Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-02-03


field trials Of the A. R. c., on whose
stud book she and her ancestors were
registered.
Lady Sarah could see no sense in
this journey, during the heat Of the
summer. She had heard Dick Sta
pleton say he was going to the sea-
shore. The persistent rumble Of the
train was wearisome, and Lady Sarah
made up her mind not to touch the
tepid, Justified water in the bucket
by her side.
Recalling dreamily, how the water
tinkled and murmured as it came from
an artesian well, and fell in stone
basin under the pecan trees in Col.
Stapleton's yard, she fell asleep.
1t was certainly a relief to Lady
Sarah toreach their journeys end and
the seashore.
1t was very delightful to gallop and
race overa long stretch of firm, brown
sand, they called beach, and very in
teresting to watch the queer way in
which the water curled up in green
waves, broke into line of foam, and
ran up with Kissing noise, as if they
were trying to catch the people who
were strolling along.
Yes, Lady Sarah thought the view
of the sunset on the ocean very fine,
and the women well gowned, saunter-
ing along, and the children running
and romping by, animated and charm
ing.
One very pretty girl who held her
self. erect and had bright, laughing
eyes, and gay laugh, attracted her
notice especially.
1t could hardly be otherwise, as
her master stopped and shook hands
with her most warmly, and kept on
chatting, although young man in
white duck trousers, who was walk
ing with her, stood looking on quite
bored and took no part in the conver-
sation.
Lady Sarah was eager to explore
the queer little sand dunes close to
the shore, and see if two OF three dots
scarcely visible in the distance, by the
waters edge, we're water fowls, or
those silly, gray sandpipers she had
heard about. But whenever she
made a scurrying dash forward, Dick
Stapleton's whistle called her back,
so she was glad when the handsome
| girl said something about being at
home in the evenings, and glad to see
her friends, and nodding brightly,
turned and strolled off with the bored
young man, who was frowning
openly.
1t took Lady Sarah some little time
to get used to and understand the
tumbling surf and to learn how to
jump the waves and to swim out be-
yond where they broke.
There were evening and morning
walks which Lady Sarah delighted in.
In fact, she had grown to enjoy
everything about this strange wind
swept island, dotted with cottages,
which looked so bright when lit up
with electric lights at night.
Every evening at dusk, whether
the tide covered the broad flat beach
or only left a narrow strip fringed
with shells to walk on, Dick and Lady
Sarah would 60 for a long ramble,
coming back when the stars were shin
ing above, and most people had
gone home for supper.
Lady Sarah found out many things
during these strolls, while she made
rapturous dashes after birds-which
turned out to be thin little sand
pipers-and the sand crabs, which
scuttled back into their holes, while
she stood and barked vehemently,
challenging them to appear again.
And Lady Sarah noticed that the
handsome girl with the gray eyes and
pretty laugh was apt to stroll out for
a walk from her aunt's cottage, which
was pretty far up the beach, when
ever she dashed by ahead of Dick,
OF course Dick joined her, and
Lady Sarah was glad of it, because
they would go slowly far up the is
land, and generally, IN order to rest
before going back to their respective
cottages, would sit in a small boat,
drawn up in the sand just beyond
high tide, and chat comfortably.
Their conversations seemed to be-
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