The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-05

in the middle of which stood small
cabin, covered with morning-glory and
wandering Indian vine.
The door was open, and there was a
woman sitting with her back to it. at a
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 car we sleep here to-night?'
1 asked. 1--WE 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 acas KeztaA.
Good land" she exclaimed, eff il
amt Anna Sophia! All the way from
half mile off," and she burst out laugh
ing.
/ told her l 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, l 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 a circle.
Well, l never seen the beat! And you
chose a poor day for your fun, too for
you hadn't been gone half an hour when
your Uncle Solomon over to Bromport
came by in Vaughn and took your ma
an Miss Fenwick and Eva and Benny
all over to Bromfield to see them wax
tggers. Your ma had me run to the
pasture to see if you was there, but
didn't see no sign of you, so off 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"
thought right off that there was a
chance tor us to get home and 60 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 l told her
| would leave it to her good nature eand
sense of justice, and she said that
sounded just like me, and she'd think it
over and try to discover what 1 was
driving at.
Then we went home, Keziah going
ahead with lantern; and the minuteI
had got something to eat, went to bed.
And | was never SO tired in all my life.
Mother came home about half an hess-
later, and she came up in the dark to
see me and to tell me how sorry she was
that Lulu and 1 had missed Uncle
Solomon's treat, and that she hadn't
been able to keep me out of her mind
all day.
Then she kissed me and went down.
stairs, and l did hope Keziah wouldn't
tell.
But she did. She was in the kitchen
when 1 went down to breakfast the next
morning, and saw by the way mother
looked at me that she knew all aboutit
She didn't say any thing, however,
and l was thankful for that; but I
think she felt that l had been punished
enough, for l was so stiff, and nv feet
were so soro could hardly get around.
If it had only stopped with telling
mother wouldn't have cared very
much; but it didn't.
Keziah wasn't satisfied until everv
body in Bondville knew that Lulu and
L had run away, and the questions
people asked US were perfectly dread.
full.
Lulu and 1 were the only ones who
didn't see any joke in the matter
IL seems pity we made such fail
ure of that day; but, as Mrs Fenwick
told Lulu, think we learned lesson.
for Ws haven't talked any since about
leaving home, and Lulu doesn't tell anv
more stories about rich old gentlemen
liking to adopt girls just like us.-Flor-