Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-13
Burglars.

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Girls are awfully afraid Of them When
they think there's burglar in the
house, they pull the clothes over their
heads and scream murder father
Jimmy-there' 's-a-man-in-the-house call
the-police-frel'' just as if that would do
any good. What you ought to do if
there is burglar is to get up and shoot
him with a double.barrelled gun and
then tie HIM and send the servant out
to tell the police that if they will call
after breakfast you will have something
ready for them that will please them.
shouldn't be a bit frightened if woke
up and found a strange man in my
room. 1 should just pretend that l
was asleep and keep watching him and
when he went to climb out of the win
dow and got half way out I'd jump
up and shut he window down on
him and tie his legs But you can't
expect girls to have any courage, or to
know what to do when anything
happens.
We had been talking about burglars
one day last week just before | went to
bed, and thought l would put my
bownarrow where it would be handy if
a robber did come. 1t is a nice strong
bow and had about thirty arrows with
sharp points in the end about half an
inch long, that made out of some big
black pins that Susan had in her pin
cushion. My room is in the third story
just over Sues room and the window
comes right down on the floor,
SO that you can lie on the. floor
and put your head out l couldn't
90 to sleep that night very well, though
ate about quart of chestnuts after |
went to bed and I've heard mother say
that if you eat little something deli
cate late at night it will make you 60 to
sleep.
A long while after everybody had
gone to bed heard two men talking in
a low tone under the window, and l
jumped up to see what was the matter.
Two dreadful ruffians were standing un-
der Sues window, and talking so low
that it was a wonder l could hear any
thing.
One of them had something that
looked like a tremendous big squash,
with long neck, and the other had
something that looked like short crow
bar, 1t didn't take me long to under
stand what they were going to do. The
man with the crowbar was intending to
dig hole in the foundation of the house
and then the other man would put the
big squash which was full OF dyna-
mighty in the hole and light Q slow
match and run away and blOwthe house
to pieces. So | thought the best thing
would be to shoot Them before they
could do their dreadful work.
l got my bownarrow and laid down
on the floor and took a good aim at one
of the burglars hit him in the leg,
and he said sow! ow! I've run a thorn
mornamile into my leg" ..
Then / gave the other fellow an ar
row, and he said my goodness this
place is full Of thorns, there's one in my
leg, too
Then they moved back little and I
began to shoot as fast as ever | could.
l hit them every time, and they were
frightened to death. The fellow with
the thing like squash dropped it on
the ground and the other fellow jumped
on it Just as l hit him in the cheek and
smashed it all to pieces. You can just
believe that they did not stay in our
yard very long. They started for the
front gate on run, yelling COW! owP'
and | am sorry 10 say using the worst
kind of swear words. The noise woke
up father and he lit the gas and l saw
the two wretches in the street picking
the arrows out of each other but they
ran off as soon as they saw the light.
Father says that they were not burg
lars at all, but only two idiots that
had come to serenade Sue; but when
asked him what serenading was be said |
it was far worse than burglary, so !
know the men were the worst kind of |
robbers. l found broken guitar in
the yard the next morning and there
wasn't anything in it that would |
explode, but it would have been
very easy for the robbers to have filled |
it with something that would have
blown the house to atoms. suppose
they preferred to put it in a guitar SO
that if they met anybody nobody would
suspect anything,
Neither mother nor Sue showed any
gratitude to me for saving their lives,
though father did say that for once that
boy had showed a little sense.
When Mr.. Travers came that evening
and told him about it he said, Jimmy! |
there's such thing as being just lit
tie too smart"
l don't know what he meant, but I
suppose he was little cross, for he had
hurt himself some wayne wouldn't
tell me how-and had court-plaster on
his cheek and on his hands and walked
as if his legs were stiff. Still, if a man
doesn't feel well he needn't be rude
Jimmy Broors, IN Harper'S Young Poo-
pie.