Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-12-23

road will 20 and paint the cows
With wave of his hand, he went away and Vir-
ginia few upstairs and told her mother all about it.
him set up his easel, and then they went back and
opened the trunk with the key with the pink ribbon
Your grandmother very rich, said Mrs Ran
dali with sigh; and your grandfather met her first
dance, and this was the dress she wore
1t was funny and wide-skirled, of pink satin with
tight pointed bodice trimmed with yelowed lace There
were hsh-eeled pink slippers and long pink leather
with gold rosette that furnished and dull.
Try it on, dear heart her mother said, and I'll
fix your hair like your grandmother
For the next half hour she puffed and pinned and
twisted and at last when the little girl looked at her
self in the glass that hung beside the peaked window.
bright braided hair The pink plume waved back from
her forehead, and the rosette, pinned amid the puts,
gave a finish to the whole effect
And then, just her mother was hooking UP the
door, door S' ~ ~ ~ ~ " 49,
Its that young man again." said Mrs Randall.
in this dressing sack
So Virginia with her head held very carefully trip
ped downstairs in the pink satin slippers and opened
by Jovew calculated the painter. he stared at the
rosy vision.
Il was dressing up, Virginia explained with little
blush as she picked at her skirt. IFS my grand
mothers dress
Talk about luck" he went on not seeming to notice
her explanation "U'Ould you mind standing about
halfway up that Stairway"
Virginia. all a-hucr in her silks and laces, did as
he told her.
There" he said; lean over that railing bit All
you need is in your hand With that dark stair
way background, and the clock the landing. it
is perfect
"You see" he on, as Virginia looked him,
qucstioningly Il have to have illustration for a
book and here it is right to my hand. am in need Of
an an Old fashioned LADY in an od-iashioned house
"lI go up and ask mother Virginia said and re-
gained the attic in whr of excitement. you must
come right down and him. mother" she said "1c S
lovely"
So Mrs. Randall slipped pretty lavender lawn,
and went down with the little girl and talked with the
artist while he sketched the pink figure on the stairs
Virginia talked too. and told him about the Fourth
of July picnic Il awfuly disappointed at the
time. she said; "but think this is nicer.
where is the picric:' he asked
In the grove by the bay It's lovely place"
-. I'll take you down when finish" said her friend
Will stop at the hotel 70. my mother and we will all
ooh, lets" said Virginia; but Mrs Randall hcsitacd
Il don't Know whether ought.
aPea'e' he begged and at last Mrs Randall said
1t was late in the afternoon when at last they got
or but there were many things to do. First, Vir
gina had to PIT her best white dress, and thcr
there was the artists mother to be called for and
big hamper, which one OF the walters of the hote
brought out, to be strapped At the side OF the
Virginia sat on the front seat with her new friend
and told him about the doves, and squirrels who made
their home in tie tulip tree and of the world as sh
could see it IRON her little peaked window in the attic
ITS Virginia Randall" gasped all the excited chill
me Morrison girls came running up why. Viz
GINA Randall they questioned, how in the world d
You happen to this way"
And Virginia, who was so happy that she coudn
bear any iIwi toward them, told all about it, wit
her eyes shining, and her braids bobbng
Hes going to give little picture of myself i
the pink dress she said and they looked at her wit
increased respect she added He says that he think
straight hair is Just bcdutifal
ANA he's going to stay at the hotel all srnlnc
and we are going to have lots rides, al
other bit OF information that they talked amo,
themselves as their fortunate little cousin made he
I way back to the big motor-car. and it chug chugged
its noisy course down toward the beach.
When the hamper from the hotel was opened, ther
were found knives and forks and plates and cups fttc
IN, IN most miraculous way, with receptacle for c
, SO that the lemonade cold and there wei
7 roast chicken and sandwiches and salad and cake al,
they ate all of the good things at the edge OF I'll
grove, where the blue waters of the bay broke in
silver line along the shore, and the sandpipers fittc
back and forth their thin little legs, and the 6ddl,
{ crabs scuttled like shadows over the hard sand
cts beautiful world" said the artist, with h
eyes on the guls that dipped and swayed above Il
: restless blue
Its a beautiful world" Virginia echoed that n;ot
as she looked out of the peaked window and saw n
l. little through the branches of the tuliptrce "Jt
. beautiful world, isn't it, mother?" and her moth,
d inurmured. " |'
IS IFS because there such beautiful people in
dear heart pPS 80
d And then they went to bed to sleep and dream .
d their happy day. N~-'