Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-03-02
pYRAMUS AND TUISBE.

IL was very hot, sunny afternoon. 80
still was the summer breeze which usually
found lis way over the high hillS until 1t
reached Farmer Bowen's porch, there ~
-coquet with the prairie roses which
climbed up is tfcil.scd sides that now
every Leaf was motionlcss, and indeed
quite pale with the heat and dust Every
body IN the old house was evidently taking
an afternoon rest, for duh quiet rcigned
all over Even Jowser lay curled up IN
the shadiest spot out on the lawn. and
grandma who ecorned % Ego 10 bed in
daylight" nodded in her arm chair close
by the open door.
Really, lite had "A very bumdrum, com
nOBpIace, tame sort Of look. AT least
Kathie Bowen thought SO, as she came
rusiling down the hail stairs in the fresh.
est 1f crimpcd lilac musliDs and most be.
wi.dering Of new chip garden hats, all
Geld flowers and daisies. A hopeless,
despairing little sigh came from the region
ct the fufilcs round her bodice as, looking
ali around fci pair OF open eyes 10 nd.
uiire her pretty new costume, she bcheld
only iighi-shut lids about her. Every.
thing was 30 different from what she had
looked forward 10 and dreamed OF for 90
long. Surely, after four years course
Of alligent study al boarding. school and
finally graduating day IN which one
staaus head" girl may be pardoned
for imagining that life before her Will
De- a brilliant succession Of gold days, in
which the various accomplishments aud
studies Ot which she Is supposed 10 De
mistress will serve 10 illuminate aud
glorify her own part In the festive scene
{" school was out" and Kathie was I'm
ished" and al home, but ihasl il was all
very quiet and uniniercsting. Life"
lad n0t begun brighty--ai least as ka
shie had pictured ii--ior country home
Is not usually the background for a series
OF dAsaing panOramas. OF course she
'Sas glad 10 be al home and see all the
dear Onek, but there was no one 10 whom
she could show off her varied knowledge
of history, philosophy, French and mu-
Sic--no one nj least, but father, mother
and grandma There had been a secret
little hope in the depths Of Kathic's heart
al along that Phil Somers, who lived on
the iaruI across The creek, and with whom
she had firtcd ever since she was baby,
would be one OF the first Of the Bowen.
willie loaax who would welcome her
home aud fall nj her feet In alteration ;
but in spite Of This hope all Of the young
men in the county had iluiiered around
most month without catching sight Of
diis brown eyes aud curly hair IL Was
certainly very singular and, what Was
STRANGER, when she bad casually asked
once or twice about her old friend and
playmate, her father had replied very
curly, - know nothing about The iel-
low, ana her m0thcr looked very grave.
Grandma solved the mystery one day,
however, by telling kathie thai pills
father and hers had quAreled oytr a
,DIecc of meadow land, and IN consequence
ciiere had arisen a GOODNESS and q stone
wall
II beats my time" said grandma,
how men like James 5omers aud John
Bowen boys together aud lifelong friends
lit beats my time how they could coIfe
90 hard words at last, and ali about lit
lie piece OF grass Blood relations. too
their grandmothers were own cousins, and
therefore the good feeling and property
were never meant 10 be separated DY q
GOODNESS nor stone wall. bii, there II is,
higher than your head, and likely never
no be made up neitherw kashis coEpre-
Iagndcd grandina's curious explanation
rnsch easier than she had understood Der
fiati,er's short answers or her uoialer'k
grave looks and IL was with bot ihFDb ~
herheart and an angry little toss other head,
thai, listening 10 grandma, she determined
then and there that, aided by her knowl.
edge OF history, philosophy, and French
she had corrugated the verb atfaer--
and In spite OF the GOODNESS or the stone
wall, she would manage to see Phil som.
ers before the month was a full moon old
Forbidden fruit is the sweetest, and ii
Phil had been forbidden 10 come q her
he was the very one she most wanted TO
see now. f
II was for purpose, therefore, that the
fresh lilac muslin and new chip hat were