The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1902-02-20
Saved by two Pumpkins.

This is the season OF tho Jsek-o'-lsp
tern and story told BY the Chicago Ad
vance, althoush it deals With an incident
which took pi CO nearly two hundred
| years ego. IS therefore timely. II is the
story OF Pru ienoe and Endurance Plioe,
two girls who lived 10 the Oooheco Val
ley. New Hampshire
At that time the couutry from Porte
mouth TO OSsipee was an unbroken wilder
nesr, and settlers ~,re lev, The Place
family lived in log house 10 small
clearing, Indians ocoassionslly called st
the house. and Mr.. Place always treated
them oourteou,ly, aud never sent them
away empty handed,
When Prudence snd Endurance, twin
sisters, wers fourteen years old, Mr. and
Mrs. Tlsce, wi h The younger children,
went on = visit to Portsmouth, leaving
the twins TO keep house. During the
fret dSy OF their housekeeping the girls
gathered the big yellow pumpkins from
the field and laid them 10 pile near the
bsck door,
While resting from their work they
sm used them selves by cutting two hid
coos J.ck.o'.lsnterps from large pump
kins, each seeking to outdo the other 10
making the most erotesous face. They
stuck the two hesds on poles. 61ed cen
dies within, and made ready TO astonisb
their father on bis return by showing
the srinping faces st the window,
While Endurance prepared the supper
and get the house TO rights for the
night, Prudence went ont TO drive home
the COW and the sheep. She bad to 60
fstther than she bai expected. and 80
she passed q clump Of bushes was slsrt
led TO sec three Ipdisns on the other
side. talking earnestly. gesticulstiDe. snd
pointing Low snd then toward the log
house. 10 the clearing.
The girl was sIsrmed. Turning back
without slowipg berself to be seeD. she
hurried homewsrd end told her sister
What she bad discovered.
They have found out that father ssd
mother sre away. and they sre coming
here to steal and perhaps to kill us. the
two said to each other
For 9 mi ute the frightened girls did
not koow what to do, The Jsck-o-lsn
terms we're lying 10 . corner OF the room
aud like 40 inspiration It came 10 Eodu
rance that with these horrible, prinIing
faces they might scsrs svsy the Iodisos,
Near the back door ives pit. Used ior
storing potstoes, and now covered With
bosrds and brush. Taking their Jsck-o'.
lanterns, tho two girls smbled into
the bole. snt concealed the entrance
by drswing the boards end brush back
into place.
After What .eemed hours Of waiting
end listening they heard stssliby steps
sbou. the house. which vas 10 total dark
ness. Listening in,sn.ly. they heard the
Indisps In The garden, evidently sssrchins
for Them,
Nos wss tbs momtnt for action. The
eIudIes we're lighted 10 the Jsck-o'-isn
terp,, and the tiieoos heads thrust mp
throusb The bu.hes. The Iojisns waited
for only ore glimpse Filled ~itb super
.,iiiCus terror snd believing that they bsd
aep devils, they I'D 10 ,ucb ha,s tbsi
Pfn1epcs .bd Z ,dnt.pce. shsn they ven
i1red irom their place Of concesimsnt 10
the motnibg. fonnd 8 tomshsst and three
eagle ie.tbers 10 The gsrden path.
The sroi wss ever si,erssid reesrde J
By tie Iocisrs With supeuiiiions eve
20, see oi them ws ever tnoso 10 50
rroseh the log torse oi the Places
sssin.