Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1903-07-15
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Il Complete Story BY Margaret Westryp.

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= "a great old sweet smelling garden,
and one little maid among the flowers
snd bees and butterflies. All alone she
was, for mother did not come out into
the garden much these days, Joan
stopped before tall pink hollyhock
and spoke. SS
Il don't think this such a nice
snnmer as. most" she said. IT used to
say fink oneeAoh, years ana years
asowhen l was kef-wite little baby,
butt say 'therink' now. cause I'm
most grown up, you see:"
Then she walked On again down the
little twisted gravel path, with her
hands clasped behind her; and her
brows grave with thought. For so
Man Daddy used to walk when he was
having big 'therink." -.
4Batlit's whole days most years.
since Man Daddy went away" she
said, stopping beside gray green bush
of{lavender, "and he said goodby SO
hastyshe squeezed me SO hard that he
hurt, and his eyes were angry, and I
hadn't been naughty, at all. Are you
sorry, sweet layender?" -
She buried her face in the fragrance,
then strotted on down the little path
till she came to tall foXglove. She
tilted back her yellow head and gazed
up at: the white and red bells with
wide gravity, her hands still elapsed
behind her back.
Zone day." she said, "a lady came
to see mother. 1t vast was long
big time ago, afore you were borned,
pretty. ladies what bow, and she tried
to kiss me when she was going, but !
didn't like her, you see, and wouldn't
Kiss her, and ran in to mother. and
mother was i'll on the-I forget-the
bed without covers in the drawing
sroom,s-y you know, and the lady was
smiling ever so, and her dress was as
long as new little baby's, and that
was the day Man Daddy went away"
She bowed grayelysto the polite fox
gloves. and trotted on.
Before a group OF tall white lilies
she Stoned agai1s ss asa
2 rent 6 down and laid her soft: cheek
against the snowy petals.
For. momens the baby lip qu,verea:
"Man Daddy loved you the, eestese VI
all: Queen of the Garden;m'nS' ,
what he called you, you know.
Then a cry went up in the warm,
u.aaat .,r 81 want Man Daddy-oh, |
want him so bad!"
The little hands were unclasped only
40 he locked together tighter sun, !,
l"For I'm most grown up, you see'
swhispered Baby Joan to the tall Wnite
5,ily "and srown-ups don't cry you
know. ?
She left the lilies, and walked on y,
deem thought. AT the end OF the patl
her wee red sunshade was tied WIFI
string to a. nail in the wall Sucn
long while it had taken to fix that sun
shade "propelly," but Joan eyeo /
proudly now. :,
"Are you ker-wite happy" she SAID
pseping round at the clamberlng wnit MI.
and mink convolvulus behind the ht
:tle parasol. Poor muslin ladies' alah
the wind blow. you drefful! :,
sTben. she: watched little blue pu
terfy- as she. futtered about from nov
arrtosf1ower, and finally sailed over ID
wall.
"1f b was a buttleiy," she said 7
the convolvu1us, "I would soon Nh
Man Daddy" She sighed, so that M
small muslin pinafore bosom sa.I
hip heave., "But then" with anotn'
thought "I'd have: to leave mother.
= She sighed again. Mother say
Don't worry, JOAN when / ask wn'
Man Daddy's coming home, and tn'
kisses me ever so, to make up.
hetrotted. on again, with hands
hind her back tod,
A woman looking from Wlnoe
turned away in anguish from the SIM
feminine imitation of Man Dadoy.
suddenly the chubby legs twlnkl
IN wild haste up the garden, acre
the velvet lawn, out of the open q
into the road.
81 can go most as fast as DuS pun
ey" said Joan, "and I'll find Man Vi
DIV at the nice place where F1do
took when he, was lost, where Tn
we're such heaps and heaps OF DC
.Itnow Man Daddy'll be there" VIII
e,eeful chuckle that brought the d
/. niles laughing to her cheeks. MOI
never thought Of that. l b'heve II
the lilies what put the tnerlnk III
inside" ao,
~ one in this peaceful dinner N
she trotted, her sunbonnet drage
behind and her yellow hair rival
the glowing cornfields on either sio
Tn her desire to emulate the ou
sv she got over the ground at
nrising pace. She put all her n
and soul into her endeavor, as she
ways did into everything she u1
took Life to Joan las a deep ant
a,rnest thing. She hardly knew
her short legs were aching. or
hor cnrls were sticking to her d
little brow. By the time the vi
dinner hour was over the village
left far behind by Joan's determ
legs. She began to meet people,
- q few asked her where she was g
loans beaming, moist smile and
answer, MAN Daddy-jus there
-. a=erimy forefnger pointing appa
Nv to the end of the road OF lane
isf,ed them. But presently
stopped, to talk to great SUM
nodding it's golden head at her
the railing of a little garden. Il
when she caught sight OF its I'll
face that she knew how her