New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-25

did the spider. 1t had evidently been awakened
from It's sleep by the smell of the food. IL was
2 tlre 1t Knocked the bread out of his hand and
th thrust ITS square mouth into his milk but be
over IL that did him great deal of good
lie qua not teei all alone now that this bluader-
ound its way TO him. He caressed il In his arms
and kissed 1t great many times and it responded
much more gratefully than the human baby had
done in Jim Brackens cottage and finally. despite
his bleeding feet and his tired limbs he fen asleeD
with his face against the pups woolly body.
When he awoke. he could not remember what
4 had happened. He called for Deborah. but no
Deborah was there; The moon, now full, was
SHINING still through the queer little dusky place;
the hgures of the fowls, rolled mp in balls Of
feathers and stuck upon one LEG, were al that met
MS stralning eyes He pulled the puppy closer and
closer to him for the hrst time in his he he felt
4 really frightened.
once rat ran swiftly across, and then the fowls
shIeked and BERTHE could not help screaming with
4 them out IN minute or two he felt ashamed of
himself for he thought A rat ia Gods creature as
much as am and as I have not done anything
wrong do not think they Will be allowed to hurt
Nevertheless the night was very terrible With
Out the presence OF The puppy 20 doubt, the little
jrt Moula nave frightened himself into convul-
slons and delinum; but the pup comforting
10 him so natural. positively thing real and in
no Wise of the outer world that BERTHE kept down,
tnough Win many sob, The panScs of uureasoning
terror which assailed him the moon sailed away
past the square loop-hole, and great darkness
were sitting him in magic cloak.
The pup had Lot been long taken from its mother,
rem. and frightened and whmpered a good
deal; and cuddled itself close the little Earl.
gray light in the fowl-house and sharp in his ear
was ringing the good-morrow Of the Br:ahma chan
1t was daybreak
round red face looked in at the square hole and
the voice OF the keepers wife said Little gemman,
Big George Will be arter We O'clock and u III
go nard wv yer. Say now yer didn't snare the bird
q No, sand BERTHE languidly, lying full length on
the straw; he felt sniverng and chilly and yery
sim and very miserable, in all ways
: But yer know who did persisted the woman.
Now Jlst you tell me, and III make il all square
with George, and he'll let you out and wen gie ye
I poTrldge and we II take We home on the donkey
The little Earl was silent
Now drat yer for an obstinate I can't abide an
obstinate, said the woman angrily. Who did
snare the bird st say that; tbs all, and mighty
L will not say that said BERTHE and the woman
slammed wooden door that there was TO the
loophoe, and told him he a mule and pig. and
that she was not going to waste any more words
The puppy's hungry said BERTHE timidly.
Drat the puppy! said the woman outside; and
I no more compassion was wrung out of her. The
! little Earl felt very languid. light-headed and
strange; lac was faint and little feverish
,Oh dear pap! what night! he murnured With
a hurst OF sobbiug
Yet it never occurred TO him 10 purchase his lib
eIty by giving up little guilty Dan.
lie heard the tread of Big George on the ground
outside. and his deep voice cursing and swearing.
9 and the children running and fro, and the hens
cackling Then the little Earl remembered that
! he was born of brave men. and must not be uD-
and tried pull ms disordered dress together and
3 tried, too, not to look afraid.
4 The door thrust open violently, and that big
! grim black man looked in. Come varnintr he
halioed out; come out and get your merits; birch
\ ana bread and water and Scrbture-readin for a
good month, III go bail-and Z I'd be year if wur
the beak.
Then BERTHE. on his little shaky shivering limbs.
walked quite haughtily toward him and the open
air. the puppy waddling after him. You should
not be so very rougn and rude he sand Will 90
with you. But the puppy wants some milk
4 Blg George only answer TO clutch wildly at
Bertie's clothes and hurl him anyhow mead first.
N DDi cal at fDodrp Sueh
nation check niNer seed he swore: but all them
q kadley lmps are as like one to tother rs many
2rlbSton-p pins-all the gift o. the CAB and tallow-
Berto, lying very sick and dizzy in the bottom Of
g the cart managed TO find breath TO call out 10 the
81 woman the doorstep; Please do give the puppy
: something it has been 50 hungry all night
That's no Radley boy said the keepers wife TO
Il her eldest girl as the cart drove away. Only a
little gennan nd ha' thought OF the pup. Strikes
81 me- lass your daddys put rod in pickle for hisse
q along o his tantrums and tivies'
81 II was but mile aud half from the keepers
3 cottage to the mansion of the SIR Henry who was
3owner of these lands; and the pony spun along at
swing trot, and Big George. smoking and rafting
Another poachn' boy. Mr.. Masonr said the
woman who opened the lodge gates; and Big
'Ay. ay, a Radley imp caught at last Got the
bird on him. and the gin too. What dye call that
3 odgc-keeper But. laWks! he DO look miteH
Big George spun on up the avenue with the air of
world and the little cart was soon pulled up al the
steps of a stately ltalian-like building
III
George 10 the footman loungiug about the doorway
OF course, Mr. Mason. Sir Henry said as YOU
was TO go To him directly
Sir Henry waits said functionary; and Big
George marched into a handsome library. dragging
his captive behind him. toward the central writing
table, at which 4 good-looklng elderly gentleman
Arrived before his master the demeanor of Big
George underwent remarkable change: he cringed,
and he pulled his lock of hair and he scraped about
y with his leg the humhleSt manner boss bile and
proceeded TO lay the dead pheasant and the trap
and gear upon the table.
Took hun in the ac, Sir Henry he said with
him ages he's a Radley boy, the little gallows-
bird he's been snarn' and dodgin and stealth all
4 he winter long and here we've got him.
lie is very small--qute a child said Sir Henry
&doubtingly, trying TO see the culprit
He's stunted in his growth along o. wickedness
SIR SAID Big George very positively; but he's old
IN vice; that's what he rs, slr--old IN vice.
At that moment Berthe managed TO get in FROM Of
him. and lifted his little faint voice
lie has made a mistake he said feebly: never
killed your birds ut ali, and am Lord Avillion
Good hcavensi you laundering idiotr shouted
Sir Henry springing to his feet. This is the little
Earl they are looking for all over the island and
all over the country! Ny dear little fellow. how
can l ever
His apologies were cut short by BERTHE dropping
down IN q dead faint at has feet. weak was he
from cold. aud hunger and exhaustion and I'M
wonted exposure.
1t was not very long, however. before all the
alarmed household, pouring at the furious ring
ing OF their master bell, had revived the little
Earl, and brought him 10 his senses the worse
for the momentary eclipse of EN-.
Please do not be angry with your man. muir
INJURED Berte, lac lay one of the wide leathern
couches. He meant TO do his duty; and please
will you let me buy the puppyP
Of course Sir Henry would not allow the little
Earl TO wander any further afield, and Of course
horseman was sent over in hot haste 10 apDrise his
people misled by the boat-lad who. frightened at
4 his own share i'm the little gentlemans escape had
sworn till he was hoarse that he had seen Lord