Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-10-24
BY 3. nv. CROKER
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der, Miles," said his cousin, bursting into
MS tent one morning. 'Shove away that
venerable newspaper and listen to me.
Iheres not stir toward the front, and 1
invite you to join a foray party. We are
going about twenty miles west to burn
some kraals. and it's better fun than stick
ing in camp doing nothing"
Another Of your raids!' contemptuOus-
ly. You live q few hundred years too
late. You'd have been in your glory in
those old border times, lifting your neigh
boris cattle, and harrying them from
years in to years end"
Can't harry these beggars enough to
please me! Come along. Here's a chance
10 see some fun-'
Fun! my good Teddy! II .heie were
any fun I'd 60 like a shot; but burning
4 few filthy kraals does not strike me as
q very humorous employment. However.
II can't raise any other job shall go.
Just ta>nlsase Won"
That's right, and 1t does please me.
There will be half a troop of ours and
some irregular horse, and who knows
what may happen before we get back! -
Who knows indeed, Teddy? Little do
you imagine as you mount your brown
charger that tomorrow your saddle will
be empty. That tomorrow and for many
tO-morrows the animal now moving SO
buoyantly under you will paw the ground
and whinny shrilly, and strain at her
picket rope in vain, for the touch of a
vanished hand, and the sound of a voice
that is STILL
And thus they set forth, a goodly little
band, nearly fifty sabers, bent on carry
ing fire and destruction into a hitherto
Irr,rN opft< hln ,ort bA Srr hnr
some ragged, distant hills. Away they
went, for miles, across the barren plain,
scored with yawning dongas. through
bush and scrub and mealie fields, and
finally arrived at the rocky hills. where
they found a number of deserted kraals.
A few gourds and mats and skins were
the only spoils that fell into their hands.
The place was thoroughly searched for
buried grain, and then from every kraal
a thin line Of blue smoke was seen rising,
transparent against the rocky back
ground. This feat accomplished, the par
ty off-saddled and turned the horses loose
to grace, not without some Qualms anent
the deadly tulip-rOOt, had some bread and
cheese themselves. and after a short rest.
set out homeward.
Teddy, careless and fOolhardy, brought
up the rear, with his cousin, at some dis
tance in the wake Of the irregulars, the
lancers and their captain being percepti-
bly, ahead.
Il think we had better be showing on"
remarked Miles, noticing the crimson sun
set, which was now bathing the veldt in
its fiery flames, and the lengthening
shadows Of the powders and big qnartz
rocks.
"Oh, nonsense; it's all right, there's no
hurry" returned Teddy, placidly. Il
know every inch Of this ground well.
We're only about seven miles from camp.
The horses have had a hard days work.
let's take it easy. i never have a jaw
with you now alone, Miles. Dicky Gee
is all very well, and l like him awfully:
but we can't hang out the family washing
before him. EhY' grinning.
What are you driving at?' impatient
ly.
Il had q letter from home last night;
l found it when got back-from Esme,
giving his companion q searching glance.
'.She does not mention you"
mo; suppose not"
whats the row between you now"
Nothing. There is no row. As you call
It."
"Oh, but there is. l can see it. And
to be wroth with one You love doth work,
like patent-spring back-action, madness
on the brain. 1 know you think I'm an
interfering, meddling young owl. That's
understood"
You don't know what you are talking
about, that's ALL" with q smile Of dis
dainful tolerance.
"Oh. don'tI? Perhaps know as much
about it as my elders. What would you
oil Shnck-f /
YOU I could sing The Girl Left Behind
Me- too?"
Il would say 1 did not believe yon.
that it was only one of your jokes" re-
turned his cousin, cOolly.
"She is the only child Of a retired col
onel-a ferocious looking old widower-
with heaps of money. 1t was pretty good
cheek for q trOOp-sergeant TO raise MS
ewes to his daughter. How it happened
was this" now riding knee to knee with
his companion. II was walking alone
one evening, for wonder, about two
miles from barracks, when in a country
lane l heard no end of a shindy; snarlins
and howling aud screaming. l found the
row came from big lurcher who was
half killing q fox-terrier, and girl who
was yainly belaboring the lurcher with
her umbrella. Much he cared. l choked
him off, and got an ugly bite for my pains,
but rescued the terrier, more dead thar
alive. l bathed his wounds in stream
hard by. and his mistress and l became
ouite intimate over the performance, anu
then l tenderly carried him home behind
her about half a mile. When we reach
ed the gate she stopped, and got very red.
and stammered, and seemed greatly con
fused: for she was quite young, only
a bout eighteen. At last she stammerea
out, III you were only an ordinary sol.
dier. l would offer you money, as well
as NV thanks; but, as ! think you are a
gentleman, 1 offer you my thanks alone:
and she bowed. You can't think the odd
feeling it gave me, to see q lady DOW 10
me once more. l was only a sergeant.
and she q lady: the gulf was pretty
-;de one. won two prizes at our toutn-
event She was there, she saw me. sue
sm;led-at least l imagined she dio-
when l carried off the first prize.
..Of course you never wrote 10 neE
"Neverv' emphatically. u,-u
..Never spoke, never wrote wen, uu
dor tbese difficult and delicate circun
stances. what was your next mo'e'
81 sent her flowers. ,a
"Oh. Having previously ma''ere'
their language" oil that
7 got them from Covent Garden-moneS
no object, as Gussie says-and l useo ~
climb the wall and lay them ON az ".
sun dial in the pleasure ground.
..My Door Teddy! 1t was a despera.e
had case!" in q tone Of sincere comm''-
GRAFTON. ..de,ad
1T was, it is. Before we were olaei..
oH I left q bouquet Of fOrget-me-nots AZ
- IA thon m4rC0eO