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

in the middle of which stood small
cabin, covered with morning-glory and
wandering Indian vine.
The door was open, and there was
woman sitting with her back to 1t, at
table. There seemed to me something
familiar about the place, but was too
tired to pay any attention to it and we
just staggered in.
"Please can we sleep here to-night?'
l asked. sWe have walked all the way
from Bondville, and are worn out.
The woman turned sharp around, and
the light of the candle fell full on her
face. II ,cas Reziah.
GOOD land" she exclaimed, ''if it
amt Anna Sophiat All the way from
Bondville, be YEP Well. that amt but
half a mile off," and she burstout laugh
ing.
I told her didn't think there was any
thing to laugh at, and presently she
stopped.
you've been off on some foolishness,
Anna Sophia she said. "Runnin'
away, guess. Well, / reckon you've
had enough of it, by the looks of you.
Got turned round in the woods, s'pose,
and like as not been walkin' in circle.
| Well, never seen the beat! And you
chose poor day for your fun, too, for
YOU hadn't been gone half an hour when
your Uncle Solomon over to Brompors
came by in Vaughn and took your ma
an Miss Fenwick and Eva and Benny
all over to Bromfield to see them wax
figgers. Your ma had me run to the
pasture to see If you was there, but
didn't see no sign of you, so of they
went Your Uncle Solomon was goin'
to treat. and they laid out to stay to
some goin's-on this evenin'. l reckon
they amt come back yet"
l thought right off that there was a
chance for us to get home and go to bed,
and no one but Keziah need ever know
we had been gone all day.
So asked her If she wouldn't please
keep it to herself that we'd run away
She wouldn't promise, and SO ! told hel
| would leave it to her good nature and
sense of justice, and she said thai
sounded just like me, and she'd think il
over and try to discover what ! was
driving at.
Then we went home, Keziah going
ahead with a lantern; and the minute
had got something to eat went to bed
And was never so tired in all my life
Mother came home about half an hou
later, and she came up in the dark t.
see me and to tell me how sorry she wa
that Lulu and / had missed Uncl'
Solomon's treat, and that she hadn'
been able to keep me out of her min'
all day.
Then she kissed me and went down
, stairs. and did hope Keziah wouldn'
, tell.
But she did. She was in the kitchen
when went down to breakfast the mex
, morning, and / saw by the way mothe
! looked at me that she knew all abouti'
5 She didn't say any thing, however
and was thankful for that; but
think she felt that had been Furnishes
: enough, for was so stiff, and my fee
i were so sore could hardly get around
2 fit had only stopped with tellin
mother l wouldn't have cared yer
). much; but it didn't
i'll Keziah wasn't satisfied until ever
o body in Bondville knew that Lulu an
@ 1 had run away, and the question
people asked us were perfectly drea'
I full
VI Lulu and were the only ones WI
d didn't see any joke in the matter.
n IL seems pity we made such fai
& ure of that day; but, as Mrs. Fenwit
d told Lulu, / think we learned lesso
q for we haven't talked any since abo'
leaving home, and Lulu doesn't tell al
< more stories about rich old gentlems
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