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Show ' A Perilous Ride. H. It was just too lovely and romantic H for anything! For two long, beautiful weeks of glorious Bummor wcathor, H Dings and his wlfo floated down tho H Wisconsin river In a great, roomy H boat, camping, fishing and foraging to H vary tho outing. H Dy day birds sang to thorn from H tho leafy banks, minnows dnrted past H In tho ripples, and tho nodding flow- VflB. nrs nlonc tho brink mado tho voyage a H falry-llko drift through a verltablo H And on moonlight nights, whon tho H stillness was heavenly, when tho H starry skies added their pootic fan- H clcs, when tho soft and subtlo moon H shed its offulgont glow In streaks H across tho way, it was llko floating in H a dream down a river of silvor! H Arriving at their llttlo flat, after it H was all over oxcopt tho telling, thoy H retired, woary, but enthusiastic. H Yet tired as they wero tho psycho- M logical hallucination of drifting, drift- H ing, drifting pervaded tholrdreams. H Strangely both seemed affected. Dings B. tuT-ned restlessly in his Bleep land his MMlt-opcn oyes sat his quntidrowny Hptln to strango rambling. Through tho tho nioon H shining in roflcctod rays upon tho plato glass In tho mirrored dresser. To M his befuddled brain this Was naugh.t H elso than moonlight on tho wator H and ho drifted! M At this Juncture Mrs. Dings crlod out wildly in her sleep: B "Dear, tho rocks! Tho rocks! Push M off tho rocks! Oh, can't you stop us? fl Quick! Tho rocks!" Dings was prompt In action. In H his soml-nwakoncd stato, ho oxorted M wonderful strongth, nud shoved - against tho wall until tho bo-enstorod H bed mndo a sharp movo to freo itself M from tho rapids below. H Tho movomont awakened them "Oh, mercy! what foollshnoss!" B gasped Mrs. Dings, "hero wo aro at fl homo in our otvx- llttlo bed!" 1 "Well, I'll bo JIggerv.'l." oxclalmod m Dings, "If wo haven't a bad ca" of H tho hug." 1 Then ho got up, shovod tho bed H back against tho "rocks" and got baclr Into tho "boat" again. m When telling of their visit to tho 1 Dolls of Wisconsin, this is an omitted H ohaptcr oxcopt to most lntlmato |