Show A MIDNIGHT RIDE As mother had a large family of chil da arm r on and we mi blied flied in a newly bottled C country 0 u n tr Y a away wa from schools our parents decided to find comfortable homes for my sister bister older than 1 I and in ili self my na slater sister wits was placed with a nice family at trinidad forty 11 from home mother my brother end I 1 accompanied tiled glister bister to trinidad to bee her safe lit in her new horne home As ail we were returning return liin we slopped over night with an old couple whom I 1 will call mr and mrs airs L 1 ahey 1 hey blvd ili old in tile the small village of stonewall nir mr 1 L owned a store and being ing the only the place lie had a good trade sit as farni farm ere had no arher hading nearer than trinidad ile he alio alho hall had a saloon joining the ston which I 1 bup boap ponc brought in as inith money as the store mill did anti anil chili kept him awa away from home a great deal at night mrs I 1 said bald bhe had been trying to get a girl to stay her find and go to school so n mother wanted it a place for tilt I 1 seemed to suit tile the old lady mother di do elded to 0 o let me lite stay it 11 I 1 wanted hantid to mrs 1 L said bald she would do im anthlny thing lor for me lite it I 1 would stay mic proposed to dacin it chii me inc lilt t buy III ID books and abul to c send end me to every day for div fiat nion months thA for nhat I 1 would help hell her ind find morri to gs to havi haac me lite with her for company abu bu I 1 decided to oba slay mother aloth r I 1 ill id tile me good b next licit morning toI tilling JIng me to be fl good girl and do ahat was right to send a utter home us its often its 1 I todil 0 ul 1 at it it if I 1 got to bay ay to bo As A you will lind flood befort Is IK story that 1 I at the ditke leoti of 13 took a position ol of blai slait to us AS m ns nit i compin lon t for n hy it clerical ste rival old littly liy lifty 0 aro of C age V elmre alln re win wai only tin tho two to of bothem them in the famil fa nill lint tilt ix allt lit in having plenty of room and everything nh ali c ili chiy y wi hi I 1 it a mian bousi all fur nice tarpo on t ix rooms lite kitchen and two I 1 agu pon porches hes wore wire the floors to be they alno will indi a very large yard ard and garden which filch i thy took look bleat pride in cultivating anti and I 1 think all ot of their etyle was more tomake to make their poor neighbors neighbor jealous ot of then them tile than anything title lire us as they wet t ille only family choie e tit tint it had a tny ny thing a few ears bil bifora fore from a tribe of indiana passing through who ell whit they not use ily by tile hie use of a cellar lil r L managed to sit c most all their block of gooda ghods and thea liked to bral brag about it indians India iiA were denying colorado lit at that time lime so BO wire vety troublesome in 11 newly settled filled places but alto after r tle the indian india it troll ble was AN no on 84 la 1410 pros g biln tin the countr country storekeeper ind they tile tried in III evira ciar I 1 way to show it mrs L had everything heart coul coull i 1 wish tor for what thy could not get gel in the west thet thes sent catt for site had every window in the house houke filled with to lo e eh I 1 i flowers anti and singing birds which took HO much inre it was all ail very new to tome tile ind sho sh was kind and good for the first bit I 1 wicks still the work ork rite fhe gave tile me to do was ver hard for it a thild I 1 hall had to work mork early and I lilt att to get to chool thool but for the art bix weeks beeks I 1 had not alssid a day or received it a tardy mark mrs L bhail hall alim always ays hired the wa washing hang and scrubbing done but bill on mond monday i of the seventh week iveel she he sal I 1 I 1 was wall to stay at home slid and help wash us AS nhe to be more coming and from tile then until site she h hi I 1 I 1 me lite to quit so hol I 1 had to stav out of ti hool t deyor d ly or t two fidi it wick N ek to hilp anith some atno unnecessary work As A fre frecking cing we c ither ifould sorin act t in ili I 1 had to hap her put baraw around anti and hone boes dvir tier lir rose bushta anti sh rubbers i that verc lit in din if in ger of 0 freeing treeing I 1 iven aven h hi ti I 1 to run home very and ark M rk it until tin 1111 ball vituld M oil ring bouc m aa juat throbs the hie ro tit IN lien hell I 1 hid it id gone to chool nine little it ceab airs 1 L NN went atit to the teacher an ail I 1 tollif told lier terl I 1 was nut not learning anything arid thit thil blie ivill hid dai dt aided 0 to o teich tile me at hon home e sno ho thit ended my school days there e r 1 when il I 1 wrote m rote dionio she ra giai 11 my illy it kl 1 and if not written to silt her I 1 had t to ft rite thern them 0 er cr in every letter she he made ie me day ii I 1 was learning fast ami liked lit my teacher that was bird to dot do when allen I 1 was vat learning nothing front from hooks book she bhe would keep me wo working aking half the night to finckh work she hid planned for or me so go she could hreve a ride ide next day she bhe rode a greit dull doll and ill abw WI ays 8 wanted me to go with her so BO I 1 learned to ride vf very ry well A ell over the rough injun tain roads for or there were no other kind of roads around mrs 1 L used to have very 1 bid A of f I 1 heart trouble