The sun., 1901-06-08

shoot the goldarned things She smiled
at him winsomely and went into her homo
and got her rsySlver. which she hid in fold
she had into the farmers garden. He went
IN and brought out, shotgun. She leaned
sTsT shs enss Ssr fnd hSnd dan cling The revolver
Go on, you oruel old coward. Shoot my
pretty ohickies. Go on shoot em. WIN
Toaiay S2n't you shoot 'em the way you said you
The farmer seddled a swil. horse and set
forth for the police station, He was informed
a sre fs s Sssns 2gan why h. ND H So s b
chickens and from that time forth ho had
nothing further TO say on the subject
,b6sEy b5ysFEysoIy who has known Of the hard
horse has cherished toward the Heavenly
Twins has wondered why matters between
them have nNr no not reached crisis long before
been going on since the memory OF Cycling
runnetA not TO the contrary.
But 10 wa. the striped trogsertnss tina,
little coats and the sspcy straw hats were
no wSrse than those Of former years. And.
But the Patterni oh. .dearl IL was quito
useless to try 70 keep the attention OF any
front steps. talking OF tho weather, or such
heartless subjects when. those knlcker-
booker, were going by. Even bad hiss head
tho, patterns Of those knloEerb bockers wers
within a short distance would have been
en- ugh g make one turn his head to SEQ
%h,s 4. hsss the Has ar a Ts es x2a,S when e
became apparent that the past winter had
brought forth not one pair or two Of these
every day in tho week. She was heard to
mutter ven geanoe.
The other day when the Twins were
whlrrins through Homecrest on their GUS
morning
they beard some one say:
Try II: GO on. bet you you can't
They turned and saw on the porch OF a
Homecrr,st house a boy with an air rifle and
two women. The three seemed 20 be look
folks look AZ them and so paid no attention,
They, heard the piut! OF the air rife and heard
2 bullet 60 Kissing & past them, They sy rode
Since then thev have heard the same
..pfIt and the whizzinf OF the bullets every
they declare, thsv heard a voice saw leave
ne alone am going TO shoot at tho horrid
things every time they go by with such awful.
Three days ago, after they had heard the
usual shot fired the Twins 6esan t. "a, aecGl, ,s,
eenemy.s workmanship was improying a;
least II struck the Twin who was behind bent
oyer the saddle making tho pedals 20 for dear
NE Now tne Twin VINO rides DAhlN0 never
bothers tn fuss with tho handle bars anyway
Sha keeps her arms folded on her breast For
moment after the bullet struck II looked
as though tho pain were going U force her
touncas her AIMS but she kept them bravely
folded The only sign WAS that she bent a
little lower In the saddle and pedalled the
harder A third shot was fred but 1t fell
short and kickad mp tho dust under the tire
Of the rear wheel
That bullet not only was painful to tho
physical system or the hindermost Twin,
but II was painful to their prestige and Dig
njty. They determined 20 20 to the police
about II Thursday Mias Bovine and her
father, who ia wheemnn himself. though
he has never been able 10 keep up with tho
rest Of the family. went out 70 C0ney Island
anl made their compliant, Detective, Lynch
was sent over 10 Homecrest 10 talk Ia q
fatherly way with the air rifle marksrnon.
The folks whom he in'"rvi"wed said that
thcy had not been shooting at any Twins.
Said one Young woman to whom be talked.
"Aro they sur II was "a bullep What
makas them think II was not horsehy2
Tho assertion that tho rcirmost Twin
was actually struck roSL- alto 2othGr upon
common report in HOmecrr-t. IL ls no
more than fair that IL should be recorded
that when Doter'ivp Lynoh asked the Young
woman whore she had been hit she insisted
most po-,uyely that sh. had not been hit any
where