The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-14

do you no good to go in, ner no harm,
nuther,''
Drusila hesitated a moment, just a
moment, and then she went to the
bubble. Il don't want none er dat ar
soapsuds ter git in my eyes, she re-
marked with SILVER.
''Shet your eyes. then" said Mr..
Bobs.
Drusilla did more than that. she held
| her breath. Then, with a Whit of
dampness on her face, she found her
self inside the bubble. She turned to
see where and how she got in. but she
was SO surprised at the view that pre-
| Sented itself that she fairly gaSped
with astoniShment. Away off in the
distance she could see somebody that
resembled Mr.. Bobs, but he seemed to
| be hanging in the air, heels upward.
Not far from him was his house; and
that, too. was upside down. By some
| curious freak of perspective the house
and its surroundings, including MIR.
| Bobs, presented a picture not larger
| than your thumbnail.
Il don't think | wuZ sech a mighty
jumper" she said to herself.
Then she looked around for Buster
John and Sweetest Susan, and saw
them some distance away. They We're
evidently as much puzzled as she was.
bubble. Viewed from the outside, il
had appeared to be no larger than a
small house. In the inside, however,
as Drusilla remarked. it was as big az
all outdoors. They walked about tim
idly at first for fear of breaking the
bubble. but they soon forgot all about
that precaution. They seemed to be in
wide and perfectly level field-a field
with shining floor over this floor
the many-hued colors of the rainbow
chased one another necessarily. wrig-
Cling twisting, {whirling. The childres.
watched this display until Drusilla
made Il remark that had astonishing
results.
II know whar we at she said; dish
yer place is whar dey make rainbows.
You kin see UNI platin' UNI now"
At this both Buster John and Sweet
est Susan laughed aloud; whereupon
the rainbow colors seemed to be shat
tered into thousands of fragments, and
they ran about on the floor shaken
into all sorts of disturbed shapes. AL
mast as curious as this spectacle were
the wonderful echoes that took up the
sound of the children's laughter, car
rying it away and bringing it back
again in greater volume. thousand
children seemed to be laughing, some
times close at hand, and then far
away.
Drusilla was alarmed. Il done toll
you all bout putin yo' heads in all
kinder holes an traps" she said I'M
Ter her breath. You may call dis
a bubble eff you Wanter; but faint no
mo- a bubble dan I'm a bubble Look
over yo head; does yO' see any bubble
skin er frame. err hide. er whatsomever
you may call it? No, you don't. Std
der dat yo' see two suns a-shinin' |
done promise myself when we went
und' dat spring dat want gwine let
yo' drag me in no mo- places. An yit.
here l is. You done drag me in here
an now yo' got ter drag me out-ef
ever is ter git OUT
Why, there's nothing to do but tC
break the bubble. Buster John stout
ly asserted.
Show me whar dey's any bubble"
cried Drusilla "Yo' don't see none an
l don't see none We're in a rainbow
fact'ry. an we better git out fo' it
thunders.'
Drusillas considerations led the chill
dren to look around them more care
fully than they had done; and even
Buster John was compelled to admit
that he could see nothing like the walls
of a bubble, if walls they may be
called.
one fact that disturged them more
than any other. was that they could
see no horizon line. The horizon ex-
lists only in the imagination, but it
plays a very important part in our
actual experience. 1t provides boun-
dairy, a limit. But it was absent now.
and its absence, together with the fact
that two separate and distinct suns,
appeared to be shining over head. gave
d weird aspect to this new landscape,
or. to be more esaXt, the bubblescape.
And while the shimmerirg. Seethins,
whirling, rainbow colors We're beauti-
full to behold, they began to add to the
confusion after a while.
In the midst of il all. Drusilla
sncezed, not once, but twice. She
tried hard to keep the sneezes back
had to come, and when they did come
they seemed to shake the foundation
of things, and the sound of ten thou
sand sneezes was heard in the air
The two suns overhead reeled and
shook and whirled about each other
and the colors whirled in the floor till
they lost all semblance of proportion.
And then, while waiting for this de-
yastation to stop itself. the children
saw a little woman come gliding to-
ward them. followed by swarm of
smaller figures.
We're gone now" exclaimed Dru- |
silla excitedly. I'VE done stirred um |
UP. We better make a break an git |
out er here 'fe dey jump on us an git |
US down."
But somehow, neither Buster John |
nor Sweetest Susan was frightened. /
There was nothing alarming about 1
The little woman, who seemed to be /
the ladder, was not ugly at all. Is-she |
had been an old crone with yellow |