The Red Cloud chief., 1886-08-13
A QUEER AUNT.
How Sho Tried to "POlish" Her
Two NioceS.

"Cachug! cacl,ug! cachug" sang
the churn.
"whippoorwill! whippoorwill.
When you hear the first whippOOrwilrs
song"
sang the maiden who piled the dashcr
through the foamy cream.
1t was in the cool of 4 summer morn
ing. The family breakfast had been
taken while dusk was yet on the land
scapc. and the flies yet doing On the
kitchen ceiling. Then. ~ Suc cleared
the table. Dell had fastened to bring
from the cool cellar the cream. in dcwy
crooks; had hurried it. with splash and
thud. into the stone churn, that the
butter might be finished while yet the
mornings breath WAS %unhcatcd. and
sweet with the sweetness Of rose and
honcysucklc. Surely it would be fair
and fragrant. the butter of such an
hour.
The churn stood to its middle in 4
vessel of fresh water. A c%hcrry-trcc.
l~ow-brsnchcd and gnarlcd. ovcrsprcad
the girl at the dasher. and crowded its
bright fruit against the caves and on
to the shingled roof. Robins and saucy
bluc-jays were fitting and flirting
among the branches. shaking down the
dcwdrOps. with now and then a bleed
ing cherry. dropped from the bcaks.
Slowly the white light was stealing
up the sky. showing adown the gar
den-walk the great blotchcd tOuch-mc-
nOts and crimson peoples and low
blooming pctunias. every cOrolla and
leaf bending under the heavy dew;
showing the tree wind-break like q
castled wall. and. beyond the break. tho
meadow lands. stretching out and out.
till the sky stopped down and stopped
them.
''CachuS! cachug! cachus." sang
the iashcr. thick of speech from the
ciinging butter.
"Mcct me. oh meet me.
when you hear the first w~hippoorwilrs
song"
sang the maiden.
why. Dell. hat butter must be
GOMEZ Sue called. 81 know it must
be by the chug sound"
Dell lifted the cover; a warm breath
came up from the dapplcd milk; all
the dashcr's length to the hand WAS
ileckcd with butter: all the churn's
walls were specAed with it.; it chung in
beads Of pale yellow to the down side
of the lid; it floatcd in islands on the
milk. Dclrs strongly muscled hand
turned the dashcr till the little butter
islands were masscd into large ones.
Dashcs of fresh water rinsed down the
struggling giObuics from the lid and
.churn-wails. and cooled the. warm
milk. Then Deli went to the garden.
10 weed the bect-bed and to train she
I~ca-vincs up the brush When she
came back to the churn. she brought
long. bright radishcs. silver onions
and cool punches Of curled lettuce.
She had sailed and worked the but
ter, and had just got it into the mold
when the roll of wheels was heard.
Both girls ran to the window. At the
gate was a buggy. and from it at that
moment was climbing \ m
Who a it be coming here SO
carly?" said Dell.
WHO on earth?" echoed Sue.
"Therci She's sending the buggy
AWAY. SO she means TO stay"
The girls suatched off their kitchen
sprons. aad made some passes at their
hair.
MAY he it's our fortune" said
hell. tying on = clean aproa.
IL hope it is" said Sue. "for I'm
tired IT teamwork"
Sue weat to the door TO receive the
strange woman; the first glance at the
face framed in the white ruchings Of
the green bonnet showed that the face
was a strange ont. The visitor Wa
tall and thin. with very light hair. pale
blue eyes and . parchmoat-like akin.
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