The Dolores star., 1909-12-31

SeatS!
Don nodded. WAY high up ones. wiv
grass plats underneaf 'em. Wen you're
up your head most touches de top.
I wasn't up. Fore you go in-outside
-dere's cages, en- ELEPHANTS, en- grill.
las. en- hip'potamuses. en- monkeys,
en-"
big bears?"
Yes. en- little bears-teeny ones"
AN middlin' size ones.'
Don stopped. NO" he said. with
serious fidelity to truth; "cept but
free-one big bear en- two baby ones.
Der wasn't any more bears. but dere
was"
Horses with long tails?"
Horses" exclaimed Don. "Fousens
an fousens of 'em, all dressed up like
ladies'"
'Tn velvet?" breathed Sadie ave-
somely.
Yes nodded the tale-weaver, to
whom all fabrics looked alike. AN
gold dingle-ddngles at hanged down"
Suddenly Don stopped, his hand hold.
ing Sadie's. Didn't you never see no
p'rade?" he asked.
Alas, Sadie had never seen a par
ade. her infirmities and the location Of
her home prohibiting.
NO." she said, bit wistfully: mot
yet: '-cheerfully-''fve seen
Salvation Army wagon"
Don's face saddened. but he kept on
tactfully. DE horses run bout and
dance like iss-look!" He cavorted
about as gracefully as might be among
the leaves.
Den the big horses go dis way
Don trumpeted loudly. Den de fairy
tween's ladies'. some wiv dold trowns,
tome in and jumped up on dere horses
backs; one lady at had hair like Muv-
ver's, 'thout no gentleman putin out
his hand. jumped up on her horse.
den round and round she rided and
jumped froo paper hoops. till It naked
me all dizzy"
Sadie's wonder found no verbal ex.
preston. What do the fairy queen
ladies' that ride bareback wear?" she
asked presently.
Don looked perplexed. ChifYons,
save upon his adorable young mother
and her friends who came out to see
her from town, we're things far apart
from Don. therefore he frowned. "I
i didn't look-ve'wy hard" he said.
"Cept petticoats like EHel wears, at
shakes wen dey are jes on fresh, de
circus ladies didn't wear nothin'."
Maybe they're poor" suggested
Sadie, her utterance born of deeper
knowledge than Don's.
Maybe" he acquiesced thoughtful.
iy. Il fink SO. cause Keif telled mo
at day wasn't little girls-I fink dev
was--but mammas some Of 'em
gwanmammas."
"And they weared little girl's
frocks-short ones?"
mot fwocks. Sadie, only but petit.
coats" corrected Don, who was an
accurate child.
Poor ladies!' sighed Sadie. II
spects velvet frocks takes too much
money. 1t takes much stun for long
trails like your mamma wears. Oh.
Don. she is the beautifullest lady in
the whole world!"
wy uduud.
YES" nodded Sadie. almost rever-
emily. "She told the minister's wife.
Mis- Brooks. that she wanted to bor-
row me, to- stay at your house two
whole weeks, till it's time to 20 back
to the Home"
Don's eyes glowed. 1.-TWO whole
weeks?" he repeated ecstatically.
As they talked. hoary old squirrel
that Don knew well and called "Drey-
beard" blinked down upon them know
ly. Just for fun, he stole far out upon
upon branch laden heavily with wal
| nuts. and sent a couple into Sadies
lap. Not satisfied, he hit Don ON the
head with two more, which broke up
the circus recital. and for time they
spoke of Greybeard, who listened and
blinked in glee.
Don't Ethel come over to see you
any more? asked Sadie then.
Don looked toward the big white
house across the way, where dwelt
his erstwhile sweetheart" The vista
was long, but Don's vision was per-
feet.
"Efels mad wiv me-" he said, with
that calmness that is hand-maiden to
Disillusion.
Sadie stared How could Don take
Ethels displeasure SO!
"'Cause ! don't love her best any
more" explained Don.
"Oh, do. do love her best, Dom"
exclaimed Sadie. She is So oh.
look. look! There she comes! She's
comm over!" Sadie cried excitedly.
Ethel was indeed coming over, and
with no tagging footsteps. Directly
across the road toward Don's happy
hunting grounds she was speeding.
Entering. and looking like a flower.
she swiftly ran across the lawn into
the orchard. then through into the
woods where she and Don had spent
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