Show HOW TILDY droan THE COWS where is that boy abut in an aggrieved thero aint a choro done binl the white turkey lias bonu alic neld to steal her nest again and tho guinea pigs arc squealing for luicir supper rn kiili to donfon you anil alic wood eaulm to be chopp cil ami jonns pono to eco his why ho have a mother livin in this town instead of ten miles off I 1 dont sec but hired men hivo no consideration for other people any more than boys have 1 should like to know who is going for the cubb aunt was a little cross but then poor woman alic had had a hard kiino to manage alic farm and make both buds cuds meet since uncle joshua died and although she did scold sometimes sho was very kind to and tildy 1 I will 0 o and bring home alio cows faid tilda can ride lightning liaro baick od I 1 have duno it ever so many times 1 dont think poor old lightning will car iain adv an body said aunt but its hard work for you to take down the bars and put them up again I 1 dont balico in iris doing lucli things w hen its aliat boys iset theres no telling what binic that boyll bo lioma per imps you may as well go and you d belter hum for its a lonesome road and it dark before addy had old lightning out of ids atall suid was on his back in i twinkling but was no sch thing as hurrying old lightning he knew as well as rildy did that they were going tor alic cuvis and ho dian didn t mean to hurry in eliy old bones on any such commonplace it was i long toiuo ago that lightning had earned his name jonas alie man said lio was slower than stock still now tildy broke off a switch and irice that as n persuader sho did want t pet ihn cows homo in good lime so clial mint IIi ildah need not think too huoh ab i anco iio had a bright new half dollar aliat lie had earned by picking berries and was a circus over at cran arn center tildy know eliat he biad gone there but she was pretty well willi boys you coulden couldn t have for a brother bein instead of having in pace quickened by tho beech switch Liht nin not acin to lucli iliin s stop hort and turned his girad to look at it lie twitched it out of tildes hand and munched the leaves after eliat addy returned to moral and told libin biow important it was to have the cows milked and the milk taken caio of at tho proper lime for of the broam wa to be made aunt Hulda hd olden cst fragrant sl butter eliat was to take a at alio llio agricultural fair and out of alie prize anoney aunt hail promised to buy her tildy n new cam uric drets bright blino tiny spots to wear to the sunday school picnic I 1 cant say that old was touched by aco arguments but he did appin to po a little faster and mihly biad fairly what color to have alio hat aunt ain ali monty to buy lafr to go w etli alio dress shu biad reached alic pasture instead of being bloc the bar as alicy usually at alip cows acro together in 1 distant corner of alic held as if they ocic frightened and suddenly as she slopped lightning at tho bars ho began to shiver and pant with barror U atut am mihly aloud hut before alio llio words ivcec out of her mouth to hao stop beating behind si clump of tharo sudi lenly ap a huge shaggy brown creature aliat walked with a gait straight glicr lilily knew in a moment eliat it WAS a bear WM very fond of natural and knew as much about animal i ais the liim alf nal lie was niwat showing pictures of animals to tildy and explain lug all about them A beir lio certainly wis w is and a hi one but how ho coffil have got e was a since the days of her lilily knew no beard had bucci seen rubout sho lud not lucli time to think biow vcr for lightning quivering in every limb dashed over tho fence lightning who biad not 1 aecil a finco for twenty years and lilily clinging for dear cifu to his neck went ou i dead run across alic a stone wall ou tho other sido gli alio brook ami halfway half way up the hill where ho stopped tildy slipped down to the ground she thought alio bear nt that was preferable to lightning in ih present which might lead him to dash oj again at any for lightning a terror biad not ibi tuil iio was anly exhausted lilily thought of the cows with a about her for help but there was not a or a person in sight slie stole softly down to alio itono stono will us if she expected the acm to appear from adv berh by alio llio way nil peered over alio cows still together in a distant comer of tho pasture against alio bars sho could see alio llio huge of tho bear could a bear climb a fence tildy had forgotten alo lunching of uima lachs natural history bauks on that subject but alio thought it more ablo that ho could aut lio did not to bo making any attempt to do so slowly ami with her heart in her mouth tildy climbed tho itono stono wall shu was very nimbly and sho was suro sho could get over it again before that unwieldy could glicr and alio might ay somo means savo alio llio cows if she could only drive them over tho stone wall alio walked slowly toward tho bir with a large stick the bear did not seem ferocious perhaps she could