Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-04-21

Luck favored me. Muoomoiseilo huu
at tho right moment one of her bad heal
achcs and postponed the lesson.
Feverish with Joy and anxiety. / sat at
the coffee table and waited for him TO
como past. Nv pockets were stuffed
with daintios OF oil sorts, and near me
lay the switch which l hoped to-day to
use In right earnest.
There he came sauntering along! He
blinked his eyes significantly at me
while he called out his customary.
Good morning to YOU" and as soon as !
could absent myself without remark / ran
hastily after him.
"What have you with your" was the
first question.
1.-TWO gingerbread cakes. two bread
and butter sandwiches and sausage, q sar-
dine roll and piece of strawberrytart,"
answered. showing him my possessions.
He Immediately began 10 eat, while
proudly, with Unsurpassed joy, drove
the geese before US. From the firwood,
whose further half was not wholly
familiar to me, we passed 20 unknown
regions. Stunted underground rose on
either side, forming struggling hedge,
till suddenly the wide stretching, endless
heath lay before me.
All, how beautiful! Il was! As far as
the eye could reach, q sea of grass and
brilliant flowers. and dotted over with
wave-like rows of moehills. The hot
wavered. II seemed to dance over the
breezy heath. Summer bees made music,
and the golden sun rode high in the deep
blue heaven.
At the woods edge was O swamp with
little pool in which yellow-grdy thick
water glimmered. Flocks of ducks swan
there; round about IL the edges we're so
moist that great water bubbles oozed up
between the grasses. and thousands of
prints Of the feet of the geese were to be
seen. so that the whole ground was pat
termed over like carpet. Here was the
drove's paradise. Here we halted, and
while the geese padded contentedly in
the pool We raced about upon the heath,
chasing butterflies aud plucking blue
berries.
Then we played at man and wife.
"Else, the tamest goose, was our child.
We had nearly kissed and knocked the
'poor animal out of life when il struggled
away from our hands after frantic eff
forts. Whereon prepared my husband s
meal. united my white pinafore, laid
it upon the grass FIR u tablecloth and
placed on it the remains of the dainties.
lie sat himself gravely down before
them; out of sheer JOY at playing at
house watched him as he disposed of
one sweet after another.
The hours passed as in dream. High
or and higher rose the sun, and its rays
| ssxht A hn1 in
sc und began in my head. dull feeling
of exhaustion crept over me and l be-
came aware of considerable hunger; but
alas, my husband had already eaten
everything up. My throat was dry, my
lips were tevered. In order to cool them
pluckcd the moist grasses and pressed
them against my mouth. Suddenly the
sounds of bells foaied TO us over the
wood from the far distance. knew well
what it signified. 1t was the midday
signal which called me to dinner. And
when should be found to be missing
o, dear, what would become of me!
threw myself on the grass and began
to sob bitterly, while my companion, with
the hope of comforting me, stroked my
face and neck with his rough hand. Sud-
denly sprang up and raced to the woods
as though dashed by the Furies. For
nearly two hours Il wandered. weeping,
through the thicket; then heard q voice
calling my name, and two minutes later
Law in my brothers arms.
The next morning my poor friend up
peared as my instigator and accomplish
before high tribunal of his lord of the
manor. It seemed to him quite natural
that he should be made the scapegoat; he
made not the slightest attempt to excul'
pate himself from the whole blame of the
escapadc, and took the punishment which
J my brother applied with great stoicism.
Then he rubbed his smarting back against
the post of the veranda, and sped away
out of sight, while 10y sobbing on the
, ground.
From that day loved him. invented
, thousand tricks and means in order to
meet him secretly. | stole like magpie
so that he could enjoy the fruits of my
thieving. nearly stihed him with the
excess of my tenderness, with which l
sought to make amends for those terrible
strokes of the riding-whip.
> lie let my love flow over him quietly,
, and requitedi it with pathetic devotion and
n sound appetite.
, A year later fate separated Us.
/ My poor mother, who had long been all
, ing, was pronounced consumptive, and
ordered South by the doctors. She con-
[ fided the property entirely 10 my brother,
and travelled TO the Riviera accompanied
1 by me.
Nine years later / returned home,
alone, aud recovering from On attack of
nervous fever.
I Al law In the armchair my rnze