The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1902-08-09


self. he never forgot Il. He waited and
waited am waited. and it came ut
last
nc must haze boon W happy"
said LIN
Il do not know" ssid -..aic bat
he had what he said he s~onId have.
aud that is better than he.n, aappy.
He was their master. and all the people
were white with fear or him. He was
one. aud they were many. aud they got
him down al last They We're like the
wildcats when their teeth are fast In
great dog. like cowardly Wildcats
said the child-"they would not let Nun
20. They were many. He was only
one They sent him 10 IN island In the
sea. lonely island. and kept him there
fast He was one man. and they were
many. and they were terrified at him.
IL was glorousv' said the child
And what them" said EN-.
.sThen he was alone there In that Is
land. with men 10 watch him always,
said her companion slowly aud quietly.
"and In the long lonely nights he used
10 lie awake and think OF the things he
he would do II they let him 90 again.
In the day. when he walked near the
shore. II seemed TO him that the sea all
around him was cold chain about his
body pressing him 10 death
And them said Em. much inter
! esied
"He died there In that island He
never got away"
ut Is rather a nice story" said EN-.
shut the end is sad.
1T is n terrible. hateful ending said
the LITTLE teller OF the story. leaning
forward on her folded arms, and the
worst Il 1. Is true. | have noticed,
added the child very deliberately, that
IL * only the made up stories that end
nicely. The true ones all end So
AS she spoke the boys dark. heavy
eyes rested on her face.
you have read II. have you notr'
He nodded. Yes: but the brown
history tells only what he did. not
what he thought.
at was IN the brown history that
read OF him." said the girl, but
know what he thought. Books do not
tell everything"
mo" said the boy. slowly drawing
nearer to her and sitting down at her
feet. What you want TO know they
never tell"
Then the children fell into silence
till Doss. the dog. growing uneasy at
IT'S long continuance. shifted at one
and the other, aud his master broke
forth suddenly.
IF they could talk. IL they could
tell us now" he said. moving his hand
out over the surrounding objects. then
we would know something. This kop-
je.' II IL could tell us how IL came here!
The Physical Geography says he
went on. most rapidly and confusedly.
"that what are dry lands now were
once lakes. And what | think Is this:
These low hills were once the shores
OF a lake. This 'kopie Is some OF tie
stones that were at the bottom. rolled
together by the water. But there is
this: How did the water come TO make
one heap here alone IN the center OF the
plain?' II was a ponderous question
4. No one volunteered an answer. when
: was little" said the boy, u always
:, looked at II aud wondered, and
= thought a great giant was buried IN
der IL. Now | know the water must
= have done It. but how? 1t Is very won
derful. Did one little stone come frs
: aud stop the others as they roIledY
: said the boy, with earnestness, ~
: low voice, more rs II speaking to him
: self than TO them.
oil a., a ~ "a la IL
here" said En-. with solemnity.
"But how did he put IL hcre;"
. "By wanting"
But how did the wantiss bring &
. hcre?"
because II did"
Tile last words were uttered with Ga,
: air OF one who produces "A clnchni
argument What effect Il had ON IA,
. questioner was not evident for b,
made no reply and turned away from
her
Drawing closer to Lyndall's feet. h,
n said after awhile In low voice;
''Lyndall. has IL ever seemed TO yol
1, that the stones were talking or you
I, Sometimes" be added IN yet lowe
tone. II lie under there with my sheep
! and IL seems that the stones are rcnll.
speaking-speaxing or the old things
OF the time when the strange hshe
., and animals lived that are turned int
stone now aud the lakes were here
10 and then or the time when the Iittl
- Bushmen lived here. so small and 81
ugly, and used TO sleep In the wil'
=. dog holes and In the 'sloots' aud ea
a. "A
poisoned arrows. IL was one or them
one OF those old wild Bushmen. tina
painted those" said the boy noddinI
= toward the pictures. lone who wa
- different from the rest He did no
Ia know why. but he wanted to max
something beautiful: be wanted B