The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-02-18
Selected Story.
ONLY FIFTEEN.

| mo, Sis, you re nolther httie girI
nor baby, but just between hay and
grass, rs one may say"
Sarah gave an extra push to her al
ready we'll tied back muslin overskirt
and started for school with shoulder.
ing spark in her eye.
"It's true what father says" she so
liloquiZed as she went along. "1'm toe
old TO wear my dresses short, and toe
young to wear them long too old &c
let my hair go loose and comfortable
and too young for frizzos, pufTs and coils
And as the cows in the spring, when
hay is gone and the grass is not we'll
grown, have to put up with odds and
ends, So have TO take all Hats and
Jen's cast-of dresses and hats; or il
there is anything awfully unbecomina
to them, ! set it, whether / like it OF
not. Then, in the work, what | have
is just what everybody else hates to do
like washing the dishes and cleaning
the lamps-just what nobody gets credit
for, either, only blame for not doing
we'll"
BY this time this ambitious girl ol
ours had reached tho school house but
the teacher had an engagement, so the
card attached To the door-haudlo told
the scholars. Sarah started at once tC
retrace her steps, for it was two-mile
walk, with only here and thorc few
old apple trees to shield her from the
suns glare.
As she walked her thoughts reverted
to the mornings conversation, partly,
perhaps, because the scent Of the new
mown hay greeted her. Like any giil
of her age it struck her as a queer,
backward sort of comparison to speak
Of childhood as the time OF hay
"Oh, yes !" she exclaimed aloud, as Il
thought struck her; see how it is p
and she ut once resolved to write the
next weeks composition on that very
subject.
"Ill say" she soliloquized, that
childhood Is cared for by the general
love of father and mother. That's the
h-v, you STE But, at last, the youth
ro.s nut into TIE world and gathers
lovc !.r himself Aud ] shall give It a
u..r..i tuan, for. SOMEHOW, think
Y.a,"g people ought uot IA ho Aslfsh,
-.vch # nln sn, hut ought to gather
,ove lay loving"
What i the use cf ,aiklnE, .horst'
If / really wanta.l - i5s. us.-fui could
not. who'd ask ,ac 10 sit up with sick
people, for instance. ] couldn't oven
keel, awake all night | wi<b ! could
be snre I'll he the right SORT Of wouian,
and then, seems TO m", it might bo
beautiful 10 be wrirkled o. gray for
By that time, one is sure af ones self.
Then she suddenly stepped down
| from her mount OF moral enthusiasm
feat, alas 81 .rtAiIy accomplished, 20
hard - rgepuul iqr Ql'e",
%. fore I -: 70 - eool and gray
III like Some nice timc- aud 8ome nice
things. This muslin overSkirt and
waist are nice, and, for once, new, bnt
-~hy-what-"
She sprang quickly out of the road
in sudden terror, for she thought loose
horse was plunging furiously down the
road behind her. She had not scram
bled half way up the steep bank before
he came in sight, but TO her relief he
was not riderless Squire Waits boy
reined him in with difficulty, just with
in view, and turning in his seat, shout
ed at the top Of his voice, evidently Is
some one in neighboring field :
"If DIR. Binslie amt to home what'l
l dor
j Sarah could not hear the reply, buI
the 10y appeared satisfied, for he quick
| iy settled himself in the carriage, ap
piled the whip to the horse, and wal
out of sight in an instant.
Sarah hurried up the bank, anc
looked over the wall at the top. At NJ
great distance she gaw man lying or
the ground and three more standing by
him. In a moment size saw who il
was, and as she ran towards the grouI
she guessed the truth, which was, that
Squire Wait himself had received a
the hands Of one of his blum
dering worknen severe cut in the
leg with scythe, while moving.
The bright arterial blood was pouring
from the wound, deathlike pallor haC
overspread the sufferers face, and hi
eyes were already half-closed.
Sarah whisked her muslin overskir
over her head like flash.
Help me tear a broad bandage ou
of this p she cried,
The men were dull-looking, ploddini
Iaborers, but one OF them seemed en-
couraged by her air of determination
and in moment from the back Of tn
$ skirt a breadth was torn. Withou
any words Sarah tied strong knot i
this breadth. Then she stopped dowr
and with one great heartsinking, on
\ cry of the flesh against the spirit, sh
lifted the rent garment from the gapin
wound to see just where it was the
. she pressed the knot just above ii
If wound with all her strength.
y "John," said she, steadily, "tie th
: band under the leg, and one Of yc
others go as quick as you can for
e short, stout stick"
The blood, already affected in i
g flow by her pressure, oozed more slow
from the wound. The stick was brougl
in trice, and slipped under the ban
age where John had tied it in hai
knot,
"Now, John," said Sarah, calml
'twist the stick till you tighten Il
bandage so that the blood shall stop
together"
By this time poor Mrs. Wait, trel
r. bling and terrified, arrived on the see
with little, old-fashioned pocket be