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She set her fishnet bag on the stuel before starting to investigate Advancing cautiously, she saw a bunch of tall grass wave in a suspicious e, warty toad ju as if trying to locate the danger

"Nasty thing!" exclaimed Miss Mercy, viciously, and raised her club to finish it

The blow landed, and Miss Mercy and the toad saw stars siht down a four-foot stick and crushed in the crown of Miss Mercy's alpine hat

"You dread-ful woman!" Aunt Lizzie shrieked at her, and it was her purpose to strike again but the stick was rotten, and since only some six inches re: "You horrible creature! You unnatural wo in an asylum!"

Since Miss Mercy had been told this before, she resented it doubly, and no one can say what elsethe disturbance, had not hurried forward to discover as occurring

"She was killing a hop-toad!" Aunt Lizzie screas collapsed, while Miss Mercy boomed that if she did, it was none of Aunt Lizzie's business--it was not her hop-toad

The astounding news passed frohting in the brush with clubs, like Amazons, and everyone rushed forward to view the co of ait before they could hear her side of the story

It proved to be no less a person than Rufus Reed, as transporting provisions on a truck between Prouty and a road-camp in the Park Rufus welcomed company and inti

So Miss Mercy cla back started on her return journey to Zanesville, Ohio, to soothe the brow of the suffering andin her professional capacity

Pinkey sombrely looked after the cloud of dust in which Rufus and the Angel of Mercy vanished

"That's one chicken we counted before it was hatched," he observed, regretfully, to Wallie

The scenery was subli and the party were in ecstasies, but es could not divert Wallie'sfact that he must somehow convey the inforuests was undesirable