The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-26
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= SHE WENT HUNTINGss

BY MARY GRAY.

Mother, am going down to Sarah
across the breakfast table by Ma
Lenox TO her widowed mother at theI
home In the city.
Down" meant a few miles out 4
the country; Sarah" was a Marie
sister living on farm.
"But the summer has gone" protest
ed the mother. "The folks are bac
from the country long ago."
"All the better Last summer vol
couldn't stir outdoors without bump
Ing into somebody"
And 60 she did. She found the rip,
apples being gathered the hired mar
getting in the pumpkins; the hazel
nuts ripe; glorious sunrises, and the
days tonic and not an insect to an
noy. and the quails as fat as butter.
When Nan had fed the hens, tanned
Tue colt, tnlked with the pigs and
warned The gander that II he bit her
had picked aad eaten peck OF hazel
nuts, made pumpkin jack-o'-lantcrn
and tried her hardest to milk, the
hired man. said TO her:
ITS pity you don't know how to
handle a gan"
"Whyr
Because you could go rabbit hunt
ing"
But / never shought of rabbits !"
was the exclamation. Il shall go hunt
Ing right away"
"But you can't shoot gun"
"But you must teach me. Hurry up !"
The shotgun was struggled out of
the house and behind the barn, and the
lessons began with:
Now put the gun up to your face,
like this, and aim at that old stump.
You must squint along the sights and
have both in line"
"Yes.",
'You won't fire now, because your
sister would hear it; but when you do
want to, just curl your finger around
this trigger and pull"
How many cartridges have got?"
was asked.
"Seven. You can pile the seven
dead rabbits up somewhere and I will
come and get 'em"
1t wasn't at all singular that Burt
Robbins, of the big fire insurance COM
pany in the city, should be stopping at
country inn a mile away.
Young Mr.. Robbins had been at the
inn for three or four days, when the
landlord said:
There are more rabbits around this
fall than l have seen for years before.
Did you bring gun along?"
II had none to bring"
"Then / can lend you one. It's a
rifle, where you ought to have a shot |
gun; but you can have some fun with |
It."
Miss Nan reached the hunting
grounds and looked about her. Not
bunny.
Mr.. Robbins had been out almost an
hour and had not caught sight of a
rabbit. The red squirrels chartered at
him, and the chipmunks Knocked him,
but he let them go. 1t was when he
was scufIing up the leaves and his mind
far away that rabbit ran out of
brush heap and scurried away. In his
the hunter ran after 1t, for
4 few. steps, and as 1t crossed open
ground he fired
At the same instant his cap was {
dashed from his head. When he had ,
advanced twenty steps he saw a girl .
holding up a dead rabbit by the leg and g
lcard her exclamation: S
"Oh, I've killed him! I've killed G
limr'
II beg pardon" said Robbins. p
"What? WhatT
II killed that rabbit, If you please"
The young man walked back and re-
overed his cap and brought 1t to her :
nd said:
You have a shotgun. You fired
Ugh. Some of your shot knocked the O.
mp from my head" fl
"Sir. you are no gentleman to claim "
he rabbit I shot!" n
Mr.. Robbins saluted and turned on II
is heel and walked away, and after il
'atching him out of sight the girl m
licked up the game and walked to the
ouse. y
"Jewhittaker, but you have killed u
ne! ~ exclaimed the hired man. ~
eat the first fire, and a long shot, n,
10. i had quite time over 1t, too. A in
Dung man who was hunting claimed
lat he shot him." @,
"What sort of gun did he haveT W
"A rifle" III
SAY" said the man, after he had er
lrefully examined the rabbit; 'you al
ever killed this" az
"Why didn't IT, III
Because 1t was killed by bullet W
stead of a shot" =
The rabbit was given to the dog and ~
thing was said TO he sister. Mans =
began to trouble her. II
as q settled thing that she had not