The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-03-29
Traps.

n DON diWhlb W SbdUu up
his sister. and protect her from every
body. and DO everything to make her
happy, for she can only be his sister
once, and he would be so awlully sorry
IL she ded and then he remembered
that his conduct toward her had some
times been such. ..s
Mr.. Withers doesn't come to our
house any more. One night Sue saw
him coming up the garden walk. and
father said: here's the other one
coming. Susan; ism t this Traver' even
ingP" and then Sue said: ~ do wish
somebody would protect me from him
he is that stupid don't wish L need
never Law eyes on him again"
| made up my mind that nobody
should bother my sister while she had a
brother to project her. So the next
time saw MIR. Withers spoke 10 him
kin lly and hrmly-that's the way
growh-up people speak when they say
something dreadfully unpleasant-an and
told him what Sue had sa d about him.
an that he ought hot TO bother her any
more. Mr.. Withers didn't thank me
an say th he knew l was trying 10
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 l
don't think he was polite about it. ,.. q.
He has never been at our house snce.
When / told Sue how / had protected
her she was so overcome with gratitude
that she couldn't speak, AMI just mo-
toned me with a book to 90 out OF her
room and leave her TO feel thankful
about it by herself. The book very near
ly hit me on the head, but it wouldn' t
have hurt me much if it had.
Mr.. Travers was delighted about it,
and tol me that / had acte like man,
and that he shouldn't forget it. The
next day he brought me abeautiful book
ell about traps. 1t told how 10 make
mornahundred different kinds of traps
that would tch everything, an-l it was
one of the best books | ever saw.
Our next-door neighbor, Mr.. 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
give almost anything to get rid of them.
E Now one OF the traps that my book
told about was just the thing to catch
pigs with. 1t was made out of a 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 air.
/ thought tina: | couldn' tplease father
better than to make some traps and
catch some pigs; SO | got 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 | expected that the pigs would
come early the next morning and get
caught. ..... .... :.
ltwas bright moonlight that evening,
and Mr.. Ira ters 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 few minutes when
we heard an awful shrek from Sue, and
we all rushed out to see what was the
matter al ..-
Mr.. Travers had walked into a 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.. Trayersloose. So they
told me to run and get Mr.. Schotield to
come and help, and they got the step
ladder so that Sue could sit on the top
of it and hod Mr.. Ira ers' head.
I was so excited that | forgot all
about the other trap, andg bes dies, Sue
had said things to me that hurt my feel
jngs, and that prevented me from tn nix
ing to tell Mr.. Schoiield not to get him.
self caught. He ran ahead of me, be-
cause he was so anxious to help, and
/ the first thing | knew there came an
AWFUL yell from him, and up he went
into the air. and hung there .by both
!, legs, which l supposed was easier than
the way Mr.. Travers hung.
Then everybody went at me in the
most dreadful wav, ex eptSue, who was
holIIine Mr.. Travers' head. hey said
the most unkind things to me, and sent
me into the house. | heard afterward
that father got Mr.. Scho eld' s boy to
climb up and cut Mr.. Travers and Mr..
Schofeld loose, and they fell on the
gravel, but it didn't hurt them much,
only MIR. Schoield broke some of his
teeth, and says he is going to bring a
lawsuit against father. Mr.. 1rayers was
'ust as good as he could be. He oulv
laughed the next time ne saw me, and
begged them not to punish me, benause
it was his fault that lever came to know
ABOUT that kind o trap,34 10 iyi -.a
=, Mr. Travers is the incest man that ever
lived, except father, and when he mar
ries Sue shall go and live with him.
though I~hayen't told him yet, for |
want to keep it as pleasant surprise
for him Dimany BT0'on," IN Harper $
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