The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-01-20

who harried the Sacred Bird was fast
becoming extinct.
Then at last he came to the impor-
tant matter of the wiles OF the
poacher; and the thirsty ears OF the
Terror drank In his golden words. He
discussed the methods of the gang OF
poachers and the single poacher with
Intelligent relish and more sympathy
than was perhaps wise to display In
the presence of the young. The Ter
ror came from that talk with a firm
belief in the efficacy Of raisins.
The next morning six kittens,
washed, brushed, and beautiful, were
carried to the faithful Ellen; and in
the afternoon the Twins again rode
into Rowington and returned with an
other six shlllings. They did not come
straight home. In the blcycle-basket
Of the Terror was a pound Of raisins {;
three miles out Of Rowington was q
small clump of trees on n hill. At the
foot of the hill hundred yards below
the clump lay Great Deeping Wood,
acre upon acre. It had lately passed,
along with the rest Of the Great Deep
ing estate, into the hands OF Mr..
darcy Rosenheimer, a puddlng-iaced,
but staunch, young Briton OF the old
Pomeranian strain. He was not loved
in the county, even by landed proprle-
tors Of less modern stocks, for though
he cherished the laudable ambition of
having the finest pheasant shoot In
England, and was on the way TO real,
ize it, he did not invite his neighbors
10 help shoot them. His friends came
wholly from the Polite World which
so adorns the illustrated WeeSlies. II
was in the deep December dusk that
the Twins came to the clump on the
hill The Terror lifted their bicycles
over the gate and set them behind the
hedge. Leaving Erebus to keep watch
he stole down the hedge to the clump
crawled through a gap into II, and
walked through It, One pheasant
scuttled out OF 1t. down the hedge-roU
to the wood below. The occurrence
pleased him. He crawled out of the
clump on the farther side, and pro
ceeded TO lay a train Of raisins dowr
the ditch of the hedge to the wood. III
did not lay 1t right down to the Woo
lest some inqulsltive gamekeeper nigh
espy II. Then he returned with fine
red-lndian caution, to Erebus. The!
rode home well content Next evening
with another bag of ralsins, the,
sought the clump again. Again tn
J Terror laid trail of raisins along tin
! ditch from the wood to the clump. Blu
this evening he set snare In tn
] hedge of the clump Just about the enl
: Of the ditch, The next evening h
: took from that snare plump, but Sa
l cred, bird. Half an hour later he sol
(. II 10 the cook of Mrs. Blenklnsop TO
{ half-a-crown.
. The next day he made n careful eH
}, ploration Of the clump at the hou
Z when game-keepers eat their dinnel
and set two snares In manifest phea.
:. ant-runs. The next evening he sold
pheasant TO the cook OF Mrs. BlenklI
sop and another TO the cook of Nj
:. Darlington. lie saw no need to te
y either OF them not to tell anyone thu
. he was the vendor. Pheasants at hal
y a-crown each are not 80 easily come B
y that one talks about them.
"a Encouraged by success and seven an
! slxpence, the Terror found other like
4 places in which to set snares. II
= found none so good as the clump c
: the hill; but they served. Pheasan
flowed in; and Fur Stole came near'
n and nearer.
, Then came trouble; and IL can
n from a snare In the corner Of Gre
l. Deeplng Wood. The Twins and the
n young friend Virgins were rldiI
,e along the road which cuts the wood
It half early in the afternoon; and 1t Q
l. Cured to the Terror that instead
h waiting for the fayorlng dusk,
} might as well examine the snare tn
It and save himself another journey.
q was risk no experienced poach
o would have taken but old heads, ala
do not grow on young shoulders. Nh
n bus rode on up the road TO keep loo
4 out ahead. The Terror slipped off |