Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-06-27
THE BURGLAi R. 81


town within an hours lover So
"Oh, dear" sighed MD.
she undertook to restoesigned and
chaos of Mr. Fillisy's s. ap+l
closets and bureaus
things" he considered nsl lG
comfort what shall - G
most dark, aud nobody IH 9
the new girl, and | hak
to mothers, and I'm sGSS4.0 I
knows it, too. Why d'
pistol or something? VA
pistol, and don't tpian!
trigger is. but I'm SUI
safer if had one Ito De s.
would he to be murdereouch, Il
and Josiah to come home FoS1
weltering in my gorel UghYS
tFillsy enjoyed a good shiver oves
,anguinary pictures she had coniured q
But supper was announced at th1
moment. and Mrs. Fillisy had no TN
20 reyel in melancholy wonderings as
how Josiah would feel then anaiS
was not till after the two little
were snugly tucked in bed that 70
lad leisure to reflect upon her lohe'e
and unprotected state.
81 don't see why Josiah hasn't had
burglar alarms put in the house =
,onId he so much better. I'll talk ti
Ain, when he comes home. wohuei
nbat they are like, anyway? Al'in =
,,nal,s % suppose, and that sort .
t hing. Now, why couldn a,1 = olio inVeff,
= ,omething simpler2 "oHuef
'r....ss =. -. !. - 4 80 - 80 s''
She was seated by the stove, and her
glance fell upon the wire guard Wili'H
Kept the wee toddlers from too clo9'
contact with its glowing surface
The very thingp' she eXcialmeu :,
"I'n invent an alarm myself | ar
about women having no inVenVl''
genius. I'll have Josiah apply ioi
patent the moment he comes honP
Now, I'll Just get it and try, and II an
burglar undertakes to get in here y
night hen just wish he hadn't, tha'
ALL Tum, te, tum, te, tum," and MI
Fillisy started up in high glee.
After considerable pushing and ha'
ing about in closet under the stal
she brought to view large con
5arbed w.re. in which Mr.. F. hif1a
5, previous summer inyestesID
, pose of surmounting his =
oNow isn't it lucky t
use this? If he ha 4
shown him what a S
and he wouldn't be abN
success, the assertion tb
knowledge of mechaT,
theml Ouch What
Is - 10 handlel But all the
Burglar. Now, whereIA
Mrs. Fillisy pondered
the gravity worthy of
n and at last decided that
~ girl had gone to bed, and
one but herself about i
such wall of barbed
# the stairs as no burgla
hlv surmount. But
wound it around the
many "Ah's" and 90
that the wire would
the wall and as for
tors making a lor
Journey into the woodsi
and nails-no. indeed. 81
1H she'd show Josiah that
SO mind could triumph over
"No man would think
.aid to herself, as she x
len the wire in and
feet that held the stair-S IS
Dear me. it's slow work
problems are slow of soluti
F., you mustn't be tod
ventor. / wonder what Z
haven't got stair-rods?
suppose; or may be, now,
ie ''"' comes home he can thinL
to hold the wire dG
Ouch! Just see my fin
o rid stuff wonder
win like that"
And Mrs. Fillisy
honest pride the work
sEn brain, and nimble, but wou
5sEH She had contriyed, by q
ing and turning the ba3
every shape and directiC
perfect battery of needle
lower step.
you couldn't put your
I OCS' without getting prickeds
ouized as she attacked Il
Now you see a person NJ
carpet of this, that she
.rn Av. down before windows an'
,a'd surely have to scrq
w. ", I'D wake one; and