The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-10-15
ONLY FIFTEEN.

That was a rather cruel, unfeeling re.
mark of Mr.. + rle To his daughter Sadie
or Sarah as she now wished 10 be called,
because, at least. she wasn't baby"
"No, sis, you're neither a little girl no
n woman but just between hay and grass
as one may say
Sarah gave an extra push to her alread,
we'll tied back muslin ovcrskirt, and started
for school with II spioldering spark in he
eye.
" It's true what father says" she soliIo
ouizei "a she walked along. "pm too ole
10 wear my dresses short and too young to
wear~Ihem long; too old to let my hair go
loose and comfortable, and too young for
irizles, puffs and coils. Aud as the COWS
in the, spring, wher hay Is gone and grass
not we'll grown, have to put up with odds
and ends, so ! have to take all Hats and
Jen's cast-oif dresses and hats or if there
is anything awfully unbecoming TO them ]
get that whether | like it or not. Then
in the work, what | have is Just what
everybody else hates to do, like washing
theNiishes and cleaning the lamps-just
what nobody gets credit for, either, only
blame for not doing WE'LL"
BY this time this ambitious girl of ours
had reached the school-house; but the
tached to the door-handle told the scholars.
Sarah started at once to retrace ber steps
for it was two-mile walk, with only here
and there a few old apple trees to shield
her from the suns g lare.
As she walked her thoughts reverted TO
the mornings convex ion, partly, perhaps,
because the scent OF the new-mown hay
greeted her. Like any girl of her age il
struck her as a queer, backward sort OF
comparison TO speak of childhood as the
time of hay
ooh, yes" she exclaimed, aloud as q
q thought struck her Z" see how it isr and
she at once resolved to write the coming
weeks composition on that very subject,
"Ill say" she soliloquized, that child
hood is cared for by the general love o
father and mother. That's the hay, yol
see! But, at last, the youth goes out int
the world and gathers love for himself
And l shall give it a moral turn; for
somehow, l think young people ought no
to be selfish, even il | am sO---but ought t
gather love by~loving.'
What is the Use of talking, though
II | really wanted to be useful, l couldn'
Who'd ask me to sit up and watch wit
sick people, for instance? / couldn't eve
keep awake all night. | wish l could t
sure III DC lhe IlShI sOIl Ol WOludllJ an
then, seems to me, it might be beautiful I
be wrinkled or gray; for, by that time on
is sure of ones self"
Then she suddenly stepped down from HI
mount of moral enthusiasm---a feat, alai
so easily accomplished, so hard to accoul
for often.
Before l get to be good and gray 1
like some nice times and SOME nice thing
This muslin overskirt and waist are pret
enough and, for once, new, but-why-
what"
She sprang quickly out of the road
sudden terror, for she thought loose hor
was plunging furiously down the road
hind her. She had not scrambled half W
up the steep bank before he came in sigl
but to her relief he was not riderle
Squire Waits boy reined him in wi
difficulty, Just within view, and turning
his saddle, shouted at the top of his vol
evidently to some one in a neighbour
field
off Doctor Ainslie amt to home, wha
doY
Sarah could not hear the reply; but
boy appeared satisfied, for he quickly {
tied himself in the saddle, applied the wi