The Indianapolis journal., 1903-11-01
ITO be Continued
TWO LITTLE GIRLS
AND A SMALL BOY.
By f. FOX,

The two of them were evidently on their
way home from school. One bore a knit
school satchel that was not heavily laden
with what school satchels are usually used
for, for instead of being laterally fat it was
knobby in places, and the plain face of the
small girl who bore il looked kindly upon it.
They were on their way home from school,
but the benches under the naples looked in
viting. An old gentleman sat on one read
ing a newspaper and his attention wandered
now and again from the Stock Exchange,
which was dry and uninteresting, to the
evening, which was warm and golden. AS
for the park naples themselves, they were
changing busily their dusty, rusty summer
habiliments for the most startling and de-
licious tints of crimson. vernilon. yellow
The two small girls were visibly at the
wax and pressing age. the gay leaves very
attractive. The winds of the night before
had sent red and yellow eddies here and
there under the trees and an ankle deep
tidal wave swept along the curbing. At first,
the two small girls merely scuffed along
luxuriously through the wave of the curb
that whispered and rustled, then here and
there particularly bright leaf caught their
eye. Then the dutifully straight homeward
course became devious. and it was a leaf
here, leaf there, a dart here a dart there,
till their little hands were crowded with a
beautiful big-headed bouquet of insistent
color.
The little girl who bore the satchel, now
strapped with singham apron string
around her small person that both her hands
might be free, paused to assert her handful
into large, medium and small. Her bouquet
was much larger than the other little girls,
because her hands were larger. Her hair,
too, was brightly autumn tinted-a tint not
always respected by other children-and her
large plain features were generously and
Systematically sprinkled with brown freck-
les She was not a pretty child. a fact evi-
IDENTIFY recognized by her mother, for her
dress was obviously chosen with an eye
more to durability than ornament.
Naturally, the other little girl was the
type the first little girl would pick out to
chum with Her dark hair in a trim Russian
crop was silky, we'll brushed and caught to
the left of a pretty forehead with a bow of
flaming ribbon. Her features were delicate,
her dress distinctly ornamental She planted
her feet, too, not with the heel to toe flop
of the other little girl, but with light pre-
cision that bespoke the dancing class.
AS they stood just opposite the old gentle
man, adjusting their leaves, a small boy
came into sight. He was whistling. his blue
cap was at an astonishing angle, and he
was busily kicking home stone that he
had tripped over at the schoolhouse corner.
The two little girls saw him instantly; he
did not see them-yet. He wasn't ready. But
as he came UP behind them he helped his
~rx,r rT,,It..
that landed it sharply just above the slipper
top of the read-headed little girl Naturally
the red-headed little girl was enraged. She
came promptly over to the small boy and
cuffed him. The small boy laughed. because
this was what he had expected. 1t is be-
cause red-headed little girls fly into pas
sion so remarkably easy that makes it such
a temptation TO tease them.
Harvey Jones'" cried the injured small
girl angrily, "you did that on purpose-you
bad boy"
Didn't" grinned the small boy.
"You did. too
Leave 1t to Annette" stoutly did I An
nette?'
NO demurely replied that small person.
Harvey" she added sweetly, wish you'd
hold these minute till / get some of those
sassafras leaves TO go round the outside"
The small boy Immediately deserted his
stone. He admired the Russian-cropped
small girl immensely She lived three houses
below his house. and her dancing class was
his.
The rcd-headed little girl looked upon the
twain. and the green dragon came and
suppcd upon her heart. For she, on her part,
admired the little Jones boy. in his spick
and span white waists. his fresh ties and
his curling dark hair always parted To the
hair in the middle At school ne sat i'm the
seat behind her seat, and they occasionally
traded licorice and chewing gum. when the
teacher was otherwise engaged. The rcd
headed little girl did not attend dancing