The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-12-14
UNBEL!EViHG VIOLET.

think Violet was the most unbeliev.
ing little girl that ever lived. She did
not believe at all that her dark brown
hood Tds dark brown, but black, until
she had compared it herself with pieco
Of black cloth. though her mother had
told her all along it was brown. And
she didn't believe you could catch
robin, even if you did get the aalt on it's
tail. And she didn', believe but what
if you just kept on walking-walking-
walking. you would get to the end Of
the world after avhile,-th very edqs
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 want any
end. She said she meant TO start to
walking herself some day and see.
You'll wait until you get through
going to school, won't your" asked her
brother Ed. II heard you say tho other
day that you won't have Nellie get
ahead Of you for anything. But she
will if you don't look out she'll be
clear through the eighth grade before
you get even hall way to the end of the
world! Maybe she'll be through the
seventh and into the sixth by the time
you get back. And then she'll be two
grades ahead of you all the rest Of your
days."
Violet could not help feeling rather
worried at this dreadful prophecy Of
Edo.
Perhaps it wouldn't take me as long
as all that" she said. Il don't 6eliere
it would. But l guess I'll wait, any.
way. 1t makee me tired enough :c
walk over to Aunt Nancy'e-and of
course the end Of the world is q great
deal farther than that. 30 / piU wait
till then. I'll be stronger then, sup
pose."
YEA" said Ed "and more sensble,
let ushope. BY then perhaps you won't
be quite such goouio."
"Oh, I don't believe that" answered
Violet, quickly.
Yon see for yourself, don't you, how
unbelieving she was? Well, this being
90 unbelieying was what got her into
trouble. Up to her very waist in
trouble, as you shall see.
Violet's folks lived in d mining 70.
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 eban.
doned this claim, and they left it look
ing like pond with the water all
dipped out Of it, pond with very
muddy bottom. The mud was very deep
in some parts, and don't zee Why un.
der the sun the place was allowed at
all especially in town where such un-
believing little girls 10 Tioiet lived.
But there was a rickety old fence around
three sides of it. and on the other uida
was the brook from which the minero
had obtnined their water, 80 you see
there was no danger of any one falling
in; and | suppose the inhabitants of
that town never dreamed that any one
would deliberately climb the fence and
try TO taM on the mud. That very
thing happened, though! Violet Swim.
ton tried to walk on that mud ste
didn't believe she would sink. You
see, the hot sun shining on the mud, had
caused thick crust to form on the TOP.
and the heat had also made tho crust
crack all over into what Violet called
dead little angles, squares and things,
just like the teacher made on tho black.
board.''
This is right.angle," she said, eau.
tiously stepping between two cracks
near the edge.
This 10 CIRCLE" taking another step,
"'cept it amt round enough this 10 q
square aud this is a.
20 Violetl don't 90 any further"
cried Nellie. who was looking on over
the fence in great concern. you'll
sink In ths mud, sure. Ed said this
morning it wasn't SAFE"
"Oh, pshaw don't believe it," said
Violet, putting forward her foot to otep
on q right.angled triangle.
"This u a-"hat do.you call.it-a-
Oh my l am sinking! I am! Oh
Oh OIL Nellie, come over and pull
me out, quick"
Then poor little Nellie, who had done
her best to keep Violet off from the
mud, crawled through the fence, and
tried TO rescue her friend. But she only
sank henelf-clear to the tops Of her
shoes. And there was Violet sinking
deeper and deeper. She was in over
her knees already.
Lets scream" cried Nellie, franu-
cally, "lers scream like everytbipRp'
And then they screamed. Now, once
in q while, screaming is very good
thing; this time il was. For the neigh.
bors came, before the echo dicd, almost.
1t was such dreadful scream. And
they pulled out Violet, just an she had
got to her waist in the mud, and Nellie
wriggled herself out when she saw them
coming:
Aud Violel's mother took her home.
and gave her q bath, and put her to
bed, and scolded her and kissed her, and
scolded her some more. Aud after
awhile when Ed came 10, Violet conf.
ded to him that whether there was any
end to the world or not, she didn't be.
lieve there was any bottom to it,.
Nouths 6mpanion.