The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-11-08

II fvS4SK .NkaT am ilCt ~ NSi oitl. Nliil
HSsNMSll lSeE<eH ten, bur guess tha
s UNSAN l|E2%H Il doesn't make much dill
E1fafSSAAIL llfFtSl,sfH ference either, because
1c cftYNS5 az heard somebody say The
Gsszsyssszzzseszs other day that if yot
have really got something to tell and tel
3 it, why people are always sure TO appre-
shiate it. So il ought not to make any
difference whether | am ten years old OF
under or over because / have really got
something to tell, and am going to tell il.
1t il about something that happened
lately and have TO begin ii by describing
the little girl that wheels the baby carridge
right by our house
The FIRST time that / saw her it was about
five O'Clock in the afternoon, and l suppose
the reason noticed her then was because the
baby began to cry When il did that you
see | watched her TO see what she would do,
and was a little surprised because she didn't t
pay much attention to it. But the baby
kept on crying harder, 50 finely the little
girl stopped right there by the lilac bush and
took it out In her arms and began to rock it
on her showlder back and forth. When she
did that, his head dropped back little till
his hair came right up close to hers. And
il was queer, but you could see to look at
them that they were just exackly the same
color. The only difference was that his
WIS real rough and kerley and hers was soft
and smooth and hanging in quite straight
braid down her back
looked at her and wondered if she was
the baby's sister, and then | noticed some
thing else. It was a little blue bow Of
ribbun, something like badge, pinned on
the front Of her dress. The reason Il
seemed like badge was because there were
letters printed on the ribbun as if she be-
longed to a sussiety or something Ike that
| didn't say anything about il though, but
instead | asked her what made the baby
cry 50 hard She didn't really answer, and
then / noticed something else And that
was that he wasn't such a very little baby,
either He was dis much as two years old
anyway | should say, and il She had put
him down on the sidewalk am almost sure
he could have walke1 Bat she didn't do
that. She rocked him on her showlder a
little more and then she put him back IN the
carridgs and went along.
] looked at the blue ribbun again and
kind ol wondered what il meant, So | fol-
lowed her little Wavs to see where She
lived And when she turned in as ii She
had got home | was surprised 70 see 1t vas
just 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
new vellossipede now He didn't pay much
attention to the little girl with the baby,
and she wheeled the caridge round to the
back 81 the house and Harry Paine went
riding into bis own back yard On his vellos-
sipede and | went with him.
There was a high stone wall running
along the side 81 his yard that separated il
from the yard next to il. Wen it seemed as
If we hadn't any more than gotten into
Harry's yard before we heard something
that made Us look up. II was ike baby
crying, only il was real sharp and high as ii
somebody was hurting il. Ut came from
the other side Of the wall and I looked at
Harry Paine to ask him what was the
matter and then he stopped
We didn't hear any more then. either so
Harry Let me ride his velo pede litte
while and then I went home again 1T was
lucky / did, / guess, because il was supper
time whenI got these and there was compny
TOO. By the time ! was ready for il ] 5as
little late and Mother said she must ap0l-
ergize for me, and then they went on talking
again without paying much attention to
me.
/ didn't pay much attention to them
either, until the 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 brown eyes that attract me
She said And Of course as
far as any risk goes, there risk In adopting
my child, she said.
j Mother spoke then and answered her
kBut you surely aren't sarius, Alice She
Now you know perieekiv We'll you
1T thinking of adopting this htic
girl for minute.
Of them kind d laughed as # il wa
'9Eal funny idea anyway, but She answered
hem as Il she diGa think 50,
Why. certainly / am, she said. She's {.
hsrming. Aad the very one I've been
sci.ine fcE know all about her. too, She
aid Of course her antiscdents haven't
lways been above reproach. but what =
sou,d you expect, she asked. II she had
noioriusly proud lin:edge behind her ] /.
.gbt II ] could have her for the asking. !
That was the way she spoke, and they ell
st her and kind Of smiled again.
:. 4ls true too, Alice, the lady next to .