. Harper's young people . elt sure that it would be in time to avertsomething dreadful. So thinking, Dick stole carefully to the window andlooked out. There was the railroad track, two blacklines in the snow ; trees stood out around them ; thereseemed to be very few houses and very few lights, butDick knew if they followed the track they woulcl be how to get out to it ? A little fall of snow from somepoint startled him. It was from a ledge of the roof, andstruck something. Dick peered closer against the pane. It may have been because the blind child trusted so en-tirely to Dick that h
. Harper's young people . elt sure that it would be in time to avertsomething dreadful. So thinking, Dick stole carefully to the window andlooked out. There was the railroad track, two blacklines in the snow ; trees stood out around them ; thereseemed to be very few houses and very few lights, butDick knew if they followed the track they woulcl be how to get out to it ? A little fall of snow from somepoint startled him. It was from a ledge of the roof, andstruck something. Dick peered closer against the pane. It may have been because the blind child trusted so en-tirely to Dick that he obeyed all these instructions with-out a word ; at all events, Dick had never found Norrymore easily managed. He whispered directions to him,told him what to do, and saw him glide down the moment later, and with Trusty in his arms, Bick hadeasily accomplished the same feat. The two boys with the dog were once again homelessand alone in the world. [TO BE CONTINUED.] SEPTEMBER 25, 1883. HARPERS YOUNG 745. MR. THOMPSONS ADVENTURE WITH THE BAT. BY ALLAN FORMAX. MR. THOMPSON and the rest of the summer boarderswere sitting on the piazza of the farm-house oneeven ing- early in September, when one of the ladiesscreamed. With a whir and a tweet a dark objecttlhkd over the heads of the company. What was that asked Miss Angelina. ()nl v a bird, answered another lady.•It was a horrid bat, protested the one whobad screaiin d. Isnl a bat a bird :No; a bat is a mouse. Tin discussion waxed warm, and Mr. Thomp-son prudently withdrew. He sought the seclu-sion of his own room, and seating himself by theopen window, fell to thinking. The young manwho boarded at the farm-house says he fell Mr. Thompson claims not, and he surely oughtto know which way he fell. At all events hehad not been sitting there long when he heard aslight whir over his bead, and upon glancing upsaw the bat darting to and fro. What are you after ? asked Mr. , replied the bat
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