Fredericksburg Standard (Fredericksburg, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 14, 1922 Page: 2 of 8
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ever born, however much
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CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Try
The Rescue.
makes a great difference between
she were not half starved, as well the forest, have a dreadful trick
Now. do try to be
R.
And I
and be slowly killed by him.
Texas
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week would kill me.”
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ARALPHE NICOL’ 4•
Com edi ano
nicely then; but not half so mueh
BIG TENT THEATRE
FREDERICKSBURG, - TEXAS
!
camphor, and spirits, and laven
my,
NEW
regrets, the fire went up very
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smile and a when this pyramid should
and be proud, you
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it.
It was useless now to leave it be
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wee
pretty lamp-post.
have no food until she would obey ‘ shadows friendly to my purpose.
The lull
made, down which I could rnide
alarm.
villians should be hot with ardent long into the black whirlpool at
to stand betwixt them and my
*:
New W
TidalW
buy yoi
I had
warm
Capi
Surp
Indiv
round it. as the cold increased on
them, helping the weight of the
Dating not to risk my sled by
any fall from the valley cliffs. I
dragged it very carefully up the
Fresh
Mutto
and given
and put
mouth.
have been trying fifty times, and
oould not bring you to it, John!
"Slowly !
I hate him
mistre ss, but she only nodded her
head and said, “Young man, go
and teach thy grandmother.”
FREE BAND CONCERT
On Main St at 3 P.M , Monday, January 16.
havinu
from
that <
keen
work
if I
was.
ship, Lorna, will you come with
me?”
Friday and Satu lay. April 7
and 8.
Friday and Saturday. May 5
Presently it caught on something,
and went upward boldly; and
then it struck into many forks,
and then it fell ami rose again.
“The Dooms are firing Dunk-
cry beacon, to celebrate their new
pippins finely shred, with the un
A lot
sacks 1
sonable
neri,
M oil
io be
cernng
to
Look Who’s Coming
BIGGER THAN ALL OTHERS
of
an
of golden
to come away with me and live at
Plover's Barrows farm, under my
evert in less,
Ph
ain Str. I
BUD HICKS
THE PERFECT FOOL
UgTown
HENKE
•m
1 ‛rov ide 1 •
upof a
as from
light be
he signs
twinges.
been
scarce
than a
“Not
and 6. 6)
I F'riday and Saturday, Jun 2
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Nicol
Exponents of High Class Comedy
you lively soul; though you are
not upon my hearth yet.”
“ Remember, John,” said Lor-
na, nestling for a moment to me;
would ing it.
white । power under the bitter grip
so he carried lend
hav e plenty enough to keep me
Meo Bra
“ the
And then I showed my
my beauty, with a
the year A D 1922, to wit:
Friday and Sat urdn , February
13. and 4.
so intensely, that less
The
Publie
nou <<d the following e min
linns for teacher's certificates for
up, and have
small alternative, to starve or go light and blazes round,
with you, John.” not all the valley be like
"Gwenny, have you oourage room full of candles? -
me the kindest kiss
hj
“I try to be serious!
dercut of the sirloin, and spice
as I do.”
I told them both that this state
of things could be endured no
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A II. Kneese,
Exofficio ( o. Supt.,
Gillespie County,
Fredericksburg, Texa:
keeping watch, they could
bam I came to my old ascent,
heart, knowing that this under-
taking was a serious one for all,
own was not much less, I am sure,
and enhanced by sore anxiety
Then I gave very strict directions
to Annie, and praised her a little,
and kissed her; and I even en-
deavored to flatter Eliza, lest she
should be disagreeable.
After this I took some brandy,
i of
our
glance to follow it;
as the Counsellor always says at
the beginning of a speech - "'the
situation, to say the least, is se-
. . rious enough for anything.”
him
And then I saw, far down the
stream, a little form of fire ari-
ing, red and dark and flickering.
iwenny liod's ake to keep the house up
how the
instruction has just
ful that the snow had censed, and
no wind as yet arisen. And from
the ring of low white vapor gird-
ing all the verge of sky, and from
the rosy blue above, and the
poor grandfather
moon rose as bright
as a paten of pure
Gwenny: “oh. she hates
•d. slanting from the side, and with the lanthom, seemed to he
so as to make resting left behind and waiting, like a
was still unfrozen, and booking
more terrible by the contrast
mince pie in a bag of tissue pa-
rent things.
