Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-03-12

dollars to hire a team, and there was
the admission fee of fifty cents to pay.
too.
Lulu cried, and so did l, but it didn't
do any good.
And SO we decided to run away. Lulu
said she had just been reading IN a
newspaper about a girl who nad a
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-
Die living in the country, without chill
dren, and awful lonely. She said there
we're 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 If 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 rs.
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, i said.
You'd best tell her yourself, said
Keziah. ''You 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 Bromfeld 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."
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 i felt sure she would be sorry
for her harsh words when / was gone,
and she realized, as day after day 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
found Lulu down in the pasture sit
ting on an old stump. She looked dread
fully serious
1T was harder to come away than
thought it would be, she said. Il wish
hadn't been Obliged to do it."
well, we rere obliged, and that is all
there is about it, | said. Things
were getting worse all the time. The
idea OF our not going TO the wax works
exhibition! II was notifying. Every
body met asked me IL I'd been. and
didn't know what excuse to make"
We climbed a grassy knoll, as they
say 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
what really happened.
Il am glad did up all the chamber
work before / left, said Lulu. Mother
can't reproach me for any thing"
They'll appreciate us when we are
gone" / answered. Now they take all
OlA HaifAAEtN a. - luAANiA VI fOuActf dilAs
without conjunction, work us like
slaves"
Lulu said talked just like a heroine
in a novel That is the secret OF my in
fiuence over her-she thinks know so
much more than most girls OF my age.
And ! suppose l do.
We didn't dare go on the main road;
so we struck for the woods and walked
into the thick OF it before we stopped.
Then we turned around three times,
with our eyes shut, and said some magic
words made up expressly.
This is the way | said, pointing to
my right
And we walked of without the slight |
est idea whore We were going.
We talked about the future at first, |
wondering how soon we would come to
some palatial residence, and on what 4
sort of beds We would sleep that night |
1--WE must get out of these woods, or
we'll have to sleep right here on the
roots, said Lulu, at last I'VE won't /
find any paiatiai residences in this
wood. went through most Of it when /
Tom Briggs took me nutting last fall"
People say it is twenty miles long,
answered; ''and there's no telling /
what we'll find when we come TO the
end OF that twenty miles. We must
push right on"
80 we kept going, but presently Lulu
said she was hungry, and then we found .
oGt that neither of us had thought to 4
bring any thing to cat
OF course there was no use worrying
over it; We simply had to endure it; but
we got hungrier and hungrier the fur
.her we went.
We must have gone at least twenty
miles" Lulu said, at last, 'and I'm so
tired out can't go any further
Well, il hadn't known how to talk TO
her, she would have sat right down
where she was, and starved to death,
Tor all know.
But / kept my presence OF mind, and
told her she must go on whether she
wanted to or not; that sitting down was
hot to thought OF for moment