The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-08-13
!" BLOOMSBURY, Pa, FRIDAY. AUGUST 13, 1886.

hat at the very first start, and one Of
my moccasins followed it. "Goot
heavens ~ shr,eked Julia-you coulc
hear nothing less than scream
"there comes aunt after us !"
glanced back, and my heart froze with
me. Not fifty yards behind us cam,
Mrs. Jupp, riding her .oboggau in the
fashion and with all the abandon of a
schoolboy, her curls flying wildly ia
the wind, her highly-magnified eyes
glaring at us over the curve of the to-
boggan like the exaggerated orbs of
some unknown monster. Her bonnet
was still attached to her head by one
string, and danced in the air behind
her like Chinese kite.
1t seems that her eagle glance fell on
us just as we started, and, realizing
the whole thing at once, what does
that woman do but knock down--yes,
actually knock down--with an um-
brella--the blonde young man, seize
his toboggan and hurl herself after us
before any one could stop her. Mrs.
Smith-Jones tainted dead away, and
almost came down the slide on her own
account, but was caught by the unfor
tunate young man just as she was dis
appearing over the edge
"She is not steering at ali" |
screamed to Julia, who would have
been crying it she had had breath to
spare. 'She will upset to a dead Ger
tainty.' And truly the old lady's to-
boggan was webbing from side to side
in what an expert would have known
was very dangerous way. Suddenly
| heard wild shrek, even above the
roar of the wind, and, glancing back,
saw confused mass of drapery about
twenty feet up in the air, and appar-
emily still rising and closely followed
by the toboggau. l assumed at once
the entire outfit belonged to Mrs. Jupp,
and my heart grew light again.
We reached the bottom safely, and
abandoning the toboggan to its fate
helped Julia into the sleigh, which was
waiting for us, sprang in myself, and
away We went at speed most surely
forbidden by law. 80, George, said
Julia, who was frightened now and
clung to me in charming manner,
Suppose aunt is killed. And am
sure she il. Did you see how high she
went must go back again-indeed
| must
Nonsense, dearest; you couldn't
kill MRS. Jupp if you tried. She has
probably stolen sleigh and is after us
by this time"
so, driver" cried Julia, bracing up
at once, "can't we go faster? We
seem almost to crawl along. And yet"
she said, tearfully, II am sure she is
hurt; she-she-" and Julia began TO
cry in earnest. But when we arrived
at friends house, where everything
was ready, Julia stopped crying and
began to blush very much, indeed, and
kept on blushing until she was made
Mrs. Edgerton, when she said, in quite
a matter-of-fact way: "Now you must
go and see aunt at once. And, leaving
my wife in good hands, went to the
Jupp mansion, and rung the bell with
much inward fear and quaking. John,
the footman, came to the door, grin
ming, AMI /, trying not to grin also,
asked if l could see his mistress. No;
Mrs. Jupp had come home "upside
down" John said, and was in bed with
three doctors attending her. She was
in nowise injured, but insisted that
she had swallowed her front teeth, as
these useful articles were missing when
she picked herself up and took an in
ventory of her belongings. The doc
-ors all agreed that she was MISTAKEN
as in fact the teeth were found in the
snow some days afterward- but she
called them pack of fools, and always
insists they went down her throat. My
wife and /, after much effort, opened |
negotiations with the old lady, which
'esulted in sort of armed neutrality
being proclaimed, but we never dare
% say "toboggan" to her, and the
sight of uniform or anything per-
aiming to the sport has the same eff
feet on her that a red flag has on a
bull, and at such times she is not safe,
out considering everything we get on
with her yerv we'll