Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-09-04
LIVING AMONG ROBBERS.
Cousin Sadie's True Story of q Castle and
MANY Thieves.

Cousin Sadie's True Story of q Castle and
Many Thieves.
30 Cousin Sadie, do tell me story,
please dol" coaxed Fred. i've 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, dear!"
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
moreP" begged Fred. Seems to me II
| had a good story-maker 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 story,
what shall it be about?"
"Oh, castles and robbers and all
that" cried Fred, land secret doors and
dark passages and dungeonsP'
"Well, let me think a minute" said
Cousin Sadie. "We'n 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 stray mouse nibbling softly
in some distant corner, until at last
Cousin Sadie said: 81 know true story
about robbers. We lived right among
them once"
Good! good" cried Fred. "Where
was it?"
1--WE had moved to a house in the
country" she replied. "Shall l call it
castle?"
"Please dol" said he. at sounds more
like real story"
"Well, then, we'll have it real story
fashion. Once upon a time we lived in
a great castle high on hill. There was
a lovely grove around it, and the birds
sang in the trees, and the breeze blew
fresh and sweet all day long.
'It 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 robbed"
what! really, Cousin Sadie? You
know you said this was true story.
And were you all killed and murdered
in your beds, tooP"
mot 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 1t was
plain enough that a whole clan of bold
robbers lived right under the same roof
with usl''
"Why, Cousin Sadie! What story.
maker you've gotW
''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 il
did. Those robbers just came ana took
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night, and then hid away in safe places
where they might laugh at us If we tried
to follow them.
"We could hear them dragging away
our things, and quarreling and over
them in their dens.
81 tell you, it fairly made my blood
run cold There must have been at
least twenty of them, to judge by the
noise they made
"All our locks and bolts were no help
at all, for you know they were in the
same house with us. And as to fight
ing them, what could we do against so
many7
II don't see what you could do" cried
Fred But II don't hardly seem like
true story, Cousin Sadie. What did
you do?"
"well, I'll tell you, Freddie. Wjust
got good edtl Youths Companion.