In this I saw great
PLAYS
VAUDEVILLE
MUSICAL NUMBERS
of the weather
To my great delight, I found
that the weather, not often
friendly to lovers, and lately
seeming so hostile, had in the
most important matter done me
him. But, to my very great sur-
prise. there was scarcely any
snow there at all, though plenty
joke, I looked upon it very grave-
ly. However, in spite of all my
To be sure I will, dear,” said to what I wished to manage.
State Superintendent
jiver, casting on the snow long
, although the water had novery stupid •ohn."
' > of “It is not good enough for her
RICHAI
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Fresh E
Pork,I
and
PROMP
Telepl
Annie for mince-meat
Now while we sat, reflecting
much, talked a good deal mon.
a lanthorn in one hand.
................ .__________ _ Thinking'frost. All my water-slide was
for it? Will you come with your thus. I was half inclined to abide now less a slide than path ot ice;
young mistress?” my time for another night; and furrowed where the waters ran
“Will I stay behind?” cried then my second thoughts
my sledge with Lorna sitting in ' dows of the few things left
There were only two thinm ve, burdened rock, and shaggy
vantage.''
“I quite understand all that,
dear. And the harder it freezes
and fruit aceordingly, ami far
beyond my knowledge. But Lor-
na would not touch a morsel un-
til she had thanked God for it,
ver again what I had told herboth within and about me; the
ormer, because I had sharp work
to do; and the latter in fear of
whatever might happen, in such
great cold. to my comrades. Also
I carried some other provisions,
grieving much at their coldness;
and then I went to the upper
linhay, and took our new light
pony-sled, which had been made
almost as much for pleasure jus
for business; though God only
knows how our girls could have
found any pleasure in bumping
ordered, after all other schemesit must sink in about three hours matted,
had failed, that his niece should or more, and ony cast uncertain place.
Lo, it was easy track and chan-,
and without much fright or hard-and yellow, as it leaped on diffe-
the freezing, torrent lingered, my best foot foremost, and the
and getting And here and there the ice was sled came after me as lightly as
The moment
Wi should have a
i as ever England
No. John, quickly.
per, and I toid them
mince-meat was made
along so. On the snow-, however,
it ran jus sweetly as if it had
been made for it; yet I durst
not take the pony with it; in the
first place, because his hoofs
would break through the ever-
shifting surface of the light and
have a look at my first and pain-think how she could make up her
was gone, even before his funeral, ful entrance. to wit. the water- mind She had gotten it in a
the young men, having none toside. 1 never for a moment ima- I great well of a cupboard, with
check them, began at once upon gined that this could help me
noise would be cheered as a false to be feared: one, lest the rolls • reland, and the laboring trees!
Most of all, and which of snow should fall in and burr • ent on quietly, and at a very
decided once for all my action — us; the other, lest we should rush tidy speed; being only too thank-
when those wild and reckless too fast, and
could I contrm to save my dar
ling from it *
“the severity
where l had often scaled the cliff •Oh, John, here is the' most
■ d made across the mountain 1 wonde rful th ng Moth ।
it struck me that I would just ver shown it before; and I can’t
a doubt of that.” said
I hastened home at iny utmosi
speed, and t old my mother foi
good mother's care, as I had urg-
kindled.”
Though Lorna took it so in
feet;” I answered, with strong
us. And you must never take ad
longer; if it could be done at all, three hours’ time,
it could not be too quickly done. more and more in drink, as the fibred with the trai ot sludge- a dog might follow; and Annie
It was the Counsellor who had .night went on. As for the fire,
and might burn our farm down, regrets, the fire went up very
” if I warrant to take you safe, merrily, blazing red and white
dear, and di inking healths, and
all that stuff; and before they
have done with that, I shall be
iigain with you. Have everything
you care to take in a very little
compass; and Gwenny must have
no baggage at all. I shall knock
loud, and then wait a little; and
hen knock twice, very softly.”
