The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1890-09-06

It was no use to tease, for Mrs Fem
wick and mother both said they
couldn't afford it. They wouldn't let
us 90 alone, and it would cost three
dollars to hire a team, and there was
the admission fee of fifty cents to pay,
too.
Lulu cried, and so did 1, but it didn't
do any good.
And so we decided to run away. Lulu
said she had just been reading in
newspaper about girl who had
mother who abused her. and she ran
away, and kind old gentleman who
lived in grand style adopted her, and
when he died left her all his money.
She said she knew there must be lots |
and lots of people who would be glad to
adopt us if they only knew about u.s.
and that we could look for some old peo-
pie living in the country, without chill
dren, and awful lonely. She said there
were plenty of 'em, if we only knew
where to find 'em.
| We talked it all over one night at our
gate, and we decided that ii we were
ever going. the sooner we went the bet
ter it would be, for we might miss some
good chance of being adopted.
So we left the very next morning. we
each took tin pail, SO people would
think we were going blackberrying; but
in the pals were the things we wanted
to take with us.
Mother was upstairs with the baby
when left, and Keziah was out in the
yard under the cherry tree, washing
blankets.
..Tell mother I've gone down in the
pasture, Keziah," said.
, YOU'D best tell her yourself" said
Keziah. 'sYou know she wouldn't let
you go off this way, and not stroke OF
work done in the house yet And you
won't find no blackberries. There's
. been Bromfield people pickin' in them
pastures, and they've cleaned out every
, blackberry they could lay their fingers
on. You're jest tryin' to shirk out O.
! takin' care of the baby, and it's ashamed
you ought to be of yourself, too, and
your ma so delikit."
4 OF course felt like answering back;
but didn't She couldn't know that
she was looking on my face for the last
time, and felt sure she would be sorry
y LOT Qcr 0dTSu WOI0S WhOh "~c tNA~~s
and she realized, as day afterday passed,
and was mourned perhaps for dead.
that she would never see me again. Be-
sides, / felt sorry for her because she
used such poor grammar.
l found Lulu down in the pasture sit
/ ting ON an old stump. She looked dread
fully serious.
u at was harder to come away than
q thought it would be-" she said. Il wish
hadn't been obliged to do it"
"Well, we cere obliged, and that is all
there is about it," said. Things
II were getting worse all the time. The
idea of our not going to the wax works
D. exhibition! 1t was Notifying. Every
:, body met asked me if I'd been, and
didn't know what excuse to make"
We climbed grassy knoll. as they
saw in stories, and stood there, looking
our last on our homes. That is, We
thought it was our last, and OF course
we couldn't look into the future and SEE
y what really happened.
Il am glad did up all the chamber
work before left" said Lulu. "Mothe
d can't reproach me for any thing"
q They'll appreciate us when we arr
v gone" answered. ''Now they take al
it our sacrifices as matter of course, and
b. without conjunction, work us lik
II slaves"
g. Lulu said talked just like heroin
,e | in novel. That is the secret of my in
w. fiuence over her-she thinks know 8
" much more than most girls OF my age
n And suppose do.
e. We didn't dare go on the main road
of so we struck for the woods and walke
into the thick of it before we stopped
, Then we turned around three times
rv with our eyes shut, and said some magi
d words made up expressly.
at This is the way" said, pointing t
n my right
or And we walked of without the Sigh
l est idea where we were going.
We talked about the future at frs
nd wondering how soon we would come
m some pslatial residence, and on whs
ep sort of beds we would sleep that nigh
an 1--WE must get out of these woods. {
we'll have to sleep right here on tn
We roots" said Lulu, at last I'VE won
~ find any paiatial residences in tn
50 WOOD. i WeuJ tuIolS "A hnOSo u ~ =" ~
m Tom Briggs took me nutting last fall
Ist people say it is twenty miles long
ral l answered.; ''and there's no tellir
what we'll find when we come to tt
he end of that twenty miles We mu
mt push right on
So we kept going, but presently Aul
said she was hungry, and then we four
out that neither of US had thought
bring any thing to eat
OF course there was no use worryir
over it; we simply had to endure 1t; b
we got hungrier and hungrier the fu
Their we went
|. I'VE must have gone at least TWEEN
J miles," Lulu said, at last land Pm
& tired out can't go any further"
Well, if hadn't known how to talk
her, she would have sat right dov
where she was, and starved to deaf
J-aw.