Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-09-07
Mr.. Peaslee on the Danger Of Hidina
Things.


handed to the piazza where the deacon
was waiting. 81 can't ketch a glimpse
of it anywhere, Lysander," he said de-
jectedly. I'm sorry if you needed it
bad; and it's the only one I've got that
you could do anything with. The other
ones about as dull on the edge as it
is on the back, and the handles sprung
too"
Funny how things get out of place,
amt ~" the deacon commented.
"Nothin' funny about that axe"
Caleb replied promptly. 81 know jest
where that axe is this minute as we'll
'sif was lookin' at it,"
"Where? :" demanded the deacon
with lively interest.
"Down at LATE Gibbs" replied
Caleb positively. when | can't find
a tool go down there, and always
find it right off; sometimes if I'm in
a hurry 90 there fust stead of wastin'
time lookin' here at home"
"Comes and borrers, does ?" in
CURED the deacon.
Caleb snorted irritably. ale don't
bother to borrer; he jest takes and goes
off! 1t frets me too sometimes when
| want a thing quick and have to
traipse way down there to get it. II il
want that I'd be kind of afraid luck
would turn on me the way it did on
Cash Willett once the time he hid his
ladder so BARLEY Haynes couldn't get
it, | don't know but I'd stand a few
of my tools away in kind of secret
places for a spell-my axe, say, and
whiffletrees. 1t amt neighborly to
feel that way, s'pose. But he's ag
gravatin'!"
"what did Cash wllett hide ?" ask
cd the deacon.
"He hid his long ladder" replied
Caleb. apple pickin' time was comm
on, and he was afraid somebody would
want it-Bartley Haynes mostly, for
BARLEY didn't have one. So Cash
went out after dusk and dragged his
| long ladder down back of the orchard
| fence and covered it with a lot of
rowen crop that he'd moved and left
there; he didn't tell his wife about il
nor his hired man, nuther. He fig
gered if BARLEY came to borrer it, they
couldn't tell him where twas if they
didn't know.
"NeXt day Cash made an early start
for town, cal'latin' to get back fore
evening on account of its looking like
anything but a pleasant day, though
it want actually rainIn'.
"The wind KEEP CROWN higher all
the forenoon, but it didn't turn to rain
a kind of dry blow was all it came to
after all. A little wind more or less
wouldn't have made any difference to
Cash Willett except for one thing; Mis-
Willett was bakin,' and the wind made
a tearin' draft in the chimney and got
it to burnin'out. The fust they knew
about it was when she and the hired
man was settin' at the table, eatin' din
ner, and one of the school children
goin' past rushed in to tell EN- the
chimney was on fire, and the shingles
was smokin' close 10 it. They made
rush for the ladder But it want
there!
"They wasted some time huntin' for
it, but in the end they had to give up
and work to save the house the best
way they could. BY that time the
neighbors had got there, and by dint
of climbin' up onto the ell part, and
from there with a short ladder onto
the main part of the house, where the
fire was, and tearin a hole in the
roof to pass water through, they got
the blaze out and saved tine house
from burnin' fiat. And the man that
fetched the short ladder and got onto
the roof and dug like badger to get
a hole through was BARLEY Haynes; il
it hadn't been for him, Cash Wlleti
wouldn't have had a roof to sleep I'M
der when he got home that after
noon.
"He drove into the yard a little
while after the fire was out but fore
all the folks that had gathered was
gone. They all started to tell him
what had happened and how BARLEY
Haynes had brought his own ladder
and got up where he could work to
save the huiIdin'S.
land now says Mis- Wilett,
what I'd like to know is. where was