Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-07-02
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49, to blow wakeful-
TEARING THROUGH ness over the en-
THE WOODS. tire neighbor-
hood. Caryton hurried the explosives
Through the front hall AMI hid them
behind the library window draperies
IT was then II o'clock, and he tiptoed
mp to his room for such sleep as he
could get before the early morning
noises should commence
Ten minutes later he was doing off
when the first experimental hastings
Of the horn commenced. BY the time
he had found a way to pack the bed
>lOthes about his ears there arose va
ious accompanying and disquieting
Uses, snappings and roars.
Then directly under his window
anne an explosion that shook the
louse and brought him to a sitting
gesture. They had found his coutribu-
tion! And 1t was only midnight
Caryton sank back and listened with
varying emotlons-regret at his gen
crosby, submission to a just retribu.
ton and finally a pleasurable sensa-
ton of retrograding to his own boy
hood. BY 1 o'clock he was the ring
leader Of all their more daring demon
STATIONS.
But when he went in, long after
daylight, blackened and burned and
bruised, and tried to make himself
presentable for breakfast he felt that
he had had enough of the Fourth
After breakfast Caryton made a di-
vision of the remaining fireworks and
then slipped from the house with his
trout rod while the nephews were
gloating over their treasures.
He knew of a trout stream that wan
dered aimlessly back among the trees,
with apparently no object or destina-
ton save to clothe it's banks with
moss. He would follow it's eccentric
windings until perhaps he could get
cool enough to induce some of the
moss to grow upon him.
But as he passed the last house in
the village and noted a figure in light
ress upon the piazza half hidden by
climbing rose he was tempted to turn
! and spend the day there. He had
act Miss Leslie only few times, but
be was friendly little body and the
most charming of all the girls he
knew
His feet even turned at the gate but
as they did SO he heard a wild yell
from the back yard, and he suddenly
swerved away, merely lifting his hat
TO the figure. Miss Leslie had seven
brothers.
A half hour in the woods, and he
was beyond the songs of robins and
orioles and sparrows and only heard
the occasional voices of hermit thrush
and tanager and wOOdpecker.
Presently he put his rod together
and cast fly into the stream. After
half hour of desultory fishing he
Found an enticing rock and seated HIM
self upon 1t, leaning his back against
4 tree trunk.
How long he slept-or II he slept at
Rll-he did not know, but the first
thing he was acutely conscious of was
an effort to disentangle his hook from
something behind and of vicious
humming in the air.
Turning hastily he saw that in
throwing his fly back for a new cast
he had caught the hook in an immense
hornets nest and that in his effort to
hisentangle it he was bringing the hor-
nets toward him In an angry cloud.
Even as he looked one dropped upon
his ear and another upon his forehead
and a third upon the back of his neck
hhe unexpected pain brought him to
his feet with yell.
In the presence of others the cry
would have been suppressed, but back
here in the woods. with no one in
hearing, it was simply straight yell
Of surprised evaporation and pain. A
moment later he was tearing through
the woods with the speed Of his col
lege racing days and with what he be
lieved to be 10000 hornets singing q
Heath song about his head.
He had not gone more than dozeI
sards when he broke into an opeI
glade and almost into Miss Leslie
arms. The sight of her brought him t
himself, and he whirled swiftly will
the intention of dashing in another di
tection, for he realized the conse
euences to the girl. But her quiet, au
ehoritative voice stayed him.
e'Throw yourself down upon you
face, Mr.. Caryton." she admonished