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TRESPASSERS
y LESLIE TRENT.
"ltemember, Dorothy, that I am
most particular about trespassers as
the place/' admonished Miss Priaci.Ha
Fenn as she climbed into the
station bus.
I "T leave the place in your care and
I do hope that when I come borne I
won'r find a whole posae of fiahenn*?
sittiiig by mv trout stream. Goodb\\
dear, and send word at once if
you are ill or anything happens?
Martha will take care of you?and
yes, Mr. Penny, I'm ready?good-by,
T>orothy, good-hy!"
After Mies Priscilia Fenn bad
bought ami paid for trout caught in
her own brook by wily fisher lads, she
established a system of patrol along
the banks that involved her household
in additional labor and kept the
"three women keyed up to high nervous
tension all the time.
As for Dorothy, she did not much
care, for she loved, the deep woods
and the brown brook was a favorite
retreat for her.
"Now, Miss Dorothy, you ain't
ever going down to that nasty brook
this morning?" protested Martha
with the familiarity of an old ana
privileged servitor.
"Theui trout* ain't biting every
day?why, I've heard tell that Mr.
Whittaker himself has been known
to fish for three days without catching
a bite even ; but he's a dreadful
crank at it. So 'lain't likeJv them
Is)vh will ketch anything if they do
fish."
"I dare say you're right, Martha,
but I promised Aunt Priscilia I
would keep watch and you know she
is very particular about it. Suppose
you ring the big bell for ine when
luncheon is ready?then I will he
sure to hear it."
"Very well. Miss Dorothy, hut
look here?" Martha went to a chim
nov cupboard and look from it an
ancient and rusted pistol of enormous
size. "1 never go into the deep
woods without this weapon and you
take it in case anybody scares you.
1j*w, it ain't loaded?I wouldn't
carry it if it was! Rut you can show
it and frighten *eni off. There, I'll
put it in (hie iittle basket with some
pears and unities run along now."
"O. Martha, von arc the funniest
old dear!" laughs! Dorothy. "If
you hear a tretncndouaVx plosion you
will know thai tliis old cannon has
gone off and frightened :tll the (roilI
to death. Ho. Iiiiim, if they onlv
would depart to other streams we
wouldn't have to do gentry-go. eh.
Martha?"
Kstablished under an oak whose
shining green leaves overhung the
i dancing stream. Dorothy tossed aside
her hat and allowed I lie vagrant
bnvze to ruflle her red-gold hair.
\fter awhile she got up and
walked along the hank of the stream,
following a striped chipmunk darting
through the underbrush. The
chipmunk disappeared in his hole,
ami a flock of chickadee* performed
antics on the branches of a dogwood
tree.
There was a splash?a sharp exclamation
and the whirring of a reel.
Dorothy lorgol everything save that
there wag a trespasser near by.
Silently she went back to her
basket and was astonished to find
that she nad wandered so far?why,
she had even crossed the brook on
the stepping-stones in her chase of
the chipmunk who waa a venturesome
inite-and she hid the pistol
in ihe blouse of her sailor suit and
went back across the stepping-stonas
to that spot beyond the alders where
she had heard the sound of a fisher- i
man's reel spinning out.
At last she could see him?a sunbrowned
hatless youth clad m old
( lot lies, with h nirw?
? - J. ?, *. . vv*a IIIU ICClll
ami hif* blue eyes bright with exeiteii.ent
us he played a splendid trout
in und out of the deeps and shallows
of the stream. At last he whooped
exultantly and landed the speckled
beauty on (he mossy ban I#.
"\yiiat are you doing here?" asked
Dorothy sternly as she broke through
the alders and stood liefore liiin, a
slender, white-clad girl with aceoaing
brown eyes l>elow a serious forehead.
"Why?ah?you can see!" he explained.
removing his pipe and showing
splendid white teeth in a pleasant
smile.
" t should think you'd be ashamed
of yourself." went on IVirothy contemptuously.
lie flushed. "You mean fishing
out of season? Well, 1 suppose I
should, bat the fish didn't came for
luncheon, and I promised Antanin 1
that i would get Aim m Aanhna,*1
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"It is too bad that Antonio will to
disappointed for, of course, you cannot
take the fish away/' said Dorothy.
''Indeed?" he aaked coolly. "Why
not, please T"
"Because it belougs* to my aunt
Miss frenn. There are signs pla'inly
reading 'Xo trespassing/ and yet you
have trespassed on her proprrtv.
Please throw it back in the stream."
"Pardon me. but it is my own." he
w.id with a puzzled stare at h?r, with
wL?eh was mingled reluctant admiration.
"Then 1 will throw it l>a<-k/ .said
Dorothy b-mvelv, for if thpre was one
il: I iv? ?i? .1 i
tuiiig ujurr i nun uumiipr inai sue
loathed to'touch it was the cold body
of a fish.
He stood looking at her with angry
amusement in his eyes as she
went, toward the fish and touched its
brown tail.
It flopped wildly. Dorothy jumped
back. Her foot slipped on the muddy
hank and she fell into the anna of
the shabby fisherman, whose pipe
went to destruction on the stones below.
