Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-13
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 scorn. Then she
leaned forward.
Ibid you ever resuscitate q 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 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 is rising, and doubt the
veracity Of any person who claims that
he does. think he Is putting It all
on, Just like those abandoned prevari.
Gators who say they love cold baths
and adore Strauss operasi
"Just because It inconveniently be-
comes daylight at $3.50 these days"
went on the young woman summer re-
sorter. at 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'clock!"
why didn't you stick your head un.
der the pillow?" asked the girl at the
table. II always do when It gets light
so early!"
1T 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 to catch the
overflow water and realized that u
bird must have got In and couldn't
get out. When l scrambled to the
window ] could see the tips Of its
wings whenever It Topped into the
air. 1t was Just awful! So grabbed
a kimono and slippers and flew!"
Most appropriate method Of LEGO
notion" murmured the man with the
flshline, "inasmuch as II was a bird"
when I got there" pursued the
summer resorter ruthlessly, ut had
stopped Topping. It was q perfectly
gorgeous bluejay and It was standing
on It's tail on the bottom Of the tub
with its beak barely above water. ]
spilled It out and picked It up. IT
merely opened its mouth and gasped
feebly and rolled IT'S eyes. One more
minute and It would have been dead.
So I carried It In on this porch and
laid It down and hadn't an earthly
idea what to do. II seemed choking
to DEATH"
"You should have rolled It on a bar.
rel" said the man In the hammock.
Artificial respiration would have
been better" suggested the man
mending the fishline.
"You are both brutesi" said the
summer resorter Indignantly. II knew
its poor little tummy and lungs were
full of water and l did hold It upside
down and shake 1t, but 1t only
strangled. Then I propped It against
a sofa pillow on the floor in the sun
and determined to leave It to its fate
while ] went back to 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
blueiay was doing.
1.-THE first time he had fallen over
on his side and was feebly kicking
with one foot. When picked him Up
and set him straight again he let out
q most pathetically feeble 'che-e-cp!
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 he would II l had been his
own mother.
1.-THE next time l went out he had
fallen over on his back and curled up
his toes and thought II was all over.
But when l set him up straight he
oheeped again and wabbled his head.
He was 30 helpless and babyfled and
SO clearly didn't like the way bis
tummy and lungs felt that / almost
wept over him.
well, this progressive, first hid 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 II dozen times.
And besides he demanded so much |
verbal sympathy. He seemed to feel
better n I stayed and talked to him.
81 think that finally did 60 to
sleep, because It was seven O'Clock |
when I 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
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