With this I folded her in my
aims, and she looked frightened
at me, not having perceived her
danger; and then I told Gwenny
r I made pro
out bai aero
m must ta
Revised and condensed by editor.
Although I am sure the situation.
led me so along, as if I were
liquor; and in their jollity any it.
' and the
leamed
its bitter
under at the bottom of my breast,
and winding the hay on the
skew a little. that the hempen
thong might not slip between,
and so cut me in the drawing.
I put a good piece of spare rope
in the sled and the cross-seat with
the back to it—which was stuf-
fed with our own wool as well
as two or three fur coats; and
thn, just as I was starting. out
< am? Annie, in spite of the cold,
panting for fear of missing me, I
longer; on which point they
agreed with me, but saw no
means to help it For even if
Lorna could make up her mind
“YANKEE NOODLE BOY”
ns if for the wry purpose behind me
emphasis: “but don’t tell mother
wavevo ..... I said so, Annie. Ony thank her
con- over fluted ridges; seamed where very kindly.
Gwenny, in a voice that settled vinced me that I would be a fool wind had tossed and combed With that I drew my traces
And so we began to arrange in this. For lo, what an oppor- them, even while congealing; and hard, and set my ashen staff in-
about it; and I was much excited, tunity! All the Doones would crossed with little steps wherever to the snow, and struck out with
Next WEEK commnnaing JAN.16
a signal service. For when I
had promised lo take my love
from the power of those wretches,
he only way of escape apparent
■ ay through the main Doone-gate.
For though I might climb the
cliffs myself, especially with the
snow to aid me, I durst not try
to answer any or
no while they are
now ; for I never had dared to
descend it, even in the fines’
weather, still. I had a curiosity
to know what my old friend was
drunk, of course, in about
magnificent sealskin cloak, worth
fifty pounds, or a farthing.”
“At any rate it is soft and
warm,” said I, very calmly fling-
ing it into the bottom of the
sled. “Tell mother I will put it
... , .1 over Lorna’s feet.”
curling high overhead from the
obstacle cliff, like bolsters over u. iron- ... . . ..
,, , , .1 . .c .ho north tool; cried Annie, or the first
For ably the sweeping ot the noun- ‛
be east wind up the narrow chasm time,
I have kindled thoroughly, and pouring had kept the showers from block-
piling snow; and secondly, be-
to letch Lorna up them, even it Cause those ponies, coming from
Then I spoke, with a strange
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LADIES FREE MONOAYW
Guc lay auai tUu free with each 35c ticket aad 4 cents war tai
could do to finish her own half
of pie, whereas Gwenny Carfax
nte up hers without winking, af-
ter finishing the brown loaf; and
then I begged to know the mean-
ing of this state of things.
“The meaning is sad enough,”
said Lorna; “and I see no way the better, while that understand,
out of it. We are both to be .
... . . .1 ing continues,
starved until I let them do whan . ,,
. ... .. ,, I serious.
the} like with me.
“That is to say, until you
choose to marry Carver Doone,
ed 9 often, behold, the snow
was all around us. heaped as high
as mountains, and how could any
delicate maiden ever get across
it?
water boiling, and food enough
hot for a dozen people, and the
best bed aired with the warming-1
pan. D> ar mother smiled Mftly,
at my excitement, though her
Get ye
at H C
money.
shall have a finer dish than any
el before them ' And so, in
truth, they did, although so little
dreaming it; for no Doone that
wall the bottom, the middle of which
ly have discovered me. Apd and with nothing on her head, but
spirits, what wne donr nr
tinge upon boih sides of
in spite of all the cold for 1
never was in a hurry to go when
| I had Lorna with me she said,
in her silvery voice, w hich always
lit. Ah, now look! The tar is
hind >1,
of I roxi
i knew
night as
mt N
a piece in Gwenny
like, with so much snow upon
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2 Mile a Minute Comedy Duo
PAULTHARDO
Novelty Musical Artist
1 A NlcOL’SHoRlGiNAL ORCHESTRA
3 In A Class by Itself
2 OPENIN—PLAY
of neighhig, and most of all in
frosty weather.
