Show MISS TOWNER IS Ci fICKENS how cho VM caught la in tho the trap sho she set for others 1 mim townsie TowN sit was or of tho the school tea cabling species sho she went to north carolina awa acon after tho the civil or nod took charge of tho the district abo ana forty and fifty ana her reputation for fear loneness anti and deci aton of character in coo call lection with tho the kitchen poker mado boado hor bar a terror to tramps and evil doers generally I 1 1 ho he tarot I 1 little cottage in which MIM man tow downor bior lived alone without oven even a hall had a smally wil attached to it which nomad club ado adapted optea to clo ikels eel cul turo extra afine towner had made several at tempts to kchop but tho the a of f tho the colored eloin ticul lout WM wall altop altogether ther too strong fil rong anti anil adut led had b 4 iho hothead ho a eads tead allm fr te wa aa t her that whatever could ini bo clone by ft A 9 good for f or nothing mou man could ho be dono done far botte botar by an aa Intal log t woman and Accor accordingly dingi ho be to stock block bor bar empty chicken hom and to get a stem new and original trap imp after much thought she elio hit upon tho the plan idea 0 a trap sho she procured a loue long rope which the rho through a pul pulley icy on OD tho the lanb of a tree neat near tho the chicken hamm to ODO end of tho ropo wan attached a night eight of two hundred pounds and to the other end a DOOM onil and tho the weight was as BO be arranged that a alight pull on tho the noose would eon cause it to shoot into tho the air drag draff guiff with it tile tho colored team loin it a unlawful foot had bad entered it ono one afternoon atto moon the atto received a supply apply ol of cinchona chickens which she placed in tho the chicken bonne making no effort to conceal tho the fact froni tho the colored colore 1 public baht before dark she aho mit bet her trap imp and repeatedly tested it by poling tho the noose with A stick about nine that evening bho alto fancied that she heard a raise in ia tho the yard find and it 16 occurred to har bar that somo some one might ho be about tho the sho she thero fete laid inid ankle tier hor copy colly of edwards ou on the ayi took up the iho poker and creft stealthily into tho the yard it was a bright moonlight night but no one was si lable and niter alter making more auro that her chickens chick cna wool sit all safe she aho was ivna about to return to her reading when alio ale stepped bithia aho antal howo tho trap aid brodit t to her ins incentive estivo genius abo allgot her bor by both aloo kles and in ia an instant nho aho found homely a no CL tie IV with t h her bar b hood cad 3 just a A t clear of the iho ground of mind fain bho put her hands handa on tile tho ground anti and thus in some relieved loot her ankles of the strain ol at her entire vo llight it was ho gocr cr for her to to ro lease herself and it was with iab that she could either cither breathe or see sec thore there wn was I 1 I 1 nothing to bo be done but to wait until I 1 roial me early chicken stealer a arrivo null and optical to blow for told mira towner a r did not havo have long to w mt ait ey by hall I 1 ana muo no BIT bir blue atio yard ou on chickens cna bent but bat of 0 an no rons mind abon bo cian to la bight of at the mysterious canom and spec I resented bitoy MIM lileas towner lot he remarked golly Ool lyt I 1 ili n accents of 0 great terror tenor and flow away convinced that he be b had A a acen a ghost white while than to nor with A voice a tilled stilled by emotion and flannel to in aili Loj Losi wight ought him to corno bick back electing a dozen of hu his follow fellow citizens I 1 aho vho he were on 00 their way to the chicken bolt bouso mr lilt lubou that he be had been davin an abny jia by A 4 plo peculiarly 1 n waite nod food holding both ltd ju arms anna upright above its itei head ila ho could not however induce his bis friends to diabo his bia team and 11 troug in the of numbers they planned their way to lilies dim towner Tow nort yard at the foot bight biba of the alleged ghost they were undeniably alarmed nod but funding that it did not attack them they gamed la e d outage mat and drew la in time eie they y recognized miss downers towners Tow nerg ners voiced and u acro ere able to comprehend tant alist lind been beat bojet by lee her oun petard chett la is to say loo abom somo soma ineat in liko like circumstance would havo left tho unhappy hippy chicken pro lite lino fl rictor for to pasa paa ilia iho night in ui int berv not so BO lid these kindly colored men they first sarc fully removed all the thickens tUck mud aud then in eRti gated the contents of the kitchen order and amao caving thus thua bonc one their H n hole bole duty they explained to ili towner that they would send bend a colored lady to release hor bar within tho the next half hour and thou thon bodo bado her glicr a respectful fare otell hell confident that in tho the circumstances ho be could not identify hor benefactors i hey bey kept their bord v ord and before it 11 MIB ilia dinah washington arrived and lowered miss auls ton tier pre carefully fully to the ground us un injured except by a fen slight dight bru lacle mid find I 1 tal tendency or of blood bleed to ibo be hend head N Y lima |