| Show CHIMNEY SWEEP CHARLIE It I was as raining In torr torrents torrent The I water tell fell Cel In sheets and and the tho wind I howled around the time corners So I Charlie crouched In the thc box In an old ohl shed shel In lii a vacant lot Charle Charlie was dirty black as a coal coal Ills face tace and clothing were covered with with- the thc soot from the tho chimney and after aCer It was well wen soaked with wih rain he looked as If It he ho had waded into an anInk anInk anink Ink well wen But limit he ho curled up around In the tho d dry box hox and went to sleep snoring safely till tH morning and antl wen he awoke tho the sun aun was waR already high In the thc sk sky A woman was crossing the lot when he stepped out o ot of the shed You are arc the very ono one I need said the tho woman I was sas Just going out to toe get e a sweep The Tho chimney at our burn house is so 0 foul toul the firo will wH not I 1 will wll wi be glad to get et the thc Job said Charlie t Charle Perhaps I can get something something some some- some some- thing to eat ea when I have ha finished Go Go to lo that bl bit big stone house hous In tho ho thoI I park on the right hand side said the woman pointing Lady Gr Gray Dandridge Dand- Dand I Dand-I Li ridge 2 liv there therE Inquire at tho the kichen Kitchen about your our work So bo the lad swept out tho the bl big kichen kich- kich kitch en chimney where the smoke from the th baking and roasting had blackened blackened black black- ened th the te bricks for tor years then he ho had hada hadu a u good breakfast After Afler eating Bating maid a n told tOll him to sweep the tho chimneys for the thc rest of or the tho hOlse house Ono One b by one ne h he cleaned them till un ho he reached that belon belonging to the library This wa a n beautiful chamber full tun of or handsome portraits books and old oM ar armor armor Ir- Ir ar- ar mor mol and when the boy stepped down out of ot the thc dirt and on to the tho hl hearth rth or ot the thc room he was wa astonished by b Us its Is beauty But Dut thc the prettiest thing In the place was a golden haired baby haby who lay asleep on a n ru rug made of or t tigers tiger's ers er's skin Her curls hun hung over the dead animals animal's animals stuffed stured b head ad and her little hands clung even In sleep to a tin tn tiny doll doU But Hut Charlie Charle did not stop long In Ina Ina Ina a few tew moments he h was up the chimney chim chim- lie le ney whittling whistling as he swept wept the soot oot Into a ba bag Black Back dirt dirty he was happy at his work But nut presently he smelt an odor as us If I of or smoke Like a stone Charlie dropped back Lack into the room It I was filled tHed with wih smoke Rushing to the door he looked out Into th the hall to see that the staircase was a roaring mass of or flames that were licking up the time steps and making escape that way impossible sible Charlie Charle ran mn to where the tho hab baby still calmly lay sleep sleeping Ins How was he to toSO save savo S O her The Thc room was In a wing of the house and on the third floor foor It H would not be possible to go down the steps which were a n. bed betl of ot fire and It would mean d lentIl death ath to leap from tram ane th the window for below helow the pavement V. 1 41 t r was waR of ot stone stono But he seized th In iii his arms arid leaped to the sill sl Below he could s sand and antl women of or the thc family ga gaward t ward toward him In horror a half hall crazy mother one to s save ve the tho child The boy hoy saw sw thc the wall wa wai wu t c with wih a very old grapevine w wil 11 stron strong enough h to wear hl his hs Already the flames fames were wre creep the tho the crep room smoke al and tl tho the heat het burning buring hl his fat face tae baby h began fan to cr cry At the fix t flirt th the mother below who wu I Dandridge D screamed wih with t f Holding tho the child close cose In hit hl the lad slowly climbed over o tU of or the window and grabbed tt t Step by step feeling his way I Cul fully folly he he- hI went downward Out the tho window above burst hurst the th lf I I but the they swept far out over his Down down Inch b by Inch he ht J while tho the people bel below on held breath In suspense and the thc r m lay fainting In her husbands husband's i i Soon the whole of or the up UJ was a roaring mass of ot fire B Bi Charlie Charle was almost on the g CT Before his foot toot could touch th lh the J the thc mother had seized the b hal bah hugged It I to her er breast Dandridge tho the husband lifted lad and sat fat the thc boy on his AhIn sh Ah ha haIn In lii triumph the people ran b bat th the tho house hous for only the tho win wine been burt burned In gratitude g for or saving ni r mi child a daughter said Mid Lord lArd ridge e. laying his hand on th the soot sooty head I will adopt you OU tOlla today you ou are Charles Charls son soil SOl of ot Lord an and andis m mIs mIs Is yours yours yours-my ours ours-m my baby girl your you So S brave bra Charles swept n ma chimneys Copyright 1916 by tho the Newspaper Syndicate S York Cit City |
