Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-09
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I he M orning S tory
OUT Oh AN OLD TRUNK.
BY Lawrence Alfred Clay.

tnlnRS TO be found in Grandna l'af-
4 sons ancient ana interesting red
farmhouse was the big scraphook She
had been forty years making. Sh"
y had begun it when girl and now ut
the age OF sixty she was sim occa
sionnlly pastins III an item
The first third Of the book. ms might
x be expected. WAS devoted to such items
ms would interest girls. ana among
them were recipes TO make yourself
q beautiful, the significance of dreams.
4; how TO catch beau and other non
sense.
Each year when Miss Lconore Min
= turn. grandchild. cnmo down 10 pass
few weeks with grandma. she hailed
rainy G1y with JOY. She was cigh'
teen but she would get that big scrap
book down on tho floor and lie at full
length as she read it She had been
brought up in a city but she had inc
same SupprstitionS ANA CaprICcs OF the
girl of the country.
'If YOU dream OF black fox three
nights running YOU Will live and die
an old maid" read one of tho items
The girl partly believed it. but whom
y she asked grandma fo- Confederation
( the answer was disapHointins
1T may be so, but | never knew a
case OF it,
Didn't YOU ever know y si'l who
dreamed Of n black foN three times
running
NO. nor red fox. either There
s. VAS Salau Ju'llitl- SuC Nltallltu VI
coon i've times running, but Instead
s OF living an old maid she had three
husbands before she got through"
but II surely means that YOU are
going to fall in love IL YOU look down
tho we'll and see your face in the
water
Yes. suppose It does; but girls
arc pretty sure to fall in love even II
they never look down we'll
But as the girl read on she Eavo n
RaSD OF SUNRISE She had
the following:
IF the comes up very rcd and
you arc standing under pear tree
and a white dove nlights on your shout
der. II means that YOU going TO
meet n stranger.
why. should think It would. IT
seems to me IL ought to-
Grandma, l don't believe YOU be-
lieved in any Of these things when you
was girl poutcd Miss LeOnorc.
We'll. YOU will find ono here that says
il girl dreams that shc falls asleep
under suniiowcr and is awakened ~
the twitter OF a robin, "A strange young
man is coming along TO fall In love
with her"
But did YOU ever know It TO happen 80
Hannah Baker always vowed and de-
clared that 1t happened. but Hannah
was Il god deal OF a liar. She said that
the man who came along was Tom Per-
kfns, whom she aftcrward married"
And they lived happy forever more"
mo, they didn't That's the worst
thing about dreams. Hannah and Tom
fought like eats and dogs within three
months ana separated
And never made M"
Not as ! ever heard OF. You mustn't
pay much attention to those old items
about dreams and things Those were
days when girls were very silly"
1t was the first time that grandma
had ever cast doubt on the absolute
vcracitY of the items. and the girl went
out into tho orchard ana sat down
and had good cry. She had believed
since She could understand. and il was
bitter disappointment TO he told nj
last that she had been believing in n
lot OF nonsense. Grandma finally called
her in to show her how to make . GUS
tard for supper. ana Miss lconorc dried
her tears.
But something may happen yet"
"Of course il may. Things arc al
ways happening I'VE had that spot.
ted COW for thiIto.n years and I'd
have as soon thought the iedwment
day wu-ld come as that she would
kick, but what aid sho 10 the week
give me rap that ssnt me asln the
fence. Keep your feet dry and things
will happen right along"
Three days later While Miss Leo
was chasing tile calf around tn.
lot she ran = thorn into her foot. Ii
she had had her shoes ON NJ The time
she might not have ran so fast hut
she would have ct,.ipcd tthc thorn.
Grandma had 10 trIlc' f,'r teeth TO the
thorn, and there wor, Wells ANA snhs
Il told YOU something might hap
pen any day and now IL has"
But Won't be ablc 10 step on that
foot for several days was protested.
II know ii, aud that's what YOU get
by playing the tombuy WIN make
bread and milk poultice TO draw
the poison out"
The next day grandma received
word by q boy that u woman half "a
mile away wanted her and she said 10
Miss Lenorc You will have TO keep
house alone for a couple OF hours mi
there Will he nothing TO make YOU
afraid
But there may Young man como
along was answered.
"liut YOU get into this rockIrn,
chair and put your foot mp IN this
-~cnc. and don't pay the least ntteu-
ton IF any one knocks. y peddler may
come along but hell 20 away after he
is tired Of Knocking"
Grandma had gone about half an
hour when there came a knock at the
door No, IL was not knock Tl.
old lady hadn't quite shut the door
after her. and the wind had pusbcd
1t back without the cripple being
aware OF 1t. There she sat. almost
dosing and the polticed foot looking
as big as beer kec
"Ahem' Ahcu,'
"Oh. my
1T was a young man in Tie act Of
in the door.
II called to sec" hc began.
You must 70 right away sir"
Couldn't ] ask"
No, sir: 20 aWav'
yes, EcS. beg pardon
md with look thai rar,..i,l, a.,
Guided that big foot h.. v.jx,6 ,,..-