Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-03-27


 time. Now 1 shall have to walk. for can't afford 10 buy more."
 'It will do you good to walk. Joseph.p said the other, and you ought to be glad you lost your tickets. Come on. I can wait no longer"
 What is a ticket2r asked Che Drvad. when the men had gone
 T don't know" said Lapingro. .sbut it must be something 10 ride on. Look at those two birds! What are they do- ing?s
 On the ground not far from the path, two young birds, scarcely flcdged, were pulling al something which looked like D black worm. Each held an end of 1t in it's bill, and each tried with all its might to get il away from the other. The black thing stretched and stretched, and, suddenly, it slipped from the bill of one of the birds and snapped back into the face of the other one, so that they both were frightened and ran away
 "These must be the ticketsl" cried Lapingro, picking up a smnll package. "There are ever so many of them, and that black thing must have been around them 10 hold them together.n
 "Yes," said the Dryad, "and in try ing to pull it off they dropped the pack age out of the path, so that the men could not find it
 And these are the tickets, are theyP" said Lapingro. "But I don't see how people ride on them"
 'sNor do l" said the Dryad. "but they do, for the man said so. People who are lazy or tired ride on them"
 T might take four of them." said Lapinita, and put one foot on each, but don't believe they would ride me"
 "No, indeed" said Lapingro. I've don't know how they are used."
 I'll tell you what will be q good thing to do," said the Dryad. Let us put them in the Easter egg, and then we can give ii to some child; not to one who is lazy, but to one who is tired"
 q know child who is tired," cried I.apinita. It is the olSra child. Every morning she was to walk to the town to carry ol1ra for the people to make gumbo. Sometimes she feeds me, and have heard her say that she was very tired"
 '.The ollra girl shall have the eggl1 cried tue Dryad Now let us run and fill it."
 When the tickets had been neatly packed into the goose's egg, which fit ted nicely over them, the Dryad drew some long hairs from her head and twisted them into pretty cord. With this she tastefully tied up the egg so that it could not come open. Then everything was readys
 Very early the next morning the Dryad and the two rabbits went to the cabin of the olra girl; Lapinita carry ing the egg clasped close 10 her breast IS if it were precious baby The girl slept soundly on pallet on the floor, and when Lapinita had placed the egg where she could see it as soon as she opened her eyes the three companions stationed themselves outside the open door, where they could watch.
 As soon as the sun was up the olSra girl awol5e with start, for she was afraid she was late. Easter Sunday was a great market morning in that town, and she feared that some one else might supply her customers with ol5ra.
 When she sat up in bed and saw the egg she elapped her hands. An Easter egg," she cried. An Easter egg that the rabbits have brought mel.
 She saw that the egg was intended to be opened, and when she united the cord of hair, lifted the upper half of the shell and saw what the egg con tuined, there was never such happy | girl in all this world. She took the tickets out on her lap and gazed at them with delight.
 "Oh, now I can ride to town," she cried. "Every day for so many weeks! What a wonderful thing the rabbits have brought to mel"
 ''Now then" whispered the Dryad, "we must watch her carefully and see how she rides on those tickets"
 As soon as the obra girl was dressed she picked up her basket, which she had filled the night before, and hur- l ried away toward the town.
 q don't call that riding" said Lap inita.
 Let us wait and see what she does next" said Lapingro and the Dryad and the rabbits quietly followed the girl
 She soon came to quiet road, and there she stopped. Hiding behind some bushes, the three companions watched her. Very soon an electric car came rumbling along on the rails. The olra girl held up her hand and the ear stopped She quickly stepped in and seated herself, and the Dryad and the rabbits plainly saw her take one of the tickets and give it to man, after which the car rolled swiftly away and she was lost to their sight.
 They looked at each other in amaze ment. ''So that is the way that people ride on tickets" said the Dryad. T never should have imagined such thing if I had not seen it."
 s'Yes, that is the way it is done" !" ex- claimed Lapinita. And, oh, how ebonId like +o ride on a ticlSeti'