Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-05

off? Then she thought she saw her
dolls dress. She took a jump down
ward and off. She fell. She bumped
her head a little, but did not cry
much.
Soon she wanted to go home. She
did not know the way Then she saw
her dolls dress and ran after it. 1t
had blown toward her home. Then
she saw the cottage where she lived.
When she was going home she met
her father, who had just happened to
go that way home. When she came
home she told everybody about the
hunt. CARRIE WALLENIUS.
1926 East Twenty seventh street. IL
years. B grade, Twentieth street
school.
Little Irma Schmidt went to see her
grandmother in vacation. Her grand
ma was a dear old lady, with snow
white hair She loved little Irma very
much.
One day Irma asked if she could go
fishing. Grandma said "Yes," and she
started soff in high spirits, with a bas-
ket of lunch on her arm.
When she got to the little stream
that flowed in the back of grandpas
meadow she put her basket under
large elm tree and hunted for nice
place to fish. At last she found one
In about ten minutes she felt some
thing tugging at her line She pulled
it UP and found that she had caught
a little minnow. She was quite ex-
allied by this catch and dropped her
line into the water again.
In a little while she felt something
at the end of her line again. She tried
TO pull it up, but couldn't so she called
to one of the hired men to come and
10 nnllpd II he
found a mans big boot. They carried
it to the house, and when they opened
it they found four sacks. all filled with
something. Grandma said rot to open
them until she would see if they could
find the owner. They waited few
days, but never found the owner. At
the end of that time they opened them,
and what do you think they contained?
Nothing but s-a-w-d-C-s-t.
Grandma laughed and laughed, but
Irma felt kind of sorry, as she had at
least expected to find something OF
value. ANNA EBERLE
Age 1S, Downey, Downey school,
grade 8.
Alice lived in the country near a
river. Her brothers had promised to
teach her how to fish. She had often
watched them fix the line to the pole
and thought she could do it, too. So
one hot summer day she got short
pole. tied a cord to it and went to fish.
She had not thought about hooks or
bait.
She went out on a large rock that
extended over the water. Here she
seated herself and dropped her line.
She sat silent for several minutes. 1.-The
fish ought to come soon," she thought.
The water was rising higher and
higher and would soon be over the
rock. She did not notice it until she
felt her feet growing cold ana looked
down. She began to grow frightened
when she saw the water surrounding
the rock.
How was she going to get home?
She began to cry.
After an hour or so a small boat APP
peared around the bend. The boat be-
longed to her father. The two men
in the boat saw the girl and went after
her
Alice never wanted to go fishing
again for long time. She often
laughed at herself when she grew
older. BESSIE CHAPMAN.
1912 East Eighth street, Ninth Street
school, AT.
Florence's mother forbade her fish
ing because she thought she might tan
in the water.
One day Whlle her nolner was SUI
away Florence got stick and tied
a piece of string on it. She found a
shady place under a peach tree and
then tried to catch some fish. she trleu
for a long time, but could catch no
fish. but came near falling in the water.
She went straight home, and when her
mother came home she told her about IT.
Florences mother told her If she
would never go fishing alone she would
get her a pretty doll So Florence
promised her she never would. ana sue
never did. PRISCILLA SIMPSON.
Sisters school, SCI Gladys avenue. Age
II years.