Show A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE Frances Morris was seated one day In the nursery telling her little sister Mabel about the circus She had been that afternoon to seethe see-the performance but Mabel who was suffering from a severe cold was forced to remain at home Frances was Just telling her ot the funny clowns when their older brother rushed Into the room Oh Frances he cried a bear has escaped from the circus and they cannot can-not find him anywhere Well he cannot get In the house We know said Frances trying to reassure re-assure Mabel who began to cry from then When Mabel had fallen asleep Frances crept noiselessly from the room About midnight she was awakened by a strange noise down stairs A horrible thought came to herthat It might be the bear Each moment added to her terror so she resolved to run to her mothers room at the farther end of the hall There was a dim light burning In the hallway which made objects discernible dis-cernible and as she peered over the banister In her night she saw something some-thing on the bottom step that chilled her heart with fright There at the foot of the stairway stood the big brown bear She uttered a loud frightened cry which speedily brought tho household to her rescue and when bruin was captured cap-tured he proved to be a largo fur carriage car-riage robe carelessly left on the foot of the stairs by a servant |