The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-12-15
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By John Hamilton, 9th Grade
KennezUick
CHAPTER I.

Ou, well! ouppoSo ho Will COuo
sometime I think he will, 1 know he
will
| The chez referred to was the little
girl g prince. The little girl was Win
ME, and she lived a lonely life in a
small cottage situated considerable
distance from the main road. Her
father and big brother, Will, were out
working most of the time, leaving her
to amuse herself as best she could.
Next to visiting with father and
brother at the big woodpile, her chief
amusement was to take her doll and
her three pennies and 60 out little
way to where there was a large tree
with large jagged hole in one side.
Here she would sit down on another
tree, fallen one, and watch the hole.
Her folks knew how it began, but they
did not know that that hole was a
great source Of comfort to the child.
It was her fairy book, and while in
company with it she would 60 back in
memory to the time when there was
another presence in the little family
someone who had taught her many
pretty verses, but who had left them
, little over year ago because she
was too sick to stay with them. Win
ME was only going on six now, so she
could not remember very clearly about
her mother. She only knew she missed
something dreadfully.
The little piece remembered best of
all was:
| saw ship a-sailing,
A-sailing on the sea;
And oh it was a-laden
With pretty things for me.
There were comfts in the cabin,
And apples in the hold;
The sails were made of satin,
And the masts were made of gold
The latter part Of it, with the beauti-
full words satin" and "gold,,' was
what she loved to talk to her dolly
about. She also had vague remem-
brance Of the story of Cinderella, and
had detached the Prince from it as
something belonging to herself. She
would say, "Don't you see, Elizabeth,
that some day the Prince will come
down from the hole in the treef That
is his palace, you know, and he will
have on his satin and gold and be all
shiny"
The date was the twenty-fourth of
December, and she had dreamed the
night before that the Prince came and
he was so shiny and brought her some
beautiful candy. She was doubly
lonesome now, though very brave over
it, ever since Mr.. Paul had come over
to call one evening about a month ago
and his pup had run away with her
doll. She did not notice the kidnapping
at the time, as she was very much
taken up with large red apple which
the kind neighbor had brought her, and
not until next day did she miss Eliza
beth, who could not be found after
hunting high and low. So now, on
this nice winter morning, she was ad-
dressing make believe Elizabeth done
she had outgrown.
She visited for quite long while
with her Prince in his palace, then
finding it was getting colder and
hearing her father calling to her, she
hurried back to the house, where he
was building up good fire to keep her
warm and lighting the lamp, for the
days were so short now that it would
be dark presently. She went in and
old couch and, reaching up, deposited
her precious pennies on the window
sill at the back. These pennies she
had found in the corner of a drawer
one day, and upon her father telling
her she could have them she had felt
quite rich ever since, and wove them
into her fairy story with the idea of
presenting them to the Prince when he
should come.
CHAPTER II.
! On the afternoon Of the same day all
was hurry and hustle at the elegant
home of the Judge, on the hill over
locking the little town. There was to
be big Christmas Eve party, and in
decorating the house the lady of the
house discovered that she must have
more evergreens and number of other
things to make the affair a success.
So she was presently heard calling to
her son, a young man of 10, who was
home on his vacation from college.
"Albert,' she said, 81 IN sorry 1 did
not think of everything ! wanted when
your father was over at Waterville yes
terday. Do you think you could
take
~ m not at all sorry; mother l can
easily take the runabout and run over