The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-12-28
UNBEL!EvING VIOLET.

think Violet was the most unbelie--
ing little girl that sver lived. She did
not believe 81 a!l that her dark bro...
hood Tas dark brown, but black, until
she had compared it heraelf with piece
of black cloth. though her mother had
TOLD her all along it was brown. And
she didn't believe you could catch a
robin, even if you did get the salt ou its
tail. And she diin't believe but hat
if you just kept on walking walking
walking, you would get to thc> end OF
the world after awhile, the very edge
Of the end, where it stopped, and moth.
ing was left but air to step on. She did
not believe that was true at all, what
the big Cobb girl said, that you couldn't
get TO the end because there wasn't any
end. She sail abe mean, to start to
walking herself some day and see.
you'll wait until you get through
going to school. Won't you:" asked her
brother Ed. Il heard you say the other
day that you won't have Nellie get
ahead Of you for anything. But she
will If you don't look out shell be
clear through the eighth grade before
you get even hall way to the end of the
world. Maybe she'll he through the
seventh and into the sixth by tho time
you get back. And then she'll be two
grades ahead Of you all the rest Of your
days"
Violet could not hel, feeling rather
worried at this dreadful prophecy Of
Ed'a.
Perhaps it wouldn't take me as long
as all that" she said. 81 don't believe
it would. But guess III wait, any
way. II makes mo tired enough to
walk over to Aunt Nancy's-and Of
course the end Of the world is great
deal farther than that. So | uiW wait
till then. III be stronger then, sup-
pose."
YES" said Ed "sna more =en#ible.
let us hope. BY then perhaps You won't
be quite such goosie.'
"Oh, | don't believe that" nnawatel
Violet, quickly.
You see for yourself, don't you, how
unbelieving she was? Well, this being
60 unbelieving was what got her into
trouble. Up to her very waist in
trouble, "A you shall see.
Violet's folks lived in n mining re
gion, aud about two blocks from her
home there was great space of ground,
where the miners had been digging for
copper ore. But they had recently sban.
doned this claim. aud they left it look
ing like u pond with the water all
dipped out of it, q pond with a very
muddy bottom. The mud was very deep
in some parts, and don't see Why un.
der the sun the place was allowed at
all, especially III Il town where suohh uu.
believing little girls - H;ciet iiE=i.
But ti,sro was d rickety old fence around
MI <,f nd al
was tho brook from which the miners
had obtained their water, 40 YOU ace
there waa no danger Of any one falling
in; and I suppuse the inhahitants cf
that town never dreamed that any one
would deliberately climb the fence aud
try TO tuaK on the mud. That very
thing happened, though! Violet Swim.
ton tried to walk on that mud ale
didn't believe she would sink. You
Gee, the hot sun shining on the mud, had
caused thick crust to furm ON the top,
and the heat had also made the crust
crack all over into what Violet called
dead little angles, squares and things,
Just like tue teacher made on the black.
board"
"This is right.angle," she said, eau
'S'nusly stepping between two cracks
near the edge.
This 10 ID circle" taking another step,
"'cept it amt round enough this 10 a
square and this is a.
20 Violet! don't go any further"
cried Nellie, who was looking on over
the fence in great concern. You'll
sink in the mud, cure. Eli said this
it wasn't safc.''
"Oh, pshaw don't believe it," said
Violet, putting forward her foot to step
on right angled triangle.
This is a-"hat doyou cal, it-a-
Oh my! ON sinking! I am! Oh!
Oh Oh! Nellie, come over and pull
me out, quick"
Then p.Dr little Nellie, who had done
her best To keep Eiulet Off from the
mud, crawIed through the fence, and
tried to rescue her friend. But she only
sank herself-ciear to the tops Of her
eheee.. Asd there was Violet sinking
deeper and deeper. She was in over
her knees already.
Lets scream" cried ,Hellie, ,frauti.
ei'ly, "let's scream like everyahing!'
Aud then they screamed. Now, opce
In while, screaming is very good
thing; this time it was. For the mel Oh.
bora came, before the echo died, almost.
1t wzs such dreadful scream. And
they pulled out Violet. just as she had
got to her waist in the mud, aud Nellie
wrigsled herself out when she saw them
coming.
And Violet's mother took her home,
md gave her bath. and put her to
bed, and scolded her and kissed her, and
'colded her some more. And after
awhile when Ed came in, Violet conf.
led to him that whether there was any
md to the world or not, abe didn't be.
ieve there was any bottom to it,
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