Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-08-13
REAL BURGLARS.
Cousin Saddles True story of n Castle and
Many Thieves.


Cousin Saddles True story of Castle AND
Many Thieves.
30 Cousin Sadie, do tell me story
please dol" coaxed Fred 1--WE broken
my top. and mustn't bounce my ball in
the house. and my engine won'trun, and
guess it's going to rain about week.
Oh, deari"
what if my story-maker won't run?'
said Cousin Sadie. I'm sure I've told
all the OLD ones six times apiece at
least"
Cant you possibly think of just one
more?r begged Fred. Seems 10 me if
| had a good story-malxer right in my
head, I'd keep it running day and
night.
"Oh Fred, wish You had one, but
'twould surely run down sometimes.
Well, if you really must have a story,
what shall it be about?"
"Oh, castles and robbers and all
that" cried Fred, "and secret doors and
dark passages and dungeonsm
well, let me think minute, said
Cousin Sadie. "Well see if the story
maker can be wound up and oiled once
more"
SO Fred sat expectant and quiet, and
it was so still he could hear the cat
purr, and a stray mouse nibbling softly
in some distant corner, until at last
Cousin Sadie said: Il know true story
about robbers. We lived right among
them once"
Good! good" cried Fred Where
was itpn
I'VE had moved to house in the
country she replied. 'Shall / call it
a castle2p
please dor said he. ut sounds more
like a real story"
well, then, well have il real story
fashion. Once upon time we lived in
a great castle high on hill. There was
lovely grove around it, and the birds
sang in the trees, and the breeze blew
fresh and sweet all day long.
sit seemed like the safest and quiet
est place in the whole world. but when
night came, just when it should have
been most pleasant and peaceful, there
were strange noises to be heard all
through the castle. and after we were
in bed there were quick, stealthy foot
steps-and in the morning we found we
had been robbedl'
What really, Cousin Sadie2 You
know you said this was a true story
And were you all killed and murdered
in your beds too?"
Not so bad as that said Cousin
Sadie, laughing. but we were really
robbed. And the worst of it was we
found there were winding passages and
secret chambers in our castle that we
knew nothing about; and finally it was
plain enough that whole clan of bold
robbers lived right under the same roof
with u.s.
why, Cousin Sadiel What story
maker you've gotl'
''Oh, that wasn't made in any story
maker. That's really true"
"The governor of the castle THAT was
grandpa, you know offered rewards to |
anyone who would bring the rascals to |
justice. But that was all the good it
did. Those robbers just came and took
their choice of the best we had every |
night, and then hid away in safe places
where they might laugh at us if we tried /
10 follow them.
''We could hear them dragging away
our things, and quarreling and over
hem in their dens.
II tell you, it fairly made my blood
-un cold. There must have been at
east twenty of them, to judge by the
loise they made
IAN our locks and bolts were no help
1t all, for you know they were in the
'ame house with us. And as to fight
ng them, what could we do against so
many?
81 don't see what you could do. +" cried
fred But it don't hardly seem like
! true story, Cousin Sadie. What did
Tou dor
well, I'll tell you, Freddie. We just
pot a good caft Youths Companion.