The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-06-21

&Nm%$&f 1fMxsa.d# II ARN&A y HAM HAukI NAt
hlAaf tFiB ference either, because
n heard somebody say tht
sAes other day that II yot
have really got something tt tell and tell
IL, why people arc always sure to appre.
shiatc II. So It ought not to make any
difference whether / am ten years did o.
under or over, because | have really got
something 10 tell, and atm going 10 tell IT.
III Il about something that happened
lately and have To begin It by describing
the little girl that wheels the baby carridge
right by our house,
The first tim that saw her it was about
fve O'Clock III The afternoon and J suppose
the reason | noticed herthen was because the
baby began 10 cry When ii did that you
see I watched her to sce what she would do,
and was 4 little surprised because she didn't
pay much attention to 1t But the baby
kept on crying harder, 10 finely the little
girl stopped right there BY the lilac bush and
took IL out It'll her arms and began 10 rock ii
on her showlder back and forth When she
1id that, his head dropped back little till
his hair came right up close TO hers And
II was queer, but YOU could see to look at
them that they were just exacky the same
color The only difference was that his
was real rough and kerley ard hers was soft
and smooth and hanging in quite a straight
braid down her back
looked at hnr and wondered if she was
the baby's sister and then noticed some
thing else. II was 4 little blue bow Of
ribbn, something hike badge, pinned on
the front If her dress. The reason ii
seemed like d badge was because there were
letters printed on the ribten as ii she be-
longed ID h sussiety or som, ming like that,
1 didn'tssay anything about it though, but
instead | asked her what made the baby
afy 50 hard She didn't really answer and
then / noticed something else And that
was that he wasn't such very little baby,
sithef He was as much a. two years old
anyway | should say, and if She had put
him down on the sidewalk / am almost sure
he could have walked But she didn't do
that, She rocked him on her showlder a
little more and then she put him back in the
sarridge and went along.
! looked at the blue ribbun again and
Kind of wondered what it meant, so fol-
owed hAr little ways 20 Zee where she
lived And when She turned in as II she
had got home | was surprised 10 see Il was
lust next to Harry Paines. Harry is some
body that is in the same class with me at
school Iplay with him sometimes, and he
was out there On the sidewalk riding on his
leg velIossipede He didn't pay much
attention to the little girl with the baby,
and She wheeled tho carrdge round to the
Dack of thu house and Harry Paine went
.iding into his own back yard on his yellos-
'ipede and | went with him.
There was \ high stone wall running
llosg The side 81 his yard that separated il
rom tile yard next toit Mellit seemed as
We hadn't any more than gotten into
Hafry's yard before VIC heard something
hat made It's look up. II was like baby
,rying, only II was real sharp and high a. II
somebody was hurting HI II came from
The other side of the wall and looked at
Harry Paine d. ask him what was the
matter and then be stopped.
NC didn't hear any more then, either, so
Harry let me ride his Vellossipede little
while and then / went home again II was
lucky / diA. / guess, because i was supper
time Whenl got there and thcrew compny
TOO. By tile time was ready for il was
little late and Mother said She must apol-
eFgize ior ine, and then they went on talking
again without paying much attention to
be.
| didn't pay much attention to them
either until tho lady sitting next 70 Farther
said something that made me stop and
listen
Yes, admit it's her braid of yellow hair
and her yellow-orown eyes that attract me
particslery, sle said And of course as
far as any Sis6 goes. there risk III addopting
any child, she said
Mother spoke then and answered her.
Bit you surely aren't serius. Alice, she
said. Now YOU know perfeckly well you
araf thinking ii adopting this little
refAe girl for minute
All u them kind al laughed as II il was
= asal lanas iaea agis Nasf fl,ut siie answered
them ~ il she didn't think so.
Why, certainly / am, she said. She's
charming And the very one I've been
looking for know AL about her, 100, she
said. Ol course her antiscdents haven't
always been above Fepfoaeh, but what
would ypli eApret, size asked. Il she had
npEoFiusly proud iiniedge behind hcr !
tAonbt If i could have her for the asking.
Tia III tAle Aay slle spoke. and they ali
lssss III iiaf Aid Lind 81 smiled again.