The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-12-20

BLUBBBRRIES.

Deh6ie and Z were standing on Sunset
Rock watching forest fire on the side Of
I'D 5h=.snagunk Debhie was crying
& great tree size had been very fond Of
had bafss into red blaze, changed 70 pink
eshes, aad dropped out Of sight as We
gaEed
esnnot bear 70 see Il, Hhe said. hid
ug her face on my shoulder.
No matter. Debbie, p sid. ssTherell
81 plenty Of blueberries next summer.
1ou inncw there always are the year after
snose fires and I'm e famous for eating
9i1ebeEry pie a. you are for msking il. %
But Deb1ie would not lssgh.
here ealsays blueberries enough. -
she sid. .'Bat ] loved that tree-the
tree We ST under when"
hen ! asked you 10 be my wife. &.
sad Z s'And yoa said yes, otherwise I
should moi have made that remark about
bluebarry pies
But I liked the tree, TOO, for all that.
De1bie took things Of that sort yerT
hard. she could mol bear to see the
flowers fade in autumn, or the grass
grow brown. She often said that she be-
iieged the green things growing had
souls.
She had been Just Ike that ever since
she was baby. when she petted every
thing n the place The calves, the
lambs, the hitie piglets. even the old
o.1ck hog 10 his sly came IN for ashare
o her favor. though be was She mott IN
- creature alive. And REMINDER
tt-ii7- - Thanksgiving Day-fhe turkey
tlat gracaa the feast had been herepeciaI
iaFozlte-she absented herself from
table, and was found, after long search
and much alarm. hiding n the garnet.
can touch hlm, mother, she con
lessed- Il emit We have been too
i1endls."
An odd clili, the farmers wives
declared, and thani1e2 Heaven their own
.lac more plain common sease and less
imagination But even then. 10 nv fan
Is De5lie Doane was the sweetest. pref
nest creature alive. A slender, blue
eyed fair-haired uisp Of a cbId. as light
on ner feet as any bird. she knew all /
e birds - re wood. il seemed TO me. [
~ rlaese zaeT 7estsd, aud / never Cared I
- ane. had a boys natural brutal I
-. y :. c9ursz, but for Debbie's sale l !
49, Iii L died a NATURAL
death WITH - u - We lived ia thai
pleasant place anoFg the moantaias--
Ds5tie and i--uutil she was eighteen,
and one-and-tWentg.
Our parents were friends. and was sn
only child. while Debhies little brothers
there Eefe two or three Of them, be-
lieFe-had passed away when they were
babies OHr liking for each other pleased
our mothers. and when one DAY I began
70 know thar did not love Debbie as a
sister, was sure that no one would dis
approve; and up there under the tree We
had Just seen drop, We kissed each other
Tor the lrst time as lovers Kiss, and SAID
those things to each other which only
ieveH szv
And 50 I had come 10 thinking Of her
as my future wife. and talliag about her
making burberry pie for me.
But long before the blueberries sprang
Up over the a1hes Of she dead pines every
Ting had changed
Debbies father was = hot tempered
nan, and mine m obstinate one. They
got alQng wonderfully with each other
for many years, and Il seemed to be one
q those especial bits Of spite which Fate
doles Quito lovers, that hey should have
their frst serious falling out directly Deb I
bic and Here engaged.
What Vas II about, you ask OF ali
Ken on earth, farmers quarrel about the
smallest thing. The ill-feeling began
shout bit d meadow land, worth next
70 no-hing, was continued By our old
pear tree, which projected Us roots into
NJ. Doane's cellar, and finished by one
Of Dosneis COWS, who trod down our
cqrui and one day the two elderly men
faced each other, their faces crimson,
tbeireEes blazing, blotung out the friend
ship Tor years by their mutual taunts and
reproaches, until, n last, Doane struck
ny father. and ny father knocked him
down. He Eel with his head against a
bit 81 sz0od, and cut II, aud the blood
flowed 81 ever be face and neck. The
women STEAMED; DoaBe lay at length
upon he giass, a gory. spectacle. Mrs. I
Doane called one farmland 10 help his
i11ester ln, another 70 run for the doctor, 4
and the general impression that a murder |
nad been committed wac conveyed. Il
MAS matter for bit Of eourt-piaster, /
sitter al; but lifelong friendship was 4
over forever; aad It was conceded on /
both sides thai Dabbie and must break |
Eifh each other
Up on the mountain, where the blue
leries were 10 be next summer. we met
fos the last time The ashes Of the tree
We had first kissed under were sIl blown
away and ouiy grim, black stump re-
manned 70 tel whore It once stood Deb
bic was very pale, but very firm.
1T would be en-, insult to father If !
should marry the Son Of man who tried
- kili him, she said; '.znd Mr. Ashton
did Try, Eben
Ny father only resented a blow, IS
any man ought. " I said
Box how Suriously," said Debbie;
''h0w brutallr.r
And then We quarreled, until at last
=ge parted, going by different ways down
TIE mountain. angry sih each other, as
ne had never thought % be.
The quarrel between the two families
changed everything NJ father shortly
found il TOO unpleasant to i've in such
unfriendiy fashion, and resolved TO move
70 tie West Ny mother felt IS glad 10
60 IS he A. for me, 70 pass Debbie IN
he road without speaking had become
n1eedurabie. We left the place, and in
the Western town, that grew ike mush-
room on the spot that was little more
than wilderness when we settled there,
made ny fortune in a business which
was the 0atgr0wth Of my surroundings.
With the best luck II takes some time TO
make fortune, and by the time l was
rsally Tieh had come TO forty years, and
passed 4
Ny parents were both dead, and had
not married had tired 70 fall IL 1--we.
bat could not. and, ii you wiz net think
nc 8 pupPy, VII tel yoe that, being
FeennisFg catch. ] vas rather per
secuted AAxoni pAsenz VITA fHe