Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-05
LOS ANGELES SUNDAY HERALD-JUNIoR SECTION

to accomplish this, when suddenly,
splash, she seemed to fall in. She
awoke with shudder and then
screamed She was drenched.
Betty had failed asleep. The after
noon tide had set in and now entirely
surrounded her rock. She was cut off
from the path home. For ten minutes
she walled and called. She afterward
said "it was most three hours" and
then gentleman passing along the
cliff heard her and, coming down the
bank, waded out and took her home.
After that experience Betty resolved
not to leave home without an older
companion. Since that resolution she
has had no other such experience.
GRANVILLE MCCLURE.
Glendale high school, grade IL. Res
idence, Glendale.
[ went on a boat one day and 1 saw a
nice big rock. / rowed over to 1t and
1 got upon the rock. And I sat down
and had a fishing pole and L began to
fish, and 1 caught two fishes. And L
was all by myself. There are no houses
but there is sand on the beach. l
wish the tree above me had fruit l
would eat some of it. / was very hun
cry. 1 didn't think of the water splash
ing on me, but it did, and ! got all wet.
And L went back where I lived and
changed my clothes.
Then 1 got my supper ready and L
sat down and ate, and ate. Then / was
tired and 1 went to bed, and 1 had a
good nights sleep.
SYLVIA FREY.
Twentieth Street school, B5 grade.
Age II years.
Four little girls wanted to go fishing
one fine summer day. Their mothers
fixed them a nice lunch and they
started to a nearby stream about a
half mile away. 1t was beautiful day,
and all the country around them was
fresh and green. They finally reached
their destination and began fishing at
once
At noon no one had caught any fish,
and with heavy hearts the little party
sat down to lunch under the shade of
a small tree. They quickly forgot their
misfortune and were soon enjoying
many good things which their mothers
had fixed for them. They resolved,
however, to catch some fish before they
returned home. After lunch they again
cast their lines into the sparkling
stream. Iva, one of the girls, chose
place on big rock under the shade of
a tree for her place to fish.
The other girls wandered up the
stream in search of a good place and
were soon lost from her sight. She
was so interested in fishing that she
didn't notice them slip away, and when
she looked around they were gone. she
was having very good luck, so she de-
cided not to look for them. In the
meantime a small dam broke in The
upper part of the stream, letting a
great quantity of water come down.
This completely surrounded Iva on the
big rock, so that she couldn't get to
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She didn't notice this, and kept on
fishing until it began to grow dark,
when she looked around and saw that
she was on a little island. She quickly
brushed away her tears when she saw
Willie, a farmers boy, going after the
COWS.
"Oh! Willie, Willie' she cried.
please help me get off of this rock
and will give you some of my fish.
"All right" answered Willie, and
away he ran up the stream to get a
boat. He was back in a few minutes
with a small boat, and with it Iva was
brought safely to the shore. She was
indeed very glad when she reached
home, and as you may suppose had
some fine fish for her supper
ARTHUR MOBILES.
Twenty-eighth school, BS grade. Age
1S years. S24 East Twenty-seventh
street.
Dottie was a tiny girl, who thought
she could do anything any one else did,
so one day her mamma sent her to the
store for some fish. ''They would be
lots fresher if I had fished them my
SELF" she thought, so down she ran to
the river.
She had some string In her pocket,
and she took branch from the tree for
a rod, but what to do for a hook she
couldn't tell, for her mamma kept all
the buttons sewed on her clothes, so
there were no pins in her. She queezed
her small body, hoping for once she'd
run one into her finger but she didn't
She took the little gold pin from her
belt and fished with that She got so
excited when she saw a lot of minnows
swimming around the hook, wondering
what it was, that she lost her balance
and fell. The water wasn't deep, so
she waded out, but she left her gold
pin for the fish to admire and ran home
crying, and the next time she was sent
for fish she went to the store and
bought it. EVADNE PELREN,
1901 East Thirty-third street; Vernon