The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-02-03
THE
RESCUE

sorter dropped into Q chair without q
word.
You look sleepy" remarked the
man In the hammock.
The summer resorter favored him |
with a glance Of scorn. Then she T,
leaned forward.
Did you ever resuscitate . drowned
bluejay?" she inquired.
The girl at the table who was wri. |
ting a letter. and the man who was re-
pairing a nshline dropped their work
and stared at her. The man In the
hammock gasped fsebiy.
"Huh!" he said impolitely and un.
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 10 rising. and I doubt the
yeracity Of any person who claims thai
he does. think he Is putting It all
on. Just like those abandoned prevari
Gators who say they love cold baths
and adore Strauss operas,
Just because II inconveniently be.
comes daylight at $3.50 these days"
went on the young woman summer re-
sorter, 1T Is fatiguing to go prancing
around at that hour and caroline
things about the lovely morning sun
shine' So you can imagine my bit.
ter feelings when I awoke this morn
ing with an awful start at eSactiv
four o'clock"
why didn't You stick your head nm
der the pillow" asked the girl at the
table. Il always do when II gets Hight
30 early"
at wasn't the light" said the sum
, mer resorter. 1T was noise. Some
thing was Hopping and splashing and
hopping around out by the pump
Then remembered the galvanized
tub that stands there 10 catch the
E overflow water and 7 realized that =
e bird must have got In and couldn
o get out when I scrambled to the
p window I could ace the tips ri its
wings whenever II topped into the
air. II was Just awful 90 grabbed
a kimono and slippers and new"
Most appropriate method NJ loo"
notion" murmured the man with the
4 nshline. "'inasmuch as Il was bird
e When got there" pursued M
r. sununer resorter ruthlessly, 1T ha'
IS stopped Topping. " was perfectly
a gorgeous blueiay and II was standin'
on its tail on the bottom Of the tut
with Its beak barely above water.
spilled II out and picked II M.
" merely opened Its mouth and gaspe'
= feebly and rolled its eyes One NOR
minute and Il would have been dead
= So I carried Il in on this porch an
q laid Il down and hadn't an earthl
= idea wha, to do. u seemed chokin
. to DEATH
. "You should hav. rolled II on a bal
rel" said the man In the hammocl
Artificial respiration would hav
been better" suggested the ma
n mending the fishline.
= "You are both brutes!" said III
. summer resorter Indignantly. II kne
. Its poor little tummy and lungs wei
. full OF water and I did hold II upsid
down and shake II. but II on
strangled. Then I propped II again
sofa pillow on the floor In the 81
= and determined TO leave II to Its IA
q while I went back to bed. but
. couldn't sleep . wink worrying abo
. Il, 30 every ten minutes or so I'D 9
y up and sneak out to see what II
blueJay was doing.
"The hrst time he had fallen ov
on his side and was feebiy kickil
= with one foot when l picked him !
= and set him straight again he let q
OIL q most pathetically feeble che eel
. So I petted him and said I was sor
. and he seemed to appreciate II.
any rate. he didn't act any more afra
Of me than he would n had been
= own mother.
z The next time went out he b
3 fallen over on his back and curled
. his toes and thought II was all ov'
. But when I set him up straight
y eheeped again and wabbled his he,
He was 20 helpless and babyned .
% clearly didn't like the way
tummy and lungs felt that ! almt
= vept over him.
Well. this progressive nrst aid
. the injured went on till six o'clock.
. Strengthened that bluejay up on
and set him on his feet and smooth
down his feathers A. though II
were Q pinafore did It dozen tim
And besides he demanded SO mu
= verbal sympathy. He seemed to Z
Q better II I stayed and talked to him
. Il think that finally I did 60
. sleep, because II was seven o'clc
= when went out to the porch AZ
and then I couldn't believe my ey
There was Q big. smoothly preeE
= bluejay with his crest magnificent
. the sunshine flying about trying
Q best to get out through the POI
screens. When I went near him
cavsd raucously and dew from me