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Des Moines (Iowa, United States) (search for this): article 5
stern Life. The following incident, which has just occurred in the family of an Episcopal clergyman in one of our western capitals, as Illustrating the habits of self-reliance and fearlessness taught by western life, may be interesting to our readers: Edward, a boy about fifteen, was left at home during the visit of his father and mother to their friends in the vicinity of New York, and every night slept alone in the house, which was situated in a piece of woods a mile or two from Fort Des Moines. Though the situation was isolated, it was looked upon as safe; no one supposing that anybody would be wicked enough to attack a boy, or foolish enough to look in a country parson's house for plunder. But one night last week Ned, who slept in a room on the second floor, at the head of the stairs, was awakened by a noise in the rooms below. Listening a moment, and all being quiet, he went to sleep again, supposing that some of the dogs might have disturbed him.--After a while he was a
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o our readers: Edward, a boy about fifteen, was left at home during the visit of his father and mother to their friends in the vicinity of New York, and every night slept alone in the house, which was situated in a piece of woods a mile or two from Fort Des Moines. Though the situation was isolated, it was looked upon as safe; no one supposing that anybody would be wicked enough to attack a boy, or foolish enough to look in a country parson's house for plunder. But one night last week Ned, who slept in a room on the second floor, at the head of the stairs, was awakened by a noise in the rooms below. Listening a moment, and all being quiet, he went to sleep again, supposing that some of the dogs might have disturbed him.--After a while he was again awakened, and listening he heard a soft step on the carpeted stairs approaching his room. He sprang up, seized his shot gun, which he always kept loaded, and springing to the head of the stairs called out "Stand, or I'll fire!" All