Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-11-21
THE BLUE NOUN.
TAIN GIRL.

lain GIRL.
by SOPHIE SWEET.
wish that wistful-looking girl with the
crooked baby wouldn't stare at me so!' ex-
claimed the pretty girl on the back seat of
the blackboard. (She was very pretty
girl, and her rough and easy costume bore
to initiated eyes the unmistakeabag stamp
of the most fashionable tailor.) '.I'm get
ting 70 dislike this road because she's
always sitting ON that log; let's go home by
the Cornice road"
II never mind the natives; l don't see
them at all, }" said lively little Gladys Bourke
clutchihg at deeply pink wild rose, as the
bush was crushed by the buckboard's wheels
for in some places the Blue mountain
road is narrow. They're not squalid like
the poor people in the cities, you know
Constance"
Gladys Bourke wore flowers in her hair
belt and sang gay little songs. and boasted
that she always had good time. But
Constance Poole looked back at the girl
with the crooked baby.
'.She's an ugly little thing. with her high
forhead and wispy hair" she said.
''But there's something about her." said
Dollie Erskine, somewhat obscurely. THAT
tall girl who waits on the Carlisle's table
at the East End is her sister; Mr.. Carlisle
calls her Juno. That's delightful little
place where they live; SO piny and sea-
blown, aud the house, painted by the wind
and weather, Is such delicious color. I"
Dollie was the sister-in-law OF famous
artist, andlliked to have people know that
she understood picturesque values"
'Can they be ceevelized, these nativesP"
asked Mile. Briard, Constance's French
governess, who chaperoned the party.
"Civilizedv' echoed Dolly Erskine, q
little Indignantly. dolly was an old ha-
bitue of the harbor, and held an attitude Of
friendly proprietorship toward its native
lnhabitants.) 1.-THE Juno is going to the
Normal school at Castine In the fall and
the older boy of the family owns the Mid
get, the cat-boat that Lieut., Boiling said
was the tidiest craft in these waters, and
gets the family living by her. Lieut.. Boil
ling said that he was skilled navigator;
he shouldn't be surprised to seehim captain
of q Curnarder."
1.-THE girl with the crooked baby looks
like an anarchist said Ruth Silsbee, care
lessly.
.sIhats it," exclaimed Constance Poole.
..She makes me feel as ii were to blame
for having better times than she has. Do
you remember the day when we had the
lunch party at R0wle's, just we girls, and
she came and stared In at the door until We
had to ask them to send her away?"
''Poor thingv' said Dolly Erskine. 1T
was she who let the baby fall and hurt its
spine the day of their mothers funeral;
and they say she Is perfectly DEVOTED to it. /"
Il thought she was always Juggling 1t
round with her to make her look more for
lOrn and anarchistic," said Ruth Silsbee.
A discussion arose just then as to wheth-
er they should 60 up the mountain or
around to Hank Pond, and there were la
mentatiOns that they had not ordered din
ner, with fried chicken and pop0vers, deli
cacies for which the little in was famous,
at Summerville. And Lorena Dilsey and
the crooked baby were quite forgotten.
In the summer twilight Gladys Bourke
was drumming her banjo on the piazza Of
the Poole's cottage on Paradise street.
Ruth Silsbee and her brother had come
over from the "Phiilipsburg." The piazza
was gay with japanese lanterns swaying
in the breeze, and there was tinkle Of
merry tunes and ripple of happy laugh
ter. A white capped maid appeared and
said there was girl at the door who asked
to see Miss Constance, and wouldn't 60
away.
..lt's that girl who lives on the Blue
mountain road, I'm sure it is" said Con-
stance. thought saw her peering
through the vines at us little while ago.
'.She has baby with her." said the
maid: "a heavy crooked lump of baby.
Constance went around to the door with
a little frOwn OF irritation between her
brows. The girl's heavy face wore {
TRANSPORTING smile of delight as she held
out to Constance something that giittered
In the light. .
..Oh, my watchw cried Constance. -
thought must have lost 1t out OF canoe
this morning! You found It on the Blu-
mountain rOAd?n
The girl looked 1t the dainty little bauble
with the BUTTERFLY OF col0red precious stones
on one side and the monogram In diamond
On tho other and heaved = little envioui
Sigh y,
4 "a fetch Il home g soon % found Il; but
Todo didn't come home 70 tend the baby,
/ had to 20 down and yank HIM out q
Souaw H0ller. He's everlastin'ly hangin
u ronnd them Iujuns; he's real trYtn' young
one. =
a grinning youngster, u the lee Of hil
D sistt rs skirts. turned . sudden S0Inersault,
waving his stnbbed heels derisively "a "a
cir. \. ss. J.
ssThe baby must H. heavy sid Con-
stance. synpathct acaliy.