Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-06-20

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"Suppose we test it, said Boughton, who
somehow felt an unaccountable pleasure in
exasperating her. Perhaps he was revel-
ing in the delight of taking the superior
pose in his turn .'Here's good book to
measure with. If you will stand back to
back with your brother
All the blush was IN her eyes now. Her
face had grown quite pale.
"You arc insulting,n she said, with her
teeth shut, and walked out of the room.
This was q great deal more than Bopgh-
ton had expected He stood staring after
her with the book still in his hand, and then
opened il blankly and looked in 1t as if for
an explanation. 1t was q volume of Miss
Hannah More's private devotions, and so
no closed it and replaced II on the little ta-
BILE whence he had taken it.
"D0n't you mind her" said Dick, easily.
''She's always twice as sweet after one OF
her tantrums."
This seemed in truth TO be the case. She
came in TO dinner az suave as May, and
took her seat beside Philip with a smile
elbow cross do You shink ami' she said,
leaning toward him, and making a cushion
for her round chin with her palms, her
elbows being on the table.
81 am afraid was very provoking" he
said, eagerly. II am sorry; will you for
give mef'
She said nothing, but went on smiling, so
he took his forgiveness for granted, and
partook of more green goose with light
! heart
Now, it was very dangerous TO take any
thing for granted with this young lady,
especially when there were little sparks of
vermilion in her eyes, as there were to-
night, But Phil could not possibly have
known this; the smile she bestowed upon
HIM was so enchanting that he did not look
higher, and so noticed nothing peculiar
about the eyes.
Dick was to stop over until Monday, and
the next day all three went out for walk.
j This ramble happened to be very eventful.
| may as well state that there occurred the
time-honored episode with the bull, but
Boughton neither transfxed the Infatuated
animal with a ptchfork, nor leveled it
with well-aimed blow from his muscular
ist
1t happened this way They were pass
ing through what was then known at Cary
Ion as the "Mill- Meadow when peculiar
kind of rumbling noise attracted their at
tentinn Dick was the first to look back,
/ GOOD heavens Judy" said he, Wits Prid-
dies bulln
lis Ii" said Judith, losing color for an in
slant, and following the direction of his
/ eyes. "Yes, it is, and not fence within
I two hundred yards. OH what are we to
doln
II tell you," said Boughton, straighten-
I ing himself and feeling an abominabe
/ clutch in the hollow between his rios, ''run
I as hard as you can, while Dick and L
i Why, where is Diclxf' he said, blankly
i "rm-going-fo r-Priddiep came back in
broken bits over the shoulder of the flying
youth. "He can-manage-himr'
Bopghton said nothing. He turned again
TO Judith.
i 'sFhat's all right. Run, now, as fast as
you can, and can easily keep him off with
stones until Priddie comes,n
sAnd leave you here for that brute TO
! gore and tramplel" said Judith, bristling in
] n moment. 81 see myselfp' she added, with
fine scorn.
All this time the bull was making Q ire
mendous tow row, and using one of his horns
as a plowshare. He was coming nearer,
too. They could see his little red eyes dis
/ tinctly
1 judith, / beg of you," said Boughton,
/ giving her not a gentle push.
+ "Well, WILL" she said, suddenly.
She lifted her wall1ing-slgirt, and with q
I quick gesture slipped off the red balmoral
! petticoat which she wore underneath This
she took in her hand and started off at O
/ long, even run, before Boughton well real
lied what she was about to do. When she
was within fifty yards of his bullship, she
gave a view-halloa which did more credit TO
her lungs than the occasion, and flourlshed
/ the red skirt in the air
Boughtons heart did actually stand still,
He gave dragging breath, got the best OF
I his horror, which was inclined to make him
weak kneed, and started off after the girl.
1 But the brute was before him, laundering
on at great numbering pace, only stopping
now and then to plow the ground with that
ugly left horn of his.
/ Away went this modern Europa in tho
direction of the nearest fence. Half way
Between it and her pursuer she dropped the
red petticoat, and this his eminence tarrien
awhile to toss and worry and mix with the
/ red clay.
! Boughton had an awful fancy which he
had no time fortunately to countehance.
! He seemed to see Judith being trampled and
1 mengled in the same fashion as her pretty
skirt, by those brute feet and horns. But,
thank Heaven it was only the next instant
\ that she reached the fence and literally
4 rolled over into the next field
/ Then, for the first time looking back, she
I saw him.
"Get overt Get rl-quick'' she
/ called, in what voice remained to her ST
4 he sees you he will-kll youohl -
This as Boughton just managed to put the
rails of the old snake fence between him
self and the bull, who rushed along bel
lowing like bovine demon, with his tail an
\ exact reproduction Of Hogarth's line of
! beauty.
e-straw-staclks, Judith painted, as
Boughton reached her. "He may-tear-
i that-fence-al to-bltsi |"
/ He took her hand, and they ran together
/ to group of straw stacks some ten yards