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This riyfer was bridged across, half a' mile below their house. Above their home there was a sloping hill, where the cattle grazed contentedly, and where in the spring-time the little lambs skip-pfid and frolicked among the young trees, where the robins built their nests and reared their young unmolested, and saijg their morning, and evening songs. Beyond the pasture for miles all was timberland. Be4rs, and other wild animals were knowrn to inhabit these woods, tho the settlers below were not troubled by them. There was a small clearing, however about a mile above the pasturfe, where a ' couple of lumbernren had worked the previous winter, and had built a shanty. '' Girlie Grant and her brother found this shanty late one afternoon while hunting for the cows which had got away from the pasture. Girlie got fairly struck on this "Little house in the woods," as she called it and coaxed Angus to open the storm door. The windows being boarded on the outside and closed to within an inch of the bottom, they couldn't see through. Angus promised they would come some other day, and explore when he had more time, but Girlie was not satisfied. She made up her mind to go back the next day, even if she had to go alone. Early on the following morning, , Nancy Smith, Mrs. Grant's housemiaid was called away to her home, a few miles distant, by the sudden illness of her mother. It happened that Mr. Grant had hired a few men to come and help him that day to gather and draw a lot of hay, which he had cut on the other side of the river. The day (being very warm; Mrs. Grant who was not feeling ;well, found it hard to do much extra work. She tried to get Girlie to hel^, her, but Girlie was not a bit inclined to do so. Yo u see, there was a certain plan forming inside her brown curly head which kept her busy and distracted, and when she saw the pile of dishes to be 5Z I ^3^ • i.^f^-'it' .1 .. / ;....^^ vashed after dinner was ov?r, she fairly revolted. She kicked 'in i.jutcd making her poor mother so'misreable that she ha 1 t:r leave her work at last and lie. down. , ' , Gillie then slipped out doors 'and mjtQe her way up to- wards the rasture. When she got to the fence she slid thrauRh tne wooden bars and scooted algng till she came to rtie rough lath I-iading tD^the clearing in the woods. My! but how she ran up that path, her heart going pit- a-pat, i.t-a-pat, till she got to the little shanty. . .^^^V;'^ trembling fingers she tried to opfen the storm door. Jut the latch was rusty and wouldn't budge. Locking around she saw a sharp hardwood stick. With this she pried open the latch, swinging- back the door till it rc^sted against the wall on the outside. To her joy. she fbund Ue inside-.dDor unlocked, and went in. It was nice and cool in there .y.» \ A. Asiy stove stood n^ar the wall. There was a broom there, also son^ dishes on a crude shelf. * .u'^^m'*'"*^ ^'^^ ^°^^ "^°"* t*'"^ ^^^t square in one corner c.the^ ceiling, a short heavy ladder stood against the wall. Up this ladder X3irlie fiew like a squirrel. "Phew! its warm up here, she said It was warm there, although the two windows one on each side, were also up about an inch. f f Su'"^ ^\'l'^ *^° '^''^ *''^"' ^'^^^^' ^"* ^^^y were stuck too last, bhe could not move them. "I will do my down-stairs work first," she thought, climb- ' wfrk "^^ ''"''''' *' " "'^"'^' ^"'^ ''''*'' ^°^^"' ^^"*y ^^^ ^^" to Finding an old pot, half full of rain-water outside, she .arnea it m and taking down the dishes she washed them drying them with a dirty towel. ' In her careless selfish way she actually forgot how she hated washing dishes, not even giving a thought' to her poor s;ck mother at home or the work to be done there. Brushing the shelf with the broom she put the dishes away, swept the floor and tidied up wonderfully. *u T°,T' ^ *""'* '^° "''■ "Pstairs work," she said cliii)bing up the ladder. , j^ & A partition ran halfway across the loft floor, with a bed on each side. There was a blanket or two on a chair, also a heavy quilt. It was evident that the lumbermen inte^ided to return left'Xwe ^""""^'"^ '^'"*" ^y t**^ ^«w articfes ipf furniture After straightening up the beds as best she could, Girlie fl^around picking up before sweeping, an old shoe here. «n empty bag there, olf socks, and things like that. ^*^^^ 3 These she threw into an empty barrel. Not being used to work, she soon tired, and s_at on the floor to rest, wfien suddenly a shadow darkened both, windows. Girlie jumped to her feet just as a sharp flash of lighti^ injr pierced j;he darkening room, followed by a loud crash' of thunder. Girlie was very much afraid .of thunder. She'^tried to shut the windows tight but afs before they wouldn't budge. Throwing herself face down on a bed and pulling a blanqet over her head, she lay there, with wild-beating heart, the perspiration streaming ' down he'r face and body, while paal aftepr peal of thunder threatened to crush the little shanty. Gracious! How Girlie wished she was home then. How she wished she had never come to that shanty. By and by the thunder growled away. But when Girlie iookeav^around she saw that the place was almost pitch dark. A't that molnent a 'sharp- tap sounded on the roof, above her head •followed by,another, and another. She sprang out of bed, and ran to the Vmdow wondering what it was, and saw that it was hail. \ / My! but W those hail^ones spiHed from the sky. tiirlje watc^d them, fascinated, as they bobbed and danced on the grojihd belo<*F her, some rattling oii the window sill, and popping into the room. But had Girlie known it, the biggest and mqst awful dange*- that ever was, was fast, approaching her. For happening to look up in the