Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-05-04
and animals in this locality"

Then there followed a Sincerely
and the name Carroll Denton"
1.-THE villaini How dare hei" ex
claimed the girl as she looked at the
boy.
Hes an awful fellow" was thu
reply. when l told him how yol
bluffed me out Of the rabbit up there
he just CRASHED his teeth. He onl,
wanted five rabbits at first, but nov
he says he'll catch a hundred. He'i
cross-eyed and red-headed, and he'i
got an awful temper on him."
Miss Gertrude was absent from tn,
room four or Ave minutes, and thel
returned with a reply for the awfu
man. 1t read:
"Sir: / reiterate that o r
villain!"
That was all. No Sincerely,
"respectfully"-no your very OBJ
servant" Even the initials &c. A.
were lacking.
Mr.. Ainsley was away from home
and when the mother learned wha
had happened she said:
You we're always that way fror
a child, and you can't help 1t, l SUI
pose, but ! hope you won't carry !
too far In this case. Calling a mar
villain is SANDER, unless he is a vi
lain"
but of course he Isl" was the n
ply. Would any one but a villal
hire a boy to murder a poor rabbit
II he catches a robin, a blue-oird Q
a quail Ill-Tll-!"
Miss Gertrude clenched her hand
and breathed hard and left 1t to D
understood that something very te'
rible would happen to the ;ross-eye
and ~red-headed man. Next mornin
she went up to the woods again, 81
went in the forenoon because she SUI
pected that boy would set snares owe
night and visit them early. She wake
the paths and found four, ana I'd
wires were thrown far away. Tne
had shared no victims.
AS she was on her way home sh
met the young man Of the day befor'
She looked at him closely thi
time, and she liked his appearance
Surely he was a gentleman. The be
was not seen until mid-afternoon. The
he brought another note, and as he d
livered it he said:
Il was lying up there in a brusl
heap this forenoon when you destroye
the snares, and oh, wasn't the awf'
man awful mad when ] told him {
It'll"
And the note read:
Miss Ainsley: l must again politel
request that you cas- to NEEDLE wit
my affairs"
The same name was signed as I
the other, but the sincerely" we
lacking. Carroll Denton was no longt
sincere. He was grumpy.
A reply was sent as promptly as b
fore. 1t consisted of a few stirrlr
words:
"And 1 must repeat that you are
~villain!"
1t was afternoon of the next df
when Miss Gertrude went up to Il
woods again. Almost at once she b
held a robin with a broken wing fiji
tering about. She had picked 1T
and seated herself on a log and W;
crying over it when q soft voice at h
elbow said:
please give it to me. I thing / CT
do something for It."
1t was the young man. He took Il
bird, made a brief examination al
said:
"The wing is broken, but l can u
splints and make 1t sound again aft
a bit. Nature is very kind to ANNA
and birds. Hope that old maid woI
hear of this. She'll say used a eli
on the bird and call me more villains
What old maid?" was asked, forg'
ting that she was facing a strange
"a Miss Ainsley. She's close on 4
trail"
"Why-why, I am the only Mi
Ainsley, and l am not an old ma
You can't be the-the villain"
Then of course it came out. +
hoy had lied for revenge. There W
no old maid, and there was no cro'
eyed, red-headed man. MI. Dent
|, was a naturalist, and he wanted
|, specimens alive and sound that
might study their habits. He W
, merciful to a degree. Miss Gertru
: heard his explanations with blushi
, cheeks and downcast eyes, and at t
, end she was generous enough to
ply:
| We'll, that makes a difference"
And 1t did. The naturalist found !
way to the house to tell her how t
t robin was getting along, and the d
i the bird few away on the restor
, wing he said to himself that he h
discovered a specimen" worth
others put together.
z Without Naming Names.
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