Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1873-06-12
"That would be delightful, 'said the

"Not the least in the world" she an
swered. "I don't believe the story is
true, myself, though 1 told it to you;
but if such q thing ever did happen, it
was, long ago when the fence was not rs
high as it is now. No, child, if You take
my advice, you will put all idea of get
ting over the fence out of your head and
stay contented where you are. 1t is
pleasant enough on this side if you would
only think so"
"But I want to get over to play with
Helena said Frederick, aand I mean to
try and pull down the fence if I can't
get to her in any other way"
"You are not strong enough, and if you
were, it would be great pity to pull it
down." said the sensible old woman for
then there would be no garden at all it
would be oil common, and we on this
side would be no better off than we are
now. 1t does not hurt us, for people on
the ether side of the fence to have their
garden, and, for my part, I don't grudge
it to them. Besides it eveli does us good
that there is q garden; it makes our peo-
pie industrious and gives them an object
to work for; for every man hopes TO be
able to get inside at last.
GLOW 2" said Frederick.
"Why, OF. course, the regular way is
to get goltlen key to unlock the gate ;
that is the next best way to get in, after
beihg born there" said the old woman.
"And how can I get golden key? 2"
asked Frederick.
perhaps you may find one, if you are
lucky" said the apple woman. 81 knew
an old man who picked up key some
one had dropped, after hs had all his
life been keeping lis eyes on the ground
as he walked in the hope of finding one.
Poor soul! he got little ,pleasuressfronn; i.
after all for he was SO fixed in the habit
of gazing on the ground and fumbling
with his stick, that, after there was iio
use for him to do it any longer, he could
not give up the trick; he walked up and
dewn the pleasure ground doing nothing
else and might just as well have been
back on the common-indeed better, for
then he would not have made himself the
laughing stock Of all the fine people"
81 should not wish to be like him."
said Frederick. ~ want to get in before
| am too old to play with Helena"
Besides, after all, you might not find
n key" remarked his adviser. "No, if
your heart is really set OH getting over,
you had better set to work in the regular
way, by going to the gold-diggings until
you have scraped enough metal together
to have n key made of the right pattern
1t is the surest and most respectable way
for you to get back inside thessgarden."
Frederick determined to follow this
advise; SO he bade farewell for the pre-
sent to Helena who put her small white
hand through the bars to shake his brown
one, then he set off for the gold-diggings
1t took him long time to learn the
art of mining, and still longer to collect
gold enough to make key; but at last
he succeeded IN having one made, with
which he left the gold mines in high
spirits. Alas it proved too small to
unlock the gate of the golden fence. He
determined TO go back to the mines to
work till he had enough gold to make n
larger key; but he found it very tire.
some work. He was now grown to be n
great boy; sometimes he grew discouraged
when he thought how old he was and yet
how little progress he had made towards
his wishes.
little Helena will be too old to play
with me when l get back in the garden
at last" ho thought; ''bcsides, who
knows if she has not forgotten me
by this time ?"
One night he dreamed of the man who
had got over the fence Oh the hyine
horse; all the next dayhe could think of
nothing else ms he worked in his mud
hole.
of l had a flying horse, all this would
not be necessary" he cried at last, fling.
ing down his piclsaxe and shovel in dis
gust.
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