The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-09-27
Dance At Skating Rink Tonight! Good GOOD "yss
OURBOYSAND GIRLS



girl by the name of Dorothy She
sets not far from Boston, which was
then only large village of four or
Ave thousand inhabitants.
Dorothy was a little girl when the
Revolutionary War broke out. so
| now YOU know Just how long ago she
lived. She heard her folks telling
about the British soldiers and how
| there would be war If things kept on
| going wrong And early one spring
morning her father and her brother
| hurried away with their guns, very
| much excited. They were minute
| men, that is. men who were ready to
start at moments notice TO fight
the British. So Dorothy knew that
the war so much talked of had be-
gun.
In the afternoon Dorothy's mother
| went TO visit a sick neighbor some
distance away, and the girl was left
alone in the old farm house. But she
was not allowed to be idle, for she
was set TO spinning wool Girls
learned to spin when they were very
small and | have no doubt that it
kept them out of mischief many
time
1t was an unusually hot afternoon
and the tall old fashioned clock that
stood in the corner of the kitchen
kept ticking away and Dorothy kept
spinning, only stopping now and
then to reel off the yarn when there
was a spindle full She was Keeling
off her second knot" when suddenly
a shadow darkened the doorway.
Dorothy looked up, expecting to sea
her father or her brother, but it was
neither of them. She was frightened
as she saw that the intruder was one
Of those terrible British soldiers.
She knew that well enough on ac-
count of his gay regimentals, his
shining accouterments and the big
tall hat he wore The next moment
she saw, too. that he was wounded
and faint. for there were splashes OF
blood on his long Hessian boots. and
his face was as white as one of the |
sheets on her bed upstairs under the |
caves.
MY little maid" he said, will |
YOU give me a drink of water, and !
may | sit and rest awhile in the /
shade? | am nearly dead from heat |
and exhaustion
Dorothy left her spinning and !
brought him the water, cool and I
sweet, from the we'll. and he sat in /
one of the straightforward kitchen
chairs and drank 1t and seemed (
much refreshed. He was a young /
fellow, not much more than boy, |
and there was something in his face
aud In his manner Of speaking that \
reminded her of her brother Tom.
Bnt for all that, she knew that he
was one of the dreaded and hated
British. and Dorothy. not knowing
what else to do, resumed her spin
ming. not daring TO look up.
After awhile he walked TO the
door. but staggering back, in bro
ken voice he said Child, ! am
redcoat. and / suppose you hate me:
bat ! have a sister In England just
your age. and she loves me better
than anything else in the world For
her sake. save me. am so weak and
faint ! cannot 80 a rod. and my enc
mics are close at hand TO kill me-"
Dorothy glanced ont OF the win
dow and saw half a dozen armed
Americans running up the road. She
had only a moment in which to act.
Then. for that other girls sake
across the ocean. and because, as she
afterwards said, he made her think
of Tom, she opened the chamber
door. GO up and hide in my room;
they will not look for YOU there"
Then she went to spinning again,
and a moment later was accosted by
the pursuing minute men.
Have you seen a rcdcoat pass
within the hour?" they asked. Doro-
thy trembied all over; she could not
tell a lie. nor would she imperil the
life of the man who had trusted her.
At last she said:
Il have been spinning here by the
door all the afternoon and I am sure
not redcoat has passed by" And she
gave a long whirl of the wheel.
1T T. strange where he could have
disappeared. they muttered. You
would have been sure TO see him II
he had passed."
NO one could have. gone down
the road without my seeing him."
answered Dorothy. with a flushed
face.
We'll. we have no time to lose:
he cannot be far away" and they
rushed of down the road.
Dorothy was not sure whether she
had dont right or wrong. but she felt 1
relieved whea she saw the roast was
clear. and she crept 10 the door Of
her chamber and whispered in low
voice 10 the man that HIS enemies
we're gone.
God bless you. child" he cried.
"You have saved nay life Nov. if
can only get into the city"
And he 20 won upon her sympathy 4
that she brought him a suif of ner
brothers cast-o1 clothing. aud ia r'.-
dusk ~ the April night the Briion
"a ssed in his disguise through the