Show only fifteen that was a rather cruel unfeeling remark of mr earlo earle to his laughter daughter sadie or sarah ua as the eho now wished to bo be called because I 1 I 1 at least she a baby 11 11 no bis aim youre neither a little girl nor lot a woman brit just between hay and grass as one nay may may bay sarah gave au an extra push to her already well tied back muslin niu sliu overskirt and rid started for bohocs iviah it a ing spark in her eye its ita true what father says she alio so 1 as aa she bhe walked along I 1 I 1 im too old to wear my dresses short anil and too young to wear them long too ON old to let my hair go loose and comfortable and too young for frizzes friezes friz zes puffs and coils and as cows antho in abo spring when lay hay is gono gone and grass not well grown have haro to put pat up with oddi odda and ends so I 1 have avo to take all flats and jons jens cast off dresses and hats bats or if there is anything ag awfully unbecoming to them I 1 got get it whether I 1 like it or not than alio ot in the work whit what I 1 havo hava is last just wit what a t everybody elso else lates to do like washing the dishes and donning cleaning the tha lamps just jast whit what nobody gets credit for foresther reither fo either only bi blime im a for not doing well by alia time this ibis ambitious ambitions girl of ours had reached tho the fichtol hoano but the teacher had in an so tile the caril card attached to tho the door handle told the scholars started star tad fit at baco to retrace liar her steps for it was a two mil milb 0 o I 1 walk with only here and thero there a lew few I 1 old apple frees to shield her from the tha suns sons glare elate As she walked liar her thoughts reverted to the mornings conversation partly perhaps because tho the scoot of tho the new mown hay greeted her bar like lika any girl gir of her ago age it struck her as a queer backward sort eort of comparison to speak oft of childhood as the time of hay bay I 1 oh yest she sha exclaimed alou 1 as a thought struck her 1 I 1 see how it ial I 1 and aad she sha at once resolved to write the tha next neit weeks week a composition on tint thit very subject ill siy she soliloquized 11 that I 1 cb childhood is ia cared cidred for by tho the general love of father and mother the hay yon on seel T e I but bat at last the aba youth goes out into in to tho the world rind and gathers lovo love for himself and I 1 shall give it a moral 0 a 1 turn for somehow I 1 think Y young 0 t m 6 ou even it if I 1 am so bu but t ought to gather lovo love by loving 11 what is la the tha use of talking though it if I 1 really wanted to be useful I 1 wanted who hod d oak aale me to sit it up with sick abick people for instance in stanca I 1 oven keep amako all night I 1 wish I 1 could be auto anro id bo be the right sort a of I 1 woman rind and then seems to me it might blight ba beautiful to bo be wrinkled argray or gray for b by 7 that time ono one is n sure of ct nos no a si belt then ll 11 on sho bho suddenly Bad denly stopped down from her mount of moral enthusiasm in ek a feet feat alas I 1 so BO easily accomplished so BO hard to account for often before I 1 got get to bo be good and gray IM id like some nice moo times and soma nice things this muslin overskirt overa kirt and v waist let are nice and for once now but why what 1 1 she sprang quietly out ont of tho the road in sudden adden terror for shii she thought a loose loosa hu logaa orso WM was plunging furiously down the read rad behind lier her she bhe had bad not ec rambled half vay may up the steep bauk bank before lie be came cama 11 sight but to her re liar hot hu he was not loaa squire waits bo boy y him hidu in with difficulty jost ai t I 1 a view view and turning in hu his badale I 1 shouted eliout cd fit at ilia top of bid voice evident ly to somo some one in a field it dr blassie aint am t to home I 1 ido 0 o barab t could not hear the reply but ilia ali a boy appeared satisfied for ho he quickly flott bottkol lel hinneck in the barriage car riago age applied ilia whip to the borso and was VM out oat ot of eight in ia an instant bill isaiah ah hurried up tho the bank and looked over the HIM wall at the top at no great she eho saw a man loan lying on tile ground ana three moro mora blending atan diug by luni him ina in a moment she saw who