The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-12-01

NtftCr was Mrs. ItffIr'< <i<tCr. Lfxt was lfT
daughter who lived with her ard took carr
OF her. They lived in Derby. AMI Derry
was fourteen miles away. IL seemed long
distance 10 Ann Mary, and she felt sure thai
her grandparents could not come hume t.lIi
night. she looked around tie empty room,
ard sighed. After while she ~at down and
pulled Of the snowy socks; size thought she
might as weli cat her dinner although shc lid
not feel so hungry ~ she had expected.
Everything was Oh the table but the turkey
and plum-pudlng. Ann Mary supposed
these were Ia the oven keeping warm, the
door was alar. But, when she looked, they
were not there. SEe Went into the pantry;
they Were not there either. IL was very
strange; there was THE dripping-pan In which
the turkey had been baked, on the back 81 tho
stove. with some gravy In H.; and there
was the empty pudding-dsh on the hearth.
'sWhat has Grandma done with the turkey
and the plum-puddlng!' said Ann Mary
aloud.
She looked again In the pantry; then she
went down celar--there seemed 10 be 80
few places In the house in which IL was rca-
sonable 70 search for turkey and aplum-
pudding
Finally she gave IL up, and sat down %
dinner. There was plenty OF squash, and
potatoes, and turnlps, and onions. and beeis,
and cranberry-sauce, and pies; out IL was no
Thanksgiving dinner without turkey and
plunl-puddng. III was like great flourish
OF accompaniment without any song
Ann Marry did As well ~ she could; she
put some turkey-rayy on her potato and
Tiled up her plate with vegetables; but she
did not enjoy the dinner. She felt more ard
more lonely, too. She resolved that after
she had washed up the dinner dishes, and
changed her dress, she would 20 over o.
Loretta Adams. IL was quite a piece az
work, washing the dinner dishes, there were
SO many pans, and kettles; twas the middle
e.f ha nff kgb m
Ann Mary put on her best plaid dress and
tied her best red ribbons on her braiis, and
Il was four o'clock before she started for
Lorctta's.
Loretta lived in n white cottage about hail
a mile away toward the village. The front
yard had many bushes in IL, and the front
path was bordered with box; the bushes
were now mounds Of snow, and the box was
indicated by two snowy ridges.
The house had u shut-up look; the sitting
room curtains were down. Ann Mary went
around 10 the side door; but IL was locked.
Then she went up the front walk between
the snowy ridges Of box, and tried the front
door; that also was locked. The Adamse>
had gone away. Ann Mary did not know
what to do. The tears stood In her eyes.
and she choked a little. She went back and
forth between the two doors, and shook End
pounded; she pcckel around the corner Of
the curtain into the sitting-room. She could
see Loretta's organ, with the music book, aud
all the familiar furniture, but the room wore
an utterly deserted air.
Finally, Ann Mary sat down on the front
doorstep, after she had brushed off the snow
little. She had made up her mind 10 wait
little while, and see II the folks would net
come home. She had on her red hood, aud
her grandmother's old plaid shawl. She
pulled the shawl tightly around her,
and mufilcd her face In IL; IL was
extremely cold weather for sitting on
a doorstep. just across the road was
low clump Of birches: through and
above the bircllcs the sky showed red and
clear where the sun was setting. Everything
looked cold and bare and dcsolate to the little
rrl who was trying 10 keep Thanksgiving.
Suddenly she heard little cry, and Loreita's
white eat came around the corner OF the
house.
kitty, Kitty, Kitty" called Ann Mary.
She was very fond OF Lorctta's eat; she had
none OF her own.
The eat came close and brushed around
Ann Mary. SO she took IL up In her lap.
and wrapped the shawl around IL, and felt
a little comfortcd
She sat there on the doorstep and held the
eat until IL was quite dusky, and she was
very stiff with the cold. Then she put down
the cat, and prepared TO 20 home. But she
had not gone far along the road when she
found out that the eat was following her.
The little white creature founderrd through
the snow nc her heels, and moved constantly
Sometimes II dartcd ahead aud waited until
she came up but IL did not seem willing 10
be carried in her arms.
When Ann Mary reached her own house the
lonesome look Of Il sent a chill all over her; she
was afraid 10 go In. She made up ner mind
to go down 70 Sarah Beans and ask whether
she could not stay all night there.
SO she kept on. and Loretta white cat still
followed her. There was no light in Sarah
Beans. Ann Mary knocked and pounded.
but IL was OF no use; the old woman had
gone 10 bed, and she could not make her hear.
Ann Mary turned about and went home I;