~ : : - S->
iP tod 4 f.s.- - e
NOW 4 happened Miss Stella Corona Van
had always admired brave Timothy Horn:
2. nul new, on account of her terrible fright,
~ ~, more h nkely, because of the pitiful sight
81 81 oarDecued father and fricaseed Tim, |
1ue ieit reslstless attraction toward him.
., above zero,
sae' throwing her arms round the neck of the
almeo a kiss at his lips but it landed instead
~ I'm nis swlfty-averted. decarbonized head.
' and nsf H,rr HfIyers-Jim' Joseph, Sam, Thomas,
nfoke forth into laughter, uncommonly
1ut alas as. for their laughter, for Timothy
inrew na an arm around Stella Corona Van
a,a,,, anu, swiftly advancing, as proud as lion,
.a f;a n,s nst al each smile that he fixed his
TIL the faces of Harry Iir 1o,o,,., 80
Sam 1' "o"opn anu
110ssea ;ad NE they'd been kissed by batter
a1en Is !, ae doubled his fist for the battle anew
~ - Inn cried Corona. 20! what shall dop |
" ,aald ha you Will kill them, and then they'll
A., nang you'll
''a y be wid-oh!' Whose widow?''
NJ, gasped Tim.
", yours, you dearstupidl" she whispered
'Aeh ne ne tlghtened his clasp around Stella Van
'''u 'nat was the courtship of Timothy Horn.
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