Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-09-28


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"You must devise q plan. I will
/ viii digi~
.sYou don't believe II, about deyils2'
Il can charm the devils-is IL not
so9-littie sweet Tomasito-ean she
charm the diabiiio2" She was kissing
his lips and talking endearing baby
talk TO the big raw-bcned man
4 ssShe cam" svvore he. LET MS plant
But how-how?"
And for two whole weeks they
moped about. repeating: But how
but how2- Staring at the bare open
space which all the town went troop
ing over. Tomas worked no more.
Julia scarcely cooked. SO that they
were unconsciously hungry and thin
looking. They grew melancholy dur
ing that fortnight looking out of the
window at the cobble-stoncs.
One day at dinner, when neither had
spoken for an hour. Tomas suddenly
hit his plate with his fist.
Il have it," cried he.
She sprang up dancing; leaped 20
him. Rugged and twisted and smoth-
cred him: uttering n food OF incoher-
ent questions.
'.Why-ah-ugh-don choke me-
rr-r-r-rl~ gasped he. with beans in
his mouth. "The merry-go-round,"
She sat down with a sudden gloomy
thump. and gazed at her coughing
lord.
TOMAS, what rude. unlind joke
T. have YOU played on your little julia
r oh. Tomas"
r "No joke, say the little horses"
Merrv-go-rounds are called little
= horses in Mexico. He was now aris-
ing in excitement.
"But-but.~ she murmured. sitting
there. beautiful picture disconsolate
show in the world can we do il viii
I them?"
" Didn't Romero tell me he was los
ing money with his merry-go-round il
n Nautepec. and offer TO rent il TO nj
J" 70 try in Cuenavaca?'
y .'Ne-ycs." with reproachful doubt
Sc Tomas was now dancing, dignit.
re gone. the idea fully formed in hi
u brain.
'h Big silly" cried she. running an
holding 20 his ears. What is itT.
~ .Whv-cau't YOU see2 This is th
u- very spot .he government rented one
'u before 20 "a merry-go-round. An
ne nnerrv-ro-rounds have small inner ci
~ Giles walled in and hidden with car
nc vas.~
y. Light came into her eyes. Her III
"a were apart. She threw her slend'
80 body with a cry Of JOY into his am
- and upon his breast.
~ And 7 can sing while you dig
-as Z wept she.
. Next morning Tomas rode away
= Yautepec. For q week the world "
IN. "a prison. life all but unbearabie,
- Julia. AT the end of that time Z
-bt little horses came.
ar. They had wound along mounta
e. trails from Yautepcc. On the bac
- OF mules and burros We're they bouu
,,t canvas. poles. ropes. ard much tint
~, were bound likewise. 4 little stei
49, engine. made I'm Cleveland. O.. a
IA, sadly out Of it's elements, came
,, roundabout way over two railroa
tbc The caravan was a strange sight, "
.vor Ter in those mountain Nvilds.
M Cuautla valley. green and tropical q
~. Glorious. whence the little hor
~, came. lies in a basin of the mountai
over the low range. green and tropi
20 / aud glorious, too. lies the valley
Cuerna,aca. The two are sisters.
stony mail route from Naute
,ra crosses the range near the two ro'
-. hills called Tctilias. Across the 81
49, nit, with the green basins in view
-, either hand. and the clear air mai
". old Popocatcpetl seem close, wo
,r,.a Tomas's train; wooden horse
,,i.h sticking up from mule backs; WOO
.ie-n horse heads overhnnging burro he'
ngbt all the paraphernalia Of "a bate
no modern. dreary, American merry
heir round. crawling thus over Mont
tore mas ancient trails.
. out On the bare space 10y Pacheco's
aav legged statue. the caravan al lei
Mind came 10 a halt The drivers saw
.b;no, anxious face OF woman looking
re- Is Of the window OF the pink house
Fad ready ragged boys were whOopin
that the 10Y of anticipation. For this
, for 81 diversion. the grandest which j
"A In en- ever permits 20 men, comes
ght once ia many moons TO the boys
,ublic town like Cuernavaca.
Tomas came and burst open
n+in0 door and the two fell into each
a an er's arms as though they had
! and parted dozen bitter years.
Neigh my angel, Tomasitoi" gergled
"Soon-ah, very soon," he mutt
80. an incoherently. with her hair "
oheaa around his neck. Then he strod'
=, for At length the circular canvas
cr,as. Of the merry-go-round was zap.
b,,og for two slow days Tomas and
,ioht !" workmen fitted those battered
$3.50 en- steeds in place. The steeds
in pairs, woodenly prancing
~, nee circular platform. The engine W