Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-12-07

AuQ so we QeClQeQ to run away. Lulu said she had just been reading in newspaper about girl who had 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 us, and that we could look for some old peo- pie living in the country, without chil- 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 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 pails were the things we wanted to take with us.
 Mother was upstairs with the baby yard under the cherry tree, washing blankets.
 "Teu 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 of this way, and not a 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."
 Of course I 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 for her harsh words when I was gone, and she realized, as day after day passed, and I 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
 Ut was harder to come away than | thought 1t would be-" she said. "l wish l hadn't been obliged to do it"
 Well, we aoere obliged, and that is all there Is about it," I said. "Things were getting worse all the time. The | idea of our not going to the wax works exhibitionl It was mortifying. Every body met asked me if I'd been, and | didn't know what excuse to make" We climbed grassy knoll as they l say in stories, and stood there, looking our last on our homes. That is, we | thought 1t was our last and of course | we couldn't look into the future and see what really happened. | q am glad did up all the chamber work before I left" said Lulu. "Mother can't reproach me for any thing" | They'll appreciate us when we are | gone," answered. 'Now they take all our sacrifices as a matter of course, and, without compunction, work us like | slaves"
 | Lulu said talked just like heroine in a novel. That is the secret of my in- | f1uence over her-she thinks l know so much more than most girls of my age. And suppose 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. | HIS IS tne way Sd1u, pOlul1HS Vo my right
 And we walked of without the slight | est idea where we were going.
 We talked about the future at first, wondering how soon we would como to some palatial residence, and on what sort of beds we would sleep that night
 "We must get out of these woods, or we'll have to sleep right here on the | ke, T,,1YV lac rn0Sf lind any palatial residences in this wood. went through most of it when Tom Briggs took me nutting last fall"
 People say it is twenty miles long," I answered.; land there's no telling what we'll find when we come to the end of that twenty miles. We must push right on."
 So we kept going, but presently Lulu said she was hungry, and then we found out that neither of us had thought to bring any thing to eat
 Of course there was no use worrying
 over 1t; we simply had to endure it; but
 we got hungrier and hungrier the fur ther 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, if hadn't known how to talk to
 her, she would have sat right down
 where she was, and starved to death,
 for 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
 not to thought of for a moment.
 Then she began to talk about home,
 and to wonder what her little sister
 Eva was doing, and if Bennic had cried
 after her. And I saw she was beginning
 to feel sorry she had left
 'I don't believe I like running away,
 after all," she said, tearfully; 'and ii
 you'll just tell me where we're going tc
 Sleep tonight, Anna Sophia, I'd be
 obliged to you"
 I didn't like her tone at all, but
 kept my temper-for I am glad to say ] Int han 1t nndar crnnd cnntrnl-a md