The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-25

loose, and came to the top and swan
s sbola ana round; He came up trying 70
mapped on the pond like the wings of a
DUCK mat Is trying 20 rise IN hurry. Be-
lore he got through fiapping had jumped
on ms mead again, and when ne went
down l clawed him with my hind feet. He
tried 70 cry out, but all he could do was
10 make bubbles on the water. jumped
on his head twice after this, and the third
hme he never came up any more. l went
out on the bank, shook the water off
my clothes and cantered toward home. AS
went along, feeling very proud, heard
the man calling his dog. First he blew
a horn. lie blew ii long time, and then
called and called; but the dog, being al
the bottom of The mill pond, could make
When l reached home / found mann
my, there. She had heard the dog bark
aad had made haste TO get out of his
way. Then, finding one Of her children
missing, she knew that something had
happened or was going to happen. She
hing, and she knew the missing young
one would be caught If he wasn't caught
she hoped he would be badly scared it
would serve him right for not obeying the
rules she had made.
When l got home. you may know l
was tired, Nanny dried my clothes while
l told her what had happened, and she
would hardly believe il; but she could
plainly hear the man calling his dog, first
with his voice and then with his horn
He kept that up for some time, and nm
under our house, calling his dog and toot-
ing his horn-and l was the only one
OF the family that dared 20 look out as
"Wen, l had no more adventures until
one night, having come home myself ]
heard crowd of dogs barking. The noise
they made grew louder and louder, and
presently 1 heard, nanny climbing the
tree as hard as she could
She came up SO fast that 1
10
death
.. They are after me- she cried, and
didn't have time to take to waterr' Sure
enough, the dogs came charging through
the bushes, bowling and painting like mad
and they gathered around the tree and
howled and barked until the men came
up with torches, | was curious to see
what was going on, though the others
were too frightened to move. / came out
and sat on the limb and looked down at
them They were all black men. except
one; The. one that had the biggest torch
held 1t behind him and moved ii back and
forth behind him.
eyes! The man with a cut thing began
to hit the tree. never knee what was
going to. happen until the tree began to
sway. Then | could feel il falling AS il
fell, 1 ran down the tree until 1 came
TO one of the largest limbs, and, by the
time had climbed that, the tree hit the
ground with noise. that sounded as the
clouds sound when they clap together and
make a big, quick shine. The limb shook
so hard that came near falling off; but
l held on the best l could, and in mo-
ment / heard great noise of fighting,
screaming, bowling and growing. l was
wild with fear, but | could do nothing.
Close 10 the limb l was clingng to was
black man holding a torch. The LIGHT
blinded my eyes, and the hot smoke stt-
fied me. l thought none had seen me,
but the man who was not a black man
was standing apart from the others, ana
when / looked at him l found he was look
ing at me-
II kept looking at him and he at me I'M
til l was no longer afraid l had the
feeling that he was a friend (close 10
cousin-thng) and | wanted to go TO him.
But how could I? 1t was the Son of
Ben Ali and he said nothing to the others.
But the thick smoke came in my nose
and | sneezed. The black man yelled,
Here's anotherp and climbed on the tree
He was about TO strike me with the torch,
but the Son of Ben Ali said 'Watp He
came to the limb, stretched out his hand
10 me and / touched it with my tongue.
Come he said. 1 jumped 20 his shout
der and felt safe: but when he carried
me among the strange ones, when l saw
the dogs nosing around with blood on their
ears, and when ] saw my nanny and the
others lying there moving no more fear
came again, and but for the Son of Ben
Airs hand and voice | should have jumped
down into the middle of the pack.
THE Son of ben All gave me to a friend
to take care Of, and though / went hun
CRY many a time, il was not the fault of
the black man. Maybe he was hungry
himself, and his wife and children. too
But now I'm here, and if you'll excuse me
I'll take a nap
Mr.. Coon opened his mouth wide 10 cape.
cuddled down in the corner, and was soon
end Part XIII