The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-06-01
,SuSy and the Wolf
BY Lucy Randall Comfort


/ April, when Susy Blacks mother
called to her to come in from play and
carry her fathers dinner to him in the
woods. Susy had studied her lessons.
sewed her little task of patchwork. and
was now playing down by the brook,
where she could see the beautiful spot
ted trout dart to and fro in the shadowy
pools.
But she jumped promptly up when
her mother called, and ran into the
house, for Susy liked the long, pleasant
walk through the spring woods where
the maple trees were all hung with
crimson blossoms, and the wild violets
were beginning to peep up through the
layers of dead leaves that rustled under
her feet. And her father always had
some nice story to tell her, and kiss to
greet her with.
"Can 1 have my baked apples and
milk first?" said Susy.
"Tll give it to you when you come
back, my DEAR" said her mother. "But
have baked little meat pie, and roast
ed some sweet potatoes for papa, and
should like to have him get them before
they are cold. So put on your blue
, hood and shawl, and run as fast as you
can."
Susy had not been gone very long be-
fore old Mr.. Dean came hobbling around
to borrow the newspaper.
Folks all well?" asked old Mr.. Dean,
peering around through his spectacles
"Yes, all WE'LL" replied Mrs. Black
'Father is in the woods, chopping down
trees, and Susy has gone to carry him
his dinner"
"Humph! humph!" exclaimed old Mr.
Dean. II wouldn't let her go too far
into the woods, if were you. Jim Doltz
has tracked an ugly old she wolf up into
the Maple rocks. He thinks likely she
strayed down from Eagle mountain
when the last deep snow came. Jim Is
going out to hunt her down the first
leisure day, he says"
"Oh," said Mrs. Black, "Susy isn't go
ing in that direction at all! She is only
! going to the river"
but for all that she felt little un
easy after old Mr.. Dean had trudget
AioAlC, uId SuC WCht SEVERAL tllucS "
look out of the window. to see if she
p; could perceive anything of Susy com
ing home.
| Susy took the dinner basket straigh
to her father, and sat on the edge of tn,
bank, flinging chips into the clear. CUR
Cling current of the little river, Will,
he ate it.
She was rather hungry herself, ant
the meat pie and roasted sweet potatoes
smelt very appetizing, but she declined
| her fathers invitation to sit down AM
eat with him, because she thought tn
meat pie looked rather small and tina
her father must need it all. And sh
enjoyed the surprise of pulling a re,
apple out of her pocket afterwards, AM
giving it to him.
"What!" said Mr.. Black, another O
those Northern Spy apples?. Why,
thought they were all gone long ago.
'1There was just one only left, papa,
cried Susy, gleefully, "to surprise yo
with"
"Come, then" said Mr.. Black, 'let'
go halves ON it. I'll cut it in two. an
We'll each eat half"
mo, papa, thank you," replied Susy
"I'm to have my dinner when l &c
back, and please, I'd rather see you ca
it,"
So Mr.. Black ate the apple, put tn
spoon, knife and fork and napkin bac
into the basket, kissed Susy. and tol
her to go directly home. And SO sh
would have done, perhaps, If she ha
not seen some lovely tufts Of pink fov
ers growing straight up through tt
dead leaves on the hillside beyond.
II should like to take some of thes
home to mamma" said Susy, speal1in
out loud, as she often did when she WI
by herself.
: The pink flowers, however, were fu
ther off than she had any idea of-aI
more flowers grew beyond-and whe
6usy had filed the basket she was by !
. means certain in which direction
turn so as soonest to reach her home.
: II caI surely tell by the course Of u