The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-03-20


mighty sudden he'd let go a hull bush
Ell of buckshot at him. He's q hero,
the deacon is. When he got through
tellin' the story Skinner offered to
trust him for ten pounds Of sugar all
to once"
Everybody can't be a hero" an
swered the wife, with sigh.
what do you s'pose happened to
Elijah Smallman two or three years
agoT
II can't say. don't remember Of
his telling that anything did"
mo, he never told q human being
about 1t till tonight, and then he made
US all promise never to breathe a word
to soul. Lordy, but the chills went
up and down my back while he was
teliin' itr'
what was itr
HE saw a murderer. His dog barked
about midnight, and he got up and
lookal out of the winder and saw q
murderer snoopin' around. The Teller
even came up and ratified on the kitch-
en- door. The dog put his tail down
and made a sneak and didn't come
home for two days. Lijah said he got
SO weak In the knees that he could
hardly get back to bed, and he covered
up his head for more'n an hour after
wards"
How did he know it was a muir
derer?
Because the Teller had ON a SLOUGH
hat pulled down over his eyes and was
crouched over. That's the way they
allus do. Yes, he was a regular muir
derer. A week later tin peddler come
along and told Lijah that hull family
had been murdered about fifty miles
away the very next night. II the dog
hadn't barked the Smallman family
would have been wiped out Do ever
see murderer snoopin' aroundT
Land O. massy, but hope notw
But | orter see one. same as other
folks. If | ever do see one l won't
stand and tremble and shake. No, si-.
| won't I'll just go right out to him
and tell him to hump himself out Of
that or he'll have me in his hair, but /
shan't never see one There's no such
good luck for me-"
But you hain't done 20 bad" OBJ
served the wife in soothing tones.
"You fell in the river once, didn't
you"
Yes"
And you had a fight with a light
pin' rod mani"
yes"
And a mad dog chased you up a
LADDER"
But what does all them things
amount to agin InJuns and murderersl
l want to be a hero, same as other
folks. II I'd ASH Skinner to trust me
for ten pounds Of sugar all TO once
he'd drop dead"
WAL" said the wife as she rose M
to prepare for bed, you are dom all
you can, and nobody can't do any
better. If you live long 'nuH mebbs
your chance will come"
1t was on the road and only two
weeks away. A millionaire had his sum-
mer home on the bank of the river run
ming through the village His eighteen.
year-old daughter was fond OF rowing
and It was an almost everyday sight to
see her skimming along In her boat
There had been heavy midsummer
rains, and the river had gradually risen
until the water poured over the dam
like Niagara. There was q drop Of
twelve feet, with three or four waves
ut the bottom rising up and curling
over In menacing way. One day, al
the highest stage Of the water, three
young ladies appeared ON the pond In
q boat. The rich mans daughter wa
taking company out for q row.. TIVE
hundred feet above the dam, a. shs
attempted to turn and go back, COS d
the oars snapped. and in her sudden
panic she lost the other, while the
boat turned broadside to the stream
To 60 over the dam In that fashion
meant death to all