daiv him away bho stopped at a distance anil stared at him sho dued du ed not go very noar although alic bars were between her and alio lingo cica turc As she gazing at him a very strange tiling alic bear rose on his liand deot looked over alio bars at lica in a friendly fashion and licud out hi paw as if for a cordial this proceeding was so entirely foreign to tildes pro inis ideis concerning the habits of tint slie did not know what to think atut alien IK boar finding his overtures disregarded acan to dance a slow and stately minuet mildr felt like the biltl old woman on highway alio 0 it on m llila surely cant bi i I 1 ri natural history books said nothing about this kiml of a bear dij to belong in a book alj looked at glicr 13 if lie really wished aci to him tildy remembered a airy story she had read of a alio wis turned into a deer by a wicked airy perhaps somebody luid boon turned idilo this queer bear hut being a shrewd sensible liello L angco gill tildy camo to the that tharo must bu a anro solution of the mystery anil suddenly there hashed into her mind a story that jonas biad told of a performing bear lie liall at i circus sho biad almost forgotten it she biad been so much more interested in alic other wonders of which donai told the baby elephant the girill i anil tho talking hyena but jonas had said that the bear was harmless gentle as a baby this was certainly a trained bear and lie seemed harmless tildy liaa to tremble now and she took n loep look at leini lie was tich s courage arose astonishing suddenness it was not easy to in alic gentleness of a bear after reading those dreadful in hima lochs books it was a comfort to know that this bear alno 1 could 1 not bite if ho wanted to he might hug alio out of glicr body with those great shaggy awa of liis but he did not seem in ino eat to any such violence ami tilda lichan to feel as bravo as a lion what silly cows to bo afraid of a lame creature liko that when he try them ablio exclaimed forgetting liow glicr luid en before there was a collar around the bears neck and from it liuna H she only dared 0 o tako hold of alic ropo and lead the bear home what a sensa ion sho should create thourl tildy slie extended her over the ton jar and the bear placed hii paw aion it and tavo it a liello sli ci ikc ii it rt was such a liue shaby paw r tildy felt a cold cleill creeping over her but she did noll linch lie certai aly wa a very sociable bear tildy kuok alio llio bars down watching liim all alic lim slie took tin rope in glicr liand and lio still looked at her in the maldet anani ncr possible ible slie lurid liim hoina safety slie thought alic could not the cows behind and their objections to the bear could not be easily hut resolved to try an alio led liim down alio road out of lipit and she limped beyond tho t cent 01 lie cows lie following her willi alio llio docility of a dog slie fastened his rope to a tree and then went back anil drove alio cows out into thu road they were a little wild anil unruly be ng still in terror 0 alio bear but once in the road they started on the trot for home and tilda bronchi ill alie reir hie beir was sitting on alie doorstep eating apple pie jonas biad also returned and was looking down alio roid for tildy and alic cows tildy and hie boar were attended by a throng of men women biad run houses and were following alio bear said jons aunt rushed to the bloor uttered a shriek and fainted al the i glit there another girl in bouka donk who would bif 0 o dared to do hat that comes of being my sister ami kiT kiening ning all about bairs boirs and ti lings sad with his mouth fun ot pie alie bear that strayed away from Th croaro all over cranberry center all cring en dollars rew ird for his return won t you bo rich addy ill tiko ou to lie circus ami you can pay for bubli jonas went in search of old lightning and soon brought him biome looking a of himself and to tilly alii bear over to cranberry center to hh very night although tildy felt deiy sorry in i ait willi bim and brought tildy alir ten dollars airl lilily biad her new cambric drewsand asand the prettiest lait in without waiting or aunt butter prize and sins bought for ft very big book on natural history full of pictures of animals aadil birds ami a new butter stamp for aunt dali anil a egiy necktie neck tie fur jonas and when abo cilcus camo to Ponka donk tildy art glicr bear again anil lie greeted glicr aks an old friend sophie owed in harpers young Pc tho physicians af alio T arn because they used rattail rat tail lilacs and dirven they operations somo folks arc over par ti cular it alic surgeons biad used crosscut cross cut saws crowbars broadax L ea and cold in baich 0 pC tationa there might have somo gioi indi on which to bao ba o complaints bostoni rest is a depo i ot sib COO in d ab mat tex by some queer cincu i A armi was fur rr ali alic theft ol 01 0 a horse rm lorfils t in who dia covered S iu liis ami dc Plit cl it in alic b 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