El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-28

fer asked him yesterday, when I did
the same thing~ exclaimed Mrs
Browning sympathetically.
Mrs. Stacy food as If paralyzed,
When she would have called to the ba-
by, creeping steadily across the broad
window sill, Mrs. Rowland restrained
her. To startle the child would almost
certainly make it lose its balance and
fall.
"Unwind me down. directed Teddy
suddenly, once more adjusting the
ropes of the cherished swing about his
body. A moment later he was twirl-
ing rapidly toward the child.
His face was a little pale and set,
for to seize the child meant to take
both hands from the rope, and Teddy,
while privately entertaining great
hopes of some time swinging up and
down the shaft in triumph, holding on
to the rope by his teeth, still felt dizzy
at the thought of trusting to the rope
around his waist alone. But when OF
a level with the baby he set his jaw
firmly, signaled oliver to hold the rope
as steadily as possible and kicked Wig
orously against the wall beside which
he hung, in order to swing his body
across the court.
Twice he failed TO reach the window
opposite him. and the baby, interested
in the floor of the court, did not look
up. The third time he approached her
she saw him and crowed with delight,
stretching out her baby hands toward
him and trying to rise to her unsteady
little feet. But Teddy was swifter
than she.
With a desperate lunge he flung him
self against the window sill, let go his
hold Of the o and snatched the child
just as she tottered on the slippery
edge Of the polished stone. The sud
den and violent movement, combined
with the jerky action of the rope,
which swung sharply across the court
again on the rebound, upset his bal
ance completely. The eager spectators
at the window high above, their hearts
still humping wildly from the excite
ment of the baby's danger, gasped
with apprehension as the boy, firmly
c%lutching the baby, fell heavily back
ward, slipping out of the loop on which
be rested entirely and dropping to a
horizontal posture.
But Teddy was game. wind me up
-quick!' he shouted to Oliver, and up
he came, with only the loop around his
waist to keep both him and his charge
from the stone floor below. The baby,
who fancied the whole affair a new
kind Of play, kicked, crowed and
squirmed in his arms. But the loop
held firm. Teddy managed, after a few
efforts, to catch hold of the other loop
with his feet, and presently he was
being drawn in through the Rowland
window, red in the face n breathless
from the partially inverted position in
which the upward trip had been made.
Mrs. Stacy snatched her baby and fell
to wildly kissing it, and the other la
dies Rugged Teddy, in spite of his OBJ
%jections.
"I'm all right, mamma, indeed I am"
he cried, wriggling away from his
mothers affectionate embrace, land
you needn't cry, I'm sure! My jacket
split when the rope slipped, but you
a mend 1t, I know, and we won't ask
you to let us keep the swing now if
you feel bad about it.. But 1 told you
it might come in handy. And say,
mamma, can't I have a piece Of jelly
cakeP'
I'm hungry, too" remarked Oliver
p~laintively, land really, mamma, I was
the one who first thought of fixing up
the like that, and I've done most
Of h work anyway. Can't 1 have
some jelly cake too?"
Before Mrs. Rowland had time to an
swer Mrs. Browning was trying to kiss
both boys at once and laughing hearth
ly as she did so.
gels!" she exclaimed, drawing them