St. Landry democrat., 1883-03-31
Traps.

MS sister, anu protect ueF lioM eFoAy-
body, and do everything to make her
happy, for she can only be his sister
once, and he would be SO awfully sorry
if she died and then he remembered
that his conduct toward her had some
times been such.
Mr.. Withers doesn't come to our
house any more. One night Sue saw
him coming up the garden walk. and
father said: !: There's the other one
coming, Susan; ism this Traver's even
ing?" and then Sue said: Il do wish
somebody would protect me from him
he is that stupid don't i wish | need
never Law eyes on him again. "
/ made up my mind that nobody
should bother my sister while she had a
brother to protect her. So the next
time saw Mr.. Withers spoke to him
kindly and firmly-that's the way
grown-up people speak when they say
Something dreadfully unpleasant-and
told him what Sue had sad about him,
| and that he ought not to bother her any
more. Mr.. Withers didn't thank me
and say that he knew [ was trying to
| do him good. which was what he ought
to have said, but he looked as if he
| wanted to hurt somebody, and walked
| off without saying word to me, and
don't think he was polite about it.
He has never been at oyf house s,nce.
When told Sue how | had protected
| her she was so overcome with gratitude
that she couldn't speak, and just mo-
toned me with book to go out OF her
room and leave her to feel thankful
about it by herself. The book very near
| ~ hit me on the head, but it wouldn't
have hurt me much If it had.
| Mr. Travers was delighted about it,
and told ME that I had acted like man,
and that he shouldn't forget it The
next day he brought me abeautful book
all about traps. 1t told how to make
mornahundred different kinds Of traps
that would catch everything, and it was
one of the best books | ever saw.
Our next-door neighbor, MIR. Scho-
field, keeps pigs. only he don't keep
them enough, for they run all around.
They come into our garden and eat up
everything, and father said he would
4 give almost anything to get rid OF them.
Now one OF the traps that my book
told about was just the thing to catch
pigs with. 1t was made out of young
tree and rope. You bend the tree
down and fasten the rope to it so as to
make slippernoose, and when the pig
walks into the slippernoose the tree flies
up and Jerks him into the aile,
4 I thought that coaldn't pfease father
better than to make some traps and
catch some pigs; SO I got a rope, and
got two Irishmen that were fixing the
front walk to bend down two trees for
me and hold them while l made the
traps. This was Just before supper.
and I expected that the pigs would
come easly the next morning and get
caught.a
1t was bright moonlight that evening,
and Mr.. Travers and Sue said the house
was SO dreadfully hot that they would
90 and take walk. They hadn't been
| out Of the house but a few minutes when
we heard an awful shrek from Sue, and
we all rushed out to see what was the
matter.
Mr.. Travers had walked into trap,
and was swinging by one leg, with his
head about six feet from the ground.
Nobody knew him at first except me,
for when person is upside down he
doesn look natural; but | knew what
was the matter, and told father that il
would take two men to bend down the
, tree and get Mr.. Travers loose. So they
told me to run and get Mr.. Schotield te
come and help, and they got the step
: ladder so that Sue could sit on tho tor
| of it and hold Mr.. Ira sers head.
I was so excited that l forgot al
t about the other trap, and, besides, SUI
t had said things to me that hurt my feel
! ings, and that prevented me from til nix
; ING to tell Mr.. Schotie1d not to get him
{ self caught. He ran ahead OF me, be
3 cause he was so anxious to. help, All
3 the first thing l knew there came 81
! awful veil from him. and up he wen
: into the air, and hung there by boil
legs, which supposed was easier thai
t the way Mr.. Travers hung. .sf ss#.
t Then everybody went at me in TIL
most dreadful way, except Sue, who wa
/ holding Mr.. Travers head 81 They salt
: the most unkind things to me, and sen
t me into the house. | heard afterwar'
1 that father got Mr.. Scho' eld's boy 7,
b climb up and cut Mr.. Travers and MI
: Schofeld loose, and they tell on til
3 gravel, but it didn't hurt them much
S only Mr.. Schoiield broke some of hi
teeth, and says he is going to bring
0 lawsuit against father. Mr.. 1raTers wa
& lust as good as be could be. He onl
4 laughed the next time ne saw me, an
begged them not to punish me, beeaus
Y it was his fault that ever came to kno,
! about that kind OF trap.
Mr. Travers is the incest man that eve
J. lived, except father. and when he mai
ries Sue Shall go and live with hin
IS +hf,I,orh T haven't fold him vet. for
want to keep it as a pleasant surpris
: for him. -: Jimmy Brou'7s,' = IN H0rner
9 Yoatnq People. ls
Mrs. Emma B.. Drexel, wife (