Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-17

o Sue! Little suel may your pathway be
bright,
strewn with roses and violets blue;
May your dear little heart always throb with
deligh
May it ever be loving and true.
Jessie HoWd,d BcU, IN Watcltman.
A BERRY AND FISH STORY.
The Laughing Time Which Excited the
Wonder of Two Little Girls.
Two little girls, with checked sun
bonnets on their heads and tin pals in
their hands, were walking along the
sidewalk of a certain town in Maine.
One was named Lizzie Pulsifer, and the
other Hannah Cooke. Lizzie was eight
years old; so was Hannah. I would
mention the name of the town, but
they are both women now, with little
| girls of their OWL, and they might not
like to be laughed at. Did l tell you it
was a spring morning? Well, it was in
early May. When they reached Fred
| Starke's house, Fred, who was out in
| the yard, screamed:
"Good morning, girls! where are you
going?"
"We're going blueberrying," said
Hannah.
"Ha! ha! hal" was Frcd's reply. 81
hope you'll get your pals full. Blue
berrying! Ha! ha! ha"
"Wcll, I think we SHALL" replied Liz
zie. 81 know where they used to be
very thick"
you dor' said Fred. II hope they
will be thick aow. You'd b.tter 60
fishing. That's whatI'm going to do"
And he turned away, still laughing
heartily.
When they left Fred the girls walked
along quietly again until they reached
tho railroad.
1--WE shall have to walk along on the
track a little ways said Hannah; 'ibut
we a watch fer trains"
They walked some time, stepping
from sleeper to sleeper, until Lizzie saw
smoke in the distance. Hannah said it
was a train coming, and that they must
hurry off the track as fast as they could.
So, long before the train arrived, they
had climbed.,a fence and were in q pretty
pasture IN the edge of the woods.
They looked around for blueberries.
They found plenty of lovely pink-and-
white arbutus Cor, as they called them,
M~ay-fowers), and great punches of
purple vidsets, and white houstonias
with their yellow eyes, and ground nut
blossoms; and en- bushes which looked,
Hannah said, very much like blueberry
bushes, they found pretty white bell
shaped flowers, just tinted with pink,
but they couldn't find any blueberries.
They picked the young checkerbcrry
leaves which were just peeping out of the
ground; and at last, getting bolder, they
streyed a little way into the woods and
gathered some lovely ferns. But not a
~blueberry was to be seen.
"lt's queer" said Hannah. 81 Won
der where the blueberries are. I know
this is the place where they used to be
SO thick, cause that's the very stump
mother climbed over. She couldn't climb
the fence anywhere else, you know,
cause twas so high. But We'll keep
on searching"
just then the town-clock, in the dis
lance, struck.
"Oh. it's eleven O'clock" exclaimed
Hannah, who had counted each stroke
aloud, land mother told US to be home
at twelve. We shall have to start,
and we haven't got a single BURBERRY.
What DO YOU s'pose made your Aunt
Sarah laugh so, when 1 asked her if
we could stay till we got our pals
full?"
"IdoA'tknow," said Lizzie, thought
fully; land Fred laughed, too, when we
told him we were going blueberryine.
What was he laughing at?"
cob! l don't know, I'm sure" said
Hannah; "he's always laughing. But
L don't care. We've had a good time,
any way"
They climbed the fence again, and
found themselves close to the ditch hv
the side OF the railroad. The SPRING
rams had filled it with water. They
could not resist the temptation to take
or their shoes and stockings and wade
IN 1t. They We're having the best of
time of all then, when Lizzie exclaimed:
"Hannle, we might catch some fish.
See! there's one. Let's try.n
I'VE haven't any hooks" Objected
Hannah. o'oo
"Weil, we might hold our pals and
catch some;' and Lizzie held hars
against the running water, and, sure
:S"' ~ oauSH q llCtle one that was
coming down with the current. ooh,
hannle perhaps we can get enough
to Try for d%inner!'' she cried.
She put her fish up on the bank in a.
sa1e place and then she and Hannah
went to fishing in good earnest.
1t was rather Slow work after that.
Dull, When Hannah had caught three
n Lizzie three, they heard tho clock
striking twelve. o'A
80, with their punches of flowers
Terms and checkerberry leaves, and
tnelr pals OF fish, they started for
nome. lnelp dresses We're draggled
they carried their shoes in their hands
uney did not dare to take time to mt
for dinner. D0' W lrleo
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