The Hickman courier., 1882-10-13
HE'D ii FULTON COUNTY KENTUCKY OCTOBER
7 tI Down cellar. fi1f3e

~ Down Cellar.
We have had dreadful time at our
house, and [ have done very wrong.
oh. | always admit it when I've done
wreng- There's nothing rneaner than
to pretend that you haven done wrong
when everybody knows you have. /
didn't mean anything by it, though,
and Sue ought no have stood zby, me.
when did it all son s.ller account, and
lust because / pitied her., if she was my
own sister, and it was more her fault,
really think, than il was mine. s.,
Mr.. Withers is Sues new Young man.
He comes. every Monday, Wednesday
and Friday evening. and Mr.. Travers
comes all the other evenings and Mr..
Msrtin is liable to come any time, and
generally does-that is, if he dosen' t
have the rheumatism. Though he
hasn't but one'reai deg, he has twice as
|fmuch rheumatism as father, with ali
his legs, and there is something very
\ queer about il; and if was he, I'd get a
leg of something better than cork, and
psrhaps he d have less pain in it.
<s happened last luesday might
= as It svs-.>-c ing dark, aud Sue was
rsxpecting Mr.. Travers every m:nute
who should come in but Mr. Martini
Now Mr.. Martin is such an old ac-
quaintance, and father%thfnks so much
OF him, that Sue had 10 ask him in,
though she didn't want him to meet Mr.
s1ravers. So when she heard somebody
open the front gate, she said: 'sOh, Mr..
sHiartln i m so thirsty and the servant
mas gone out, and you know just where
the milk is for YOU went down the cellar
TO get some the last time you were
here do you think you would mind
getting some for me?p Mr.. Martin
had often gone down cellar to help him
sell to milk, and don't see what makes
him so fond of it, so he said: Certainly
with great. pleasure" and started down
the cellar stairs. iss..ss $50
IL wasn't Mr.. Trayers. but Mr.. With
ers, who had come on the wrong night
de had not much more than got into
the parlor when Sue came rushing out
10 me, for | was swinging insthe ham,
mock on the front piazza. and said:
s" My goodness gracious Jimmy what
shall L do here's Mr. Vithers and Mr..
sTravers will be here in few minutes
and there's Mr.. Martin down cellar and
feel as if | should fiy what shall do "a
was real sorry for her, and thought
I'd help her. for girls are not like us
They never know what to do when they
are in a scrape, and they are full of an
sence of mind when they ought to have
lots of presence of mind. So / said:
: III nix 1t for you. Sue. just leave it
all to me. You stay here and meet Mr.
.1ravers, who is Just coming around the
corner, and I'll manage Mr.. Withers. =
Sue said: Y ou darling little fellow
there don't muss my hair and / went
in, and said to Mr.. Withers. in an aw-
fully mysterious way; "Mr. Withers. l
hear a noise in the cellar. Don't tell
Sue, for she's dreadfully nervous
Won't YOU 90 down and see what it is?''
OF course L knew it was Mr.. Martin
who was making the noise, though l
didn't say so.
:. Oh, it IS nothing but rats. jimmy
said he. q or else the cat, or maybe it s
the cook.
So No, it isn't said 1. IF 1 was
You, Ia gL and see into it Sue thinks
you re awsully brave
Well, after little more talk, Mr..
Withers said he'd 90, and | showed
him the cellar door, and got him started
down the stairs. and then | locked the
door. and went back to the hammock,
and Sue and Mr. Travers they sat in the
front parloI.s- ~
Pretty soon / heard heavy crash
down cellar, as if something heavy had
dropped, and then there was such a
yelling and howling, just as if the cellar
was full of murderers. Mr.. TraYers
jumped up. ard was starting for the
cellar, when ne ia inted away, and hung
tight to him, and wouldn't let him go.
/ staid in the hammock, and wotildn' {
have left it if father hadn't come down
stairs, but when saw him going down
cellar, went after him to see what could
possibly be the matter.
Father had candle in one hand and
big club in another. You ought to
have been there to see Mr.. Martin and
MIR. .Withers. One of them had run
against the other in the dark, and they
thought they were both burglars. So
they got hold of each other, and fell
over the milk pans and upset the soap
barrel. and then rolled round the cellar
hoor, holding on to each other, and
yelling help, murder. thieves, and when
we found .them.- they were both in the
ash bin, and the ashes were choking
them. 2
Father would have pounded them with
the club if / hadn' told him who they
We're. He was awfully astonished, and
though he wouldn't sly anything to
hurt Mr.. Martins feelings, he didn' t
seem to care much for mine or Mr..
Withers 81 and when sMr. Mr.Traversfnal-
~ came down. father told him that he
was nice young man, and that the
whole house might have been murdered
by burglars while he was enjoying him.
sell in the front parlor.
Mr. Martin went home after he got a
little ofthe milk and soap and ashes and
things OF of him, but he was too angry
to speak. Mr.. Withers said he would
never enter the house again, and Mr.
savers didn't even wait to speak to
Bue, he was in su h rage with Mr.
Withers- After they were all gone. Sue
told father that it was all my fault, and
father said he would attend to my case
in the morning: only, when the morn ing
came. he told me not to do it again, and
that was all -
l admit that / did do wrong, but l
didn' mean 1T, and my only desire was
to help nay dear sister. You won't catch
me helping her again very soon.
Jimmy Broac7s,' an Harper's Young
6sOple. .ayE rtfsEi1si
Columbus and His Sailors.