Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-10-16
FAIRY WORSHIP"
The Picture Which q Young Artist
il 20 Paint

The sun was nigh its setting. Out
over the level, shining sea he seemed
10 lie: blood-red and rudy purple
cleaned the throbbing waves of the
horizon; rosy and golden came She
ripping wavelets from that distant
path Of the sea to the yellow sands OF
the Manx coast. A path, winding up
a headland, led from the western shores
to a white road. The red CLEAN of the
sunset was upon it and the sparse
heather landward glowcd ruddY AS
some girls sauntered lettering along
the path.
There were three Of them, sisters.
One was Il child, Ne,Nie; the others.
Meta and Kate Qualtrough, were on
the happy borderland Of girlhood and
w%omanhood. We have no picturesque
national garb Of a foreign land where
with to set them forth-they were
dressed as hundred Ct girls in London
might be dressed, though they came
out of so pure a ManX race AS to be
proud of the day when English people
were looked upon rs foreigners in Man.
Nessie was full of life; she danced
ahead, or she fingered behind. she
sprang to right or left over the broken
ground of the headland; what her sis
,crs waited for had evidently no strong
hold on her thoughts. At last ShC
struck in with this:
Yen be utterly foolish, YOU girls
idling here any longer for those lads,
Her accent bore tine North country Ill
and the soft. sweet tones of the Man
people. ''Do you think they'll he lcav
irg their fishing for the
"His,,,' commanded Meta.
The girls were all at play in a sense
but it was play with a serious vein i
il to Meta.
''Eh? I'm full Of respect. and vii
Nessic threw out her arms and made
gay. bowling reverence in a circlin
fashion TO the hills and the gree
mountains. ''But the boys are not 81
and I'm thinking they'donly be hinde
ing Us if they were here
.'Still, we promised" Kate put i
And they promised, too; and if The
break their promise we'll be free fro
ours, | say. DO come, we'll be awful
late, and there's a lot to do
Then they walked ON Il bit taste
Nessie was out of sight, but yet thu
were closely following on her stel
SO many turns and bends and shoulde
are there to these ManN headlands tn
one may be easily out of sight.
shout burst forth into the still. SUNNI
air, and the next moment. Nessie. W
waving arms and with yellow hair f
ing as the light wind caught her, W
seen on the topmost bit of green.
Boat ahoy!" and her arm gestic
lated. There was a boat skimmi
across the bay-Peel bay. One unbc
netei head was in the stern of
round, deep boat; ii belonged to
fisher lad. who was the working oh,
Of three scarlet-capped youths. One
these last wa a Qualtrough, a cou
If the girls: the others were his frien'
lads who a year or two back had be
with him at King Williams College
Castletown, but who, being Engli
were only in Man for a summer ja'
now.
And now ii had been for the delec
ton of these same young Englishn
that the doings of that midsummer
were being made so much Of.
''Do they mean to land or no
asked Kate.
Undoubtedly, was Meta's decis
word. ''Do they not know it is
them we are making this ~delayP"
IN a very short time the boat was
of sight, which means that she was '
under the headland and landing
crew in White Strand cove. Some
moments more and three young me
boating %flannels, and each with a 70
pea-jacket atop, appeared from 81
bcring up the face of the headli
Then the party went on o swi
First on to and across the white
lit roadway. then down an opp'
lane, rough and stony and unten
This lane finally lost itself on n I
common, where short, sweet, m
grass was patched irrcgularly
sayagery of gorse and furzc and str
waving hracken. Meta, wal
apart, pulled the bracken; Kate
Nessie, with energy OF a o
alive and less solitary humor. bad
young men bring out their knives
slash away messy branches OF
and furze.
where is all this to 90 nowP' a
Doyle Philipson, the elder Of the
English brothers. '.ls this con
Tic haunt Oft the enemyp'
twinkle lighted up a would-be {
face.
20. don'tr' Meta's exclamation
Instructive.
There cried the Manxman o.
party. Take Metals horror for
keynote. Philipson. or you'll be &c
e.sil 70 danger Of tho svil inho'
- th~ heur"