The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-03
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1905.

Z, JUNE g. 1905.
marked Dory after poking around for a few minutes
Here Hi get up on that limb and bang us down
q few. ,,
Little Hiram was glad to climb up into of the
trees. One two Of them had limbs the ground
presently the younger children safely up
in the trees, while Dory and Debby alone left to
pick up the nuts.
They had forgotten about the Sheep and were chat
ting quietly and fast filing their bags when they heard
sudden tumult Debby had just said that everybody
liked boiled chestnuts better than anything ese that
the party to be great success-when, turning
at the sudden rushing noise she shrek and began
to toward the high stone wall AS she ram she shout
ed back to the little children Staay up in the treesi
Stay up in the freezes! Come, Dory, quck-quick
r For there was a budding scramblng, irregular pack
of sheep charging directly up the hillside toward the
chestnut trees In front Of them leading them just
general is supposed to lead his army, dashed big
ugly old Jehu. he shaking his hons and roaring,
while the whole flock baang at tremendous rate
Dory had given his stick to Hiram, and there
weapon in sight, except few loose stones He picked
these up and flung them trembngy at the old but
he truly scared almost to DEATH and the stones might
have been aimed at almost 'tany old place., for all the
execution they did He knew that the four little
all right long they stayed up the treebut
he did know but that they might faint away and
bic down in their fright SO he too called out to them:
faa-ther! and then he looked behind him until
he was well fortified by the stone wall.
- He bounding it only instant after Deb
by. Then the two dared to look backward They had
fanced that the sheep close at their heels, no!
They had stopped u2der the cump Of chestnut eesand
there they browsing nosng about just they
had been at first.
ct believe they eating the cilestnuts,'' Debby
burst forth
ttYou DON It know all about Sheep asserted DeBby
with perfect good nature tho breahless from her hard
81 never heard of it anyhow
''My! Hear those children ery!" unused Debby. III
don face that old Jehu again, do you You go
down and get father and Ben, and II stay up here and
call to the children and try and get them quiet. -
tfNo, I'll do that. You down to the house. -
Down there, Mrs. Dole just drawing from the
vast fbrick oven,' built into the great chimney be-
side and somewhat above the freplacesome thin, fat
boards, which dozens of beautifully baked
way cookies for the party
Upon this peaceful fiery breahless little Deb
by BURST like cannon ball.
Hurry Get father It's old Jehu! Oh, the chill
dren crying so! They in the tree And-mother-
sheep do eat chestnuts, don't they9"
s1What in the Of all the elements!" began Mrs.
Dole.
But by this time Debby rushed thru the kitchen
into her fathers Office which the big, east front
The Square owned farm like all of his neigh
bors but he was first of ALL the village lawyer and the
office wall covered with great full of law and
other books Debby pretty that she should find
In two minutes the whole family, excepting Mrs.
Dole and Aunt spiddy cambering to the sheep
pasture. Then it not long before old ehu and his
train driven far down the hillside by the combined
who had fully armed with all sorts of weap
Jehu himself soundly thrashed and poke
put upon him Then the weeping children were helped
down from the But OH OH OH for the boiled chest
nuts at the partyl
Pentland, the other side Of the Deerfed river be-
side which lay the Dole farm, had almost chestnut
trees considered the prime place for pasturing
sheep, and nearly every farmer who kept any sheep in
Birchmont rented pasture for that purpose
Pentland Consequently it happened that Squire Dole
did know any than Dory did, that sheep would
eat chestnuts. The sheep usually brought down
from the pasture any way before the chestnut burrs
burst But this year the frosts had earand for
the time in his life the Squire had pastured his
focks on the chestnut side Of the river.
Thus he learned, did the whole family, that sheep
will eat ehestnuts voracousy. And oh! how bitterly
this truth impressed upon Dory and Debby! For
they had dropped their nearly filed bags in their fright
and greedy greedy sheep had eaten up every single
chestnut had been gathered by the hard labor OF
the Dole children during the entire morning
ITO be Contnued)
THE WEATHER CONTRARY