The Falls City tribune., 1909-07-02

be Inappropriate. She selected the
grass as her subject.
children. % she began. in her school
t%eaehery voice. 4 I'M going TO talk 70
You about what we see all about us
over the ground-something that you
have all been sitting on. Frederick.
WHAT"
Three ants and some sand" said
the exact Frederick William.
Very good . said Miss Lucy with
resignation and now lets play some
games
Miss Lucy suggested Blind Mans
Buff. This was popular aud was only
stopped BY Josef running his nose
into a tree.
The great catastrophe occurred dur-
ing Hi Spy. Marie Sehaefer was 1T"
Miss Lucy, sitting on one Of the
benches. leaned back and looked
dreamily up at the lazy clouds that
drifted through the sky like gypsy an
gels through "A blue world-clouds hat
were neither white nor pink but al
elusive primrose echo of both. She
had just gotten to the second stanza
of n beautiful poem she was com
posing about it all when she noticed
that Marie Schaefer was standing with
her hand raised in quite the proper
schoolchild manner
Il cant find Anna anywhere" said
Marie plaintiyely, Il have looked ev-
erywhere for her and I cant find her.
She's gone"
Miss Lucy jumped to her feet with
a premonition of disaster.
"Gone!" she echoed wildly.
Then began a search which. as the
sun passed behind the trees, became
a frantic and vain wandering up and
down endless paths-a search in
which was enlisted the fat and sym.
pathetic policeman. Anna was indeed
gone.
At last when an hour had passed
and Miss Lucy had just sunk upon a
bench and was beginning a nice COM
Portable attack of Mysteries, she saw
the fat policeman coming down one of
the paths. In his arms he had a drip.
ping, s%quirming bundle from which
came thick sobs and a long string that
had once beer Mrs. Karenina's chit.
fon veil.
ooh, Anna" cried Miss Lucy tear.
fully, ooh, Anna, where have you
been?"
Id was the chicgen." walled the nm
happy Notwithstanding Wilde chic
gen In the wader. He was so fad una
CLEAN und shiny ind | liged him ind
| wanded him und I wand him now"
Then-all her new morality buried in
the ruins of the chiffon veil-the
wretched Anna kicked her fat reseuer
yiciously on the shins. Il wand him
now" she screamed.
she fell in the duck-pond," the POI
liceman explained. Then, as he saw
the puddle of muddy water that had
dripped from Annals clothes, You had
better take her home, Miss" he said
kindly, she amt used to 1t and she'll
take cold. I'll carry her down to tho
gate"
The return to the gate was a rush.
At the transfer corner Miss Lucy met
the Principal, Wild eyed and on his
way To the Park. He was In a state
of wordy expenditures.
q can't help it," Miss Lucy snapped
f%emiuinely. 1t was all your fault, any
how. Why did you get nae that old
invitation, didn't want il
Then they waited in mutual sulki-
ness until the car came. 1t was crowd
ed with the six-o'clock rush and Miss
Lucy, her hair coming down, her hat
owe her ear. and her dress wet from
Annals clothes, was angrily conscious
of many looks of amusement.
Anna, her nose dug into Miss Lucy's
arm, had gone sniGlngly to sleep and
Miss Lucy, as she gr%udgingly sup
ported her, felt a sudden new bitter
ness in her heart against this ugly
little stumbling block to all her plans.
At last the school was reached and
the other members of Glass A having
been delivered to anxious relations,
Miss Lucy hurried down to the tene-
ment section with Anna. In a merry.
Gus tremor at Mrs. karenina's antici-
pated wrath she stumbled up the
greasy flights that led to Annals home.
Half way up, a door was opened and
a drunken, blasphemous voice inquired
Hospitality as to who it was that
wanted to get his block knocked off.
In reply to this inquiry Anna swore
back cheerfully over the banisters. but
Miss Lucy turned pale and sped fear
fully up the steps-only to find that
Annals mother was out. She was prob
ably down the river or to a ball.
So Miss Lucy ~gingerly undressed
Anna. hung her clothes over an i'm
provised line, rubbed her dry with the
dish towel, and, as her wardrobe was
limited to one set. wrapped her in the
sheet and left her already asleep on
the unspeakable mattress where the
six other Kareninas usually repoSed.
A little later she opened the door
and for a moment she looked remorse.
fully at the sleeping Anna. Then she
felt a sudden smart in her eyes.