Show j A Strange Story By Beatrice Hcsnelberg Age 13 Ono night I was sitting at home all alorc for the children had long ago passed from this world of reality Into the ono of dreams 10 quiet that you could a fhie room was so that when suddenly 1 heart hear n pin drop the most torrilU noise Imaginable 1 I struck sounded as if I a cannon ball had ftruclt olncct 05 tltrotugh hard inutteritul titid couldnt get th101Itl titul kept metcrllli on Int In thin same direction vItluout icgaruh to oIistnCIit wihout couhul bo hCll flyJuig strIking first ono thing and then another and then OrsllUO rrownlng glory a most beautiful choil I reached my cars I By Its Incomplete harmony Padercwskl decided that Paceewsl1 lon 1 at once dcclcel wus not within not T had been hl unsurpassed hld TUy fright was UI1mlsel ily book fell to the floor hut icadiug anti my Ioor I nut glued to the spot with but ono question ques-tion t1 going through my mind like t wlre les message repeated again and again W5ltitt can It be What can I be Following hil the noise I heard soft footsteps foot-steps Ihen nil was inlet I waited a few minutes before I could muster up courage enough lo steal I quietly In and turn t on ft quiety the light when lo and behold I burst out lunching Every art ide o bricabrac lav on the floor Music was scattered II 100 from one end of the room to the other The piano scarf lay on the stool ana in a fnrurr corner of thC room under a bookcase book-case two Orel grcengrav eyes peered nt me Now I nw < It all The rat hat been shut In the parlor and not being aid to find a place to rest Jumped on the piano thereby t causing this explosion I then looked over every piece carefully and 01 found all saf all Round ThUH an event that might have been an accident proved a capital Joke |