Warren sheaf., 1897-07-22


fureigner" lived in a corner all by him-
self at the back Of he8tree, and Georgia
always knew that when he came out
among the others there was mischief
brewing. Sometimes she walked slowly
away from the tree gathering leaves and
grasses as she went, and then, as soon
as she could slip away from herself.
hurried stealthily back, pulled the for
eigner out Of his corner, dropped him
among the other dolls, and ran to her
leaf thering again, so that she might
be surprised when she finally returned
and found how be had been romping
up and down among her mountain peo-
pie. "Oh, happy kingdom!" she always
Icried when she caught sight Of him, ''he
have come agin, and oh. how he do have
been a-layin' waste the land!"
One day, as she stood with her hands
held up in horror at a row of mountain
people who had fallen PROSTATE round
the savage foreigner, real stranger
came out from the thick forest and
stood at the edge Of the natural open
ing around the playhouse tree. He
| saw her at once, bare-footed, red
checked, with her figured bandana
knotted at her throat. and he could
hear her speak; but she, who should
have been as quick-eared as rabbit,
being just as shy, was too intent to no.
tice the stirring Of his feet in the
sparse, dry autumn grass.
"Folkses!. fo:kses!" she cried out.
yves obleeged to run him off the
mo!unting! He's fureigner, an he
amt got no right hyar. We's obleeged
to run him off the mounting" 2 Z. 1t
The man who listened drew a little
closer, trying not to make noise. He
knew that he himself was ..fureign-
err" and he wanted tohear whatever the
girl might say; but he laughed right
out when he saw that she was. pointing
at corn-cob doll. Georgia jumped,
gave single glance over her shoulder
and ran. 1t was one thing to plan raids
on an intruder whom she had dropped
into the playhouse behind her own
back, but this-this was another thing
Only a little way from the tree there
was crevice in the bluff which rose be-
hind it. Georgia knew that it wound
for long way between detached rock
and the main bluff, and she slipped into
it with such a sense of protection that
she stopped moment to wonder if she
had been cowardly to leave her noun
tain people to the two foreigners. and
to listen if anything was going on.
What she heard was the stranger talk
ing.
Now, if were you," he said, 81
should just go back where came from
and not disturb a respectable commun-
ity like this" Georgia peeped round
the edge of the rock. He had picked her
foreigner up, and was smiling into his
evil eyes. $50 you won't tell me where
you came FROM he said. "Oh, we'll,
then, I don't like, to, but I'll have to
build a prison and put you into it, He
took his hat off and put it over the
corn-cob foreigner. IF I see you try :
ing to walk off with that aboose
while I'm building the JAIL" he went
on, threateningly, "I'l just inform you
that your name is Dennis, young man,
from that time on" .zss.s2s sg. sa2szss'
The sun, which had been an impair
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amiably upon the little mountain peo-
pie with their queer, natural faces, upon
the calaboose, and upon a close-cropped
black head bent to the building of3aSjail
from from jagged bits Of stone. And it fell
on Georgia's eager face and figure, for
bit by bit she had come quite outside
of the shadowed crevice so that she
might miss nothing that this strange
man did and said. But he did not look
her way; he was too busy building up
his Jail. w., a@ %s~ II
"Most disgraceful thing 1 ever heard
of" he declared, nodding toward the
captive under the hat. "You call your
self foreigner doll, doyou? Don't you
know that up where the foreigners
come. from the dolls have long, curly
hair, and eyes that open and shut, and
red mouths and pink cheeks, and arms
and legs that bend just as we'll as mine
do, and they wear fine stockings and
shoes, and some of them walk about and
say mamma, papa, and their clothes"
Georgia's breath was coming fast; j!
her lips were parted and her eyes
shone. The young man whow build
ing the Jail happened to look up from
his work and saw her. "It's so,' he.
said, with a little nod. did you ever
see any like that? , sI.gac .;, .5ss:
NO.. said Georgia, shaking herhead.
A shadow passed over the neighboring
mountains. They had missed all such
marvels too. .,. s#,z ;a
s4. II have" said the young man, 'in the,
toy y-shop. windows; but / suppose you've
never seen the $toy-shops p .5..5
NO Georgia said again. shecame,