ahl called it but the doctor calad it hysterics had limon thain when mr hir 1 L iwas was away front from home 1 I 1 heir doctor was m as a tanner and ived ten miles down the trinidad road 1 istre I alre was N as only one house between the village and tile the doctors and that was as A i mexicans mrs L always ment for tile the doctor when the she felt bad mr air L and the neighboring nun had gone to 1 I on a business trip so BO they s bild lid about midnight our second nag night it alone mrs 1 I awoke with groans an and shrieks for help and hald bald she ohe was dying and said that she wanted tile me to burn all of her old letters after bhe was dead and not to tell anybody about them I 1 then blie bhe said maid I 1 would have to go after the doctor or site she would die and people would think I 1 had killed her I 1 could bee no way out of it so I 1 I 1 started out to get a horse ready she called after me lite to take the race pony go BO nn as to lose no time but its as I 1 went to the barn I 1 could not see the wa walk licten ten feet ahead ot me so BO I 1 decided to take si site leisure sure footed old charlie ile he was vias blower but as the night was so BO dark anti and lie he knew anew the road better than I 1 did I 1 aou would id feel niter so feeling more a afraid than I 1 wanted to own at the time I 1 I 1 led dear old charlie out saddled and bridled forthe for the trip after running to tile th house to see how site elie was I 1 found her ber as a bad as ever so bo forgetting fear for a time I 1 mounted and was off tit at full speed ro co think of it now makes maff s my illy blood run cold we dashed past trees and rocks that looked like woun bains in the il darkness charlie traveled at full r speed peed for about five nilles miles when aheu w we c i came anic to a piece of steep rocky road whee I 1 could not urge charlie oil out t 0 I 1 a trot suddenly he began to sniff tile the A air ir and and to travel taster faster when ilen its as we well went t to pass a cliff of tocks rocks a wolf of enor alc darted across the roul roid just in fit front of charlie causly him to stop atop wid and juni to one bajt bado so HO quickly that I 1 almost lost my balIn balace Le I 1 ihen hell before I 1 could think I 1 illard hi ard an all nea howl and ami charlie was off like tile the wind it F seemed as if that one howl started it hundred tred other i oh is s and COt cots coyotes cs together I 1 could licar hear othi hut but that most horrible hound bound u until 11 we aLlied rC recai bcd tile the doctors doi doo tors houge we P over the last five trifles miles in ili a short tinie time lint but it seemed like hours to me w the rite doctor hearing thi noise ibid made a light and oh what joy to see it tor for I 1 knew that all dinger was past and hose lose terrible beasts left behind us is 1 the I lie doctor was mas surprised to think tiny any one would have such little senie rente ile he aa hald id tile the rord was not sate safe for an ail a armed rim d man illan to to avel fit at night I 1 had passed a miserable hour and ind had to 0 rest batore starting starling hick bick we at ate c a dell lous breakfast prepared by ha his wife and at da daybreak dabreau break the doctor and I 1 started tor for the village 1 tie I lie road lid did not 6 siem elal the lie same rame I 1 lot told the doctor how at mrs rs L was and lie ile SAW said its as I 1 tile hie aanie old story pay lay no attention to her nex next t ii pell and see the but thank heaven eliat was the lar tonel last one I 1 w also my firby and biba night ride when we arrived tl mrs 1 L was nil right and boun boon after was wait asleep I 1 was called to the hie door b by a ral and imagine my delight on oil seeing 1 a I 11 from home who nho had raddin to the store and found it closed ante to to tile the hot liotine li otibe alte but mr air 1 L had not return 1 I I 1 asked mr H to go to ill my mulli tir ant adi her I 1 to get home so b lie 1 said I III lie he would go that ver very evening and till my lily folks TIP lite rest of my illy btty there was horri ble though short mr mor L came home about noon of the tit third I 1 rd aty diy and and on his way had lit ard of his cifes trouble from tile the doctor ile he was wag just drunk enough to be meart mean so bo came home in a rage mrs 1 L had company for dinner I 1 tuy lity were at the table sipping their wine when he came in ile he did not speak to an any one but just walked to the table lifted lite lie c istok and dished it the bay window NIn dow whit which it of course frightened the guhl tin fled in disma dismay lie he never stopp until every piece of a so dirin tir hit bot ami tile the fl clouer alth l tin tilt table nil all I 1 ty ly tit in ft a local heap on it the file bount llian he turned to ht r it annl h ild 1 q 1 I 11 II teach ou iii how to it when I 1 am agaj aa A gortat ari il quarrel toll ocil 1 ilont 1011 know when they in ill idt ill i i I 1 r thi that mot hoir fir r me abat was fit last alifi I irlue orkini for my lily board bearl and clothes to go tilt li bi I 1 wo I 1 Par crits choji ou leitl lionne for fir our it be mire bure of INH x dmd batise 1 1 welve years far have i abbett mi 1 alil dittl baine time nto of tren ireni niKi arb L I 1 alft li fl colorado tor for karlh un 1 11 I 1 tit tin hettice h lit a of 0 IV w 19 1 l t bood lius band told md a lilt lalit 4 tittle mi tv to kc home hapl y MR 11 P a |