The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-03-07
Aunt judy had q Ia ly

ton t. poor woman wa, comp to
set balore Ler caller clipped Gu ; ! II
saucer AID to warn her not - b ar
to- heavily on the chair upon wi.ch
she was sitting, olly few OF her ac-
qua ltancc, knew.
"Iiily," sh. said one evening to the
It'll. colorel girl she kept more for
company than any hing else. "Tiily,
tomorrow whel you 60 down to the
groc RS, see if h. wont give you an
ota>r soap-box. We must save the
chairs for our callers"
This evening after the Fourth she
was Keeling very down-hc2rteI ildee J.
1t looked as though She would have to
openly appeal to charity. AMI this she
hal never Lccn driven To fore. 1t
was SO h,-rI to do it, SO hrtl
A little after eight She and lilly re-
tired to ter chamber up Tn lcr tle
caves, and soop th>,y were fat asleep.
About ten o'clock when al was DIRK
anI IT il. wagon drove ur, ami turn
in : out from the roal st p Eel on the
other silc of Aunt jugs back yar1
fence. Here it lay complet 'ly h i'll len
both from the house and from the
street.
Thr minutes later Ted and I
poked our heads above the boarls, ana
seeing th..t no one hal bee disturbed
we I'll m5cd Lightly over and crcpt up
to the back door. AS we expected, it
WI, Oily on the latch, for il I'll r. was
anythi g that Aunt July hid no oc-
ca ion to fear, it was the ri,inich t
A.. L. = l., i,.,x
down the Jl:nds an Ii he / our BULLS
eye l:ntern. The oil cat Looked up at
u; III t1,~rr e rom ne k -c.lcn hearth,
ana then. evidently cons.d,rl.. 49,.
| id ca CT lurgl;rs too absur. to enter
tain for moment, again dropped of
TO sleep
In tic kitchen we quietly removed
our shoes in true burglar fashion and
crcpt forward. The scene of our oper-
aticns was the sitting-roCm.
"Iiijt.' whispered Tel; gently,
| now. If we are discovered we are
found"
Tie situation lent the old chestnut a
fresh pu Ccncy. And it was as much
as we coul do to keep from bursting
iuto y T. or of laughter. We got our
| ri,iIl>s under control, however, and
set 10 ": ris
/ Gathering, up as many chairs as we
| c;ull b ar OFF without noise we carried
them to the door back. After that we
took the table. then with much difficulty
we iu~g l. off the rick 'ty ola sofa.
| n KIT we took couple of arrnfuls Of
o lis an en- is, and Ii rally pl lc!Sin, up
the tlr.a 10 r. carpet By the r OTIS we
bore it OFF, chucklinr to ur selves. for
we had completely denuded the room.
Pull g on our boots we now carried
our booty out to the wayon, and then
well, half al hour later Tel and [
were well along the road on our way
back.
fla! ha! hal" roared, as soon as we
were out of earshot. that's thu great
est lark out. Oh, but won't the old
! la ~ b, surpris ID, thou .h?'
| TIL was more serious. He evi lent
| ~ f 1t his resp visibility as oririnstor
and hacker o. the affair. Il say. Bob"
he whispered, what do you suppose
they'll say if we're found o1t?'
The only reply could make was an
other scrcc m of laughter.
When lily came down in the morn
ing to light the FIRE her ewes almost
popped out of her head with amaze
mcrt. AS sool as she had recOvcre her
self ii, rushed up tar, On reach ing
til first Il ght, however, she paused as
al i lea entered her mind anil stood
,eaning against the btnister. Then.
with a broad grin, for her decision
seemc | t. amu'e her greatly. she ran
| up and burst into Aunt JuIy's room.
''Oh, Missile! MisSier she cried. Its
ali gone, missile! The robbers have
Token all your furniture. It's all gone.
mis-, lie, even to the carpet and spoons
and evarytlinrw
Poor Aunt Judy's face was a SIGHT
TO behold. In trembling haste she
threw on her wrapper AMI h urrieI
| downstairs
! Pushing open the par'or door. the
excited oil lady received a shoes
which wall-ni IN too'1 her Off her f., t.
There before h cr was q bran n w set Of
furniture, chairs, sofa and table, tn,
att T. spread with Il mic. white table
10th III with bright n w .snlve, AMI
:or,ls AID spoons, al / pretty cups AMI
never expected to see in her little
lom, a'rain In the ce ter of til, room
was laid Il nice large rus, AMI stuck
up il the corner WAS roll Of han l.
some carpet.ng sufficient to cover the
oorlcr of floor that was yet exposed
With quick glance the as
BOUNDED woman took it all in, and
chen she dropped on her knees and
;obbed aloud. Tor some minutes she
'emained thus, her head bur ed in her
1anls. and then rising, her ace great-
y bri 'htcnel, she said simply: Make
some tea. lilly; we must chr stem our
lew teapot"
A, Tilly lifted the cover of that ar
ticle, something green tlashel to her
eye from the inside. She shook it out
'Ol, LOOK, missile" she cried, look
here. Money! See! Ten, ten, five
twenty-five dollarA Oh. missile. this
Is just great. The Lord is good,
ism Hep"
Yes, chilli" replied Aunt Judy
and then the old pr ide comm: SUI lden-
y upon her, she said. "but we'll have
co find out who did it al send them
back. We mustn't keep them, lily.
It's too much like charity"
A little later, when the minister was
go:n': Ey. she called h m to advise her.
No matter what his argume is were,
he had well-nigh p-rs ua ed her to az
capt the gift without question, when
lilly clinch I'd matters.
'Sides, missile" she said Offering
her speech as a supplement to the
miniSter,s ..fha bur i ...4 ..a..-