it wall waa and as she elio ran toward tho the roup group she sha guessed the hie truth troth which was that squire himself had received at th abo a hands of 0 ono one of hla his blundering workmen a severe out in the tha log leg with a say tita while mayio ella ho bright arterial arteria i blood was pour ilg from the wound it a deathlike pallor lanil fa faie neana anil 1 lis lif eyes wore were already half closed sarah whisked lier her muslin overskirt OTera kirt a over ver liar her lead like a flash ihsle 11 help me mb tear a broa I 1 bandage oat of t ciol she cried the ibe men were d dan till looking plodding plo abing ading laborers laborera but ono one of 0 them seemed on en cour agea by her air ol ed determination and la in A moment from the back of the skirt a breadth was waa torn without any words sarah tied a strong knot in this breadth theu then she stooped down and with one groat great heart sinking ono one cry of 0 that against tho the spirit she aho I 1 lifted tile tho rent firment froin the gaping wound to khero it wua was th then ion she pac pressed 1 I tile knelt j just net above the won wound 11 it h a all I 1 I 1 her strength 11 john mid maid she ehe steadily 11 tio tie una this baud under tho the log and oue 0 you others go na am quick as you oin cin for or a i butout short stick blick tho the blood already affected in in its flo how w by by her pressure oozed moro more slowly f from am the wound tho the stick was brought in I 1 a trice and slipped clipped under the band age where john had tied it in a hurd hard knot 11 now joho john said swab sarah calmly twist the stick till you yoa tighten the bandage so BO that tha blood shall stop atop altogether ily hy this time poor mrs wait ling and arrived on the scene with a little old fashioned pocket bottle of smelling solta und and a cruet of tin egar wherewith to bathe hor her husbands head these restora restoratives tives answered well enough until tho the doctor arrived youre a right smart sensible girl said the doctor when lie ho board what sarah had done any one of you fol iowa 11 continued ho be could have al the blood or mostly have stopped by pressing the tha limb above the wound with your fingers till help could be ba got next morning surah sarah stopped at tho ilia squires squi rea gate to learn how lie he was waa john wi was spreading hay in ia a field close by aud arid he bo came out to the roid road to speak to he her r I 1 I 1 I 1 say he said contemplating her al slight ight form with genuine gennino admiration such n little attla creature na its you bo be to ha be ben so Bo knowin and smart I 1 why you yon cant be ba moren fourteen or fifteen at the outside oaly fifteen answered sarah idith with a queer little smile 11 just juat between 1 hay Y aal and grass I 1 never did see sea the beatt responded john you know so well wel I 1 what hot to daw dew what id like to know I 1 ohl I 1 learned it ate at school chool answered swore d sarah with a little air of patronage 1 go and humility combined you see john the blood that cornea comes from the hout heart is 11 bright red and comes in jots as aa the lie heart art belts beats ym noties notice that VI 11 yeal yeal I 1 see boo his life was boatin away but bothin we could dow dew sait sail him and in ia fact there seem beem to be noth notha itil we could dow dew I 1 well 11 continued she finding that hi his I 1 wandering thoughts had come homo home again 11 when the blood comes that way and nil is bright red like that you must do something at once you must pat your force on it a knot as ai I 1 did between the wound and the heart and while a knotted bandage ii 11 getting realy you must hold the limb up na as high ci ai c i you a cau an that will chock check the blood I 1 forgot that at the time I 1 never did scathe the boat 1 answered alff areil john his limited vocabulary allowing no mora mare elegant phraseology in which to express his wonder and admira tion sarah B irah was waa moving oa when john callba after her saying i say sis BIS it ita 8 a shamo ft m a but those n num heads wont want to work and tore that booty muslin thing of yours all to pieces th inkin you asked for ona bd want M ant twenty more moie bisans wait was gratful hurry sid saia if there had boon been enough loft for an apron I 1 it t lis ha bon ben so eo bad sarah laughed find and