Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-21
HOW HER READY WIT AND COUR-
AGE BEAT OFF a ROBBER.
A Christmas Story of 1776,

A Christmas Story of 1776
on Il brisk. breezy day the day be-
fore Christmas. l176. Mistress Betty
ReddyWitte mounted nG buckskin-
colored mare al the gate Of the gar
den in front Of her mothers house IN
Boston
Mistress Betty although she was
scarcely moro than child was wen
grown for her age and good TO look
upon
braver than some | have seen. Never
was she known 10 take fright or de-
sert companion, When Selectman
pettigrew's terrier went mad and at
tackled her companion, Peggy BROOKS,
in Marlborough street, Betty beat the
dog off with her umbrella and kept the
brute off until assistance arrived
Betty Reddywitte galloped merrily
and soon was in the country road out
side OF town. Then, suddenly, she
came upon "a strange siEnt.
A great yellow bodied post-chaise
containing q lady and "A little girl was
drawn up lt the side of the road.
Confronting tho inmates with long
barrelied pistol was a horseman IN
red cloak with "a black nalf-mask on
his face.
Betty did not need TO Took twice to
recognize all the objects that went to
make up the tableau the yellow posi-
chaise the lady and the child. its in
mates and the black driver. She knew
them all.
She had set out from Boston to meet
ner mother on the way from Milton.
and this was the meeting.
Nor did she fail TO recognize the
highwayman in spite of his black mask.
But she would not for the world have
let him know II.
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