The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-03
THE QUEER LOOK OF THINGS IN HARRAH.

rained for three days. He had read
until he was tired, he had played with
his lead soldiers until he had fought
three Spanish wars and had never lost
an American, and now he was ripe for
the fellowship of any kind of boy.
He peered up into the sky at the
large drops that grew larger as they
descended and wished that he might
be a drop Of rain to have such lovely
long jump from the clouds to the earth.
1t would be better than jumping off
of the rafters in the barn. Hullo, there
was a drop way up that must be the
Observation-Disclosures of the rest. How high
it was and how it was growing. Sandy
opened the window to watch 1t better
and the next minute funny-looking
little boy with skin as green as a
maple leaf in mid summer and wear
ing a silken cloak of the color of old
gold landed on his feet upon the carpet
beside Sandy.
.sI'ye done it at last" said he in a
piping voice that, while not unmusical,
was different from any that Sandy had
ever heard.
..where'd you come from?" he asked
the little chap.
From Harrah.' was the reply. He
was Just about Sandyis size. but more
slender, ana MS H6du was lMlGc
as big. His eyes were yellow and shone
like electric lights. His hair was a
lighter. shade of green than his body
and his hips were straw color, uncanny
looking, and yet not unhandsome, and
decidedly friendly, for he rubbed San
dy,s cheeks with his long, slender
hands and made cooling noise that
evidently meant Il like you
eWhere's Harrah?" asked Sandy. but
,s.1-,
boy did not explain. Probably he had
come from a star and Harrah was
what he called il. 1t is unlikely that
the people who live in the stars know
what we call them and If a man came
from Mars and was asked: well,
how did you leave the folks at Mars?"
he wouldn't understand, and indeed
might answer: ..All well, including
Ma
Sandy. who always took things as
they came, said: LETS play check
ers.'
'.All right" said the green boy, who
certainly spoke good everyday Eng
fish. although he had what was evil
IDENTIFY Harrahian accent.
oh. dear" said the little visitor sud-
denly. Il forgot to eat my history les
son before ] came down and if | don't
know it tomorrow my teacher will
make me eat more geography than is
good for me just to punish me.
Have you a history cake anywhere
around2"
"A wh-a-at2" asked Sandy in amaze
ment.
"A history cake. What do you call
them? How would you learn your his
tory lesson2''
BY studying so hard it would make
me hate it," answered Sandy promptly.
He was just taking up Greek history
and lost all the good marks that
American history had earned for him
Just because he wasn't interested in
what a lot of dead Greeks had done
How funny" said the green boy.
But I suppose that things would be
different up here"
You mean down here" said Sandy.
mo. / don't" said the green boy,
suddenly leaping UP three feet and sit
ting in midair, as easily as if he were
on a seat. Il came up here from down
there pointing to the sky. land we
learn things down here by eating
them. We have speller that is in ten
cakes, and a bite is a lesson. There
are about a hundred bites to a cake.
and when you've eaten all the cakes
you know how to SPELL
'Oh. don't wish that could learn
my lessons that way. Say, what is your
name?-
''Jorroel," said the green boy
Mine is Sandy. Say, Jorroel, how do
you sit that wagon nothing?'