The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18
and animals in this locality"


Then there followed Sincerely
and the name Carroll Denton"
"The villain How dare he!" eN
claimed the girl as she looked at the
boy.
He's an awful fellow" was the
reply. "When I told him how you
bluffed me out Of the rabbit up there
he just CRASHED his teeth. He only
wanted five rabbits at first, but now
he says he'll catch a hundred. He's
cross-eyed and red-headed, and he's
got an awful temper on him."
Miss Gertrude was absent from the
room four or FIVE minutes, and then
returned with reply for the awful
man. 1t read
"Sir: l reiterate that you are q
villain!"
That was all. No "sincerely,"-no
respectfully "your very ob't
servant" Even the initials e. A."
were lacking
Mr.. Ainsiey was away from home,
and when the mother learned what
had happened she said:
"You were always that way from
child, and you can't help it, sup
pose, but / hope you won't carry II
too far In this case. Calling a man
villain is Islander, unless he Is VII
lain"
"But of course he isl" was the re-
ply. would any one but a villain
hire "a boy to murder a poor rabbit!
If he catches robin, blue-bird OF
quail I'll-Pll-!"
Miss Gertrude clenched her hands
and breathed hard and left 1t to Dc
understood that something very ter
rible would happen to the sross-eyed
and red-headed man. Next morning
she went up to the woods again. Sne
went in the forenoon because she sus-
pected that boy would set snares over
night and VISIT them early. She walked
the paths and found four, and the
wires were thrown far away. They
had shared no victims.
AS she was on her way home she
met the young man of the day before.
She looked at him more closely this
time, and she liked his appearance.
Surely he was gentleman. me boy
was not seen until mid-afternoon Then
he brought another note, and as he de-
ivered it he said:
II was lying up there in q brush
heap this forenoon when you destroyed
the snares, and oh, wasn't the awful
man awful mad when l told him OF
| It'll"
! And the note read
miss Ainsley: must again politely
request that you cease to NEEDLE with
my affairs"
The same name was signed as to
the other, but the sincerely" was
lacking Carroll Denton was no longer
sincere. He was grumpy.
A reply was sent as promptly as be
| fore. 1t consisted of few stirring
words.
"And I must repeat that you are
villain!"
1t was afternoon of the next day
when Miss Gertrude went up to the
woods again. Almost at once she be-
held a robin with broken wing fiut
tering about. She had picked 1t UP
and seated herself on log and was
crying over it when soft voice at hel
elbow said:
please give it to me. thing can
do something for It,"
1t was the young man. He took the
bird, made a brief examination and
said:
"The wing is broken, but can use
splints and make 1t sound again aftel
Bit Nature is very kind to animals
and birds. Hope that old maid won't
hear of this. She'll say / used club
on the bird and call me more villains
what old maid?" was asked, forget
ting that she was facing stranger
IA Miss Ainsley She's close on my
trail"
"Why-why, / am the only Mist
Ainsley, and l am not an old maid
You can't be the-the villain!"
Then of course 1t came out. The
boy had lied for revenge. There wal
no old maid, and there was no cross
eyed red-headed man. Mr.. Denton
was naturalist, and he wanted his
specimens alive and sound that he
might study their habits. He was
merciful to a degree. Miss Gertrude
heard his explanations with blushins
cheeks and downcast eyes, and at tho
end she was generous enough to re
ply:
well, that makes difference"
And it did, The naturalist found his
way to the house to tell her how the
robin was getting along, AID the day
the bird few away on the restored
wing he said to himself that he had
discovered a specimen" worth al
others put together
Without Naming Names.
An alienist says that one out Of