The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-12-01
Story of Stevenson.

stevenson was Sill a rather little
boy says Chambers's Journal, when
In the Summer holidays, having been
reading a number of detective" nov.
els OF a bad kind, he was passing one
Sunday afternoon along a road which
LED through one of the suburbs of
Edinburgh, and saw a deserted house.
left furnished but without apparently
caretaker. 1t suddenly struck Stev-
enson that 1t would be very gallant
thlng to break into this house. No
one was in sight, and stealing around
ne found 1t possible to easily open a
window at the back and so climbed in.
IL really was unoccupied, and he
prowled from room to room, looking
at tie books and pictures until he
heard, as he thought. noise in the
garden. This sent him Immediately.
in an instant collapse of courage. IN.
der a bed, and then terror seized him.
He imagined himself pounced upon.
charged with robbery, marched home
with gives upon his wrists, and arriy.
ing just as the family We're assembling
to attend evening services. He burst
out crying and could not stop, and his
sobs echoed in the empty house.
lie crept out where he had crept in.
having done no harm to anything ex.
cept his little tender Scottish con.
science But the spirit of adventure
was native to him. as exemplified in
the story, and also a sort of solitude
as OF a boy obliged to play by himself
for want of other pirates and burglars
to combine with
Milking the Reindeer.
With a good deal Of running, gestur-
ing, and, shouting ne herd was finally
brought into the Enclosure, only few
Of the widest animals escaping over
the fell, past some of the little chill
dren Rushing into the Enclosure In an
unbroken stream o. more than a thous-
and amin >, the herd did not cease
running-the reindeer is always on
the move, except al its regular resting
times-but continued to circle against
the sun. The reindeer in these clrcu-
lar motions always runs against the
sun; II it runs with it it is a sign Of
disease of the brain. In the midst OF
the reindeer, leaning, bounding, and
butting in friendly way, while giving
out their peculiar grunting sound the
picturesque figurea Of our Lapponian
friends were seen. surrounded by a
thicket of horns Our hostess. having
hung her baby to 4 birch in the middle
OF the Enclosure, stood, like num-
ber OF other women, mostly girls with
a wooden scoop in her hand, ready to
milk the first OF the female reindeer
caught; while at the outskirts OF tho
Enclosure stood a number of children
with large pals to receive the milk
from the scoops, the smaller children
either running about playing outside
the camp or giving salt and angelica
to some OF the tamest animals. The
most important actors on the scene,
however, we're the men moving slowly
about in the midst Of the herd. holding
the lasso behind their back in the
right hand and looking sharply at the
running animals.
AS quick as lightning a lasso whiz-
zed through the air, the frightened ami
mails recoiling and then increasing
their speed. When the lasso hit the
mark the COW was hauled in, and tied
to a birch while the milking was done.
So they kept on for nearly two hours.
The quantity OF milk yielded by each
animal is very small, at the most about
a teacupful but it is OF very high nu-
tritive quality. The milking, which
is by no means regular, is done, if pos
sible once a day. In Winter time
there is, Of course, no milking To
prevent the calves from sucking their
mothers pieces OF bone are tied into
their mouths, or the udders are be-
smeared with tar. Some OF the Lapps
consider 1t sinful to milk the reindeer,
and thus deprive the calves Of their
food.-The Century.