Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-09


of the barn chamber.
!. Don't hurry yourself, 'Cap'n," re.
joined Sam, in a jeering tone
But, Sam, Sam, come back! I'm to
be at Mr.. Browns at 7:3O o'clock"
Don't worry!' bawIed Sam Miss
Carrie won't wait long before Mr.. Fred
will be on hand"
The captain danced up and down Oh
the floor in an ecstacy of rage, as
Sam disappeared over the crest of the
hill. He knew very well if he pos
sessed the lungs of BOreas he could
make no one hear.
He sat shivering down on the hay,
! horses feet below, and thinking how
disagreeable a bar of moonlight which
streamed down from a crack in the
roof resembIed a tall white figure
standing under the center beam. He
could almost fancy the rope around his
neck. Pshaw And the captain
! jumped up again, with starting dew on
his temples, even in the freezing at
mosphere of the barn chamber.
What is to be dOne?" he asked him
self. An echo, if echo has any com
mon sense, would have answered.:
Just nothing at all.''
Sam Outwitted him. And pretty
! Carrie and Fred Jones, with his red
cutter and a great chestnut horse; the
captain was wild at the thought;
! surely he was vanquished.
Il won't wait another moment for
him." said Carrie Brown, cOloring up,
with tears in her blue eyes. Go on,
girls, [ shall spend, the evening at
! home"
There's plenty of room for you in
/ our sleigh, Carrie" cOaXed her brother.
Bessie Andrews will be glad to have
you along"
mo, she won't either" pOuted Car
! RE. las if | would spoil all her fun!
No; if l can't have an escort of my
own I'll stay at home and mend stock
ings, and l never will speak to Captain
Logan again"
Charlie Brown was on the point of
arguing the matter with his sister
when the door opened and in walked
Fred Jones.
Not gone yet, Carrie? Where is the
captainY'
Il don't know" said Carrie tartIy,
land l don't care. Am | Captain Lo-
gan's keeper?'
viii you go with me?'
Yes, L WILL" said Carrie, her eyes
lighting and shy smiles dimpling her
face.
"Of course" said Fred, Il can't ex-
pect to make myself as agreeable as
the city captain, but
The captain! The captain!' cried
Carrie, a little irritably. I'm sick of
the sound of his name. l never want
to see him again What a nice new
cutter this is, and how easy the wolf
robes are!'
Carrie" whispered Fred, as he
touched up the horse and felt her
nesting close to him, lis it for al
ways"
Yes, always" she answered
"Jerusalem!' said Farmer Kendrick.
1t was past 10 o'clock at night, and
the old gentleman had come out as
usual before retiring to see that the
| dumb members Of his family were all
straight and comfortable. y do be-
lieye that's old John Hendricks ghost
come to life again, poundin' like all
possessed on the barn chamber t1oor!''
It's NE! It's m-e-er' baWIed the
captain. "Unfasten the trap door and
! let me out.'
Slowly the farmer lifted the ladder
to its place. With rheumatic awk-
wardness he climbed the crea king
rounds and undid the hook from it's
clasp.
How in all creation came you here ~
he demanded. Why, l thought you
were ont a-Sleighriding with the gals.
1T was all the doing of that villain,
! Sam!' gasped the Infatuated captain,
his teeth chattering with mingled rage
/ and cold. L won't stand this sort of
thing. I'll leave the place tomorrow"
LAS you please" said the farmer, to
whom the prospect of losing his guest
was not unpleasant. I'm dreadful
. SOIIJ ILLS SuOulu nave udpDeu6U,
though. I'll talk seriously to Sam"
80 will l." CRASHED the captain.
IN break every bone in his body"
But Sam had taken particular care
to go over to his grandmother's, six
miles across the snow fields to spend
the night, and the only person the cap
tain saw was old Mrs. Kendrick, sit
ting by the kitchen fire.
you've lost your chance, captain, -
she said, good humoredly. "Dorcas
Smith has just gone by on her way
home from the sleighing party, and
she says Fred Jones brought Carrie
Brown in his new cutter, and they're
engaged"
The captain left the next day, and,
Mrs. Fred Jones has never seen him
since. And when the affair came off
sam got a piece of wedding cake big
enough to give him dyspepsia for a
week.-BOston News.
JUSTINE AND Her LOVER.