The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-30
R R0SANN E
By LANE BARLOW.
Author OF Irish ldylls" and "Bogland
Studies"
lCopyright 1895, by Bacheller, Johnson ana
Racheller.l
PART l.

Towards seven O'Clock on a summer
evening In July, Rosanne should have
been helping her mistress i'm the uairy'
instead of which she was sitting under
the shadow OF the big water parrei u,
the kitchen door and writing 10 her
sweetheart She wrote to tell MN no"
she had been given leave to go hoine
AeXt Sunday. ana she dld not Sup W
consider that she was at TINS very nio-
ment risking the loss of her holiday,
by getting into disgrace for neglect vi
duty. But 1t was not Rosannes way l"
think of more than one thing al tihie'
so when Il occurred to her ths' Jon'i
Gahan. who had called about the ioah
of "a hay shaker might post letter ior
her as he wen. home. she acteu upon
the idea without further retlectloh'
Che had her paper spread out ON the
barrel stand and craned her curry hta"
over 1t at unlikely angles as she en-
ioined Dan Mclean to meet ler ~
Hunts in Kilbracken. where the SiS
would drop her next Saturday eNenlhs.
Meanwhile the dairy work had oeeh
going on well enough without ,iel.
Mrs. Conroy had Il pleased smile WhtI
she saw the ripe yellow crealn w., od
smoothly uD under her skinner, anu
added il to the rich contents OF her
great wide-mouthed gatherinS-crock.
She thought they would have srahu
churning tomorrow. and AT least
dozen pounds of butter Tor Satur-
days fair. But when she had mn
ished, she recollected that Rosai,nr
should have been there to carry ,he
nies their supper of sour skim mix
ana after calling her in vain sever
al times. she sent little Ned tn tnd ner'
and bid her come along out of that TINS
Instant Ned delivered the message
with the pithy addition She 5
rasin';" and SO In frightened hasse
Rosanne finished addressing hef en-
velope with wild blots, anu oEerses tns
ink bottle, and rushed away 10 iet,i'
the bucket. When she reacneu Wv"
dairy she was relieved at finding To-
body there to scold her. and. still hurry
driven. she filed her bucket and ran
OF with it across the yard. Rosahi ie
rather liked seeing the pigs at tht,i
s,,ppr. they wriggled 50 all over WIN
.ujoyment and she now leaned against
the sty-door to watch them. She peSu''
to sing Nora Creina. but in the mluu,e
of the first verse she stopped abrupti!
fr;yhtfu, misgiving had suddenly
seized her. come she knew not whence
She leaned forward and looked into the
trouph. she snatched up her bucke'
and examined it carefully. ana then
sh. nerceiyed that she had indeed done
\ dreadful thing. In her haste she nau
pmptied the wrong crock anu nav
thrown "A weeks gathering of cream u
the pigs. .,, ,,i-
How dreadful 1t was she could es,l-
mate by the pride her mistress TOOK III
the row of rich. yellow-toppeo m,lk
pans, the precautions with which she
surrounded them, her wrath II an!
cl,,msiness imperiled them ha'
would that wrath be now? Rosahht
mad. her mind W. all i'm minute NOT
to face 1t. She would run ava! nome
1t was no such great distance across
the fields: she might get there she sup
posed, before 1t was quite DARK. She
thought her father would be glad tn see
her. and. if so, her stepmother mus'
perforce acquiesce. But at all events
there was Dan Mclean, who would d.
certainly las pleased as anythin. ano
make much of her and take her part
whatever happened - Dams stalwar'
frame held up the whole fabric OF Ro'
sanne's future. Beyond doubt sht
--A>-1~laet i--- rhanoe of getting holiday
In any other way, she thought, as she
raced at fun speed back to the house
For she had no time to hesitate, as the
discovery might at any moment prevent
her Hight. Luckily, almost everybody
was out in the bayfield,, and she got ul