Mohave County miner., 1892-06-25
4 School Girls cemposHiss.

rhs following composition Was written
- ,..d At the closing exercises Of Hack
80, school by Sarah Miller, one Of the
..,;l. and 10 published by request:
cos dsy little Roy Leo came into the
.,,,.s and asked his aunt to tell him
.,o,v about herself when she was little
Cfl.
..shsl, I tell you where, and about the
.cvs and girls with whom used to 80 to
.obooli" asked Aunt Mary.
.Oh yes, please" cried Roy, "And
~ where they are, and what they are
i lolpg now. IL you know"
aAll right" said Aunt Mary, and this
| ! hss story.
.About ton years ago went to school
! : fIsckberry, Mohave county, Arizona.
.r,ons is state in the southwestern
a d our United States. 1t isn't as
hekly settled ~ most Of the other states
-. bat . great deal OF mining and
xockraising Is carried on 10 the northern
-. and farming 10 some extent in the
sssihesn part.
saobave county is in the northwestern
- d Arizona. and blackberry 10 little
.n>h q the central part. blackberry
- small town then. and our school
luuss vas small. too, but quite COM
istsbls.
fhsrs we're thirteen scholars besides
gssH.
OR teacher's name was Miss Ada
Huirhings.
We had q pleasant school. II il was
nall, and We enjoyed both our studies
~ games at recesses aud Moons.
We went to school there for several
! psn, and AZ the scholars grew TO be
pung men and young women, their
! vsrsots moved away from blackberry and
4 vent north. Some settled in California,
l sA some in Nevada.
i lssaid in Arizona and vas the only
ne Of the fourteen scholars that did stay.
| Ioiten received letters from my school
| ssles and invitations 10 visit them in
/ Asir new homes.
% one day several years after they
~ al gone away, started ont upon
y Journey 10 visit them.
Fnt went to Los Angeles to ace our
nfher, Miss Hutchings. I found her
III unchanged, teaching school in q
mntiful place = mile or two out Of the
~. She told me that she. bad taugh,
Ia~ysra' different places IN Csinorni.
dnashe left Hackberry, and had often
net several Of her old pupils in her
nz,els.
Ater spending . pleasant hour With
s1 returned to the city and proceeded
y nv journey.
One morning when within few miles
dsan Jose, California, the train stopped
~ pretty little place, and got of and
Isgped into the Office TO enquire Of the
dos there. where the nearest hotel
/ w
n went into the waiting room
i sdced tall young man standing neal
= window, whose face l thought looked
1 H1iliar, but did not recognize him, un
she glanced up from the paper he'wsi
Il n&sg, and I saw beneath the cal
~ he wore, the curly locks Of COLDER
rand the brown eyes Of Charley linus
rws prosperous and skillful engineer OF
nsenger train running from San Jos,
ssmaller town further south. Before
shd time to speak more than dosei
~, the conductor on his train cries
sbcsrd, !" and away Charley rushet
~ vosk.
- then, two young women dresses
~ ~ith white aprons on, came int
sssn, and there I saw again. two o
~ iriends. Fannie Nobmann an,
Miller, both Of whom used h
we'll 10 blackberry. They ha'
= tsleraphy since they left there
ne nov working 10 this pretty III
telaionian town.
- soid me il would stay oil da.
esh ~ three more Of my old school
% agreed 60 stay and went 4
- b get breakfast. After break
issss with . lady n Greenwoo'
4 miles away.
W reached tho farm, We wer
s'he gate bv two young men. on
~mg looking fellow, about twenty
jAn old. the other . tall slin
J uan OF about the same a9e. Witl