The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-14

II NSR4ld HSSlldNeu a moment Just a
moment and then she went TO the bubble.
i don't want none er dat ar soap-suds ter
git in my eyes, she remarked with a
SILVER
Shet your eyes, then" said Mr.. Bobs.
Drusilla did more than that, she held
her breath. Then, with a Whit of damp
ness on her face, she found herself inside
the bubble. She turned to see where and
how she got in, but she was so surprised
at he view that presented itself that she
fairly gasped with astonishment Away
off In the distance she could see somebody
that resembled Mr.. Bobs, but she seemed
TO be henging 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 sur
roundings, including Mr.. Bobs, presented
a picture not larger than your thumb
n%n
II didn't know l 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 were evidently as
much puzzled as she was The bubble no
longer seemed TO be bubble. Viewed from
the outside, It had appeared to be no larger
than a small house. In the inside, how
ever, as Drusilla remarked. ii was as big
idly at first for fear of breaking the bub-
BILE, but they soon forgot all about that
precaution. They seemed TO be in a wide
and perfectly level field-a field with a
shining floor. over this floor the many
hued colors of the rainbow chased one
another necessarily, wr.gging, twisting,
whirlng. The children watched this dis
play until Drusllla made a remark that
had astonishing results.
81 know whar we at she said; dish
yer pace is whar dey make rainbows. You
kin see us plattin UNI now.
Az this both Buster John and Sweetest
Susan laughed aloud; whereupon the rain
bow colors seemed to be shattered into
thousands of fragments, and they ran
about on the floor, shaken into al sorts
of disturbed shapes. Almost as curious
as this spectacle were the wonderful.
echoes that took up the sound of the chill
dren's laughter, carrying it away and
bringing 1t back again in greater volume
A thousand children seemed TO be laugh
ing, sometimes close at hand and then far
away
DrusiI.a was alarmed. ct done toP you
all bout putin yo' heads in all kinder
holes an traps" she said under her
breath. you may call dis a bubble ef
you wanter; but faint no mo- a bubble
dan I'm a bubble. Look over yo' head;
does yo' see any bubble-skin err frame, er
hide, err whatsomever you may call it? No
you DON'T iStidder dat, yo' see two suns
a-shinin'. / done promise myself when
we went und' dat spring dat I want gwine
let 20 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 l ever
is ter git out.
"Why. there's nothing to do but to
break the bubble Buster John stoutly
asserted.
.'Show me whar dey's any bubble" cried
Drusi.la. "Yo don't see none, an don't
see none. We're in rainbow fact'ry an
we better git out fo' it thunders."
Drusilla's considerations led the chill
dren to look around them more carefully
than they had done? and even Buster
John was compelled to admit that he could
gee nothing like the walls OF a bubble, if
walls they may be called.
One fact that disturbed them more than
any other, was that they could see no
horizon line.4 The horizon existed only in
The imagination, but it plays a very i'm
portant part in our actual experience. It
provides a boundary, a limit But il was
absent now, and Its absence, together with
the fact that two separate and distinct
suns appeared to be shining overhead,
gave a weird aspect to this new land
scape. And while the shimmering, seeth-
ing, whiriing, rainbow colors were beauti-
full to behold they began to add to the
confusion after a while.
In the midst of it all, Drusilla sneezed,
not once, but twice. She tried hard to keep
the sneezes back to "hol' 'em in" as she
said, but they had TO come and when they
did come, they seemed to shake the foun-
dalton OF things, and the sound of ten
thousand sneezes was heard in The air.
The two suns overheard 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 devas-
tation to stop itself, the children saw a
little woman come gliding toward them,
followed by a swarm of smaller figures.
ssWe're gone now" exclaimed Drusilla,
excitedly. 1--WE done stirred UNI up We
better make break an git out er here
TO dew lump on us an git us down.
But homehow, neither Buster John nor
Sweetest Susan was frightened. There
was nothing alarming about these ntte
people-ir people they were The htte
woman. who seemed TO be the leader was
not ugly at all If she had been an old
crone with q yellow tooth, the childreh
might have felt some uneasiness, but her
apneerancse was very pleasing, although
"
ALI the smaller ones that came after her,
seemed to be solemn and weary. But
thew were not too weary to form them
selves in a ring, Of which the children
were the center, and go marching around,
singing a song of complaint. Their voices
were not strong and 1t was all the chill
dren could do to catch few of the words
| of the song. A part Of II was as follows;
"If YOU stay awake while you sleep,
You will find that the whole isn't half;
You will find It Is funny to weep,
And awfully solemn to laugh.
ooh hear one cause Of complaint
II tbs. 1t twas, It 'tan't!'
81 tell you dey got u.s. said Drusilla
in low voice. "Dey amt no sense In
what dey singin.' Dey er all ravin' crazy.
| Look at UNI, how dey waggle dey heads
an wobble bout when dey walk! Dey
sho is got usl'
When the song, If such it could be call
ed. was done. the little woman came to-
wards the children. Her attitude was not
| threatening. but Drusilla made haste to
| get behind her companion.
"You don't seem to know me-" the 1T