The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-07-19

her romps about the door Of the SD
cooper shop. And the next day and
the next and SO on she was missed.
b was never seen again by the speo-
pie who looked for her every morning.
l do not see how it came about
that what follows was known. But it
was told to me that one whose stories
and words were to me as true as those
which your mothers tell you.
One evening Little Sunlocks called
her mother and father-these
dear old people who watched her so
carefully-to her. She had been in a
dreamy condition all day. She would
open her brown eyes to the good old
people, and look at them, and a smile
would play about her face, and in the
afternoon the sunshine fell upon her
ripping hair as if it wanted to linger.
When she called the good old people
to her in the evening she told them
that she had been away to a country
which she described as full of rivers
and islands and mountains, and where
the birds sang and where everybody
was young and beautiful. She had
seen a wonderfully handsome man,
who had taken her in his arms and
asked her to make a wish. She wish
ed that her mother and father might
grow young again and that they might
come some time and live where she
was at that moment. Then the strange
ly handsome man curled her hair
about his fingers, kissed her, and told
her if she would come and live with
him she would have her wish.
She had promised, and she asked the
good old people to forgive her for 60
ing away, but it was that they might
grow young and come to her, where
they would never be old any more.
She would meet them and they would
all 20 to the strangely handsome mans
house and live always.
The children of the town came the
next day and went in on tiptoe and
looked at Little Sunlocks. They had
heard of her so often, but few had
ever seen her. I told you that she had
no playmates. These same children
left some flowers and went away.
Soon after this people in passing the
old house noticed that the blinds were
drawn and the door of the old ooper
shop was closed. They used to hear an
old man in the shop at work, always
singing as he worked, all the day. Day
after day passed, and it was the same.
Then the people went to the shop door
and pricd it open and went in. There
was the old mans unfinished work;
his tools on the bench; his old apron
and cap, and the old shoes he used to
wear when he was at work.
They went up stairs, and there was
everything in the house, neat and in its
place, just as the dear little woman
had left it. It was the %tiniest, neatest
little home, with a hundred little things
which were the work of her hands.
But she whose steps had so often been
heard, and whose voice was so familiar
to the little rooms, quaint in their way,
was gone.
The house remained untouched for a
year. No one moved a piDcushion or
in any way molested a thing in any Of
the rooms. Some inquiries were made
about the missing couple, but no infor-
nation was ever received.
One day two people came to the
town and walked over to the house,
and went in and remained a long time,
and then anne out and walked over to
the c%hurchyard, and sat down by the
grave of Little Sunlocks. Then they
went away, and that evening they took
passage on a steamer and left the
place. The people of the town watch
ed them as the boat disappeared and
never saw them again. No ono had
spoken to them.
But they were.not the old people who
had used to live in the house. The
man was tall and handsome, with a
kindly face, and the woman was young
and beautiful and her face was like
that of Little Sunlocks. They were as
devoted to one another as good hus-
bands and wives ought to be. They
walked hand in hand and were as gen.
tie as peace.
1t was told to me after ward that
these two people were the same who
had been old, the people who had loved
inc watched Little Sunlocks and whom
she loved. The spirit Of the child was
so good, she was so gentle and obedient
that it entered into the two old lives
and made them young again, and they
remembered their vows, n to the 9th
er, and had another existence. And
wherever they went the skies were un-
clouded and the people whom they met
became better. They went from one
place to another and blessings followed
and peace nestled about firesides, and
the old and afflicted, became young
and well again, and children were more
playful and some good act was always
done, and always in the name of Little
Sunlocks Dodge.-Beverly Brux in Chi.
cago Herald.