Show heroic girl an augsburg journal gives a singular account of the heroism and presence of mind displayed by the daughter of a gamekeeper game keeper residing in a solitary house near welhelm her father and the rest of the family had gone to church when there appeared at the door an old mau man apparently half dead with cold feeling for his situation bhe she let him in and went into the kitchen to prepare him some soup through a window which communicated munica ted from the room in which she had left him with the she perceived that hd bd had dropped the beard he wore when he be entered and that he now appeared a robust mau man and that he wab was pacing the chamber with a poi guard iu in his hand finding nu nr mode ol of escape she armed herself with a chopper iu in one hand and the boiling soup in the other and entering the room where ho he was first throw the soup in his face and then struck him a blow with the hatchet on his neck which baroug brought lit him to the ground senseless at this moment a fresh knock at the door bec occasioned signed her to look out of an upper window when bhe she saw a strange hunter who demanded an admittance and on her refusal threatened to break open the door bhe she immediately got her fathers gun and as aa he was proceeding to put his threat into execution she shot him through the right shoulder on which lie he made mad e his way back to the forest half an hour after a third person came and asked after an old man who must have passed that way she said she knew know nothing of him and after me naces if she did not open the door he also proceeded to break it in when she shot him dead on the spot tho the excitement cit ement of her courage being now at an end her spirits began to bink sink and she fired shots and screamed from the windows window until some gens gene d arms brins were attracted to the house but nothing would induce her to open the door until the return of her father from church |