to be doiR-. Il \v;is lolly lu Uiitik thai Uic geese woiiM 

 comedown IVdiu the clouds for iIk- ]iur])ose of getting a 

 closer \-ie\v of his capers. ( )h no, \vc knew llicy were 

 not such geese as that: so it was decided thai I should 

 be the Ambassador rieni])o with full ])ower to coax, drive, 

 persuade or kick the funnv intruder off the prairie. 

 When I reached him I found, not a man, IjuI a sluhby, 

 little, barefooted German boy, wliose feet were sore from 

 walking over the sharp-pointed wheat stubble. Hence 

 his tears, I thought, for he was crying. But I was mis- 

 taken. Ills grief was not of the sore-footed sort. He 

 was only a ' ' little Bo-Peep " of the ]irairie variety, and he 

 had lost his sheep and didn't know where to find 'em. 



With more ingenuity than veracity, and a very ragged 

 attempt to handle his mother tongue, I told him when 

 anil where I had seen them and if he would onl\- hurry 

 away in the direction which I pointed out he would scxjn 

 overtake their tails. 



Watching him until well out of sight and i>luming 

 myself on my diplomacy 1 returned to the pit. 1 had 

 been there but a short time, when the screaming and 

 '•honking " of the first flight was heard, and peeping over 

 the edges of the pit I saw a great moving cloud coming 

 straight for us. l>ut, horrible to relate, there was .some- 

 thing else coming, and something tliat promised to 

 "meddle with our bliss" most effectually. An old black 

 horse with a girl on his back wabbled towards us and 

 getting near enough the girl stopped and yelled at the top 

 of her voice: "Where did ye say ye see my she-e-e-p? " 

 "Oh. for Heaven's sake," I said, "get out of this! 

 Move on I Don't you .see you're knocking our sport 



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