Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-06-16

allied quartz. through which run veins
If gold like tiny. sillSen threads. But
very evening he would return tired
cut and empty handed. Even Ada no.
iced the worried look on his face and
Ter mothers tears. though she could
lot understand the trouble. But at last
me evening a terrible thing happened.
For when the father came he said
,adlN that he would have to sell dear.
I'D Pete because his money had all
)een spent. And they would have to
20 down to some town and the father
ind work. though if he could stay a
ew months longer on the mountain he
gould be a we'll man.
Ada knew that her father was to AL
Pete away to sell at noon the next
lay, so directly after breakfast she put
IN his bride and climbed on his back.
Then with her chubby legs humping
.gainst his ides she set out, following
l path across the mountain, winding
through the pines until they stood at
he top of a high rock. Just below vas
I grassy bit of level ground hidden by
owering trees. She meant to hide her
Jet so her father could not find him.
So h climbed down from Pete's
pack and began to pull or the bride
as she slid down the rock. But the
finy feet slipped and the child fell,
rolling over and over down the slanting
face of the cliff, till she landed, bruised,
pAl " iININs ~ lnG ldS Ill liz OOG-
tom. In falling she had jerked Pete.
too. and he fell, but not in exactly the
same direction as Ada. Kicking and
knocking rocks about. he came bounc-
ing down to the bottom. then scrambled
to his feet and began to nibbl the
tine grass.
But little Ada commenced to cry.
Then at the top of her voice she
screamed for her father, but no sound
came in answer from the big. silent
mountains. The sun rose higher and
higher and she knew it must be dinner
time. for she was so hungry. Then it
began to sink toward the west and the
shadows creep out. Just where Pete
had kicked out a big chunk of rock
whe1f falling, she noticed a bright re-
Election from the cliff, and as the sink
ing sun shone on the face of the rock
glinted md winked at the shining rays.
Then with her little hands She has
tily gathered up the bits of rock that
had fallen on the grass. They, too,
were full of tiny threads of cleaning
metal. And the child knee that at last
she had found that for which her faith
er had so long looked in yain-gold.
Just then she heard a voice calling
and some one running up the path.
With a glad cry She answered back.
and in "a moment her father stood at
the top of the rock, full In the light Of
the setting sun.
"Oh. father. father" she cried. so
delighted with her find that she for
got her bruises, look what / have
found. It's gold-and Pete did it,"
1t took the father but a few econds
To scramble down and clasp his little
daughter in his arms. And when she
showed him the shining yellow in the
rocks Peter had broken off n the
big place on the cliff where it g%listened
in large veins. the father shouted with
joy.
A very happy mar and child they
were as they climbed home and man
aged to drag Pete along, and, of course,
Pete was not solo And when Mr.. Bed
ford built a beautiful home on the
mountain near the gold mine, Pete had
a fine. warm stable. and everybody
called the place Pete's Mine