Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-02

bs.. made the change OF clothes ! thought .
th.v womb he off and wanted VIII to come
aIo,., and give the alarm. but he whispered .
in NV ear.
II don't believe they'll 20 without some .
THING more 10 eat. and want to see how /
our hear tran works"
I Jont knov, whether the fellows hun
oareJ for more supper or wanted food to
! iaka away with them. but three minutes
after viii had spoken one OF them was
! ri,p,,pagiro tbrough the pantry. and the
other was on his way down cellar He
halted i'm the door and ,nutfed and shifted
as If NE smellpd the preserves. and as he
started TO descend the stairs he said some
THING to his compauion which we C, uld not
catch. thourh we saw his lips moving and
a Grin on his face. That grin couldn't
| have lasted over fifteen seconds | expect
the fellow must have held his candle i'm
such way as to cast q shadow on the
! bear trap waiting for him. for he stepped
! fairly into il as he re- 'chcd the bottom of
the stairs. We were holding our breaths
when we rot the signal, and the signal was
a series of wells which made the hair curl.
THE fellow mn stairs had lust come ont of
the panty with the tea canister in his hand
and the wells almost lifted him out OF his
old shoes. Instead of going to- the ass.
lance of his companion he dashed for the
door. and rs he came out and rushed away
i'm the darkness he passed within five feet
of us
There was a creek running across my
uuclq's farm. and at a certain spot it widen
ed out and flowed over bed OF quicksand.
This spot was fenced off to keep the stock
away. When the man came running out,
we thought he was after us and while me
] htY
had gone half mile before we realized
that he was not pursuing us. We were
skulking back to the house when we heard
shouts and wells from the direction of the
creek. and when we had crept up the fence
we made out a man struggling in the
uuicksand. The fear that he would get
out prevented us from revealing our pres
euce. and as we neared the house We eX-
pected to find that the other man had re-
) leased himself from the trap. He hadn't
accomplished the feat. however He had
been caught hv the right leg. with the Jaws
of the tran gripping him lust below the
, knee. and the first we heard of him as we
} crept I'D to the o1en door he was trying to
get up the cellar stairs. He was fifteen
minutes in accomplishing this, and the
I way he did curse and take on was some
thing awful. There was a light on the
e kitchen table. and we could see him plain
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