The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-12-12
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There Wasa great entering and out
cry among. the fowls back Of the farm
house. With one long piercing shrek
from a single hen. and Aunt Sally
Warner dropped the breakfast dish she
was wtping and ran out to see 4 hawk
sailing away with a fat pulIet in his
tRlons She waved her hands and
cried .'shoo! ShooG' but there was no
salvation for the victim.
What Is It, auntyH' asked her niece.
Miss Nettle Ward, from the city. who
had come out TO the old farm Tor va
cation.
why. another OF them hawks has
Rrnbbed another OF them chickens
Was the reply. II told pa only last
aiI.iIt that he EIlt to git out and load
tbs shotgun for me. i s,pose that
hawks. have got As much right to live
o. other folks, but I'm be snumn1ed
ABut he aId load the gun, ana It's
there behind the door," Interrupted the
niece.
$50 Il Isl what an old goose / am
getting 10 bel Nettie. did you ever DIRE
4 gun9''
Never"
Then must show you how to do 1t
Yon take It in both hands this way.
You draw 1t up to your shoulder this
way. Then you shet your eyes and
pull on the trigger with your finger,
and the hawk drops dead A hawk
may come while I'm down cellar or
upstairs and you are out here alone,
and you want to be able to shoot him"
There were only uncle, aunt and Net
tie at the farm, and the girl from the
city soon wore on the newness and the
novelty and became a bit lonesome.
On account Of this lonesomeness she
almost bowed to young man who
passed the gate one evening at dusk
and almost bowed to her, and when
she went in she asked her aunt who
Il was. '-Allea9.9, .ss1ll1as 9l9'lsN'~-s-
IT hain't seen no strange young men
around here myself" was the answer,
..but understand that the Stevenses,
hnlf q mile below us. have got sum
mer boarder. guess he's the one you
saw" aR,s2GEzZs -. vsIl1sGl
Things happen suddenly out in the
country the same as in the city Two
days after seeing the young man Miss
She had hardly come downstairs
aud told OF 1t when the rural mail
carrier left letter for the aunt, which
stated that sister living ten miles
away was III and wanted her to drive
over ut once She couldn't drive, and
so Uncle Joe must go along. There
was room for Nettie to go along, but
the tOothache kept getting worse. It
didn't take her long to decide to stay
home and doctor 1T She could put on
bag of hot ashes, hold hot vinegar
In her mouth and now and then press
w-:ld of cotton batting wet with pep
pernlint essence against the Offending
:nolar. and there was hope that she
would be all right before night came.
During the long day, II the ache per
mltted, she could swing in her ham,
mock. climb the cherry tree after the
ripe fruit, hunt for hens eggs in the
barn and watch the ducks and gosliugs
In the horse pond,
There is only two things to look out
for.c said the aunt when she was
ready to drive away. Keep your
eyes out for hawks and tramPs. As
we haven'r seen a tramp for six weeks,
1 guess you won't be bothered, but
them hawks are liable to drop down
any time. II one comes, you be sure
TO shoot 1t. I've heard that shoot
ing gun has been known to cure the
toothuche" -nA-- i----S----
Uncle and aunt had been gone an
hour when the toothache ceased, ana
Miss Eetttr piled into her hammock
under the pear tree with book. She
was Just opposite the kitchen door
aud only thirty feet away, and just
inside the door stood the shotgun. The
maid had great confidence that If
hawk or tramp came along she would
play the part OF heroine.
At IL O'Clock. when the young man
who boarded down at Stevens came
pust the house with his kodak, he was
satIsfied from the swinging of tho
hammock that Mrs. Nettie was read
lug. -
Two hours later, when he had snap
slotted an old lop horned COW, u crab
apple tree and a brook that seemed to
be downing up hill. he returned TO ind
the hammock so still that there was
no doubt in his mind that the occu-
pant was asleep. He had not past the
house, walking as slowly as possible,
when he caught sight of half the body
Of a man in an open window on the
other side. Whoever 1t was had come
snealking down through the corntield-
1t was up to the young man to In
vestigate. EIe started out with the Inn
preston that the intruder was u tramp,
and he picked up club, scaled the
picket fence and gave shout. The
man in the window heard and drew
back. He saw and dropped to the
ground and ran around the corner of
the house. He ran into the hammock
and it's sleeping. occupant and fell over
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