The Raymer enterprise., 1914-02-26

ency and pitiful grovelings when he
plead abjectly for help both Divine
and human. In substance he said:
MY name is Jones-Simon X. Jones.
and have small place about five
miles out in the country on the old
Creek road. live there with my wife
and little girl eight years old-Oh. in
the name Of God. men, help me-help
me save her-my daughter-my dar-
ling-all right, I'll try and be calm.
boys, for know you will all do what
you can for me.
ut happened an hour ago--1ust about
but it seems year already. was
coming across field and happened to
glance up at the sun to see what time
1t was and saw him-yes, saw him
the Flying Man, for of course l had
heard Of him-I guess everybody in
the world has. He was up, way up.
mebby thousand feet, and didn't
look very big and at first | thought
he was some funny kind Of a hawk.
then | got better view and saw it
was a man. There was no chance Of
its being flying machine, for I've
seen them and they don't flop their
wings. ran then-ran as fast as
| could, looking up at him over my
shoulder. He saw me too, for he COM
menced to come down in great circles
, like an eagle does when he Is soaring
off cliff into canyon. and he was
I getting In on me closer at every
swoop But had good start and
beat him to the house by quite bit
, and rushed in and locked the doors
| and showed my wife In closet and
then took down the gun--an old mus
ket that l always keep loaded with
birdshot This was just about noon
. time and my daughter was at school
half mile away. Well, everything
was still for a while, a kind of
: creepy still with nothing but few To-
Gusts singing, still. still-still as a
graveyard at high noon in midsummer
0 seemed as If | had never known it
, to be SO still, then heard something
!
= like, as II somebody was trotting
+ around on 1t barefoot, and then
5 knew he was up there and looking
+ around. Then that sound stopped and
e for while everything was quiet as
r death again outside and was stand,
j. ing against the wall where could see
= both windows in front Of me and with
J. my ears-well guess never listened
@ SO hard before. | could even hear the
|. flies buzzing on the pane clear across
l. the room and hear my wife breathing
e behind the closet door. Pretty soon
l. | heard him try the kitchen door very
T. soft, but had locked 1t and the next
r | heard Of him he was fooling around
n out in the woodshed. That made me
o get cold, for | thought he was after
= the ak to smash in the door, but
y after while he seemed to 60 out OF
y there and for long time there wasn't
l, sound-I don't know how long, it
J. seemed like an hour, but | guess it
r was mebby five minutes. Anyway |
e got so nervous that | couldn't stand
l. still any longer, so | pulled off my
boots and tiptoed out into the kitchen.
peeked out of the windows, but
couldn't see anything, and after look.
ing and listening for a while | crept
back soft as cat into the parlor.
and my God men, 1'nere he was
with that awful face pushed tight
against the window pane and those
great June bug eyes of his looking
straight In at me. | don't reckon |
was ever so scarf before in my life
know ! wasn't. just lost control OF
myself, let out yell and blazed away
at him. He ducked like a fash and I
don't reckon hit him, for | was too
scarf to take aim. Next thing re.
member | was cooking my gun and
couldn't remember whether | had
loaded it or not. so tried 1t with the
ramrod-it is an old-fashioned muzzle
loader, you know-and found that |
had. Must have put in the shot first.
though, for when ! tried to shoot it
later only the cap snapped
We'll, kind of pulled hyself to.
gether and went sneaklng around
again sweating and trying to keep up
my spunk by telling myself II ever
t another shot at him he'd never &c
around bothering people again in this
world Next | saw of him he was
about hundred yards away over by
the stone pile and was lifting up a
rock that must have weighed seventy
five pounds While. was wondering
what he was up to he got 1t in his
arms and made hop or two and then
great black wings shot out. and W
= he went flap, flap, circlin around and
u getting straighter overhead every min
ute till he was SO straight up
couldn't see him any more from the
u window, Must have been a couple o.
hundred feet up when lost sight O.
= him. Then OF sudden | got cole
y all over again, for | knew what b,
- was up TO now-knew 1t as well as 4
he had told me. And | wasn't mis-
u taken neither fer about minut,
u later came a smash-bang and tha
e. rock come through the kitchen roo