Hildegarde's Neighbors

ixteen, and when the sisters said "Come along, Kitty," she had dropped her doll and flown like a bird to join them. Willy shouted after her, having designs on her in regard to

ak wreaths and talking busily. Bell wa

. I had not far to go, only to the grove, about a mile beyond the campus; but it was growing dark, so I hurried as much as I could. I ran across Pr

was not consistent with dignity and decorum. The colle

wisely, but too well. It was all so green and pleasant, and the smell of the trees was so delightful, that I did not know when to stop. Soon the barrow was heaped high with all manner of pleasantness, and I started to return. Well, my dear, then the trouble began. In the first place, full barrows are different from empty ones. It was very heavy, and the boughs kept slipping this way, and sliding that way, and tumbling down every third second. I got cross-oh, so cross! and presently I passed the janitor's son, lounging along homeward, and he grinned, being an oaf, and said, 'Better let me help ye, hadn't ye?' Oh, no! he didn't mean to be rude, he really meant to help; but my blood was up, and my hair was down, and I was very short with him, I fear, and trundled off alone

hing!" cried Hildegar

t-was too much for me. Besides, there seemed nothing in particular to say. I could not begin 'Please, sir, I thought you were the janitor's boy!' nor did 'Please Professor Thunder, this is your wheelbarrow, which I have stolen,' seem exactly a happy opening for a conversation. So we went on in silence, and when the branches tumbled off, I picked them up without a word. How could I

ips and spoke: 'The greens are for decorational purposes, I presume, M

'For the sophomore re

hat case, it will be

mbined simplicity and perfection. The conception of a man of universal genius and vast erudition,-I allude to Leonardo da Vinci, the marvellous Florentine

I said, 'this is your wheelbarrow. I came across yo

' he said, 'I sa

e two girls. "Poor

hinking of that moment,-and said-you won't think me vain to repeat this, Hildegarde?-said that he could not have his best pupil spoil her eyes, as it would interfere with her Greek. And then we came to the campus, and the girls standing in the door of the Gym saw Professor Thunder wheeling the wheelbarrow fall of greens, and me walking meekly by his side. I shall never forget their faces; one moment, and then they turned and fled. It

that she should never fear a college girl again, as it was evident that t

rlands of oak leaves, and now they proceeded to crow

queen," said Gertrude "and we h

don't weigh one hundred and thirty pounds. A fine sylph

sence to the girls. As he stood there, motionless, and screened by the broad leaves of a great chestnut-tree, a frightful scream was heard, a ferocious yell, which made the whole wood vibrate with horrid sound. The girls sprang to their feet in terror; little Kitty ran to Bell and hid in her gown, while the older girls with one accord turned at bay, ready to face they knew not what peril

, it is the boys. Look up, darling! Don't you see? It is our naughty, naughty boys, playing

toad! big Medicine-man Put-Squills-In-His-Tea! g

, laughing, shrieking, they doubled and twisted. Hildegarde ran well, and Bell had not had two years of basket-ball for noth

d from time to time to shout his warhoop, and Gerald, when he could fi

y tom, my

l make the pa

l make them c

tom, my t

upon Hilda, flying in the other directio

quaw shall l

an will se

cri

you can, you odious redskin! I defy you in every w

Aha! she turns, she flies! she feels the scalp a-wr-r-r-r-r-iggling on her hea

ks. Finally, seeing her foe pausing for an instant behind the bole of a huge nut-tree, she rushed upon him, and se

ur seemed a long way from seventeen; but he should not have watched the girls, he told himself with some severity, without letting them kno

, come and play Big Injin! The pale-faces are uncommonly game

he caught at Phil's ankle, just as he was in the act of grasping Bell by the flying tail

sked Roger, going

All right, Toots? and how do you come here, Professor?" The three fallen ones righted themselves, and sat up and panted; seeing w

ddenly Bedlam broke loose, and I have been standing by to go about ever since.

be found in trees, and be caught playing "Sally Waters;" she could not help her fate. But her hair was all

Hildegarde, please! I was just thinking how joll

ely. "I have no fancy for playing Absalom all the way home. Have you hurt your foot,

ll down, her nose reached all the way round the tree, and trippe

elf. The sunbeams flickered through the leaves; the pine needles, tossed into heaps by the hurrying feet, gave out their delicious fragrance; ove

ell, at length, softl

voice, that joyous song of the fore

h bold Rob

heart

o him with thr