Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-08-07
THE HERALD.
NTTYS RASPBERRY FLOAT.


bad curdled all the milk in the
dairy.
'Th cake is all ready said Mary,
sitting down Ia Der perplexity. But
what else are we 10 have? Coffee is
too bot, and lemonade is too much
like q fair. Kit can't you think
OF some little light thing, easy to
make, to take the place of ice
cream !?
Thus appealed to, her cousin up
raised her head from Daniel De-
Fonda,' and said, taoughtfully, DO
YOU like 4 float?
w hat is hoat?
It takes eggs; mamma makes it
p'len for US at home evenings. She
beats the whites of eggs up like a
grea' snowy mountain aud puts in
sugar and then she beats ia straw.
berriee, or rasp3errios or jelly TO
make it pretty color aud TO flavor
it. We eat in saucers like ice
cream
1T sounds good said Mary with
little revival of hope, 'and we
have oc cans of eggs. But the straw
berries are all gone. There are
raspbcrries, to Re sure, down in the
lots. But burn 80 if | go out in
the sun, and the servants are all
busy--no | am afraid we can't
make it,
I'll pick the berries, said Kitty,
jumping mp, Il would like nothir g
better than - stroll in the lots, and
| am so brown already the sun
won't hurt me-
'Bal you will be so tired remon-
strated Mary, looking admiringly
at the merry brunette face, 'and
want you to look your very pretti.
est tonight 50 that our young men
may lose their hearts,
Il think | would rather have rssp-
berries than hearts, replied Kitty,
saucily, az she put on her hat, took
q pail, and with a few words of d..
rectlon. went down the garden and
out through a gate into the back
lot.
1t was burning July day, bu,
Kitty was child OF the sun and
she liked it. She had not been in
the sun for long time, and she
fairly reveled in the feeling of the
grass under her feet, the whirr OF
the grasshoppers and the little es.
cort OF brown butterflies that fut
tered all the time Just ahead of her.
'Here are the raspberries,' she
said to herself as she came to the
low stone wal; not very many of
them either-l SUPPOSE they picked
good many of them for supper
last night. But will CLEAN as l
CO.
81 she CLEANED as she went. but
the berries lOere scarce, and the old
wall was in a tumble down condi.
ton, and there seemed to be more
berries in the next lot, so she climb.
ed over and wandered on, meeting
with better success. A lane ran by
the lot she was now in and black.
eyed young lady walking through
it stared curious'y at Kitty as she
passed.
Il believe | like birds better than
| do people, was Kitty's mental
commcnt on this; 'you dear little
robins singing so over in those ap.
pie trees, mean to go over and
watch your housekeeping, and rest
little while for my pail is almost
FULL
The apple trees were 10 corner
of the lot and when Kitty reached
them she found a pretty bubbIing
spring there and rocks covered
with lovely lichens.
'Uncle Robert has good taste,
she said, to keep such charming
little nook here And she thre "
herself down in the shadow OF one
quite tall rock. and famed herself
with her hat. She was in a mood
to thoroughly erJoy everything,an
it seemed to her that she had never
seen the sky so beautiful before nor
such beautiful clouds
Il would like to marry q farmer!'
she said impulsively aloud and to
her utter dismay, pleasant, manly
voice on the other side of the rock
responded:
Would you2 That's quito a rare
choice, nowadays
Kitty sprang up and started TO
run, when of all calamities, in her
haste she upset her pail of raspber.
ries, and away they rolled in every
4 direction. With burning cheeks
she began to pick them up, for it
would aover do to disappoint Mary
about the float. and she throw an
indiguan: glance at the young man
who now came round in full view,
and said he begged her pardon, he
ought not to have spoken but it
really seemed impolite not to an
swer.
Your politeness spilled my ber-
rles, you see,' she replied rather
sharply.
4 ALLOW me- he exclaimed instant.
10, and grasping the pail he began
to pick up the berries with her.
They worked together in perfect
silence for few minutes, hunting
the berries am ag the grass and
down 10 the green soft moss. One
great black raspberry had caught
in SPIDERS web; they reached tor
it in the same second, their hands
touched, their eyes met, and the
young man smiled; and so also, 10
spite of herself, did Kitty.
( DO forgive me- he said; 'you
shall not be one berry the loser by
I it. And he rescued two on the
brink of the spring.
Il will, answered Kitty, but you
must never tell the farmers
After that, OF course it was too
absurd to be formal, and like two
happy young creatures in the hey
day of youth, they made frolic OF
the whole thing and laughed over
every berry Kitty told him what
she picked them for, and for whom
and he said he was we'll AGO TAINTED
with Miss Wylie.
Perhaps then. you will be there
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