Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-13
GEORGE AND DAISY GO "THERE.'

'-oi - 'ooiliS ddN we VIII DolH pS
slowed up and We can do any mortil
thing that We like without asking lief
neither | wouldn't cry a single, tiny
blt if | were you
Daisy almost choked in an effort to
show her love and svmpa. by for the
deeply srieved and cast-down play
rate on the porch beside her
an occasional blink the only s;gn to
Snow that he was alive, while Daisy
h9vered anxiously over him.
Was your father awful, awful cross
and did he speak as if you must just
ftird him when he told you thai you
sould net go out in the laky IN a lit
te boat"
George nodded gloomily that such
vas the case.
Then you can't go now and be Girls
soter ClNmsus. can you, George?'
George shook his head dismally.
And you must stay al home all daT
and be yourself. mustn't you?'
7 won't stay at home all day and be
ryself' said George, grumpily.
Won't, | wont, If l cant go and be
Ghrissofer Clnmsus, I'll be somebody
else, you see if ! don't If my father
won't 1er ne go and Discover no
nocans III go and discover a little
AXE anyhow. A little one lesser than
q nocean and closer to the land
And discover one with not much
water in it. George so that when We
90 en- ii in our litle boat we will not
hf 'fraid.
I'm never 'fraid retorted George
srandly. I'm no girl
Some days I wish wasn',, sighed
Daisy. hut wish I was a truly fairy
made of windows. so you could sec
right straight through me and that l
could let YOU have every wish you
could make. Then you could Joy your
self couldn't you. George?
'I,hhnh. wish we could be awful
moor and 90 barefooted and wade IL
he mud and sleep under the hedges.
Are hedges warm like quilts,
George"
.Warmer. And Ia like to be chased
mt of garbage boyes by polceme'
TOO and to have to earn money tor my
father and mother selling Watermelon
cut up on a box.
"OhI know. and sell papers on the
otreet cars and get your foo, cut on.
"Yes, and never have 70 90 10 scllooI
aor get washed nor have any clean
waist put on me nor have to go 10 'f'e
BARRIERS and get my hair trimmer.
noing all those things is IKE dollS
.lothing and | want % do some1hlhS'
eyes. and Joy ourselves and nave
anr mothers take in washing and car
~ bags of coal ON their heads, ana NOV
I.,,v where We are all day. and MAKE
nc carry orr fathers dinner in a pai.
"Oh come on and lets run away
ora NOT come home eNly more Mill
you
"Not never. Eever more a' dA' ~
supper or dinner or COOKIES. Or " e'e
r.escot,. MY new whi,e kitty? p" Nv
.:n ,,,,, NC O bed evenings and hear
ls say our prayers?
S,o y
GEORGES lip curled. "fraldy, 1ralas'
to cried. Girls are all old lra''N
things. c;.,,
"Thov are not, George Young. "'''s
no 'fraidv. and neither am l.
..you are too, and am going alone
..vo,, sball not. | am going win
Won am not no old fra"! o''i's,
l,,Iv hut haven't been punlsheo "
o,aoa and | haven't no reason 10
rnn away, have . :,
"Of course YOU have. we all laNe'
,e,1ied George in masteflui 'o'''
,.,.,. ,irod Of being Here and want ~
ca There. There is lots more luli VI III
Here c. ;,
SIC There where all the 1uh 49,
ceorge and will be 'joying ourselves
every mortil minute?
"Every 1t ism, very far. Conn
on wink.
Daisy gulped down sob and "'nN
ea away coming tear Tor as ye' D:
,1oro nretty we'll, and was /"
,a,ht as 10 what would be 1o'hu
There but George was goins' ana s''7
-. ao TOO though she did long lor
anotber romp with her new N'''s,
prescott and few more OF "e'"
e,,r,nt cookies, with pink sugar 'o'.
od into the tops of them, and her ','i''u ~
str,ved away to four OF these cooN',,s -
IVA q,ass of cool water, ana heise"
:. bor little red chair on the s'ia''
49, norch: hut George was h"risi".