went on smooth irig down a dusty dasty alpaca overskirt over an old ono one of jennys eat cat down A low lew days after the tha erla earle family w wore are all 11 in the kitchen ot at toa tea when ll 11 a knock camo at the front door 11 viattie ti to w wont out to the tha door and returned directly with a pi pa kago in her land hand reading tho the outside wrapper in a rather ilia dla gnatek tono tone as she bho walked in to the little girl who learns learn her at school so BO well basic of course coarse said biral 1 with a lofty air for hattie had looked a at t it hgr or while susie was aged six bix I 1 dont know why it m mean e al 1 yon on 11 retorted letor ted hattie II attie 11 it looks looka 1 like il waits hand though a I 1 little tile shaky 13 sarah arsh had halt half a mind not to take the proffered bundle As aft sho she took off the newspaper wrap wrapper por she saw a note slipped under the string ot of a brown paper parcel pi from some city store as was evid evident by the the no note to waa wilen dire directed etel to miss miia atrall earle and road read as ai DEAR SAT tAit I 1 was dreadful sorry you lost loat your overskirt ovora kirt and the genira was wao too and said you yon lose no nothing thing by it bo I 1 went to tilo city a anil n a went round ana ain 1 round until I 1 was wais fired to death and my head was all of a daze daza fenerly I 1 went into the nicest looking store and the one recommended the highest and ana was wag showed the proper dork clerk for such each filings ital says to him in ina in a despairing way I 1 expect show mo me the handsome anil and most moat suitable dress lot for a young lidy lady ot of fifteen years ile iio asked was you yon dark or bland it says bya 1 I 1 middling with a rosy rosiy check a bright eye anit and snob a look its as you might gone gesa a girl to have bavo that tore her bran now overskirt ir t all to pieces to stop atop my husbard liua baud tract from bleeding blo eiling t to 0 death I 1 cm can tell yon the folks near nea r by was interested interest d to hear all alshut it and one gentleman div me the ike book YOU find with hit his respects tile ne end of it all wits wan that the houd of the cumo came up anti and sold bold mo abo dress ver very y reasonable and leave to change it it yon dont like it and brutin put in apiece a of muslin for a school overskirt ovora kirt is nor near like yours youra as any I 1 ronld see ia im free with vilh uly my oar earnest riest hopes th that a t 70 you will make inake fa as cooj a woman as a girl I 1 remain your hambla seir servant vant M 31 E WAIT sarah had real the note out oat load land at the atger request reri neat of cf the family but it had bad been boba hard work for liar her and ana eho ile now burst buret into tears and was asi running oil off without oven even looking a at t be her t tread ures when her father called out cheerily come badio allo lets ista s aea allo tin irea wife tire hin bad bought for youl on I 1 I 1 allera thought she was a cloeo voynn M guess its ita a pi biuk D k calico how cm can yon talk so mo ther naked asked sarah batall indignantly but eh bli dia dry her eye eje i bad and open ilia barca bev thoro there was it chorus of 0 lohsl 01 anil ana 11 splendid I 1 when ta bioc of silvery summer silk was unroll oj 11 eatough saia luttio hattie 1 for a ahola suit ruit aua you Llo servo it 81 diulio end tan 1 irm im very glad you have got bot it chati organdy muslin anil and very ilice fieo remar keil jenny BB as the muslin camo came into view view tho the book proved to bo bo a pocket edition of whittier sho bho sail HUI daftly aa she eho took it ia her baud tho the best beat of nil all because I 1 cau call always keep kaap it on oil tile tha uy fly lent waa written miss mis 11 A token ot of admiration ifor her noble conduct jen it was waa one ona she bhe never nayer know knew nor w was as over likely loero yet it was alithe nil the moro more delightful alel to think tint that to ono person in in the world bho alto would always seem boom nobIa 11 liar har soul boul thrilled at the thought As aa she bho rote robe to carry away 11 her er precious bundled liar father spoke far more gently than ho he was wont to do 11 the heat beat of nil fill I 1 think is is that pit you did aid it without thought ol of a 11 raw reward a rd I 1 Wa waverley vorley |