The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-06-28
Which Parish
BY HELOIsE BRoGTON
Copyright. 1910 BY American Press
Association

ot Aotul VI Juiea hubidedNA WAS
ocated on the intersection Of two lines
marking boundary intersections. In
Heed, there was point where be
lould stand on d corner Of four par.
she's. jules was sly dog and II
PRESSED by the bailiff TO pay for things
he bad bought from The stores Ia the
village near by would keep them ia a
Itate Of uncertainty as to which par.
lsh had Jurisdiction Ia bis case. He
knew them an ana knew which parish
70 stand on 70 avoid arrest when be
saw one OF them coming for the pur-
pose.
His daughter, Anita, was a very pref
" girl Of eighteen whose short peas.
ant skirt displayed a we'll turned am
kle and whose black eye was fun Of
mischief. Her father employed a
farm hand during the harvesting. and
Anita got al the fun she desired by
roquetting with this person tn the
harvest was over and be went else
where, when she would tell him that
she was very sorry. but she could not
possibly love him well enough 70 mar-
d him. This was very amusing %
Anita and very hard on the farm hand.
One day just as the harvest was
commencing a 6ne looking young fell
low. Antoine Perrlne. came along and
WAS hired. as usual by the farmer.
Anita surveyed him from a window
while he was talking near the barn
with her father aud thought that she
would have a better time dlrtng with
him than any one she Ind ever tao
Killed.. SO the next day. when Antoine
was moving, she went ont % BIN
with a biscuit and d glass Of wine For
his refreshment She saw at once by
the way he looked at her that she had
impressed him, and after sympathlzlng
with him for being Obliged TO work IN
the hot sun she went back to the
house very much pleased with herself
and him,
Antoine was no fool. He had heard
Of the coquefry Of the farmers pretty
daughter ana. furthermore. that when
She married She would have n very
tnug dot. Indeed, he was the son Of
well to do former living some twenty
leagues away and had hired himself
out with the especial design Of win
ming her In order to take revenge upou
her for the damage she had done his
fellow men Nevertheless when he
saw her he thought he would Ike 70
win her for keeps.
The affair went through the usual
course AT the close 81 the aharvest
season Antoine declared his love. and
Anita replied in she usual way. An.
tome accepted her refusal aud depart
ed. He had no sooner gone than the
girl discovered that this was q very
different affair from any Of tile others
and that she had been caught III her
own trap. But unfortunately she did
not discover this TIL Antoine bad gone
That night she wepl bitter tears be.
cause even If she were mol too proud
to call him back she bad 10 mems of
doing So, FOR she did not know whittier
be had gone.
The next morning while DRESSING
She looked out of her window ard WIS
horTined Is see tie body Of a man
hanging from tree that stood alone
near The interseeting lines of the -four
parishes. Dressing herself she ran
out to the tree. hut before she got
there a man who was passing stonFel
and looked up 1T the body When
Anita came up she tainted The sui.
eide was Antoine
When she came 70 herself the stran
ger was administering 70 her neeessl
ties.
aCut him downgf she cried IN agony.
"No, mademoiselle. To do that
might lead to serious complications !
have sent a Dos to report the Fact tel
The local guard There BE comes nov.
Tie local guard came hurrEing up
to the tree. which was rapidly being
surrounded by d crowd Of people lie
felt OF the body and finding it warm,
said:
"He may be alive"
"Cut him down quickw again cried
Anita
IF / mistake not" said the guard,
aat this point four parishes join. ! 40
NOT think the suicide IS IN my parish
j win inform tie special guard of the
parish III which he hangs"
He went away for the purpose aud
Anita implored those standing about
to take down the suicide h order TINT
il he were not dead he might he e
suscitated. But no one would take The
responsibility from the shoulders Of
the authorities. Since she was girl
and had no means Of doing the work
She was obliged to wait for the special
guard Or the proper parish. After
awhile he came hurrying along with
the man who had summoned him. The
two got out map and began q spirit |
ed discussion as to which parish bad
a legal right to attend to the matter.
AZ last they arrived at the conclusion |
that the tree was I'd one parish and the |
man was hanging over the other This
led to d further discussion as to which /
OF the two parishes had jurisdiction,
The disputants finally decided that
they were entirely wrong as 70 their
position and that both tree and body
were In parish the guard Of which /
had not been summoned.
at this point the corpse gave kick. |
The crowd started back. Then the
corpse put his hand in his pocket, /
pulled ont a knife and, reaching up, |
cut the rope just above his head and
dropped to the ground The rope had +