Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-15
I SMELL SMOKE.

indulge ill such q dangerous practice. However, as Mrs. Snoodle Is q remark ably sound sleeper Mir. Snoodle frequent ly manages to enjoy q few stolen whiffs- One night when in bed MT. Snoodle had an irresistible desire for a pipe, which he i'll vain endeavorcd to combat. | His wife was fast asleep, so he cautious ly stretched out his hand for his pipe, which lay on a little table by the bed side. Then with equal caution he filled it, lighted up and was puffing away with intense relish when Mrs. Snoodle turned over and gave two or three shorts.
 II believe she's going to wake up," thought MT. SnOodle and hastily took his pipe from his mouth and placed it on the table.
 Mrs. Snoolle gave few more shorts and woke up. Then she gave series sniffS, and Mir. Snoodle trembled, for the room was pregnant with tobacco smoke.
 "John. are you smoking:" asked his wife stcrnly.
 "Certainly not, my dear. Whatever makes you think so?'' he innocently in quired.
 Because l can smell tobacco," she replied. .'Phew, how strong it is! Don't you smell il, John?''
 Cant say I do. Martha I've got bit of d cold "
 Open your eyes, man. and then you will. '' snapped Mrs. Snoodle.
 II don't smell with my eyes, gig gled Mir. Snoodlc.
 What I mean is wake up properly and sniff hard. Now, can't you smell it:''
 "Well-er-I think there is a faint odor of tobacco" admitted the culprit
 ''Think-faint odor! Why, the place reeks with it! l tell you what it is, John. there's somebody smoking in the house, declared his wife.
 "Doyou think Jane indulges ill pipe on the sly suggested Mir. Snoodle-
 "NonSensc!'
 Well, my dear, the only other living thing in the <. is the cat, and l never heard noking.
 Don't tall. ., John. It's seri ous matter. It.. :, firm belief there's a burglar smoking i'll the house" And Mrs SnoOdle shivercd. An. very likely" replied Mir. SnOO- dle, thankful for his lucky escape and preparing to go to sleep again.
 John, are you going to sleep and let the house be ransacked:" asked his wife indignantly.
 Certainly not, my dear.
 Then why don't you go down stairs and catch the burglar:'' Mir. Snoodlc very reluctantly got out of the warm bed into the cold air, sleep | ily lighted q candle and moved toward the door.
 "Arcn't you going to take some weapon of dcfenSc:" asked his wife. Do you want to be killed? never saw l such a man!''
 Mir. Snoodlc rather sulkily seized the poker and muttcred that If he found q burglar he'd make it smoking hot for him.
 He had got half way down stairs and | was thinking of anything but burglars when he suddenly SAW a man dart out Of the dining room and bolt down the kitchen stairs. MT. Snoodlc's first i'm pulse was instant flight, for he was an arrant coward, but he was so astOunded and petrificd with fear that he was ut terly unable to either move or speak He simply stood still, holding the candle nearly upside uOWn- Mltn HIS HlbulI wide open Then hC heard the back door bang and knew that the burglar was gone, so thought it was about time fOl action and to earn a little cheap glory.
 So he ruarcd ont: N ou villains! I'll murder you! I'll scalp you as clean as | whistler and rushed down stairs. HC had never before felt so heroic in hi: life He bounded into the dining room and fought fierccly with the furniture especially the fender. as he could bang into that without injuring it much un til he was quite exhausted
 John, John, come up stairs! screamed Mrs Snoodle- You'll b, killedr'
 Its all right. Marthar' shouted back Mir Snoodle. Have you got the rascals safel. bound then:''
 ''No, they've got away. But I'v = nearly killed 'cm!''
 Thank heaven. Come up stairs an' let me dress your wounds, dear, sai' Mrs. SnOodlc solicitously. , Mir SnoOdle, after securing the bacl door. which the servant had omitted t lock, and undOing the bundle of plat that the burglar had left behind in hi
 
 hurry to escape, went up stairs.
 ''Oh, John," exclaimed Mrs. Snoodl on beholding him, then you're no D dead:''
 - No, dear" he said, mopping hi Il brow .'But it was a terrible fight I'm sure 1t was. I never heard sucl an awful TOW. Did they take anything:
 "Only their hook grinned MT CnOOdla ssI yyaS inst i'm time tn r1reyen 'em carrying off the best part of ou plate It was all tied up ready. Tha was, of course, at the rear end of tl train and seemingly a quarter of a mi a away.
 1t By this time several men and boz had gathered on the scene, apparent wishing to go to Fargo. NOone scene
 to want to walk away back to the c
 boose, aud ev=ry one was very anxio1
 not to get left At this moment anoth l, freight train. hitherto unnoticed, can 7, booming along on the main trac
 Things were getting muddled. Wou the second train stop? Would the fir .o pull up to the station to accommoda
 those who wished to enter the cabooss
 I interrogated the engineer of tra
 No. I. Ask the conductor. dor .. know," he yelled Then he relented al ' said, 1.-The other train is the one y want" Train No. had rolled along
 the station and was now coming to
 standstin a hundred yards away.
 found the lady with the little gir
 Said I, "We must take the other train
 Some of the men and boys now start g. briskly to walk in the direction of t