Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-01-06
Up A TREE.

One day recently i'etcr lhnD WAS Walk-
Ing by Keyser's orchard, and the apples
looked so tempting that he determined TO
90 up tree after some. lie was just fair
ly up the tree when Keyser came along
with his dog, and AS he had had great
many apples stolen he was pretty angry
at finding Lamb IN the act of taking some
without leave.
So after expressing his sentiments in
very vigorous language he told Peter that
az he was very fond OF apples he might
stay up there all night enjoying them.
Then he called the attention Of the dog to
Peter. told the animal To watch him and
walked mp to the house. As the brute lay
down beneath the tree Peter thought he
had never seen such an awful looking dog,
and he called Keyser to take it away and
TO let him pay for the fruit. But keyser
pretended not to hear him.
Then Peter tried to scare the dog off by
pelting him with apples, but every time
he hit the animal IL seemed to become
more ferociously determined to eat piece
Of Lamb before IL abandoned him.
Peter then tried coaxing the dog, but the
more blandishwents he offered the hun
grier the dog ..l 90 get. Then Peter
waited till the dog bcrslc calmer and lay
down, and then he tried to steal down the
other side of the tree, but before he reach
ed the ground the dog was on the alert
and ready to nip Mr.. Lambs calf.
At last Peter determined to resort to
strategy. He went up as high as possible
in the tree and took of his boots, his coat,
his trousers and his hat, and fixing them
together with the aid of pins and his braces,
30 that they should resemble the figure of
a man, he stuffed them with leaves.
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Il astride one of the lower branches, so
that 1t would be- in plain view Of the dog.
Then he stepped softly away from it
end waited his chance to glide down the
trunk.
He made two or three feints and was
delighted to see that when the dog heard
the noise 1t merely glanced at the figure,
seemed reassured and went TO sleep again.
At last he got clear down to the ground,
aud when he was few yards from the
tree he ran as fast as his legs would carry
him.
1t was then late In the afternoon, and
he succeeded in getting over To Mr.. Jones'
without being observed. He found Jones
sitting on the fence and explained his ap-
pearance I'm a simple shirt and pair Of
drawers by saying that he had been bath
ing, and that somebody had stolen his
clothes.
Jones lent him some raimept, and Mr..
Lamb went home bent on revenge. Re
dressing himself, he got club, called his
own dog-a bigger animal than Keyser's
and started for the orchard. When he
reached It, his old enemy lay beneath the
tree watching the effigy.
Then Mr.. Lamb confidently climbed over
the fence and set his dog at Keyser's. A
fierce combat ensued, and while 1t was In
progress Peter crept up and knocked Key
ser's dog on the head, killing it outright.
1t was then about dusk, and Peter or
dered his dog to lie under the tree and
swatch" the effigy, while he hid behind
neighboring tree. After little while Key
ser came out for the purpose Of letting Pc
ter go, IL he felt penitent. He came up to
the tree without recognizing the change
Of dogs and addressed the efiigy.
"Well, how do you feel by this timer"
No answer.
"Want to come DOWN."
No reply.
"If you'll promise never to steal my ap-
pies any more, I'll let you off,"
Still no answer.
"Oh, you're too proud to talk, are your
Well, you just come down."
lTOIu tut tIllRN.
"Look here, don t want any more non
sense from you. Come down or I'll pull
you down"
Then Keyser jumped into the tree and
grasped Mr.. Lambs stuffed coat by the
arm. He was just about to utter an ex-
clamation of surprise, when Peter came
out and said:
swell, now, you just pull away. That's
my dog under that tree. Your dogs
dead, and my dog'u eat you up quicker'n
q wink IL you get of that limb before
tell you. Thought you had me, did your
Now you'll roost among the foliage until
morning. Watch him, Built Watch himW
Then Mr.. Lamb knocked an apple of
another tree and sat down to eat it. Key
ser first began to study up plan for MUIR
dering him; then he thought he would cry
for help. But at last he determined to ac-
cept the situation gracefully, and after
some conversation Peter agreed TO let him
go IL he would promise to send him round
four bushels Of apples in the morning.
He registered a solemn oath to that ef
feet, and Mr.. Lamb held the dog while
Keyser came down. Then Keyser went as
near to Peter as he dared, and shaking his
fist at him he said, with bitterness:
"You low lived, mutton headed, bow
legged thief IL that dog wasn't there, I'd
knock you down and sit on you till
squashed the breath out Of you, you wall
eyed scoundrel, your
Then he went up to the house Peter
chuckled and shouldered his clothes and
started for home. Those apples have not
yet arrived, but Mr.. Lamb has not been
out to inquire for them.-Yankee Blade.