The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-09-29

Get OH. Wnat tne deuce do you
mean?"
"Pick on a poor sheep, will your"
rasped the other "Pll learn you city
fellers that property is to be respect.
ed"
"Keating spent no time in argument.
His fists found the face of the other,
and a beautiful battle was precipitated
thereby. The fight was all in favor of
the excited fisherman until the arrival
Of the long.whiskered one who had
been distanced in the race. The third
man jumped into the battle with
raucous shout. His hands were as
hard as boulders and a fuke blow
from one of these deprived the fisher.
man of his senses.
When Heating recovered conscious.
ness he found himself neatly trussed
up. and two red and perspiring farm.
ers standing by and eyeing him with
little favor.
You darned city bug" growled the
younger. What kind O. rowdyin' is
that you are up to? Chasin a poor
defenseless critter until she falls down
windedl"
You're crazy" snarled Heating,
Couldn't you see that she had my
fshhook stuck in her silly wool?"
Zine thing for you to be doin',"
added the other rustic. "Stickin' your
hook In other peoples sheep"
"If other peoples sheep would quit
sticking their noses in my affairs they
would not be hooked"
But you did hook her." came from
the younger one.
Certainly l hooked her." snapped
Keating And now tell me what you
are going to do with me. Burn me at
the stake?"
An angry snort issued from the
whiskers of the ancient. "We're going
to hold you until Mrs. Griggs comes
home"
And who, If may ask, is Mrs,
Griggs?"
She's the owner of that poor perse.
cuted lambie-she's also the local rep.
resentative of the 8. p. G. A." an.
swered the youthful granger. She'll
fix you for having been cruel to Con.
suella."
"Consuella!" cried Heating. do
you mean to tell me that that old
sheep is named Consuella."
"Uh, huh. an the more names you
call her the harder it'll go with you"
Keating, In the city, was Charles
keating. Esq. managing an agency
for a well-known cash register con.
Germ. He bore the respect of his fel
lows.
In his bonds before these country.
men, fuming and fretting, and with a
perspiration running down his fore.
head, his dignity was conspicuously
absent.
The mind Of the youth was on the
austere Miss Decker, his fiancee.
He mentally thanks fortune that
this little misadventure was a thing
Of the country.
Pad, pad; pad, pad!
Keating, his back to the driveway,
heard the approaching rig before 1t
had come to a stop beside him.
What is this?" asked chilly voice
"a woman's voice.
This man was a chasin' of Con.
suella," explained the farmer. "He
had flshhook in her wool, and his
pole and line hangln' to 1t. and he
was runnin' her to beat Time. We
knew-Hiram and What store you
set by that sheep. Mrs. Griggs, an we
kept him. thinkin' as how you'd like
to sick the law on him."
A p,uoicoI laugh rapu ont ond Tho
marrow in the bones of the prisoner
CONCEALED as he heard 1t. He knew
that laugh.
Turn him ovei," came in a soft
contralto. You don't care II l look
upon the classic profile Of your pris-
oner, do you, aunt?"
Hiram's foot prodded the youth face
about-and beet-red face it was!'
The girl in the carriage broke into
hysterical scream.
"Oh, aunt" she gasped when she
had recovered her breath. "This Is too
much. Your sheep chaser isis my
fiance."
Following the orders of Mrs. Griggs
Heating was speedily liberated. Ex
plantations followed. Mrs. Griggs
laughed. Miss Marion Denton scream.
ed again. Heating, whose sense OF
humor would not spread to cover the
situation, frowned ominously at the
two embarrassed ones who were re.
sponsible for his predlcament. With
awkward apologies the two made a
hasty departure.
THAT is the first time I ever saw
you give indications of being real
flesh and blood" growled Heating.
townbound. and with the girl by his
side.
Now that find you something be.
sides a business automaton and crea.
ture of conditions, like the rest of US,
we may understand each other bet.
fer" laughed the girl