The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-02-02
WHEN BETTICOO WAS LOST.

Deen GOV IN the meadow, winch is really
the only home she has ever known; and
no one could imagine why she should
want to get out of it, even if the chance
offered. Hiram, who had been gathering
wild grapes over on the Upton road, came
in about four O. clock, with the announce
ment that she was nowhere to be seen.
Somebody has let the bars down,
ma'am,' he said to the mother of the
children; land now there's no knowing
whether she went through the lower pas
ture down to the road OF up over the hill.
We ought to find her pretty soon, or it
will be dark; and the master would be
after feeling right bad if anything hap
pened to his favorite calf"
Then cannot you hunt for her at once,
Hllam?' she answered 'And here are
the children; they can help you
II can't, indeed, ma am, if ! am to
drive over to the station to meet the mas
ter on the afternoon train said Hiram,
regretfully and / NJ sure | don't like
to be telling the master the calf has stray
ed, either"
Lii, Roy, and even little Stanley were
all eager for the hunt, as soon as they
heard Hiram 5 story. There was sufficient
doubt as 10 the direction the calf might
have taken to make the chase rather ex-
citir9. AMI they wasted some time discuss
ing her probable movements. Suddenly
Lill brok out with new idea
$50 mamma! let's let this decide the
question about which one OF us can drive
to Hazeldene with auntie to- morrow.
Wen have that for the prize to the one
who finds the calf
Their young Aunt Elinor, who was not
many years older than Lii herself, had
l,.ix. If 1I,. Ipx,
tending to visit Hazeldene, a country place
about eight miles from home, and to bring
back with her young friend who was
spending the summer there. One of the
children could 90, too, but only one; and,
as drive to Hazeldene, and especially one
with Aunt Elinor, was not to be had every
day, there had been considerable competi-
ton for the pleasure, and the choice had
been left by Aunt Elinor to mothers de-
ciSi0n.
Roy agreed eagerly to Lill's proposal,
for in his secret heart he felt sure he knew
the exact way Betticoo had taken. 1t was
easy enough to guess that she must have
gone through the barn into the rocky pas
ture, half overgrown with young pine
trees. and Roy felt sure that she would be
found either among these clumps of low
growing trees or just above on the hill.
on iiShN' NC oaio' ~ . ihoie
r. rl,3 Loi " PiiAo! anS Wy Gnly
you lind you We lost it,.
81 N willing, too broke III Stanley's
voice and, if l find Betticoo and 90
with Aunt Elinor 1 Il wear my new sailor
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