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A Girl of the Limberlost.
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Who is it wants to buy cocoons, but-
terflies and moths?” she panted.
nuts and a great many things. Then,
too, some one moved over this morn-
ing, and several girls smiled and bow-
ed. Elnora forgot everything save her
books and that she was where she
could use them intelligently—every-
thing except one little thing away
back in her head. Her mother had
known about the books and the tui-
tion and had vot told her when she
agreed to her coming.
CHAPTER IV.
Wherein Elnora Meets the Bird Woman
and the Sintons Are Disappointed.
T noon Elnora took her little
parcel of lunch and started to
the home of the Bird Woman.
She must know about the spec-
imens first, and then she would go out
to the suburbs somewhere and eat a
few bites. She dropped the heavy iron
knocker on the door of the big red log
cabin, and her heart thumped at the re-
sounding stroke.
“Is the Bird Woman at home?" she
asked of the maid.
“She Is at lunch,” was the answer.
“Please ask her If she will see a
girl from the Limberlost about some
moths?” inquired Elnora.
“] pever need ask If it's moths,”
laughed the girl. “Orders are to bring
any one with specimens right in. Come
this way."
Elnora followed down the hall and
entered a long room with high paneled
wainscoting, old English fireplace with
an overmantel and closets of peculiar
china filling the corners. At a bare ta-
ble of oak, yellow as gold, sat a woman
Elnora often had watched and followed
covertly around the Limberlost. The
Bird Woman was holding out a hand
of welcome,
“I heard!” she laughed. “A little
pasteboard box or just the bare word
‘specimen’ passes you at my door. If
it is moths I hope you have hundreds.
I've been very busy all summer and
unable to collect, and I need so many.
Sit down and lunch with me while we
talk it over. From the Limberlost, did
you say?”
“1 live near the swamp.” replied El-
nora. “Since it's so cleared I dare go
around the edge in daytime, though we
are still afraid at night.”
“What have you collected?" asked
the Bird Woman as she helped Elnora
to luncheon.
“l am afraid I am bothering you for
nothing and imposing on you.” Elnora
said. “That ‘collected’ frightens me.
I've only gathered. 1 always loved
everything outdoors, and so I made
friends and playmates of them. When
I learned that the moths die so soon, |
saved them especially, because there
seemed no wickedness in it.”
“I have thought the same thing,” said
the Bird Woman encouragingly. Then
because the girl could not eat until she
learned about the moths the Bird Wo-
man asked Elnora if she knew what
+ kinds she had.
“Not all of them.” answered Elnora.
“Before Mr. Duncan moved away he
often saw me near the edge of the
swamp, and he showed me the box he
had fixed for Freckles and gave me the
“I mean whole wings, ne {own gone
and all their legs and antennae,” fal-
tered Elnera.
“Young woman. that's the rarest
moth in America,” said the Bird Wo-
“Kf you have 190 of
“What if they are mot pinned wight?”
quavered Elnora.
“If they are perfeet that does not
make the slightest difference. I know
how to soften them se that I can put
them into any shape I choose. Where
ave they? When may I see them?”
“They are in Freckles’ old case im
the Limberlost.” said Elnera. “I could |
not carry many fer fear of breaking
them, but I could bring a few after
schosl.”
“Yom come here at 4,” said the Bird
Woman, “and we will drive ont with
some specimen boxes and a price list
and see what you have to sell.”
“Oh, I do need the money! said El-
nora.
“Do you live in that beautiful cabin
at the northwest end of the swamp?”
asked the Bird Woman,
“Yes.” said Elnora.
“I remember the place and a story
about it now. You entered the high
school yesterday?”
Yes."
“It was pretty bad?”
“Pretty bad!” echoed Elnora.
The Bird Woman laughed.
“You can't tell me anything about
that.” she said. “1 once entered a city
school straight from the country. My
dress was brown calico and my shoes !
were quite heavy. What is your name,
wy girl?
“Elnora Comstock,” answered EI-
nora. “Yesterday on the board it
changed to Cornstock, and for a min-
ute I thought I'd die, but | ean laugh
over that already.”
The Bird Woman arose and kissed
ber. “Finish your lunch,” she said, |
“apd 1 will get my price lists apd take
down a memorandu'n of what you
think you have. so | will know how
many boxes to prepare. Never mind
the calico dress and the coarse shoes.
Dig into the books, and before long
you will hear yesterday's tormentors
boasting that they were once ciass-
mates of yours!” |
She laughingly left the room and |
Elnora sat thinking, until she remem.
bered how hungry she was, so she ate
the food. drank the hot chocolate and
began the process of getting a grip on
herself,
Then the Bird Woman came back |
and showed Elnora a long printed slip |
giving a list of graduated prices for
moths, butterflies and dragon flies.
“Oh, do you want them?" exulted FI-
nora. “1 have a few and I can get |
more by the thousand, with every color
in the world on their wings.”
“Yes,” said the Bird Woman, “1 will
buy them, also the big moth caterpil-
lars that are creeping everywhere now,
and the cocoons that they will spin
just about this time. | have a sneak-
ing impression that the mystery, won
der and the urge of their pure beauty
are going to force me to picture and
paint our moths and put them into a
book for all the world to see and know.
We Limberlost people must not be self-
ish with the wonders God has given to
us. I will pay good prices for all the
moths you can find, because, you see.
I exchange them with foreign collec-
tors. The banker will buy stone axes,
arrow points and Indian pipes. There
was a teacher from the city grade
schools here today for specimens.
There is a fund to supply the ward
buildings. I'll help you get in touch
with that. They want leaves of dif-
ferent trees, fiowers, grasses, moths,
insects, birds’ nests and anything
sbout birds.”
Elnora’s eyes were blazing. “Had I
best go back te school or open a bank
account and begin being s millionaire?
Uncle Wesley and I have a bushel of
mortars. [I don't know how I ever will
wait three hours.”
“You must go. or you will be late,”
said the Bird Woman. “T will be ready
at 4.”
After school closed Elnora, seated by
the Bird Woman, drove to Freckles’
old room in the Limberlost. One at a
time the beautiful big moths were tak-
en from the interior of the old black
Not a fourth of them could be
ved that night, and it was almost
dark when the last box was closed, the
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A Woman's Humor,
“Madam,” begam the man, respect
fully, “0 am very bungry. Could you
give me a bit of something?”
“1 will eall the dog.” the woman re-
plied.
“I am hungry enough to eat the
dog,” the mean said, “but I'd rather
have something else.”
And womaniike, she went inside
and banged the door.
Very Unconventional.
“Will you be my wife?”
The girl parried this question with
another,
“Is this proposal the result of a bet
or a joke or a dare?” she inquired.
“By no means. 1 ask you to marry
me because I love you.”
“Jt is unusual, but, after all, the un-
usual is the proper caper nowadays.
1 accept you, Frederick.”
Not Satisfied.
“Well,” said the Billville neighbor,
“I reckon your John is satisfied, now
that he's safe in congress.”
“No,” said the old lady. “Just as
soon as he gits his shoes polished,
puts on a biled shirt an’ takes a ride
in a ortermobile he'll wonder why it
didn't occur to him to run for presi
dent.”
Identified.
“That was the spirit of your uncle
that made that table stand, turn over
and do such queer stunts.”
“l am not surprised; he never did
have good table manners.”
Less Expensive There.
“We keep our automobile in the
mirage,” said Mrs. Blunderby.
“That's where most of us keep our
automobiles,” returned her caller, with
a smile.
Do You Get It?
First Motorist—I've just ordered a
heavy coat for my man.
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