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firmly against the trunk, and one who had taken off a blue

jacket climbed up on his shoulders, and might have got up
very well if he had not remarked that as the Johnnies had
walked over him in the last battle, it was but fair that he
.should now walk over a Johnny. This joke tickled the man
under him so that he slipped away and let him down. At

length, however, three or four men got good if holds,” and
went slowly up one after the other amid such encouraging
shouts from their friends on the ground below a s : [i Go it,
Yank, the Johnny's almost got y o u !1' "L o o k o u t, Johnny,
the Yanks are right behind you 111 etc., whilst Kittykin gazed

down in astonishment from above, and Evelyn looked up
breathless from below. With much pulling and kicking,
four men finally got up to the lowest limb, after which the
climbing was comparatively easy. A new difficulty, how­
ever, presented Itself. Kittykin suddenly took alarm, and

retreated still higher up among the branches.
The higher they climbed after that, the higher she climbed,
until she was away up on one of the topmost boughs, which
Was far too slender for any one to follow her. There she

turned and looked back with alternate alarm and satisfaction
expressed In her countenance. If the men stirred, she stood
ready to fly ; if they kept still, she settled down and mewed
plaintively. Once or twice as they moved she took fright
and looked almost as if about to jump. -
Evelyn was breathless with excitement. 11 Don't let her

jump," she called, “ she will get kilt I”