Therefore I girded my own
body with a dozen turns of hay-
i ope, twisting both the ends in
captain,” said Lorna. “They
brought it before the snow begun.
la Carver, might vie with
and 3.
Friday and Saturday, July 7
and 8.
Friday and Saturday, August
IS. and 19.
Friday ’ and Saturday, Septem-
her 1. and 2.
Friday mid Saturday, October
6. and 7.
Friday and Saturday, Novem-
ber 3. and 4.
Friday and Saturday, Decem-
ber 1. and 2.
A’ each of these dates examina.
lions for the different grades of
cert ificates w ill be l-< Id at the
Court House at Fredericksburg,
and any one desiring to take the
said examinations at any one of
the above slated dates should no-
t.r me several days before.
For any other information con-
.lave to a beautiful bell:
“Now. John, we are wasting
time, dear. Yoou have praised
my hair, till it curls with pride,
and my eyes till you cannot see
them, even if they are brown dia
monds, which I have heard for
the fiftieth lime ul least; though
i never saw such a jewel. Don’t
you think that it is high time to
put on your snow-shoes John?”
“Certainly not,” I answered,
“till we have settled something
more. I was so cold, when I
came in; and now I am as warm
as a cricket. Ami so are you,
Our Supreme Vaudeville
BIG SNAPPY ACTS
■ < t, in t wo hours 1 time
I be again W ith you. Ket p
I have eaten many things my -
self, but I never did enjoy a
thing that had found its way be-
tween my own lips, half or even
a quarter as much as I now en-
joyed beholding Lorna, entering
into that mince -pie, and moving
all her pearls of teeth exactly as
I told her For I was afraid lest
she should be too fast in going
through it, and cause herself
more damage so than she got of
nourishment But I had no need
to fear at all, and Lorna could
n t help laughing at me for think-
ing that she had no self-control.
Lorna being the loveliest of
all maidens, had as much as she
as partly frozen; and as for
(wenny’s door, as we called it it
was snowed up long ago to the
level of the hills around There-
fore I was at my wit ‛s end how
to get them out; the passage by
the Doone-gate being long and
dark and difficult, and leading to
such a weary circuit among the
snowy moors and hills.
But now, being hhomeward-
bound by the shortest possible
track, I slipped along between
the bonfire and the boundary
cliffs, where I found a caved way
of snow behind a sort of ava-
lanche: so that if the Doones had
managed it The question
FREDERICKSBURG STANDAR D, YREDERICKSBUKG. TEXAS
I Louched
and told h.
• how I hog
steep incline of ice, through the
narrow chasm, and so to the very’
brink and verge where first I had
seen my Lorna, in the fishing
days of boyhood As then I had
a trident fork, for sticking of
the oaches, so now I had a strong
ash-stake, to lay across fiom rock
to rock, and break the speed of
descending. With this I moored
the sled quite safe, at the very lip
of the chasm, where all was now
substantial ice, green and black
in the moonlight.; and then I
set off up the valley, skirling
along one side of it.
The stack-fire still was burning
stnongly, but with more heat than
blaze; and many of the younger
Doones were playing on the verge
of it, the children making rings
of fire, and their m ch-
ing them. All these I passed,
without the smallest risk or diffi-
culty, walking up the channel of
drift which I spoke of once be-
fore. And then I crossed, with
more care, and to the door of
Lorna’s house, and made the sign,
der. Lizzie says it is a most
the other
mi. and it
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CHARLOTTE POTTS
COMerI "NNE
dining, of fire blazing, and plenty <»l
reviling me: “over her
him. He had strictly watched And then the outlaws must cower riel.
Tent Heated "ARMAXROWN
the house, taking turns with Car-
ver to insure that none came
nigh it bearing food or comfort.
But this evening they had
thought it needless to remain on
guard; and it would have been
impossible, because themselves
were busy offering high festival
to all the valley, in right of thicir
own commandership. And
after taking my
answered bravely:
‛(o and nil tin < >iin
a nd go and tell t he Carver
sent you to spy । p<>n us, th
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Dietel, William. Fredericksburg Standard (Fredericksburg, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 14, 1922, newspaper, January 14, 1922; Fredericksburg, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1418423/m1/2/?q=%22~1%22~1&rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .