Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-07-25

house descended or, rather. assembled.
Judge Menefee and his cohorts with
bOyish whOops born Of the snow and
stress They called; they pounded at
window and door. At the inhosptable
silence they waxed FESTIVE; they as
saulted and forced the pregnable bar
riers and invaded the premises.
The watchers from the coach heard
stumblings and shoutings from the in
terror of the ravaged house. Before
long a light within fickered. glowed,
famed high and bright and cheerful.
Then came running back through the
driving fakes the exuberant explorers.
More deeply pitched than the clarion
even orchestral in vOlume-the voice of
Judge Menefee proclaimed the succor
that lay in opposition with their state
Of travail. The one room OF the house
was uninhabitated. he said. and bare
of furniture but it contained a great
fireplace. and they had discovered an
ample store of chopped wood in lean
| to at the rear. Housing and warmth
against the shivering night We're thus
assured. For the placatiOn of Bildad
Rose there was news of stable not
ruined beyond service. with hay in a
loft. near the house.
Gentlemen" cried Bildad Rose from
| his seat. swathed in coats and robes.
tear me down two panels Of that
fence so | can drive in. That is old
mans Redruth's shanty. | thought we
must be nigh it. They took him to the
foolish house in August"
| Cheerfully the four passengers
sprang at the snow capped rails. The
exhorted team tugged the coach up the
slant to the door of the edifice from
which midsummer madness had raw
ished its proprietor. The driver and
two of the passengers began to I'M
hitch. Judge Menefee opened the door
of the coach and removed his hat.
II have to announce, Miss Garland"
said he, "the enforced suspension of
our journey. The driver asserts that
the risk in travelling the mountain
road by night is too great even to con-
slider 1t will be necessary to remain
in the shelter of this house until morn
| ing / beg that you will feel that there
is nothing to fear beyond a temporary
Inconvenience. l have personally in
spected the house and find that there
are means to provide against the rigor
of the weather at least. You shall be
made as comfortable as possible. Per
NIT me to assist you to alight.''
To the judges side came the passen-
ger whose pursuit in life was the plac-
ing of the Little Goliath windmill His
name was Dunwoody, but that mat
tiers not much. In travelling merely
from Paradise to Sunrise City one
| needs little or no name. Still one who
would seek to divide .honors with
Judge Madison L. Menefee deserves a
cognomenal peg upon which Fame
may hang wreath. Thus spake, loud
ly and buoyantly. the aerial miller:
"Guess you'll have to climb out of
the ark, Mrs. Mcfarland. This wig
wan amt exactly the Palmer House.
but it turns snow. and they won't
search your grip for souvenir spoons
when you leave. We've got a fire go
ing, and We'll fix you up with dry
Trilbys and keep the mice away any
how, all right, all right"
One of the two passengers, who We're
struggling in a melee of horses. har-
ness, snow and the sarcastic injunc-
lions of Bildad Rose. called loudly
from the whirl of his volunteer duties:
"Say! Some of you fellows get Miss
Solomon into the house, will you
Whoa, there. you COMPOUNDED brute"
ITO be continued.