Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-09-12
on GUARD.
BY HELEN c. WEEKS.

my "uplt Lbllit AhiiIN HhiAi
looking at the crisp fresh bank-notes ly.
ing in AIMS lap. you never can spend
it all, Ann You can buy watch and a
pink silk dress and-O, everything"
"Fhe likes o me in a pink silk dressr
said Ann. "No, it's better than that I'll
do with it. It's land I'll be buying; a
quarter section maybe"
"What do you want of land ?" Johnny
questioned, as Alice nodded her head till
every curl danced. "You don't want to
go and live by yourself, do your"
"Of course she doesn't" said Alice;
shell have house, and big Dennis will
live with her Won't he, ANN"
:" It's no big Dinnis | want, said Ann,
looking rather guilty. "Why shouldn't
live by myself, thin?'
but you wouldn't want to go away
from us, would yOu" Alice asked re
proachfully. After you've been here so
long, and all ~
mo, l wouldn't thin" said Ann. 'But
there's no harm in having the land. 1t
can't break nor be stolen like as if | put
it in the bank There it III be the same
as money any day, an I'll have an estate
to myself, an my own hands to thank for
it,"
Maybe you'll find another calf and sell
that. Johnny said.
I" No such luck" said Ann, rising,
"Now I'll go an put this away with the
rest. It's near milking time
Let me come too" Alice said, follow
ing on to AIMS room, opening from the
kitchen and overlooking the orchard.
Ann took an old family Bible from her
closet and laid each bill carefully be
tween the leaves, putting it back on the
top shelf
eff thieves was thick as backber-
ries, which they isn't" she said, mot
one o them would open a book to find
money, let alone a Bible"
That's So" Johnny said, confidently
'they don't like to have much to do with
Bible, guess
Nobody saw two eyes which looked
eagerly in for a moment and then disap-
peared as Ann went into the kitchen and
the children returned to their play in the
barn. Nor did they notice the faint rus
tie in the cow house, or feel that the same
sharp eyes watched them between the
boards of an old stall at the very end
where straw was piled in for the COW s
bedding. Mr. Carter came up from the
field presently, as tie first bell rang for
supper, and stopped for a moment as he
passed the barn.
.,yos ;fitior,ooeop+ IN p,orrovv " AIice
boar5 b;,t, cav, IN onS,yer t( soma ones,
ton from Winthrop, and ran out at once
80, papa are you going to take us all
Ann and everybody ?"
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