The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-04

Oh. for Tflly's big, broad feet with
which to 60 running out to the road
and demand the old mans property
The boys saw the wallet; they stop
ped, they bent, they Strengthened up
and hee-hawed like donkeys. They
looked up at The Lady's window, and
grinned mockingly. Then one of them
raised a toe, and the wallet Topped
through the air like q wounded chick
en-.
It fell just in front Of the Lady's
gate. The two who thought they were
mcn-or hoped to be-passed on,
smoking their cigarettes, and no one
else came in sight for . long half hour
save another law-breaker, with his
fixed eye and reckless heart, who
would not have noticed a roaring lion
unless its scrunching bones had pune.
tured his rubber tires.
II it would only rain! But It wa
such a perfectly dazzling day that ev.
erybody would go to- or come from
Camelot.
At noon the school children began
to swarm past. There was no longer
room for hope. Children have eyes
like ferrets; they see everything.
They saw the wallet-a half dozon
at once. One little girl picked it up.
but her older sister slapped it out Of
her hands and scolded her roundly for
touching it. She brushed of the little
ones pinafore. boxed her ears. and
sent her forward wailing.
One group of boys footballed it into
the road, another sent it skidding out
of range Of the field glasses.
The Lady settled back in despair. It
had gone beyond the ken of her
friendly eyes. Now that It was out
Of her sight she tried to thrust it from
her thoughts. She turned to her web,
but wooden needles and white wool
were no panacea for her excited mind.
Suddenly. "Tirra Lirra by the river"
came Sedley's puppy, from three
farms below. In his mouth he bore
the begrimed wallet.
Being a little mud-colored puppy, he
In the very middle of the path Of the
was careful to settle with his quarry
speed-exceeders. Here he held the
wallet between his forepaws and be-
gan to chew the corner with the 60
static expression Of a gourmet tastirg
a new delicacy.
Oh. but it was terrible to be TIE
Lady Of Shalot and obliged to sit help
less while a puppy ate up q house and
garden!
She called az loudly as she could;
she screamed. In desperation she
threw the field glasses straight
through the window. She heard them
clatter on the ground below.
The puppy heard. too. He cooked
n d~ust-colored ear, turned . round,
innocent eye upward q moment-then
returned to his chewing again.
Suddenly The Lady saw the bent
figure Of the owner Of the wallet come
opposite the gate. He was without his
cane and coat. He was stumbling
along in a dazed miserable, Intellectual
haste, all the hope and happiness gone
from him. Like the law-breakers, his
eyes were bent upon the path he had
traversed with hope sc short a time
before. A m~ud-colored puppy in the
middle of the road was, to him, a mud
colored puppy, and it vas nothing
MORE.
If only she could put her mouth
close to hole in the window she might
make him hear!
"She left the web, she left the loom,
she made three PAGES thro' the ROOM"
She CRASHED the ledge of the window
sill with clutching fingers, and drew
herself up until her mouth came oppo-
site the hole in the glass; then she
shouted desperately.
The old man turned, caught sight Of
the puppy, recognized the article upon
which it was feasting, and made q
dive for it. Up jumped the puppy,
grabbed the wallet, and set out for
home, three farms below, a dirty, wab-
bling streak in the middle of the road,
the old man hot on his trail-but a
long way behind.
II am half sick of shadows" MUIR
INJURED The Lady of Shalott as her
hold weakened on the sill and she
rolled on the floor.
The next she knew, everybody was
home; her father and mother and Bro
Their George and Sister Alice and Til
ly, the maid. There was a combined
odor of camphor, arnica, smelling-salts
and alcohol in the air, and someone
was saying the doctor had come.
"How did you get away over under
the Window" was the universal ques-
ton they asked when they realized
that she was awake once more and
could answer them.
II walked" she declared triunl-
phantly. II made three PAGES thro'
the room: and what I did once I know
I can do again. Stand aside and let
try!"
She did 1t again, and it seemed too
good to be true.
"But what I can't understand" she
gasped, after her second successful
trial, els why no n carried of the