The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-04

4 IL -oSS.~~~H4N y So
shirt and aE,pair Of Baseball shoes,
Fhtstlings an air from that last IopetA
dm Relibe's. l took q walk and tried to
AanA tina spring came back Without
hnlng it; took down the photograph
! anei put itaup in >snqther place; rear
h4Fed the books swung d hammock
.HnAx cut my thumb. It was the long
Hst4ay~fever spentdn my life. Final
l|E IT occurred to me, suddenly That
lHo4ething was liabS. to 4}happen~ 10
4EhArltega Wasn't there "a milldam?
Didn't L know that girls only Thought
of themselves? Good heavens, the
i Hotchkisses might be: hdnapers!r The
air began to get blue, and 1 snatched
a stick and set out hurriedly on 9 res
cue-to meet Griselle =: and. ChaFlie
coming over the, pastnre-field, hand in
hand, beautifully silhouetted: ag4lhat
the; sky, and Elijah wig-wagsinD ID
hiAd-all Of them consummately un-
copcerned, and Charlie crammed with
new experiences in which milldam; was
most conspicuous Griselle passed him
over in the most uneventful way and
returned home. ~.~1.-~,, 20 -. - ~
Then Charlie and got our supper.
II 7 remember correctly, Re- had bo-
| logpas. sausage, cheese, crackers and
TED, and would have had sardines II !
had known where that Internal can.
opener was. It was about the time Of
day that I usually took steak 4 Ia
Bordelaise, or q bird with several en-
trees and pint of dry wine. l ad-
mired my nerve as I ate the bologna,
and wondered how long l. could keep
this up. ! .7v- %<''-> u
After supper proposed that we sit
outside and have talk while I
| smoked my pipe. We could see the
sun go down through the trees. The
conversation was carried on, must
admit. mainly by Charlie. His mag
ination had been inflamed by the mill
dam. -.
1T was only such little ways OF,
too"
IF you go there alone, I'll skin you,' -
I said.
'."oh, but it's full Of big white flow
ers."
"They're rank poison-sure death to
boys if they haven't got some one with
them
This was fine parental beginning.
tried to steer the conversation into
other channels. had a story pat of
| a boy who got himself drowned by
being alone and nobody to pull him
out. Il told it pathetically, and wound
1t up just as the sun dropped behind
the hill. There was no response. /
looked round. Charlie had gone down
with the sun. He was asleep. I
picked him up and carried him In. He
was dead beat" as we say.
You're nice companion" I
gfoWled, as he climbed into his shake
down, Ito keep me company. What
am l going to do with myself till II
o'clock"
Goodnight, papa" he said with in
imitable Indifference.
To be left alone in this manner was
hfdeous. The very stiffness was as
phyxiating to the ear. Nothing but a
wailing whippoorwill cut into the hush
of 1t. 1t seemed to me that she was
frightened at the stiffness. The moth
| finally put my candle out. Then I
went outside and walked up and down
like sentry and tried to picture to
myself what the gay world was doing
at that lively hour. Well, Tillotson was
playing billiards at the University
club; Bannister would be eating a
late dinner with the Farnsworths, and
she would ask him between. ~kips:
What do you suppose ever became of
your friend?" and Bannister would
whistle me down the wind lightly, say
ing: "Oh, his accounts were all right.
He slipped of TO Europe .,for his
health And that would dispose: Of
me. But the Farnsworths', little mauve
letter was lying III there On the table
under the chintz curtain. Confound
her! I had not opened it. Oh. rye
got some sand-blast that whippoor-
| will!
1t must have been IL o'clock when +
concluded to try the bed, and it was
certainly two o'clock in the morning
before l went to sleep. And then up
rose. Griselle, with her muslin. She
must have been hanging around the
place all night, for could swear that
no sooner had got my eyes closed
than she began to c1atter in the kitch.
en-. She even went SO far as to sing
The Sweet Bye and. Bye" Just as I
mad the two pillows muffled round my
ears, Charlie was pulling at my arm,
papa, get up-get up. Griselle wants
to get the breakfast
must have growled like the CAPTAIN
OF a tug, but it was six o'clock and it
slowly dawned upon me- that the young
ruft1an had been up an hour. went
out in the shed and reprimanded nv
self quietly.
How do you like it," said, as /
looked for the, spring water. "You
haven't got so much sand at this hour
of the day, have ,yop?';, l. don't think
answered. myself Il sdid 1 made
no record. of 1t, but / did try to ex.
plain to; Griselle why I couldn't eat
hers broiled chicken and fresh eggs at
that time in the morning. And she
said: "Oh, I'd come to it after l got
rested" .,
Rested! Do look t til,
Il guess you're tired on the wrong
side" she said. ",Whep you get tired
on the right side you'll eat like a
Cheshire shoat.",.
This Jared little, But it was proph.
ecy. ABOUT haltpast # remarked
to- Charlie: ~ NY kingdom for SIX
small oysters on the half SHE'LL. and
hoT cold !. & siTfots. 5,,,2 81 & (,