The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-01-13

"sHE STEPPED ON MANS HAND"
The old women had been trying papers
FOR week, and every night they had
walked up the neighborhood yelling if a
breeze stirred paper. The men got
tired O goin' over an never finding
anybody there, an SO they stopped an
let the old women yell all they wanted
to. The papers didn't work that time.
But in ordinary cases if a woman who
was alone in house got a whiffet dog
an baby an spread papers around, no
thief, unless he was murderer too,
would go near that house.
1.-THE best way for woman to do if
she woke up and found man at work
in her room would be to keep very still
and pretend she was sleeping, or, if he
knew that she had seen him, to obey
his orders and keep still. If he thought
she had submitted, he wouldn't watch
her so hard, and it would give her time
to think what to do. There's one
thing, though, that would be bad for
a woman. If burglar left her room
by the door she ought to listen to his
footstep or watch the light O. his lam
tern, an she don't want to get out O.
bed or move until he is well out of
hearing. A man who goes out that
way will always stop when he has gone
a few feet from the door where a
woman is, and if he hears her jump
out of bed at once, he suspects what
she's up to and would then escape by
the nearest window and be out of
her reach, or else he would go back an
make it dangerous for her. She wants
ter be cunnin'. Then she can catch
him.
at was a smart girl and cool girl
that got away with fellow / know.
He had got into the second-story win
dow and had just about landed when
he heard two women comm He
crawled under the bed and got out o.
sight. The women came in and un-
dressed and got into bed. When he
thought they had been in bed long
enough to get asleep he began to work
out. A dim light had been left in the
room. He had just got his head to the
edge of the bed and his arm and hand
were sticking out beyond the bed when
he found one of the women was get
ting out O. bed. She stepped square on
his arm, and, looking down, saw him,
SO it seemed, draw it back. She went
across the room and turned up the gas
and began looking around the dressing
table. In a minute she called to the
other woman, Mary, wake up The
woman got awake an the other says:
What did / do with that letter that
came this afternoon?' The one in bed
didn't seem to recall the letter, but
finally she seemed to and the girl on the
floor said: 1T worries me; can't sleep
! must go downstairs and sec if left
it in the parlor.'
"The other one said, AL right an
the first girl calmly took a lot of
matches. just as if she meant to light
the gas, and went out of the room, but
she didn't go any further than the
room where man was sleeping. She
told him she had found a man under
her bed. He thought at first it was
that same old man women are always
finding. She convinced him finally and
he went out an got help. She came
back into the room alone, and in few
minutes the men burst in and snakad
the fellow from under the bed He
was a completely fooled man, an said
that woman was so cool an natural
about it that he never should have sus-
pected her in the world. But the best
part of it was that, after the first woman
iSio WIG iooii utiC oliCi was JuSU DIS
quiet and happy there us baby. She
didn't suspect anything, an when she
found that there had been a man under
the bed all the time she just up and
tainted away. That's how woman
can fool a burglar if she keeps her wits
about her.
"One foolish thing that women do is
in getting their husbands to get up at
any noise and go chasing around the
house to locate it. Half the men who
hear noise in the house would think
it had some good explanation, an turn