The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-13

I 81 am not Mrs. Bowser, sir" / said
as he tried to kick the screen off his
| leg.
But you helped her to put up this
! job to assassinate mer'
"You must have stumbled and gone
| down. Can't you tell that those
screens are for the back bedrooms up
stairsy"
He sat down. breathing hard, and l
ran up and got the right screens and
! fitted them ina jiffy. He felt ashamed
| Of his temper and started in to tell me
That he didn't believe was In the con
| splracy TO saw his leg Off but did not
stop TO listen to the whole of It. A
few minutes later heard him going
upstairs, putting each foot down as if
stamping off snow, and then All was
| quiet for ten minutes. | then felt IL a
duty owed to Mrs. Bowser to 80 up
| and rescue him. He had torn down
| curtains and pole from one of the
front windows and moved both beds
| and bureau in his efforts to tit the
kitchen screen to window not half
| its size. He was looking around for
| some living thing to pour out the Walls
OF his wrath on when he caught sight
of me.
Badly Muddled
81 was just about to call you. Do
you deny that you have gone and tack
ed an extra piece on to this screen in
order to spite me-"
Haven't you got eyes In your headf'
/ asked. "If | had brother ten years
old who couldn't tell the difference he
tween screen door and window
screen Ia get II pair of glass eyes for
him"
Are you claiming that that Is
screen door,"
"Of course il is. Amt II two feet too
long for the window? Amt there pan
els to It? Amt there handle on it,
I'm only poor girl, sir, with a red
headed mother and n fellow with n
glass eye for beau, but / can tell
an elephant from mouse"
I'm be hanged If you amt Iightr he
said, with n smile. after taking long
look at the door. II suppose must
have been thinking about trading the
house and lot for a chicken farm. You
needn't mention the incident to Mrs.
Bowser. Thanks for coming up am
sure can manage the others
Mira. Bowser Under Suspicion.
AS | went upstairs left him wills
fling away and feeling better. He got
the screens into the windows after
half an hours work. strung out by his
trying to make them 1T bottom side
up. and then he came down 20 the
kitchen with the screen door. He was
chesty and didn't mind upsetting the
clotheshorse as he dragged the screen
through. | watched him as he stood
the door up. 1t was topside down. He
stood back and surveyed IL and shook
his head aud muttered:
IF Mrs. Bowser has been fooling
with this door she'll hear from me In
a way to make her tired"
you've got IT wrong side up, sir
ventured to say.
"Ah, yes. Smore of my absentmind
edness. was thinking about those
chickens again. II Mrs. Bowser tries
to pump you switch her OF. The door
is right side up now, and it's like a
glove"
He soon had the thing screwed fast
aud the door swinging back and forth
but was holding out for what came
next Most any sort OF baldheaded
man can rehang n screen door because
there Are all the marks Of last year
but when you come 10 put on the
spring TO keep IL closed that's differ
emit Mr.. BOwser went ahead with the
greatest confidence In himself. whis
Ting as he worked, but when the
spring was on aud he stood aside the
door flew open.
"More of Mrs. Bowser," heard him
growl as he tried TO make the door
stay shut. but l didn't tell him where
In he was wrong. Instead of taking
the spring or and turning it end FOR
end, what does he do hut take the
whole screen Off and turn the outside
In. II wouldn't lit that way, and |
told him that 1t wouldn't. and then he
let go OF his temper and shouted:
II told you right at the start that Il
was a conspiracy. When Mrs Bowser
comes nome
Il can put that door on in five min
utesr'
You can't in 5000 yearsw
An Exciting Finish.
With that he picked IL up and sent II
flying over the fence Into neighbor's
yard. hut in stepping back HIS foot
struck something. and he went over
backward and hit his head against one
OF the clothesline posts. | ran cut to
him with a scream. and in five min
utes there We're policeman and three
OF four boys around him. and was
pouring water on him by the painful.
Then II was that Mrs Bowser arriv,
ed and quietly took charge. We got
him into the house and upon the