The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-09-12

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n all the gTsx;. green. quiet park
there was no little girl or boz 10 play
wlih. bB; for ali that. little Ceorgina.
the bead ganiekeeper's daughter. new
er knew what IL was 10 feel lone
some. sae had such . playground
and such playfeIIows a. most 0. Is
have q, times dreamed Of, but none
o. Us have had in reality.
In the first place. she lived with
her good father and mother IN Jus,
such q shaich rooted. diamond PANIED.
rose-ernbowered cottage nesting be-
side a little mlrror-ltke lake aDong
century old trees. as one sees In pic.
ture books. and reads O. in poems
art Eongs Ct Old England
Almost as far as she could see. The
Level green park stretched away.
broken here and there by clamps OF
giant oaks. and beyond Up against
the sky. was the blue line Of kills that
formed the edge OF the world: AMI
this lovely world was all her own.
child. ruled In the pretty cottage rs
completely as her father lorded Il
over his many furred and featherei
subjects.
N whatever direction she chose TO
wander she saw her playmates. wait.
ing. as she always supposed. for her
TO come and gay with them.
On the lttls lake by the cottage.
foated and quacked and honked ducks
OF every color. white geese and gray
and black geese, and graceful long.
necked swans. At quite the other
same time herd OF fallow deer, their
brown bodies dappled with spots OF
snowy white, their heavy horns con-
trasting strangely with the slender
treelike horns OF the rel deer.
Innumerable little gray rabbits
hoped noiselessly about in all di.
rections, and English pheasants-the
lens In modest buff, the cocks in
Gorgeous brown, blue and gold-dart.
ed swiftly about among the under
brush; but the queerest of all her
friends were the gray kangaroos-
"HoDpity-hops" Georgina called them
The grounds around the cottage were
fenced off from the surrounding park,
but Georgina had 80 frequently ac-
companied her father outside in his
search for pheasants' nests. or to see
how the deer Jared, that she felt per-
fectly at home there, even when alone.
Perhaps her greatest JOY was in
coaxing acquaintance with the timid
baby deer. If she came suddenly upon
one hiding In the grass, or behind
stone, it frequently remained quite
motionless, curled up into the small.
est possible space and pressed fiat
to the ground, only It's watchful eye
proving that 1t was wide awake AMI
very anxious. In the leafy forest this
would be It's safest course, for there
Its protective coloring would render
1t almost invisible, but in the open
park, on the green grass, its inherited
instinct for concealment failed 1t, and
1t was all too visible to friend or foe.
Georgina would creep up ever so
quietly and sit down beside 1t. Some
times she even succeeded In stroking
its soft coat. Then the mother deer
would circle anxiously around, COM
Ing as near rs she dared, her great
ears thrown forward, every nerve
tense and ready to spring away at
the least hostile move; but it always
ended by the fawn suddenly scramb-
ling to its long thin legs. and, with
little cries of alarm, dashing over the
green sward to join its mother and
ind concealnent in the deep shadows
Of the cool forest.-J. NJ. Gleason. in
St Nicholas.