The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-01-08
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ow, Octayia, !, said Mrs. GLAND,
ado be a little careful to-day. Don't
8fdrs Pity q sake, let your wild spirits run
away with youln Octayia GLAND, in
her pink muslin dress, tied here and
there with iaunty little bows Of ribbon,
and astraw gypsy hat garland with pink
popies, turned around, the very inoar-
nation 81 radiant glee.
Mamma. 4 said she, awhy should you
grudge me my little holiday Don't I
work behind Miss Fanshaw's counter
4 AL the year like any African slave !
Don't I lose my very identity in shirrs
and pufangs J, and toll my very finger
ends of with founces and tucks 2 Do
let me play T am child again, just this
oncei I
sosthis beautiful young Euphrosyne
ianced away leaving only the sweet
I echo Of her Laughter il the gloomy
apartment, and Mrs. GLAND sighed.
553 4. She is $50 thong tless;D said the
mother. & And Duncan Ray and Harry
Bolton are both going on this sailing
party and somehow seel as iftto-day
we're TO be the turning point Of her
life. wish she could bring herself to
like Duncan he's steady, noble-.
I souled lad, as his father was before him,
but there iAn,t lnuch outs1de show abont
And Bottoms q ussGing young
fellow, inst the sort Is attract any, girl,
But some how q can { Quite believe in
him. Qctayia says. 4 haven any knowl-
5edgeoi the World q; Well perhaps she
/ Is right. But i think y We quiet, stay at.
home bodies are sometimes gifted
with; d sort Of an instinct ii these mat
q tiers. & 5..s
The day was all sparkle and sunshine;
the excursion steamer, futtering with
i gay flags and the sound Of music, glided
majestica1ly along the sea air breathed
new rength into weary lungs and
touched feYered broWs with alchemic
j power and ali Of these overt tired, over
worked sewing girls forgot, for brief
while, that life was nothing more than .
tread mill to Them N
They laughed, they danced, they
& sang; they flung flowers into the water
that foated around the wheel house;
4 they counted the glimmering sails that
leaned up against the horizon; and
:, finally, when the. boat landed at White
Cargs, they all scattered in various d.
;rections over the silver hingled beach,
il merry pursuit Of shells, Served and
pebbles, as so many newly liberated
school children might have done. 81 5.s,
And Oetayias GLAND, the prettiest girl
4 IN all the throng. reigned as sort ;of
princess among them: ri : !3:. v
5s other Careys Cushion II said she
merrily, eohoing the words aof an an
cient salt, who was mending his nets in
4 q sunny spot, with on old pipe in his
I mouth, and q picturesqu long beard
! blowing about in [ the wind. els that
what they call yonder rock ~ I;
That ERE what they halls her by,
1 lady miss, said the; old sailer, his dim
4 eyes resting with evident appreciation
on O ctnYia's fresh young lilies ana
5 roses. And / well it's known here
+ abouts. ~ ~
But why do they call ii 80 a'' par PEI.
\ sisted the girl 81. a
Because Of the cushion, MY lady
B miss, answered the fisherman, laying
X his pipe down on the sand, out Of re-
spect to this charming young presence;
and the Mother Carey's chick ems as
circle round the point, Of q dark day,
when there's . storm coming up. It's
{ around rook, near to the top-d'ye
Ssee r. pointing his knotty forefnger
with grass and mi sses GROWN on it, in
4 a circle, like cushion. and my
\ Bweetheart-as has been dead thirty
yearsdid once. But we didn't care to
n stay there long, I tell ye. For the wind
3 howled, and the sea gulls shrieked |, and
the tide roared like 9 hungry shark
q around US, and il was as much as we
I could do to get down again with whole
bones. 4 81 s3ss &!
hy,n said Bolton, ss.it doesn't look
such IS height. =
Mebbe not ebbe not II said the
asold man. s A quarter Of a mile makes
o deal ., difference, in the looks Of
things And them as ain i used to dis
tances can alcnlate. z sS 5,s
And he went on with his work, while
the little gronp stro1Ied on, bright Oc-
taviatwith her rib ons and cur1s float
4 ing, Bolton carrying her shawl, and
Duncan Ray walking silently On the
other side. Set isii
And just then another gay throng
overlook them, and there was q discus
sion as to where the site should be for
their impromptu banquet; and present
III Duncan Ray looked around.
s;S Where's o ctava ~ he asked.
Every ody had some answer. to make;
1 Auriette Hall had seen her not five
minutes before /; Helen Ray was quite
certain that abe was hiding behind the
ruined boat house on the edge Of the
beach Louis Field ding suggested that
she had probabl gone back to the
steamer for a scent; bot tie, or a hand.
4 kerchisf, Of some such Strife.i fss3
She II be- here present. said they.
IN the meantime Let us get the lunch
reed for there's q dark little edge Of
cloud down IN the west, that the Cap
tain says be don't half Ike the looks
And where all this time, was Octayia
GLAND sgs
shewas springing up the steep and
winding ledge Of rock, quicker and
lighter than any mountain chamois, her
vail floating back like a white wreath OF
mist an exquisite scarlet dying her