Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-10-14

'To-day's is banquet that makes
up for all deficiencies
Eve liked Jasper; she had few to
converse with, very few acquaintan-
ces, no friends, and she was delighted
to be able to have chat with anyone,
especially if that person fiattered her
ally offered incense before her; she
almost demanded it as right. The
lamar formed a little bay under a
wall of rock. A few ruins marked the
| of the abbots. The sun glittered on
| the water, forming of it a blazing mir
ror, and the dancing light was re-
fected back by the 1owerwreathed
rocks.
Where are the men?' asked Eve.
Gone into the wood to fell some
pines. We must drive piles into the
+, bed of the river, and lay beams on
, them for a basement
'Oh,' said Eve listlessly, I don't un-
derstand about easements and all
that She seated herself on log.
How pleasant it is here with the
flicker of the water in ones face and
eyes, and a sense of being without
shadow! Mr. Jasper, do you believe
in pixies
What do you mean, Miss?
THE little imps who live In the
mines and on the moors, and play mis-
chievous tricks on mortals. They
have the nature of spirits, and yet
they have human shapes, and are like
old men or boys. They watch treas
, ures and veins of ore, and when NOR
Itals approach the mental, they decoy
the .trespassers away
Like the lapwing that pretends to
lbe wounded, and so lures you from its
pre- cious eggs. Do you believe in
pixies?'
Eve laughed and shook her pretty
head. 4 think so, Mr.. Jasper, for
have seen one
What was he like?
I do not know, only caught Gimp
ses of him. Do not laugh satirlcally
7 am serious. | did see something,
but l don't know exactly what | saw
That is not very convincing rea-
son for the existence OF pixies.
Eve drew her little feet together,
and folded her arms in her lap, and
smiled. and tossed her head. She
had taken off her hat, and the sun
glorified her shining head.
Jasper looked admiringly at her.
Are you not afraid of sunstroke,
Miss Eve?'
% dear no! The sun cannot harm
me. I love him so passionately. y
Mr.. Jasper! / wish sometimes | lived
far away in another country where
there are no wet days and grey skies
and muggy atmospheres, and where
the hedges do not drip, and the lanes
do not stand ankle deep in mud, and
the old walls exude moisture indoors,
and ones pretty shoes do not go
mouldy if not wiped over daily.
should like to be in a land like Italy,
where all the people sing and dance
and keep holiday, and the bells in the
towers are ever ringing, and the lads
have punches of gold and silver flow
ers in their hats, and the girls have
scarlet skirts, and the village mus,-
clans sit in cart adorned with birch
branches and ribands and roses, and
the trumpets go tu-tu! and the drums
bung-bung!-I have read about it,
and cried for vexation that I was not
there
But the piXy?'
4 would Danish all pixies and black
Copplestones and Whish hounds; they
belong to rocks and moors and dark
ness and storm. hate gloom and iso-
lation'
You are happy at Morwell, Miss
Eve. One has but to look in your
face and see it. Not grabbed line OF
care, not the track of tear. all
smoothness and smiles.
The girl twinkled with pleasure, and
said. That is because we are in mid
summer; wait till winter and see what
becomes of me. Then I am sad
enough. We are shut in for five months