"Not at first; but when I got up to our fence I heard some of 'em yelling like very fiends, and they came after me through the woods, but I got inside our yard, and the baby woke up and yelled like a very fiend, and Nathan Marwick came running out of our barn and says: 'What in time is all this?'

"Ask Sarah Marwick," and he went to the wall and pushed a button.

" Sarah Marwick came presently to the door, an austere spinster in black gown and white apron.

"But they will not be barehanded long, remember that!" Nathan Marwick started the car along the driveway.