The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-12-28
picked up yesterday. Old Otto says

picked up yesterday. Old Otto says
So"
"And you ,nink that am going to
stay here always?"
The lip trembled scornfully.
"Ah, nor said her companion. 81
suppose some day we shall go some
where. but now we are only II, and we
cannot marry till we are II. Four
years, five-that is long time to wait
And we might not have diamonds If
we did marry"
"And you think that l am going to
stay here till thenw
'Well, where are you going?" asked
her companion.
The girl crushed an ice plant leaf be-
tween her fingers.
"Tant' Sannie is a miserable old wo-
man." she said. "Your father married
thought she would take better care of
the farm and of us than an English
woman. He said we should be taught
and sent to school. Now she saves ev-
cry farthing for herself, buys us not
even one old book. She does not i'll use
us. Why? Because she is afraid Of
your fathers ghost. Only this morn
ing she told her Hottentot that she
would have beaten you for breaking
the plate but that three nights ago she
heard a rustling and granting behind
the pantry door and knew it was your
father coming to 'spook' her. She is
miserable old woman" said the girl,
throwing the leaf from her. "But in
tend to go to school,"
"And if she won't let you"
81 shall make her."
- "HowY
The child took not the slightest no.
tice Of the last question and folded her
small arms across her knees.
"But why do you want to so. Lyn-
dall?
"There is nothing helps in this
world" said the child slowly, ."but to
be very wise and to know everything
to be clever"
"But I should not like to 60 to
SCHOOL, persisted the small freckled
face.
"And you do not need to. When you
are II, this Boer woman will go. You
will have this farm and everything
that is upon it for your own. "But l."
said Lyndall, twill have nothing.
must learn
"Oh, Lyndall! will give you some
Of my Sheep" said En-, with a sudden
burst of plying generosity.
81 do not want your Sheep" said the
girl slowly. II want things Of my own.
When am grown up" she added, the
flush on her delicate features deepen
ing at every word, there will be moth
ing that l do not know. l shall be
rich, very rich, and l shall wear not
only for best, but every day, a pure
white silk and little rosebuds, like the
lady in Tant' Sannie's bedroom, and
my petticoats will be embroidered, not
only at the bottom, but all through"
The lady in Tant' Sannies bedroom
was a gorgeous creature from a fash
ion sheet which the Boer woman, some
where obtaining, had pasted up at the
foot of her bed to be profoundly adj
mired by the children.
cit would be very NICE" said EN-, but
ut seemed dream of quite too tran
scendent glory ever to be realized.
At this instant there appeared at the
foot Of the "kopje'' two fgures-the
one, a dog, white and sleek, one yellow
ear hanging down over his left eye; the
other. his master, lad of IA and no
other than the boy Waldo. grown into
a heavy. slouching youth. The dog
mounted the ''kopje" quickly. His
master followed slowly. he wore an
aged jacket. much too large for him
and rolled up at the wrists, and, as Of
old, pair of dilapidated "yel-schoens"
and felt hat. He stood before the
two girls at last.
"What have you been doing today"
asked Lyndall, lifting her eyes to his
face.
Looking after ewes and lambs be-
low the dam. Herew he said, holding
out his hand. 81 brought them for
you"
There were a few green blades of
tender grass.
"Where did you find them?'
"On the dam wall"
She fastened them beside the leaf on
her blue pinafore.
"They look nice there" said the boy,
awkwardly rubbing his great hands
and watching her.
Eyes; but the pinafore spells it all.
It is not pretty"
He looked at it closely.
eyes; the squares are ugly, but it
looks nice upon you-beautiful."
He now stood silent before them, his
great hands hanging loosely at either
side.
"Some one has come today" he num-
bled out suddenly when the idea struck
him.
"WhoY asked both girls.
IAN Englishman on foot
"What does he look likew asked EN-.
81 did not notice, but he has very
large nose," said the boy slowly. "He
asked the way to the house."