Show bridesmaids SW DISCOVER A BED GIRLS PUT CAKE UNDER PILLOW AND SUFFER AWFUL experience AS RESULT port jerels N Y alsa bessie bor tree who with the misses agnes hag berty and frances williams was a bridesmaid at the wedding of a miss metzger near lackawaxen Lacka waxen pa the other night had what she describes as an awful experience with a rat which invaded the bed in which the girls slept after the wedding it was found the last train had gone and they were forced to stay all night at the home of the bride they were assigned to the spare room which contained a big old fashioned bed after they had placed bits of wedding caka beneath their pillows they went to sleep about midnight one of the young women awakened by a noise aroused she saw a rat the others it seemed to them that some one was trying to enter the room miss bessie arose from bed and lighted a tallow dip and saw a rat run across the bed in which she and her companions had been sleeping the rat jumped upon the washstand and commenced to eat a piece of wed yng cake which it had filched from beneath one of the pillows alsa bessie hopped back into bed and the three frightened young women consulted as to the best course to pursue tell you what to do said miss haggerty get a cup of water from the pitcher you open the door when the rat Is wet it will run out of the room this was done and when the rat was doused with water it began to scamper about the room and the girls with screams of fright leaped back in bed again covering their heads the commotion awakened the house hold and mr metzger and his wife followed by the family fox terrier rushed into the room to discover the cause of the commotion the dog spied the rat and gave chase A circuit of the bedroom was made then the at jumped on the bed and there the terrier caught it the rat squeaked and the terrier growled and the girls screamed in terror im bitten cried miss haggerty miss williams swooned and miss bon tree begged take them off take them off the dog and the rat landed on the floor where with a few shakes the terrier killed the rodent the young women have not ceased trembling yet |