The Carlisle independent., 1909-07-29

inside the screen door, WAS the sweet est, cleanest, prettiest girl baby you ever saw. All dressed up in a white lawn suit, with blue sash. white half-hose that showed her dimpled knees and fat little legs, white shoes, and a white bonnet with lace frill around the front, tied under her dim pied chin with a big white ribbon. Gee! but she was the prettiest little thing that ever struck Arizona, bar none. 1 took one look and said: Angel, angel!" You see, went daffy at once.
 "Hello!" she repeated as she looked round the room. Tt is a game? Oh I see. I spy!" Then she padded over to the end of the bar, pointed one fat little finger at Pap Johnson behind the ice-box, shouted gleefully: T spy!" and ran to Bill Jernigan.l She slapped old Bill on his chap-covered legs and said:
 One, two, free for you, Now you are it! All the res is home free"
 Then she threw both arms around Bills left leg and waited for the boys to come 'home." You ought to have seen Bill. He looked at me sort of dazed like, then looked down at the baby, then looked away far off some where, and said in a faint whisper: Well, I'm darned!" And if he said 1t once he said it 20 times Just stood there like human hitching-post and photograph combined and said: Well, I'm darned!"
 The boys all gathered round from their safety corners, looking as sheep ish as if the teacher had caught them chewing gum, but was too much in- terested in Angel to pay any atten- tion to them then. I always was fond of dogs and children and things like that. I knelt down, so as to get some where near on level with that little white bonnet, and asked:
 Whose little girl are you honey?"
 Mammals" was the prompt reply.
 'Td bet a stack of blue on that" said I. But what's your name?"
 Anna Louise, thank you"
 You're welcome. All right I'll believe that, even. Anna Louise goes with me, but Anna Louise what?"
 Muffin. Jes' Anna Louise'
 And where is mamma?"
 "Oh, she's right over there;" and she waved her hand vaguely around to embrace most quarters of the compass. Then she proposed breath lessly: Les play Lunnon Bridge It's the mosest fun!"
 Wo told hnr &o h,,t that we had forgotten how. Bill then swung her up on the bar and gravely asked her what she would have to drink She wanted soda-wa- ter and we all took the same, although some of the boys objected
 When the drinks were all in hand I got on chair and made an eloquent, ornate and highly popular speech, in which l said that never before had I seen the wisdom of naming our thriving municipality Paradise" and that at times it had seemed to me the party or parties naming it must have gotten mixed on their Scripture or else have waXed sarcastic: but that now great light, the bright white light of truth, had busted in on my alleged intellect, and illuminated the | lnmost recesses of an ever sluggish | mind C'Hear, hear!" from the boys) | An Angel had come to Paradise. I said | a sweet little angel straight from heaven, or St. Louis, or somewhere. Her given name might be Anna Louise, | as she told us, but if so it was a mis- | take. Angel she was, and Angel she | must be. And inasmuch as she had | no other name, according to her own | statement, statement 1 presumed no | gentleman present would doubt loud | cries of No, mol" from the boys), I | took the liberty of giving her the | name of the fair city she had honored | with her presence, and proposed a toast to Angel Paradise
 We'll, you never saw toast excite such thusiasm-certainly not one drunk in soda-water.
 As we finished the drink the door i opened with some violence and chap rushed in, clad in spats, a white waist coat, stiff collar, a derby hat, and some other useless outer habiliments. His glance fell on Angel, and he ySAPCUs 4dV SiliiO, l11C Sllllu.
 Angel stood there on the bar. way. ing a chubby hand, and said: Hello. pop."
 After he had calmed down, he in. troduced himself as MT. Hawthorne of Boston, who was touring Arizona for his wife's health. He explained they had stopped at the Cowboys Retreat for a few hours rest, and Angel had wandered away.
 So Bill turned to Angel and said: Come, sister, get on my shoulder, and it's us for mamma" Then he swung Angel up and strode out of the saloon
 Papa introduced us to mamma and explained we were friends of his that had found Angel and looked after her. They were just starting for Tucson in the hotel surry, and we were soon forced to say good-by to our little Angel Paradise. The blessed little baby patted old Bill on the cheek and said: T love 'oo,' and then, seeing I