Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-03-08
A DECIDED DIFFERENCE.

A DECIDED DIFFERENCE.
Lily Everest and Effie Dwyer were
cousins, but their homes were far
apart, and they had never seen each
other until the summer they met
under Grandmother Farley's roof.
They arrived on the same day,
and were given room together
overlooking the back garden. But
they were so tired, and it was so
late when they arrived that they ate
their supper and went to bed with
out seeing anything outside the
house.
Effie was the first to wake next
morning and she sprang oud of bed
and ran to the open window.
"Oh how lovely" she exclaimed.
What is lovely?" Lily sprang
up too. DO you mean the flowers?
They are pretty, but | hate the coun-
try. It's so dull! What on earth
are we going to do with ourselves
all day here?"
Effie stared at her in surprise.
There will be plenty to do she
said, "The days won't seem half
long enough. Just as soon as
breakfast is over | am going out to
see all the animals, and then | will
take basket and my microscope
and go to that belt of woods over
there and look up bugs and beetles.
And ! want to get ever so many
botanical specimes while ! am here"
81 don't take any interest in such
things" said Lily. II like to 60 to
parties, dance, and play tennis an d
croquet. But we can't have any
thing of that sort out here, four
miles from town."
Aunt Linda said last night that
they had made croquet-ground
expressly for u.s."
But who will play?"
"You and |, of coarse, and per-
haps Aunt Linda and grandma
when they're not too busy"
Lily laughed derisively.
"You haven't a bit of sense,
Effie," she said.
81 have enough to keep me from
making myself miserable just be-
cause I'm in the country" rejoined
Fife. you can have good time
here if you only choose to think so"
IL can't ever have good time
where I'm dull" answered Lily.
At breakfast Lily declared that
she had no appetite for the bacon
and eggs, cream potatoes, waffles
and coffee, and Aunt Linda left the
table to make her slice of water
toast and cup of chocolate.
1t evidently did not strike Lily
that she was giving any trouble,
nor did she notice that her aunt's
breakfast grew cold while she was
making the toast. But Effie spoke
to Lily about it when the meal was
over, and they were out on the back
porch moment.
1--WE mustn't make trouble for
grandma and Aunt Linda, or they
won't enjoy our visit"
"Then let them have something
on the table that | can eat" rejoined
Lily. Why are you putting on that
big apron?"
I'm going to help grandma wash
the dishes"
you'll ruin your hands"
"Oh, no; they are used to water"
laughed Fife.
Don't you want to help me with
the chamberwork, Lily?" asked
Aunt Linda, appearing in the kitch-
Ell doorway, broom in hand.
III can't, Aunt Linda. don't
know how. never made bed nor
swept room in my life. We keep
three servants at home"
LET the child rest herself and
keep cool Oh the porch" said kind
old grandma. "They won't want
to stay with us daughter, if we set
them to work."
So Lily sat down on the porch
with a novel she had brought with
her and read away the long hours
until noon.
Fife, who after helping with the
dishes, making her bed and feeding
the chickens, went off to the woods
with "a towel, a basket and her mic
roscope. She did not come in UNI
til the bell was ringing for dinner.
Her basket was nearly full Of moss,
ferns, flowers and lichens, and her
cheeks were flushed with healthy
color.
i've been half over that wood, |
do believe" she said. .'and have had