Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-27

name, has brought 1t OF"
"a dog broke into tine fold last
night, killed fine buck, and crippled
several ewes"
"For PHYS sake! Well, I never !
That's enough to make a man mad |
Whose dog was lt?"
"Ae thinks it was Squire Long.
acres"
"Not Bruno?"
"I believe he has only one dog"
"Well, for one, don't think Bruno
will kill sheep. I know ne will not,
and the squire is too nsighborly and
too wise man to quarrel with, just
on n suspicion like that.
"They'll quarrel, thought" sal
young Anson. "Father has gone over
there, mad, and the first word he ut
! ters will start the squire"
''It's e great pity" commended
Mrs. Sloan.
"fhat's what 1 say" assented An
son.
And he walked through the kitchen,
and sought his own room.
He seated himself at a desk which
stood in one corner, and drew toward
him pen and paper. After a few min
utes' hesitation, he dashed off few
lines, read what he had written care
fully, and placed the sheet in an en-
| veIope.
After directingit, he affixed a stamp,
and putting the letter in an inner
pocket, left the house by rear door,
and walked across tho fields toward
the village.
He dropped the letter in the box at
the postoiiice, and returned directly
home. When he reached there. he
met his father.
"Auson," said the colonel, sharply,
"that scoundrel, Longacre, refuses to
pay for the sheep mis- dog killed, and
I'm going to bring suit against him. :"
eyes, sir
"pve noticed lately that you'vo been
paying that girl OF his good deal Of
attention. / want that stopped"
"Ycs, sir"
"[t l hear of you being together
again, I'il disinhert you. She's as
bad as her father, and he's no better
than thief. His sister, Miss Do.
rothea, is very clever woman, and
the only really decent person about
thu house"
Mrs. Abigail Sloan, who usually
spoke of Miss Dorothea Longacre as
that "hatchet faced old maid" told
young Anson that night that she for
one did not believe in these neighbor-
ly quarrels, and she meant to tell
Square Longacre that she had no hand
in the matter, and did not believe his
dog killed sheep, the first time she
saw him.
At about the same time, Squire
Longacre was standing on the porch
of his house, angrily confronting his
daughter Nellie, who had just re-
turned from the village.
"Nell," ne said, "that old rascal,
Shortrood. has been here, and ex-
pect we'll have lawsuit. He says
Bruno killed his sheep last night, and
told him fatty that if he said my
dog killed sheep he was a liar!"
"0b, papa" protested Nellie.
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