The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-08
HILDA LARSON GOES TO EUROPE
v.-sHE DOES SCOTLAND.

you wouldn't take for anythin' but a water
maia marker theut you -, were os,toa,; :, sco.
Ian, says Mrs. Gray s + the church was q
kuart of red rapsberries ripe for cannin' It's
, put a railin' roun it so you'd know 1t from
a cobble stone,' says she.
| II couldn't help but feel sorry for John
Knox as I thought of him there in the pave
men til big statue, of one Of the Stuarts
a-strtchin' above him. Mrs Gray reads to
me outen' her little red books an | know
considerable more,n I did. | don't al'ys lis
ten, but, when there's a steady noise you
can't keep from hearin it. 1t r'lieved her
min an it didn't hurt me a mite.
1--WE didn't see much In Edinboro, but the
We couldn't get away from Mary Queen of
SCOTS family an no matter how quick VIC
turned corner the Stuarts were there frs
l stopped to look down one of those alleys
they call closes an fore l got my foot well
down the walk there couple of dozen
youngsters come from no where SO far as
could see.
=" Lady says they all in differn voices
| an tunes like chorus at the theater, Lady,
they IN show you where her Lady
for penny says they. ut wasn't til Mrs:
Gray came long TIL the guide book IT
foun' out they meant Lady Jane Gray: Tour.
| even the children have han at takin EN-
| in, am as 1 looked at the crowd of dirty,
| ragged youngsters t Mrs. Gray was lettin'
Billie give pennies to. says to her, says I.
| Presiden' Roosevelt wasn't ever in an Edin-
| boro close was he?'
eve went down to Sir Walter scotts house
| one day He was the man t wrote The
Lady Of the Lake an nobody need ever tell
me It writin don't pay. You couldn't buy
or build such house 'thout money, let alone
run it, an as 1 understan' from Mrs. Gray,
| Sir Walter paid his bills.
I'VE were at Melrose all night to do az
the poet says an see It by pale m9 POI, t;.
| Billie to bed an waited for Mrs. Gray.
There's one good thing bout all this sight
for after bein on his feet all day. he's jes'
/ crazy to get on his back at might.
Mrs Gray went to sleep in the couch an
she says for me to wake her when tie moon
window a-thinkin' how funny It vast was
there a-wonderin' what the Schultzes and the
dress faded as she thought it would an
mus have dropped off, fore the next hing
l knew, Mrs. Gray was a-singin; says she:
Why Miss Larsonn an, ! opened my eyes
jes'~ comm up! We'd all been aseep an
none Of us were goin' to. see: Meirose by
moonlight
"I could see It Mrs. Gray was dis'pp'inted
an if she was l was. But she's got sense
as we'll as feelin's an she knows body
can't go all day an all night too Not bein'
waken her at any time, but as weed been dis
'pp,inted in one thing, Suggested another
an says 1: Let's see it by SUNRISE says I.
An we did. We slipped outen the house an
down the street an looked thru the iron
fence, for you can't get any nearer at that
time of day even for a sixpence.4
.drs.- Gray stood there all a-tremble tn
solemnity, she says, but knew 1t was nerves
an's1 ,nads her go back to the hotel an I
gave her good hot cup Of tea fore she went
to bed.
i've foun' 1t Is good way when you've
| dis'pp'inted folks in one thing to give EN-
another. An as says to Mrs. Gray, says
L: Lots of folks have seen that tumble
down church by moonlight but there's few
t see 1t by sunrise says L.
It's the unusual t counts :'th Mrs. Gray
at Melrose jes' as in Minneapolis an IL
travelin's what the young. lady on the steam
er says it's for, to get subjec's for CONVEX
sation, why she'll get more out of doin' what
i other folks don't n she will from taggin'
after everybody what's got cursion ticket,
seems it,