Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-09-26
ON The ICE.
BY SARA Ii. ROSE.

BY SARA b. ROSE.
mo, you cannot go ont on - ice
this afternoon" said Miss Nina Gordon
with an acerbity of manner which i'll
became such a handsome, stately
lady. Il will not consent to such car
rying on any longer"
why, Auntie, what have 1 done?"
you came home from the Academy
twice this very week in Frid Trips cut
ter, I am ashamed and mortified to
say"
what of that, Aunt Nina? He is
only boy, and my school mate
"Only boy; but you are girl, and
my neice, and you must mind me. You
must turn over a new leaf, Luira."
But, Auntie, you know have turned
over new leaves lots of times; but the
new leaves always read just like the old
ones"
There, there!" cried Miss Gordon
pickering up her lips with extra sever
ity; Don't attempt any of your frivolity
with me. There, now, Luira. you have
loosened another fly from off that paper
How many times have told you to let
that fly paper alone?'
Twenty times, dare say, Auntie,
but l forget every time"
Forget? l wish it were forgetting.
Luira, fear that you have no desire for
neatness or propriety-would like, in
fact, to see my house swarming with
flies, and then invite your wild set of
schoolmates here to view the disgraceful
scene"
"Auntie, I have no desire to invite
any one here; and as for the flies, they
don't swarm much with the thermome-
ter at zero"
Cease your impertinence this mo-
ment.7
The angry lights were dancing in
Miss Gordon's fine blue eyes now, and
regretful tone crept into Luira's
voice.
~Oh, Aunt Nina, I have no desire to
be impertinent. 1 am SO sorry that
papa ever chose you to be my guardian
when my every action is so at variance
with your ideas of right. Why not take
some of the money and get me boarded
nearer the Academy, and then / would
not wish to ride, and could not NEEDLE
with the flies
"Ah! And SO you wish to get away
from my protecting care, SO that you
may be free to firt with every young
man you meet? 1 will not forget the
suggestion. and now will retire to tine
solitude of my room, and mediate over
the proper course to pursue in regard to
yourself-and, while l am gone, want
you to let those flies alone"
Luira's keen sense of the ludicrous
triumphed for a moment, and she
laughed, even as the tears rose in her
brown eyes.
Poor Aunt Nina; If it were not for
mammals caution, and the sad story
which she told me on her dying bed,
l should be tempted to run away from
here this very day. Flirt with Freddie
Trip-that fourteen-year-old boy! Why,
the poor child only brought me home
because he was coming this way. What
would she do if she knew about Frank
Dear old Frank, who dares not come
near the house for fear of her. Well,
cannot give up my life's happiness to
suit her, and do believe will 60 out
on the ice this afternoon, in spite of
her"
And it is true that the villagers agreed
with the Academy girls when they
summed up the matter in their lin this
easel not entirely exaggerated style.
Il do pity Luira Gordon. Miss Cor
don is beautiful and stylish, but she car
ries her head so high that it dizzies one
to look up at her. And her house-its
perfectly dreadful there. There isn't q
book, there isn't newspaper, there
isn't picture. It's SO neat one dares
not stir. And then those ridiculous fly
papers; Why, in mid-winter the CEN
ter-piece of the dining-room table is a
huge square of sticky fly paper, and
Lulra tells me that she sometimes real
ly has to let some of the poor captives
free to create sensation, for then, o
my, how Miss Gordon does scold."
And is it to be wondered at that Luira
was sometimes q little maynard, and
that within five minutes after Miss Cor
don had left her she was out on the
street with her fluffy Tam-o'-shanter
pulled close down over her curly locks,
on her way to the river, where all the
noon for skater.
Around the first corner she met Net
tie Mosier.
All Luira, you are the very person /
wished to see! Frank sent me to coax
Miss Gordon to let you go with us this
time. There's an ice yacht on the river
this afternoon, and everybody is out to
see it. How did you get away?7
Il ran away, Nettie."
Ran away! Why, Luira Gordon,
what an awful time you will have when
you go back"
Il dread it myself. but I just could
DOT stand it any longer
And yet Miss Gordon is kind-hearted,
and mother says that she really did once
have beau"
yes, but he put his arm along the
oack of the seat behind her in church,
and she promptly dismissed him."
The two girls laughed merrily and
then Nettie cried: "Oh, there is Frank.
The toboggan slide was visited by the
merry trio, which became q quartette
by the addition of Ned Myers, and then
they all went down to the river and
Joined the mass of skaters that were
gliding over the smooth surface, and
viewing the ice-yacht, which was being
exhibited by middle-aged gentleman
from q neighboring city.
Our little party had got him all to
themselves for q moment, and Frank
Hersey and Ned Myers were seated in
the Yacht, whose novel shape and bright
colors quite took their fancy. and were
thinking Of taking trial trip over ths