Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-01-08

/ ably a cry for help, and q cry In a wo-
mans voice.
Kate set down her basket and began
| TO climb upward, not making very rap
i'd progress on account Of the steep
less and the briers.
She paused to utter an answering
CRY,
Where are your"
For she could not tell which way to
turn, as the voice had not again spok-
en-. I
This way! Make haste!" was the
reply, so near as to surprise the girl.
She turned to the right, went down
a little decliyity where there was an
opening in the trees and u~nderbrush,
and paused in a~stonishment; and, in
spite of herself, there was a good deal
OF amusement In her surprise.
Clinging TO the lower branches OF a
savin, her hat of, her scarlet shawl
swinging from the bough, was a wo-
man whose handsome face was flushed
with anger and fear. who seemed
ashamed of her fear, but not enough
ashamed to overcome 1t.
At the foot of the tree stood a young
COW whose horns just could not reach
the woman
As Kate came In sight the cow made
a short run at the tree, tossing her
horns wildly and Shaking her head
with great apparent ferceness.
"Oh dearl" said Julia Caryl-for the
"treed" u was she. cts only a wo-
man, after all! You can't do anything
with that brute!"
Kate took a long switch from a birch
tree and advanced, saying: -
y" know the COW. She's playful and
not malicious. You must have run
from her. and your red shawl excited
her"
Playful" cried Julia, in a tone as
furious as 1t could be from her posi-.
ton. "She may seem playful to you,
but she doesn't seem that way to me.
You can't do anything with that
switch. You'll have to call a man, and
how I am going to keep in this posi-
ton while you do II, / don't know"
Kate smiled as she said:
IF you really refuse to be rescued
by a woman, I'll call some masculine
aid; but there's not the slightest need
Of a man"
Julia was too much ffurried to notice
that the newcomer did not speak like
one of the masses" as she scornfully
called them, and Hates humble dress
deceived her, and Julia was n of
those who never cared particularly to
be polite to those below her set"
Don't talk like a fooli" she said, IN
response to Hates words, "but drive
the beast away"
II was not strange that Kate Purcell
was human enough not to feel like hur.
rying when she vas addressed in such
an insolently imperious tone.
II she had not been very tender
hearted she would have delayed still
more, as IL was, she only paused an
instant, a tinge OF anger coming to heI
cheeks, But she felt that 1t was com.
temptible for her to care for words
like that, and she made a rush with
her stick, at the COW which turned and
seampered down the declivity, kicking
up her heels as she went, as II she
too. were laughing at the tricks she
had served the girl In the tree.
You see, she was not malicious, II
you had caught up a stick and turned
upon her she would have run from you
/, as WELL" said Kate, pleasantly, as she
returned TO the tree.
Very likely; but / don't pretend &c
understand cows" was the reply
Nov how In the name OF wonder an
/ to get down from here? I've tori
my hands already"
Julia's hands were bleeding where
she chung to the tree.
LET go, and let yourself fall" ad
vised Kate; Its but a few feet"
But I'm not used to such things;
1t seems a great way. How in the
world / ever got here | don't know
Kate stood in silence. She had M
other advice to offer, and what she bat
suggested was easy enough. She was
looking, In some curiosity and adinira
ton, at the face above her.
She decided to herself that the lady
must be a visitor at some OF the ceua
try houses which the people of Boston
had begun to build not far from there
We'll. aren't you going to help me2'
GROSSLY cried Julia.
81 can't lift you down. / assure yol
it's perfectly easy. Just let go, ant
you cant help falling on your feet"
Julia muttered something, but he
common sense told her that she mus
do as the girl said, and finally sh,
made up her mind to let go her hold
She came down with very little OF
Jar; but she was thoroughly out O
humor now, and, as there was no NAL
auditor present, she did not try to cor
ceal the fact.
tits easy enough to stand and Loo
on and see n Jared out of one
senses" she said, GROSSLY; "but II /
not 81 easy to the n to be shaken uI
feel as II I had displaced ever
bone In my body"
The tone was precisely as II Kat
had been the cause of the whole, an
Kate herself was conscious that sh
felt q desire, as in childhood, to sla
the girl who talked thus. But Kat
Purcell was a lady, q thorough gentle
woman, and oyercame her vexation In
mediately.
II am very sorry" she said. xvi
you allow me to bind up that hand
And let me suggest that you battle
In arnica as soon as you can"
Julia submitted, and %proffered he
handkerchief 10 the deft fingers ths
were very soothing to their touch.
And while Kate bound up the han
Julia examined her with scrutinizin
gaze. and found that she possessed
rare beauty-a beauty that was nc
within any set rules, but that might b