direction of tha w^^ds. She discerned two black objects moving along at the edgt clearing, about a hundred yards above the shanty. At first she took. them to ba two of her father's younver prayed before. "Dear God," she moaned, "please keep nie#alive so that I '.an save Angus for he is sure to come looking for me." '•Oh! why did I ever come to this place?" she ^^-ayed, and promised, and vowed that she would never, nevar, .disobey' her mother again, if she once got hotiie alive. All this time the bears kept stamping, and snarling im- patiently below. .After, what seemed to her age's, she saw her brother coming along towards the shanty. Oh joy of joys when he got near enough to hear her calling to him, she s.raalned out excitedly! ► ^ "Keep away! keep away! oh Angus dear, don't go near that door. Foj- heaven's sake, don't go near the door. There are two bears in there— two great big bears." It was a njinute or two before she got her brother con- 'inced of the trtith. At first he feared that .she had lost her mini to talk like 'that.' ' • Calling to her brother to run around to tlfe window on ,the^ other side of the shanty, and tiptoeing across •ttie floor her- self. Girlie explained ner predicament. Yor a few minutjs Angus and she tried to\ plana way to get her outside, without avail. As I should have NiiSpipned before now, Angus carried a gun on his shoulder, andv'k itout stick jn his hand. ^ "I'll tell you what iVan do," ha ex:Iaimed briskly. "I wi 1 pull a board off one of the wi.-.dows, and fire at the baars from outside, or shall I run off knd get somsone to help' "No. No No. An^us dear" GiMie sobbsd. "Oh Angus dear don't leave me here alone with the bears. Oh-.oh— oh— what am I going to do? How can I ever ^et out of, this pla:e?" "Never mind Girlie,"' her brother coaxed cheering:y; "Just ■wait till I fix those two bears." He ran around to one of the windows, tore off the narrow- est board and in a jiffy "Was back again. "You watch out,"'' he called to his sister. ''Tliere is go- ing t o be sonie fun |n a minute. it .^y sonje neitn followed But he\jther Gi^ie nor her brother saw much iun'in wh*t r \ I • ^. f -^ When Angus jcot back to the window, the bears -we're fur- ious, .advancing towards him. with vicious eyes, and snarling snorts. Angus waiteil coolly for a chance to shoot while Girji* crouched treinbliil^ly peering through between the boards 6f th6 partition.- From her position she could see the coverdd hatchway in the corner. Also the window above tire dqot. There was a flash— a report— with a_8cream of terfor the tw^o bears leaped upwards, one of them striking- heavily against 'the ceiling, then tumbled dawn in a heap at the front ,of tha ladder. . With terrified eyes, and sinking heart Girlt^ Grant saiv ' -the qmilt over the hatch-way shiver, anxl with .the broom, dis- appear down stairs. But the worst of all was yet to come. Bc- for& Angus had a chance to fire again the other bsar whicji was te^iiing niadly below, leaped on the carcass of -its now dead jiiate, and in another second, landed up stairs. An. agonizing cry from her brother reached Giflies fast ^deafening ears as' from a long distance. This cry was followed by a loud smashing crash, which she did not hear at all. .Angus Grant heard that crtfsh, and partly comprehended its meaning. Though trembling from head to foot, his- face the coloi-fof chalk, '^e charged bravely around towards the door. There, amidst broken glass,, splinters of wood, and ,si. lashes 9f blood, quivering in its death-struggles la|^ the gec^nJ bear. It had plunged through the up-stairs window, got tanghd in the sash, turning dowji on its head, breaking its neck. By a lucky chance, the bear had fallen a few feet from . the doorway, thus giving Angus a chance to get inside, Which ha did in short order, UnheedfijJ of the hqrrid, grinning hea^ at the front of the ladder, Angus bounded upstairs, caHing to his sister as he went, but getting no response. In his bewilderment it topk him a few ininutes to' finl her where she lay limp and pale, between the partition and the betf, apparently dead. Angus picked her up, as if she were a doll, and carried her to the broken window, where the ootfl, fresh ^ air soon revived her. . When she recovered her strength sufficiently to converse with her brother, he told he^ how their father and" himself^ran heme when the storm started, fearing her mother and sh? would be frightened. Hbw their mother nearly lost her senses vhen she saw that Girlie was not with Jthem, and their father couldn't leave her, and how h^ started off in search of her, the other men. having taklpp refuge in the barn; (the barn was on the other sfde of the river)^ and that th^ first plas» which oc-"-- cufred to hini was the little shanty in the ■ysroods, wjiere he was ^ -^-^ i: I / X m-:. t o> . happy to find her.^otwithstandinjr her -precarious circumstances Ihen Aaarus went below arid dragged the two dead b6ars over remind , the shanty and cowered them with the« old quilt. ^Atter that the children got homte safe. ^ -^ngus Gcant lived to be an old man, but regarded as the happieet incident. of hisUife. the moment when h» sister Girhe opened her eyes that evening in the lumbermen's shanty. As -for Girlie herself, needless to say she was a chariged' girl after that. Obedient and sel^crificing she endeared l^ersalf to ail who knew^". as she^'nevtfr, never, forgot the severe c.sVrf ^e^va^aught that fa-t^ful .$fte/noon when- through her laziness and disobedience, sh^came 'to -find hefself Imprisoned- in the little house in the woods,- with two-great-big-bears. v-y ; ; 9 • J. I *- / ^ I a^ , .^ 1 - * t ) A, A - > • ■/ i ~\ ■/,- -. " -♦ _v, * , ^p .„ . , - * '- ' a .; • • , ■; ( » / • • #■,!,.« v_y r-*. \, ^■'pU