Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-12-07

PLEASE CAN WE SLEEP HERE TO-NIGHTT in the middle of which stood a 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 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?" asked. 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. H acds Kezidh.
 ''Good land," she exclaimed, 'if it ain't Anna Sophia! All the way from Bondville, be ye? We'll, that ain't but half mile off, and she burst out 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, I guess. We'll, I 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 Bromport came by in a waggin and took your ma an Miss Fenwick and Eva and Benjy 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 off they went. Your Uncle Solomon was goin' to treat, and they laid out to stay tc some goin's-on this evenin'. I reckon they ain't como back yet" I thought right off that there was 6 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 I asked her if she wouldn't please keep it to herself that we'd run away. She wouldn't promise, and so told her I would leave it to her good nature and ! sense of justice, and she said that sounded just like mo, and she'd think it over and try to discover what l 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. l MOCner came uOfno ADOuG nall all uOuI later, and she came up in the dark to see me and to tell me how sorry she was that Lulu and I had missed Uncle s Solomon's treat, and that she hadn't been able to keep me out of her min d all day.
 Then she kissed mo and went down stairs, and did hope Keziah wouldn't tell.
 But she did. She was in the kitchen when I went down to breakfast the next morning, and saw by the way mother looked at me that she knew all about 1t
 She didn't say any thing, however, and I was thankful for that; but think she felt that I had been punished enough, for was so stiff, and my feet were SO SOTO could hardly get around
 If it had only stopped with telling mother I wouldn't have cared very much; but it didn't.
 l Keziah wasn't satisfied until every
 body in Bondville knew that Lulu and had run away, and the questions
 people asked us were perfectly dread
 full
 Lulu and were the only ones who didn't see any joke in the matter.
 It seems pity we made such fail
 ure of that day; but, as Mrs. Fenwicl | told Lulu, think we learned a lesson
 for we haven't talked any since about \ leaving home, and Lulu doesn't tell any
 more stories about rich old gentlemen
 liking to adopt girls justlike us.-Flor | enca R Hallowell in Golden Days