The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-05
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they reach the top of the noun
tain. From the number who
drink of it's waters, one might
think it possessed some OF the
properties of the Fountain oi
Youth. To protect their shoes
and to keep from slipping, sup
pose, The ladies all seem to be
equipped with rubber over-shoes
and while one eff them Is swing
ing on the old. fashioned swing
put up in a big locust tree in the
yard, cry of dismay and shouts
Of laughter rise simultaneously
aud rubber shoe with slipper
inside comes sailing to earth from
off the young damsel's foot as she
goes sailing upward. Whereup-
on she is unmerclfully guyed an
ent holes III her stockings.
What dear delicious days one
can spend here, resting both
mind and body and observing the
odd bits of life as they come float
ing past. Merely the infrequent
serayylers from life's great nigh
way, but none the less interest
ing for all that.
The quiet Is suddenly broken
by a "wee sma' voice" timld and
urccrtain. Whence does it come?
What does it say? | stare about
in hewilderment, the sound Is so
sudden and inexpllcaale. | see
nothing. Then my eyes fall up
on a queer figure standing with
out the yard fence. Such queer
little figure it is! and such face,
But she is not 50. small either
when one takes another glance.
Although her head does not come
much above the palings, she is
nearly as thick as she is long, Int
orally, not tiguratiyely. The hot
August sun blazes down mercl-
lessly upon her bare head, which
Is covered with an unruly mop of
short curly light hair. 1t does
not bother her, however, for her
face testities she is
used to 1t. she looks at me sug
e estively and | ask her what she
said. Again that queer childish
voice comes from a woman s tig-
ure. "Did you see anything of
little black COW gong past here
to-day ?" | reply that L haven't
but will inquire if the others did,
| bring my cousin to the door.
She has seen no little black COW
either. A dull appealing look
comes over her apathetic face and
she adds suggestively "A little
black COW with a bell on it," as
though the bell would certainly
help TO identify the runaway to
bar dull intelligence. | look af-
ter her as she moves down the
h dusty road, her bony little |
dog running beside her and the !
hot sun blazing pitilessly on her,
"a smile on my face, she issuch |
an odd figure, but pity in my .
heart. Who Is she? Where does
she come FROM? What does life
hold for such as she? This dc.
llghtfully picturesque spot is not
without history of it's own, and
IS in a country rich in history.
Not so macy miles away is the
battlefield. On very
clear days, with spy glass, you
;au see the white monument |
the spot where the !
troops crossed the mountains or
miles south of Fairview is uld |
Fort Fredericd. While / have
listed and found It's vine covered |
walls very suggestive reminder
If the days when our country was
roung and "eyery Inln's house is
~ castle" meant more than il
loes now. Following. / give
ihetch Of Fort Frederick, taken
rom an article by Johu p. Smith
II Sharpsburg, Md, in the Week.
y Globe of Hagerstown, July %,
1904.
"i awake fran my reveiic tp
az lpcn The massive stone walls