Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-07-17
"a A,tSECOND TRIAL. !.

| entered it, rather tardy. Finding tho
choice soats in tho centre of tho audience
ROOM already taken, pressed forward, look
ing tothe right md to the left for avaoancy
Oq.tho very front row of seats found ono.
Hero little girl moved along to make
room for me, looking iuto my face with
large gray eyes, whose brightness was sof-
tened BY very long iashes Her faoc wac
opons nsand fresh as q newly blown rose bo-
fore sunrise. Again and again found my
9'yas na rose like face, and each
meet M may eyes J%eea mJ%esa ,naiIa nait smiling, , to
to .ldsnc. Evidently the ess. SrSs as isaty ~, z
,-anake up" with me. Aud whcn,i ra ~ ~
Ina bright smile, she returned my droppeN
handkerchief, and said "Thank you!h. We
seemed fairly introduced. Other persons,
now coming into the scat, crowded me quite
close up against the little girl, so that VIC
soon felt very we'll acquainted.
."Thcrc's going to be great crowd" she
said to me.
Eyes," l replied; "peopfe always like to
sep how school boys arc made into men,"
Her face beamcd with pleasure aud pride
as she said: n
"My brothers going to graduate; he's
going to speak; I've brought these flowers
to,throw to him"
They were not green house fayoritcs; Just
old fashioned domestic flowers, such US VIC
associate with the dear, grand-mothers,
'but," thought, ''thcy will seem sweet
and beautiful to him for his little sisters
sake" ,s.,
"ThaHis my brother" sho went OIL poiut.
ing With her nosegay.
tIFho ono u;tb tbo 1;otk L,:.2J /.
"Oh no" Hhc said, smiling aud shaking
her hoad in innocent reproof; "not that
homcIy ono with rcd hair; that handsome
one, with brown wavy hair. His oyos look
brown, too; but they nre not---they arc
dark blue. There! he's got his hand up to
his head now. You SEQ him, don't you?"
ln an eager way she looked from inc to
him, aud from him to me, as if some i'm
portant fate depended upon my identifying
hor brother.
~ SEQ him." I said. Giles very good
looking brother"
eyes, ho is beautiful" she said, with
attlcss delight; sand he's SO good and
studies SO hard. lie has taken care of me
ever sinco mamma died. Here is his name
on the programme. lie is not the valedic-
tonarian, but he has an honor for all that"
saw in the little creatures familiarity
with these technical college terms that she
had closely identified herself with her
brothers. studies, hopes and successes.
'"lle thought, at first" she continued,
'iiiat he would write On the "Romance of
Alonastic Life"
What strange sound these long words
had, whispered from her childish lips!
Her interest in her brothers work had
stamped them on the childs memory, and
to her they were ordinary things.
"But, them" she went on, Hhc decided
that he would rather wri,o on Historical
Parallcls,' and he's got real good grafton,
and he says it beautifully. lIo has said it
to me great many times. most know
i:by heart. Oh! it begins SO pretty and SO
grand. This is the way it bcgins," she
added, encouraged by the interest she must
have seen 10 my face: "Amd tho permuta~
tions and combinations Of tho actors and
the forces which make up tho groot kalci-
doscope of history, We often End that turn
Of dcstiny's hand"
'.Why, bless tho baby!' thought, look
ing down into hcr bright, proud face. ]
can't describe how very odd and selfish i,
did seem to have those sonorous words roll
Jog ou. Of tho smiling infantile mouth.
The band, striking up, put an end to the
quotation and the condolences.
As the exercises progressed, aud ap-
proachcd nearer and nearer, the effort on
which all her interest was concentrated, my
little friend became excited and restless
l1cr eyes grew larger and brighter, two
deep red spots glowed on her checks. She
touched up the flowers, manifcstIy making
tho offering ready fur the shrine.
"Now, it's his turn" she said turning Ia
INC face in which pride, and delight, and
anxiety seemed about equally mingled
But when the overture was played through,
and his name was called, tho child seemed
in hor cagerness, to forget and oil the
earth beside him. She rosc to her feet aud
leaned forward for better view of her be
loved, as ho mounted tho speakers staod.
knew by her deep breathing that her hearl
was throbbingin her throat. [ knew, TOO,
by tho way her brother came up the stops
and to the front, that he was trembling
Tho hands hung limp; his iocc was pnlid
and tho lips blue as cold. folt anxious
The child, too, seemed to discern that
things we're not well with him. Something
like foar sbowcdin hor fuce.
He made aa automatic bow. Thon q
bewildercd, struggling look oame into his
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