Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1910-08-18
THE
RESCUE

sorter dropped into a chair without a
word.
You look sleepy" remarked the
man In the hammock
The summer resorter favored him
with glance of scoru. Then she
leaned forward.
did you ever resuscitate drowned
bluejay?" she inquired.
The girl at the table who was wri-
ting letter. and the man who was re
pairing a fishline dropped their work
and stared at her. The man In the
hammock gasped feebly.
HUH" he said fmpolitely ana I'm
believingly.
Sleepy" went on the summer re-
sorter with emotion who wouldn't
be sleepy after getting up over and
over again in the middle OF the night
while all the rest of you people were
slumbering sweetly? don't like
arising In the early dawn when the
| little birds are singing and the fresh
laid sun is rising, and 1 doubt the
veracity Of any person who claims that
he does. think he is putting 1t all
on, Just like those abandoned prevari.
Gators who say they love cold baths
and adore Strauss operas!
'Just because 1t inconveniently be-
comes daylight at $3.50 these days"
went on the young woman summer re-
sorter eft is fatiguing to go prancing
around at that hour and caroling
things about the lovely morning sun.
shine! SO you can imagine my BIT
ter feelings when / awoke this morn.
ing with an awful start at exactly
four o'cfock!-
why didn't you stick your head UNI
der the pfIfow7" asked the girl at the \
table Il always do when 1t gets light 1
so earlyg~
1T WASN'T the light" said the sum-
mer resorter 1T was a noise Some
thing was Topping and splashing and
hopping around out by the pump
Then + remembered the galvanized
rub that stands there to catch the
overflow water and realized that
bird must have got I'm and couldn't
get out. When I scrambled to the
window r could see the tips of it's
wings whenever IT Topped into the
air. 1t was Just awful So grabbed
a kimono' and slippers and few."
Most appropriate method of loco |
notion" murmured the man with the |
fshline; ''ihasmuch as IT was bird"
When / got there" pursued the
summer resorter- ruthlessIy, 1T had |
stopped Topping It was a perfectly |
gorgeous biuejay and IT was standing |
On it's tail on the bottom of the tub |
with its beak barely above water. I
spilled IL out and picked 1t up. It
merely opened it's mSuth and gasped
feebly and rolled it's eyes. One more
minute and it would have been dead
So ] carried il In on this porch and
laid IT. down and hadn't arr earthly
idea What to tib II seemed choking
to deatd.''
"Your should have roiled IL on a bar.
rel" said the man in the hammock. |
Artificial respiration would have
been BETTER suggested the man
mending the fishliDe.
You are both Brutesr- said the |
summer resorter indignantly. II knew
its poor little tummy and lungs we're
full OF water and did hold IL upside |
down and shake 1t, but II only
strangledl Then propped it against
a sofa pillow on the floor I'm the sun
and determined TO leave IL TO its fate
while | went back 60 bed But
couldn't sleep a wink worrying about
it. so every ten minutes or so I'd get
up and sneak out to see what the
blueJay was doing.
1.-THE first time he had fallen over
On his side and was feebIy kicking
with one foot. When picked him up
and set him straight again he let out
a most pathetically feeble 'che-e-ep!
so petted him and said was sorry
and he seemed to appreciate 1t. At
any rate, he didn't act any more afraid
of me. than ne would II had been hiss
own mother.
"The next time | went out he had
fallen over on HIS back and curled up
his toes and thought II was all over
But when I set him up straight he
cheeped again and wabbled his head
He was so helpless and babyfied and
so clearly didn't like the way his
tummy and lungs felt that | almost
wept over him.
'sWell, this progressive first aid to
the injured went on till six o'clock. II
Strengthened that bluejay up once
and set him on his feet and smoothed
down his feathers as though they
were a pinafore did 1t dozen times.
And besides he demanded so much
verbal sympathy. He seemed TO feel
better II l stayed and talked to him.
81 think that finally I did go 10
sleep, because 1t was seven o'clock
when went out to the porch again
and then ! couldn't believe my eyes.
There was a big, smoothly preened
bluejay with his crest magnificent In
the sunshine flying about trying his
best to get out through the porch
screens. When l went near him he
cawed raucously and few from me In