Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-08-03

| NIL OF mile or more 10 CllmO. Dun
gIawits, opietIv reckoning up the
Chances. decided that the wolves would
catch them on the hill He therefore
looked down at Mrs. Benson. who was
erouebing in the bottom of the wagon
bed. holding her two terrified children
in her arms. and said, with a matter
of-course air:
orf Won nIsase ma'am, we'll stop at
the bridge and III stand .em of.
oCsr Won IL # Henry ."
"yas maam"
"Snra ."
usrrv r,nsai f,r an instant 10
tb;,,l. onJ ,bar rarI;sl oyas ma'am
I'm snra"
ovsry ,rau Harrv Tfvou tell me
vop're snrs 7 believe YOU are sure.
Inst let me know what I'm to do, and
U ~
TIL do Il"
at is GOOD, said the Young Ger
man
Once more he nIi4d the whip and
with sucb GOOD effect that the wolves
we're 900 wards behind when he pulled
m III. r,rting. trembling horses on
tLs briJgs
acct ont he cried. sujting the
oo4;on % tho word basrr,ng ont him
s.rf rnbool,aj tba horses and with a
.,,,r. cont tbom on bv themselves.
v,u.Lo+1+,j tbs s,a;oi on ejge and
.,,-,, . r,rnj 90 that Il stood Ienotb-
,.;so ocross tba narrow bridge, which
= oon,,,1.ts,,. b,ockad GIsncipr up
tbe NH he saw that the wolves had
halted in some doubt and spread out
widely The energy and clatter and
formidable look of his movements in
throwing the sleigh about had daunt-
81 them fora moment
Seeing that he still had time to
snare he spread the blankets on the
bridge and called to Mrs. Benson to
lie down upon them. She did so at
once bngpinp the children close to
her. Henry then pulled down the
wagon box over them, shutting them
in completely. They were as safe in
there as in house. Grasping the axe,
which always made part Of the mrnI-
ture of the stage, Henry awaited the
coming of the enemy. He stood be-
hind the wsgon-box-no mean bar
rier, for it stood over three feet high,
including the runners, and was an eI-
ceedingly awkward obstacle for hur-
rying wolves to scramble over.
Seeing only one figure, and that at
rest, the wolves came on again, but on
nearing the bridge they stopped short
on the edge of the washout, as if sus-
pecting the strange thing before them
was a trap. For several minutes they
stood there, 10 Of them, with their
long, red tongue lolling out, and then
with one accord all turned and ran off
along the ton of the bank. Presently
they disappeared but in another
moment Henry saw them Looping away,
one behind the other, down in the
bottom of the washout. He presumed
they knew of some way to get up the
opposite bank and were intending to
come back and attack him from be-
hind. At this wolfsh plan Bungle-
wits chuckled, for he was bright
enough TO see that he could put the
wapop-box between him and the
wolves again by simply crossing over
II; but he chuckled more at thinking
how the wolves were giving him time
70 make 3 better defence.
The wasbopt was about 20 feet
u.;do NTH r,errsrdicnIar sides eight
or ten feet Liph, except for an occa-
s;onaI break The bridge was formed
bv two big tree trunks lying from
bank to bank as stringers, across
which were set stout floor timbers,
t;obtlv iaroroed down but not spiked
70 tho stringer.. for in those DAYS
freigbtage was big gh, and heavy things
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