The Alaska citizen., 1910-08-29

instead ot red. perhaps because there was room in il for only two people
 Perhaps, though, the real reason why watched the little green auto. mobile was because of thr man who drove it.
 The hour after the green au'omo. mobile passed our porch Was the best one | had all day. because. you see was well and strong. like other people, and I rode away in the green automobile. Always I wore a pretty long coat-warm days it was soft and silky, and cold days if was solt and furry-and the prettiest hat and a pale blue veil with long ends. just like the other ladies in their autos, Really, though. after once flew away round the corner and along the smooth. broad road beyond never once thought again of what l wore, for there was the country Sometimes the road wound between beautiful wind blown meadows of daisies and tall grasses; sometimes it lost itself in tangles of sweet, moist woods; sometimes il ran down hills and across bridges only to climb other hills with other sunny spaces. other patches of woodland and other hills beyond
 Of course was too old to play such things. But if one hasn't walk ed a step in five years and neva can walk again one has to imagine things sometimes.
 Then came the day when Billy. the little boy next door, fell asleep in the middle of the road. called and called, but l couldn't wake him. nor make his mother in the next house hear, nor any one. And then, just as I knew il would. the green automobile came flashing round the corner from the city.
 leaned out as far as l could l waved my blue shawl. The man in the automobile must have been look ing my way that time. for almost at once he stopped. l pointed 10 Billy He jumped out of the car. picked Billy up just as carefully and laid him on the grass under the maple tree. Then he lifted his cap to me, and away he went ill the little green auto.
 Well, the very next day the green automobile ran so slowly past our house thought it was going to stop. Billy was playing under the tree The man in the auto called to him and handed him large square package Then he lifted his cap to me again, and away he went round the corner out into the couu- try
 Billy came running 10 mo
 Mister said" said Billy, handling me the package. ter give this fer you."
 ITO me-
 Yep. for the little goil on the porch, mister said An he guy me a dime"
 opened the package There were two beautiful books bound in blue and full of colored pictures
 Three days later Billy brought me another package In it was the love Hest doll, all in soft blue, with for getmenot blue eyes and golden brown curls.
 You must give it back" said mother. Her voice so stern l scarce ly knew it was mothers Then cried It was bad enough to have no way of thanking the man in the automobile. l couldn't bear to hurt his feelings by giving back the doll. And by and by mother said: Well, well, Kathie, never mind this time!"
 Then one day, long before the usu, al time, when I was sitting in the sun, l heard an auto coming. Some how l knew it was the auto. I tried to move, but l couldn't And Billy had gone home. The next thing knew the man in the auto had stop ped in front of our house.
 Hello little bluebird!" he cried Ely down here and have a ride with me"
 l shook my head.
 You're not bluebird? Well, nev- CT mind. Run down, then, and take a nice ride with me like little girls
 But I'm not little girl at all :" l cried. I'm IS years old, and I'm taller than mother"
 The man in the auto laughed
 Jump up and show me-" he said
 Its true," l said but I cant show you because Pm lame"
 What do you suppose happened? The man jumped straight out of his auto. He came up our narrow little walk. The next minute he was on our porch. He was ever so much bigger and stronger and taller than I'd thought He almost filled the space back of the vines. He looked