The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-25
BY ELIZABETH 1. SAMUEL,

present, said Sarah Brown. Then
under her breath she whispered,
'Sixl" Only six more days to hear
that name called first How she hated
1tl Every time that the roll had been
read since the spring vacation she
had counted off one. Six days more,
and then? She could not get beyond
the interrogation point and the
''then.''
The other girls-there were five
girls and Dick Thurston in the class
knew what they could do. Helen
Burton was to teach school; Marga-
ret Harvey was going to college;
Mary Davidson planned to study kin
dergarten, and pretty Gertrude Hall
was to be milliner.
Dick Thurston had refused to so
to college. so he knew what he would
not do.
For Sarah Brown there seemed to
be neither could nor would. The sit
uation was as hopeless as her name.
She had time to think this over be-
fore the roll was finished. Then she
shook herself free from her refec-
tions and banished her name to the
background of consciousness, while
she plunged into the last grafton of
Cicero, To-day was the day for spe-
cial examinations by Mr.. Thatcher.
The minister was always the exam
iner; that was tradition of the
school.
n hn1d
up her head with pride as she went
out into the yard. Never had she
done so we'll in Latin as she had done
that afternoon.
Suddenly she remembered that she
had left her algebra in the dressing
room and went back to get it. She
had put it on top of the wardrobe for
safe keeping. and as she stepped up
on a chair to get 1t she heard Mr..
Thatcher say, What do you think OF
Sarah Brown"
She heard, too, Mr.. Raymond's IS an
swer: I'm afraid she tries to get a
little more out of life than she Is will
ing to put in"
The color mounted to her forehead
her blue eyes flashed and she almost
jumped from the chair. The she
stepped down, rushed out of the
door, and did not stop until she
reached the top of the hill behind her
fathers house.
I'm discouraged, she said, cab
solutely, completely, entirely" Their
her vocabulary and her breath both
failed, and she threw herself dowr
under the old pine, that always stood
ready to give her the Nconsolation oi
its shelter.
Willing to put I'M" Was that mo-
the very thing that she was so un
happy about?
Just give her a chance!
After little she Strengthened her
self and reviewed the situation.
did not improve on review. Nevel
had the sum total of her discourage
ments seemed so great. There wa
only the old housekeeper at home
of course her father would not under
stand.
III go to see Aunt Prue," she said
Having reached this conclusion sh
went in to supper.
Prudence Hathaway was conf
dante-in-general to the village. Sh
said there were two reasons VIII
everybody came to her house; on
was because of the position of he
house, and the other was because sh
was almost always at home
Her cottage stood between tn
church and the academy, and she wa
always at home because she coul
move about only in her wheel chair.
That she was not passive receive
OF condolences might have been In
ferred from a look at her stronl
beautiful face, and evidence of thi
was not wanting, for Dick Thursto
--motherless Dick-said, Sometime
she's a regular bar of Justice; some
times she breaches you a sermon
You never know which Is coming"
Sarah's face was SO rueful whe
she entered the little sitting rool
that no preliminaries were needle,
"All the rest of the girls are going /
do something after they leave schoo
and I've nothing to do but settle dow
and stay at home. And / wish m
name wasn't Sarah Brown!"
DO you think that you would |
a different girl If you had a differel
manner"
"Yes, do"
why not choose one?" asks
Aunt Prue.
"Chooss---a manner"
Yes. Fathers and mothers I'll,
their children names just to get the
started, but we all choose our ow
names In the end"
Tell me, Aunt Prue."
III had a name that l didn't III
should establish synonym.
I'm sure l shouldn't know whe
to start to establish synonym 4
Sarah Brown"
"You might start almost anywher
Sarah Brown might be somebod,
word for cheerfulness. for instance
ooh! see'
"You can't be sure yourself VIII
your synonym will be. but sar,
Brown will stand for something
everybody that knows you"
II think Dick would say that /
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