Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-03-15

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En- took OF her bfg brown Eappfe
AMI beam vigorously 20 fan her red
fI-e with It. but her companion bent
low over the leaves IN her lap and II
ELst took UP an Ice plant Ieaf and fas-
tened Il on % the front OF her blue PIMA
fore with a pin
Diamonds must look as these drops
do she said. carefully bending over
the leaf and crushing one crystal drop
with her delicate little nail When -
she said AN grown up, I shall wear
real diamonds exactly Ike these In my
hair"
Her companion opened her eyes and
wrinkled her low forehead
Where will you find them LyndaIl?
The stones are only crystals that we
picked up yesterday Old Otto says
So"
And you think that l am going to
stay here aIwaysY
The lip trembled scornfully.
"Ah. no. said her companion Il
suppose some day we shall go some
where. but now we are only II, and we
cannot marry till we are Il. Four
years. five-that is long time to wait
And we might not have diamonds II
we did marry"
And you think that l am going to
Itay here till thenY"
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
her when he was dying because he
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 Ill use
us. Why? Because she Is afraid of
your fathers ghost. Only this morn
ing she told her Hottentot that she
would nave beaten you for breaking
the plate but that three nights ago she
heard n rustling and n grunting behind
the pantry door and knew 1t was your
father coming to 'spook' her. She is
miserable old woman" said the girl,
throwing the leaf from her. But in
tend TO so to school I"
"And If she won't let your
81 shall make her."
"HowT
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 go, Lyn-
dallT'
There is nothing helps In this
world" said the child slowly, "but to
be very wise and to know everything
to be clever"
"But l should not like to go to
schoolv' persisted the small freckled
face.
"And you do not need to. When you
are Il, this Boer woman will go. You
will have this farm and everything
said Lyndall, will have nothing. /
must learn"
ooh, Lyndall! I will give you some
of my sheep" said En-, with a sudden
burst of plying generosity.
Il do not want your sheep" said the
girl slowly. II want things of my own.
When 1 am grown up" she added, the
IaIf 20
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. 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' SannIe's 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 ad-
mired by the children.
'It would be very nice" said EN-, but
1t seemed n dream of quite too tran
scendent n glory ever to be realized.
At this instant there appeared at the
foot of the "kopje" two figures-the
one, a dog, white and sleek, one yellow
ear hanging down over his left eye; the
other, his master, n 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 'vel-schoens"
and n felt hat. He stood before the
two girls at last.
What have you been doing todayT'
asked Lyndall, lifting her eyes to his
face.
Looking after ewes and lambs be-
low the dam. Here". he said, holding
out his hand. 81 brought them for
you"
There were few green blades of
tender grass.
Where did you find themT
"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.
yes; but the pinafore spoils 1t all.
Ii is not pretty"
He looked at it closely.
Yes; the squares are ugly, but 1t
looks nice upon you-beautifuL"
He now stood silent before them, his
great hands hanging loosely ut either
side
"Some one has come today" he num-
bled out suddenly when the idea struck
him.