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Show HARRY'S RIVAL. A Coat la a Nocturnal 1'rowl Rmanhvfd Konianre to Fleces. Not long ago a Bridgeport, Conn., young lady who desired to get up with tho lark, in order to go on an eloping tour, adopted the schoolboy's plan, and the lover was to bo on hand at daybreak to give the signal. V. w ' The string used for tho pedal communication com-munication was a stout cord, and one end was dropped out of tho third story window into the back yard and tho other end. of course, was attached to the damsel's toe. The legend runs that a goat of the William pei-suasion arose early next morning: and wandered wan-dered Into the yard. After eating up all the old sardine tins, barrel staves and broken crockery, crock-ery, he found the string and took that in as desert. As soon as- the string was drawn taut the goat stood upon his hind legs and gave an impulsive jerk. The girl woke. Tho gout gave another sudden pull and the maiden jumped out of bed with a smothered cry of pain. Then she stooped down to detach the cord just as the ridiculous ridicu-lous beast gave another violent jerk, and she nearly lost her equilibrium, and her toe, too, the cord cutting Into the tender flesh. She sprang to the window and called down In a hoarse whisper: "Stop pulling, Harry; I'll he' down in a minute." Then she made another effort to untie un-tie the cord, but the persistent goat gave his head several angry bobs, and each lime the girl uttered a cry of pain. Again she call into the darkness: dark-ness: "Harry, if you don't stop jerking-like jerking-like that I won't come down at all." She waa answered by another savage sav-age pull, and tho cry of anguish that escaped her brought her mother into tho room with a look of affright and a lighted lamp. The young lady fainted, faint-ed, the elopement was nipped in the-bud the-bud and tho disappointed maiden's too was sore for a month. Tho goat escaped. |