The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1918-12-19
TWO OF US, The Story of the Valley World ShutOut
the Ruins Rests on SPOT Home
By c. S. YORK

gers to tell the story For some strange freak on natures
part filled the ledge with sreaks of feldpa in the
granite rock, and in places flung bright bits of mica n and
in others crowded with crystals of tourmane brittle,
yet tanalizng they their pentagonal sides
the lighter rocks then vein of smoky yellow
quartz peers out from the stone.
Below the ledge, the land guarding
the echo, stand pasture where blackberry bushes
brambs grow feet aband-
Ioned apple orchard with the Desoae Cottage standing
orny there meadow that sants to the rivers de
the path of the river betrayed by the the wood
led hills that to the sky that sinks behind them Shuts
Out the World beyond.
The shingles of Desoate Cttage with
of but the finds wood beneath
slowly falls away. The bricks of the chimney were
long built into the walls of another home. The door
stone is sunk in the and hid by ange of wild and
burdock that quarrel and are friends again.
The floors bending and saging downward with
ten seepers few bits of plaster with years. few
bits of wall dscoored past all resemblance to what
cling to the walls The frames of the windows and
the glass that them long since fallen and drv
by the valley Winds the leaves years spring rustic
and froc in the tenantess In the lowroofed kitchen
great brick oven yawns beside the vacant chimney places
and all else that to tell that here home
ancient CRADLE red painless, rocked by the
passing breeezs the Desoate Cottage of the Valley
World Shut-Out.
Many years ago. when the giant beeches where the echo
fingers sapngs and rocks and trees old, John
fingers sapns and only rocks and trees DID, John
Vail and Dora Dale lived with their parents neighbor
ing cottages of the Valley World ShuOut In the winter
they trampng the hills to school together John help
ing Dora icy paths and through the shifting drifts and
Dora assisting John harder paths the Old Bueback
Spelling Book, Whispering words him they sat the
lower form. And John often had juicy apple for Dora,
she handful of for him. In days they led
sweet wild life together fishing for the little minnows in the
reaching for the cOwsps the flags that grew the
and when they older they met in the cleaning
and talked things. And then night when the
mated birds softly the thcke when thrush poured
forth flood Of melody in the forest, and whppoor-wil
Knocked nsenty by the riverside John and Dora watched
the mating birds and told to another the DID, old story
No painting tells of Dora's charm. Not
sihoutte remains to show Johns strong face Only ira
dion has handed down their and left picture
ourselves the cheeks and laughing that had charm
ed Johns willing mind and the strong firm figure honest
face that made him Doras hero Their ambition not to
in wider world; Valley World ShuOut quite
enough for the home they onged for and the hills failed
shut them when they and their love left together &c.
happy disregard of worldly echoes they began the prepare
ton for the home that be. John for months
worked for Others earning the humble tance that
to build the house the land his father gave him