| Show IT WAS THE WHISTLE an old ladya experience with a steam apin ft chabbott Ci Abbott in outings at odd Tia pcs tells a tragic of an adventure which once befell on old lady long long ago the spot where she lived was almost a wilderness nd was beset with the perils of a new and scantily settled land tae camden amboy railroad was operation but though scarcely ft axil djaiani dja tani it was 0 o her she knew neither what jifca ws w s but where the ebest grew in the back swamp i was knowledge worth her possessing although her cousin abijah had killed a bear there during the winter 1 she did not stop to think of that but jone 1 day star berries where fews men would care to boilow fo Ilow with a light heart she gathered and gathered until at length shrieking fell UD on her eara could it be another bear thought she and turned heil face homeward her big basket was not quite full and biere were such loads of fruit within easy reach this was tantalizing but all her doubt vanished ecith the second thriller scream the path waa no longer plain nor was she sure footed A she pitched recklessly forward the berries were bounced by liana fuls froin basket and finally rot despair she threw aside the basket itself and still sounded through the swamp the terrible screeching of that angry bear at last she could see her cottage through the trees but not so plainly the tortuous path one rois stepan d she sank waist deep in tha yielding mud of an old well and there she stood screaming until her husband came to the rescue do be still hannah was his first remark after she had chokingly called his attention to the still audibly cries of ahe bear only the led steam ingae and to think the old ady was wont to on concluding this story to think I 1 lost all them companion |
