The Portland daily press., 1894-11-02
AT HER CALL.
"What is your namee" I asked.

l sat booking at her, wondering If a
more. appropriate name could have been
found for that figure among the anemones
and, celandines-th primulas, pansies and
pinks--the thousand and one blossoms
which, glowing against their groundwork
of forgetmenots, formed a jewel mosaic
right to the foot of the SHOWS above us.
Powerful life Truly that was hers. She
had great bunch of scarlet rhododendron
stuck behind her ear, matching the cloth
cap perched jauntily on her head, and as
she sat herding her buffalees on the upland
she had threaded chaplet on chaplet of OK
eyed daisies and hung them about her
wherever they could be hung. The result
was distinctly Powerful. Her face also
distinctly pretty, distinctly clean for a
Kashmiri girls. But coquette, flirt, mink,
were written in every line of it and &C.
counted for most unusual neatness and
brightness
She caught my eye and smiled again,
broadly, innceently.
1.-THE Huzeor would like to paint my
picture, wouldn't hef'' she went on, in a
tone of certainty. 1.-THE sahib who came
last year gave me rupees. will take 6
this year. Food is dear, and those base
born contractors of the maharajah seize
everything-one walnut in ten, one chick
en- in ten.''
Butt was not going to be beguiled into
the old complaints could hear any and
every day from the hays in the village Up
here ON the lnurg, within a stones throw
of the first patch of snow picketing the
outskirts of the great glacier of Gwash-
brari, I liked if possible to forget how vile
man couid re III tne hCtle shlngle NUS
VIII nov describe inc place. 10 pegin
WIN, ~ oenes oescllpoioh, anu neA', couio
eyeh nin' 'sV lcs sorpsaSsing peaucy' ene
giooe urot1ef wonld come ana oenie IL. IL
Is suinolene 70 say that murg is an up
iana meadow OF alp, anu thac 1nls one
WIN us loIgesinenots ana Sparkling ga
GERS, was IKE 1urquolse SOU IL ulannonos.
nau seIeea myself on a psoJeccihg spur
Whence coulo sheten lrownlng oehie
nofoh"aro, GOWN "hysn 5he emerald green
river was oasElhg inaaly among the huge
ROCKS cil CROWNED ny pine 'fees.
VIII glVe rupees aiso. Ina1 Is
PENNY remarked sua'eiy' ana fnooil-
jan IS saliiieo again'
!. ihus0 10 .or I iiAe Using painted.
sOhly low s3liips ooine-very lew-Duo
Mhenesei eney see me .iiey "ano W psainO
me ana ehe MOWERS ana IL MAKES X, tne osn-
er girus ~ .ne niii''s1 ansly nen 1oloo
ana cuaoi.onu neiu quo meno VI in.o
q PERISH cE'sIaae Va siniies anu pegan W
pun 'ne eyeifaaies VI ohe us'ioios ueiiner-
a a anele see,is peoui.saf 'elu poa.io ",
lol oruel0y somalu noM ms IA sifinoou an
ovIi one wotiu' anu 81 Ihooli-Jan was pre-
'eininen1y sii'isn. cnv iooAou 10 IVY !
u W'N. = .. pug was feai ~ ,nole onan ~
Hsou o. ~ was ooo W nnu nei u1appro-
pli"Oou' 81 ntuiieu u ooioo oi Cnuon-
oh q. msas 0iie HAPPY ndn
;4,' IVY m ~" 40 miuom' Ie iepiieu
"t.n1 ur,o .e.@'u i's-oau io iouoponue
m I'LL "ln pay 0no Ihos., iol we are poor'
nt 49, ~ $3.50, ~ ~ III ;, W
Icy ORC ss iny oeoA anu can
oA1' eAo"Ae~ az. iosoA CIV Aouoou
~ 10 60 &c 40 - -, ps ~ so.ne one'
-. 0.e0, lno 49, .nnUoono en!oy-
t LEU VI As. y" 'Upia1''un ~, love- saw
sno eaasa VI ~ Sa,a0 le snouiu ns'se inaue
.ns IL 49, - oo.a0 nNso po1n0ou a. onoie
~ - s. Is D.aAns suno AIa'ou m NJ nomels,
Duo ~ ~os w Huon ~, ano Lnol s., !
-. - no- ~ Ao'o W ',o 20 e, onol
saions Ono pioihou'oiy, ~ 'a00 oou'u pun
u uer IA ehe iofesfoano u a p'o'ure l h'o
'--. .s9n Dog 81 ~ 49,, g.. &c
,a,a 80 a:4 ~ OnaO nlso o.unp Va LIS, !
s s.sta, poins ~ pAooi "a re slo1n smolu
-osvo1' 49, ono mnl'o iA'ao oloSsol1s
WEI 'esllhing " snum.
. HNU saso poloep'iois snuu M,,
a',g. nv W s,oso. wv - Doos
~ ~ - y, nv" uiiao oiio'1 oio si1sos'
49, W - - a., 90. pe"p.u "lo ouloo iioi ..
w pianO .ne L.s osoi Snoa a!Mays. -
Sou asA why Aho" noo IL Is 'no no"er
VI ueaon
a suouen oeoerlninasion 10 Paln6 her,
Ghe no"eriu' lie against sne Ho"erlul
aeaUn' completely ooliterateo the knowl-
edge OF my own incompetence, put urged
and brlbed IN vain. Phooll-Jan would not
SUI. she would not even let me PICK
hanoful OF the flowers Tor her to mold. 1t
was unlucky. BESIDES one never knew
what one might md IN the thlckets OF
leaves-pones ana horrld things. Had
never heard that dead people get tired OF
their graves anu tried to get out, or even
II they only wanted something In their
graves they would stretch forth hand to