"Not hurt, 1 hope?" said the fisherman,
not unkindly. There was a
straDge light in his eves and Dorothy's
cheeks were like two roses as
he quickly released her.
"No, I am not hurt," began Dorothy,
strongly inclined to crv hecause
of her varied feelings. At that
instant her eyes lighted on the great
pistol which had fallen unheeded
from her blouse.
The strange fisherman spied it at
th* Batne instant.
"Is that yours?" he asked.
"Yes?at least it's Martha's?I
brought it along for protection,said
Dorothy with what dignity she could
sumrnou.
He actually picked it up and did
not smile as he restored the ancient
weapon to her.
"I nope you will have no occasion
to use it," lie said, and Dorothy loved
him at once because the smile that
twitched his lips never materialized.
She look the pistol and held it
rather gingerly. ''You will go?and
you will put the fish hack before it
dies?" she asked almost pleadingly.
"Yes, 1 will go, if you desire it.
and I will put the tish back into the
stream?but you don't know Antonio;
he can swear in throe languages
!"
The youth grasped the trout and
deftly whisked him into the hrook
where he struggled for m moment liefore
sinking slowlv down with gently
moving tins until he was out of sight
in the dark pool.
"There!" breathed Dorothy with
relief. "Thank you so much."
The young man looked at. her hesitatingly;
then, as if arriving at some
decision he picked up his rod and
eniptv creel and made as if to leave
the spot.
"I wonder why you think I should
leave niv own property." lie said with
a whimsical smile.
"Your own projieriv ?'" echoed
Dorothy. "Why this is part of Miss
Feun's place."
"Pardon me, hut you are mistaken.
This is the Whittuker land?you see
Miss Fenn's property is divided from
ours hv that brushwood hedge on the
other side of the brook." He pointed
back aiong the way she had come.
"But 011 this side of the hrook the dividing
line is that stone post half
covered with cathrior. and you evi
dentlv cnitMed the boundary on to
our land without knowing it."
Dorothy was rosy with mortification.
'Then I am a trespasser, not
you!" she-cried ruefully.
' Never a trespasser on \\ liittaker
land," he smiled gallantly.
"Thank von?and the lish why,
it was your own !"
"Never mind ? I expect he's
thanking you for his life."
"And your horrid \ntonio who
swears in three languages?"
He laughed gaily.
"(), there an* other cooks if Antonio
leaves inc. hut there are not. ,
many ? pleasant adventures."
"i must go no*." said Dorothy |
FARM
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hastily. "I Uear^He luncheon beU.A
"If you are stopping with Miss
Fenn we may meet again," said the |
youth eagerly. "I am John Whit- '
taker, and Miss Priscilla and I used ]
to be great pals. She always kept a '
pot of ginger cookies for me?but I
have been away from the old place i
for many years, and she probably has J
forgotten me."
"T don't believe so, for I know the !
cookie pot is always filled?and yon j
better comp and see. anyway." snid
Dorothy over her shoulder.
"1 believe I'll call on Miss Priscilla
this evening." he mused. "I
feel an appetite for ginyer coolcioa *
THE TE8T.
"When do von regard a man aa
.1 J
oin r
"A mau isn't really old." replied <
Colonel Dasher, ''until he is willing
to own up to gont instead of railing |
it 'tango toe.' "
It is our purp
any and all busj
to us in such aI
manner as to m;
rons* relations v
both satisfactory
Savings
HIS SCHEME
First Actor?1 wish 1 had some
money.
Second Actor?What would von !
do?pay your hoard bill ?
First Actor?No; so I'd have
enough money to move.
LIFEBOATS FOR WATER PLAN ES~~
The llriiish admiralty has decided
that all waterplanes used hy the
naval airmen shall carry a miniature
lifelmat suspended underneath the
body of the machine.
In so doing Ihcv have adopted au
idea of Lieutenant Spencer (Irey,
who last summer had built for him a
tiny dinghy which he carried beneath
his machine. It waa made of cedar,
and with a couple of small oars, a
mast and sail, weighed ahout thirty
pounds.
It has frequently carried two passoncrer.s
?<*rnaa
?o "H1.CI,
;ind can l>e lowered into the sea from
the aeroplane and lifted out again
with verv little effort.
GOOO SUBSTITUTION.
He Thai stuffed turkey at Mrw.
Williama' dinner waa awfully tough.
She?Well, you ace her cheatnnta
failed to arrive and ahe tilled the t>ird
with funny columtia from the dHilv
f>?pen?.
SEED.
t CLOVER, CRIMSON
ABRUZZI RYE, PULTS,
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TEACHERS' EXAMINATION.
The regular Fall Examination of applicants
for teachers' certificates -will
be held in Yorkville on Friday, October
2, beginning at 9 o'clock a. m.
Assistants as well as principals are
required ? have a York county certificate
if they expect to teach in the
county the current year.
Certificates from other counties and
and diplomas from, accredited colleges
will be recognized if presented on or
before above date. *
District trustees are requested to
send me at once BY MAIL the name
and monthly salary of each teacher emploved.
JOHN E. CARROLL,
Supt. of Education.
No. Six-Sixty-Six
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