The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-05-20


feet on them, for thc:;. eyes frightened
and they stepped more quickly ant
held their hends a little higher.
When quite near the schoolbousC
Winnie overlook one Of icr classmates
There was cloud on mis- face. but the
instant she spoke 70 him it disappeared
and he actually smiled as he turned to-
ward her. though the tone of his voice
was still somewhat lugubrlous.
Have you done those two problems
In nlgebra?" he asked
mo" laughed Winnie, "have yon?'
81 sat up half the night trying and
| don't believe they can be DONE" said
the boy, bitterly.
"Oh, yes" answered Winnie. "WJl,
Bailey told me last night that ne had
done one Of them and mean to get n
them in good earnest MS soon as ! get
the history lesson off my mind. | think
we can do them"
Perhaps we can" sald the boy, more
, hopefully, and by the time they reach
ed the schoolhouse steps lie was not
only convinced that lie could but resolv-
ed that he would do them, and was
quite cheerful in consequence.
AS | said before, II was Il cold morn
Ing, and the schoolroom felt the effect
of 1t. The heat didn't come as it should.
and the teacher and all the scholars
had blue noses and their shoulders
were drawn up.
Winnie and the boy were two see.
onds late, and Miss Miller frowned "a
she heard their footsteps in the hall,
out when she saw Winnie her froWn
faded out. Moreover as Winnie walk
ed to her seat nearly every pair of
shoulders In the room went down
trlhe, as though her coming had in
some mysterious way, temperel the
prevailing frigidity.
Nothing Of particular moment hap
| pened during the forenoon. unless It
was the falling out of Nellie Patterson
ana Julia Davis at recess. Their ewes |
were flashing and they were making |
the most ill-natured remarks to each |
other, when Winnie Glanced their way. |
| don't know whether she said any
thing or only looked in their eyes till
they couldn't help laughing, but do
know that two minutes later Nellie and
Julia were pacing the hall arm in arm
and on the best of terms.
There were seven scholars who lived
so far away that they ALWAYS brouoht
their dinner, excepting when they for
got 1t, as did Annie and Frank Carroll
on this particular day. Winnie spied
them standing apart from the others
staring disconsolately out of window
and Immediately OWNED fine tronhl,
Almost before you could saw "Jack
Robinson she had zone 70 thop, mi
before you could count fifty tbe tbraa
were seated. with Winnle's lunch has.
ket in their midst. making merry ovor
the shortness of their commons Tbon
the other four Joined the groun ond III.
yided their lunch also. and rs tbe moth. !
ers of some of them had bean nortio,, :
larry bountiful in the mottor Of food ,
that day the whole seven f,rod vii
enough, and dare say ate all that wo.
good for them. " /.
On tho uon ho -
,,,S,,. WI. ""y noiie iioin school at
walk ahead Of her sIvIv unsot go !.
stand. behind which SAT an o,,1 r,.''r'
woman A nolicamon ,,,o w.. i'''N !, =,
lrp unperceIved seizod ono 90 ,,' ,oii'e =, !.
the other took to his baaIs ana 49,,
gesticulated and stormed u,it,' :,
age and righteous indignotion '' WI" u
Winnie bostono5 49,. 1.' ''o"' Il
ne her hand on the noIioon,o,,,a -. - a.
lsked him very earnestly If lo -, u
lot please LET tbe bovs go inc. ,N u
,nough to help mel, mn tbe f,,,,t LIS s
vas rolling about the sida,v.1J o,,s ~. "
nto the street o'' Vi
In nm incredihIv short pr 70
lad been there. Won Womb harn WV ei
he policeman walking saranoI,, ,s. VI
he street. n stronoe SantIan,a uo"" &C
ny the fruit stand Winni,, NJ DC
wo bows pickinr nm onnIoo a' 'nc I'll
ananns and ,e,n,,ts 10 ~ es' e''
-ager while the old ,o, 'oi US
lughjnr TO 500 ca ,nonv - wa" Ut
err Willie She sot st,II LANG , ior ST.
.nientlv tbot ..ly,,.,, -, 90" 81! ing
he srnnosed no Icno NC ,,.D oc Us ST.
cid together W ""''uiu ou
ma ho,, ~, an
ma ,,,,,,,, po''crn,ui' mad let go pc
nd Storted on bo, ",e" SUE 81,
80 va y" ier way again. and tai
, had ipst h"na,', D,s uppie' which ste
,r honI and 49,, y, ','e woman INTO
n' ,,'i anu ,heh sped away with an a
W P - JUN the other wi
lv,o, vv, the
.ors - ho, 'nn'e oa'ne WITHIN three pu
raph messenger LAW % " 'ue 'ei- uo'
it'll Mrs. Alden Nrs niess'se eAl
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