The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-01
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A MOUNTAIN d

i~iAAhani, pul we never quite made
her one of us. She was such a shy
little thing, and blushed if you spoke
to her, and acted afraid of her own
voice, and o print dresses all of
the time, and never was invited to our
parties.
She lived in a tumble-down old
house which had been q very grand
mansion once.
The Tinkhams had been great peo-
pie IN my grandmothcr's day. No
thing was left of their grandeur now,
however, for there had been wine IN
one generation, and whiskey in the
next, and delirum trcmens in the
next.
Rays father was the third. She
had q wretched lime keeping home
for hun. Her mother was dead.
1--WE" were the girls in Mrs. Blanl's
private school.
A dozen Of us were out on the front
yeranda onc morning. We were all
taking at once. Some one had said
The high school girls were better
sefo,ars than we were.
"Very well. So they are"
-his was Kate Avery, and she was
standing by the lattice where the
n.orning-glory vines grew, and where
a hundred clusters of little bells
swung-blue and purple and rose
pink. II Kate was anything, she was
honest, though she was handsome
too.
1--WE have music and French con-
~yersation, and Lou has q ph@ton, and
l have two donkeys, and Q~ueenic has
been 70 Europe. but" lowering her
voice, sits an awful secret, though
it's the truth, the high school girls
are miles and miles beyond us in Lat
in and mathematical
"Indeed they are," said l.. "I,m
what the madamoiselle calls an .idgit'
in arithmetic. l really suppose that
two and two make four, but if one of
those girls was to tell me that they
made i've, l shouldn't dare dispute
her."
1.-THE fact is" said Kate, alittle
Tinkham is the only one who is sure
of her MULTIPLICATION table. But then
she doesn't really belong TO us. She
~anld not DO here If 1t were not for
sweeping anu 3ssAtinq to pay her tut
ton. There she Ia this mrnuro,'
A small tired looking figure in q
coarse dress came in sight around the
corner ; it was Rachel with a load of
books in her hands.
"She has worn that dress every day
for three months" said Lou Stead
man IL verify believe she goes to bed
when it is done up"
"My dear, she can't, she has to wash
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Quccnie," cried Kate. 1t was a gen.
tie, graceful girl who came walking
fast TO overtake Ray, caught step as
she overlook her, and began to talk
pleasantly to her. "Does she not
look nice in that seal brown suit?-
And isn't it just like her to carry
Rays books?"
Quccnie's real name was Alice. You
would have known why we called her
Queenie, if you had seen her walk be-
side little Tinkham this morning,
open the gate, st and still, erect, with
that grand way of hers for the girl to
pass through. / believe we all rather
worshiped Queenie.
Kate met them with her forehead
all tied up in hard knots, and asked
Ray, didn't she want to be an an
GEL and help her with those dreadful
fractions.?"
So they two sat on the doorstep,
and the rest went< into the school
room. Then Lou called out to Ray
to como and dust her desk. She said
it "wasn't half busted" Queenie
0aid
"Ray is busy, 1 will do it " and she
silent, and looking prouder than ever,
busted Louis desk herself.
1t was that morning, Friday, that
Mrs. Bland told us that tomorrow
would be "Mountain Day."
All the schools i'll our town drive
TO tho mountain once q year. OuI
day always comes in September.
This time Mrs. Bland couldn't go,
30 she sent along her cousin to matron-
ize u.s. She was a fidgety person
afraid OF spiders and no good any
way.
"Wo are to start at nine O'clock
Queenic said. 'Itay can you be ready
so early2'
Queenic was a new scholar. She
didn't know that Ray never went
with us to such places. Now she
flushed and replied:
Il don't think l a go to the noun
TAIN"
Certainly, You are going," AL
ice said in her queenlicst way. "Ii
you can't go tomorrow we will put
off going"
saturday is my day to clean the
echool-room," Ray answered.
GSyVo usIl rlaa,, ~ Tatto hoos,, thse
minute" and off came Queenio's cuffs
and Hates, all the cuffs, in fact. We
went to- work and had such fun sweep
ing and scrubbing. just imagine
Kate and Queenic washing the floor
They did it we'll too.
"Now, remember" Queonie said the
last thing, Everybody is to wear her
oldest dress. And, Ray, would you
be kind enough to bring hard-boiled
eggs Tor your luncheon? Ono apiece
for us all round?"
Now 1 think it was just beautiful OF
Quccnic to think of that. She knew
little Tinkham couldn't bring frosted
cake and French rolls as the rest of us
did.
So she spoke of tho eggs. We all
remembered that Ray had wonderful
chickens. l am sure the word about
old dresses, too, was meant to help
her.
Tho next morning Obcd Taintcr
came round with his uncovered omni-
bus and his two great horses and pick
ed us up.
We went after Ray last. She was
standing in front of tho old house, be-
side tho tumblc-down gate, with her
basket of eggs in her hand.
She looked perfectly happy, and her
dress was so clean and smooth Kate
whispered to me;
aThat dress has been washed and
ironed since last night. Just think Of
itl"