THE GOOSE GIRL

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 17, 20 January 1934, Page 10

THE GOOSE GIRL

j '(Original.) Linda Lovelace was «a .tall,' pretty girl of fifteen. She had sad, dark brown eyes that held'a longing for her lost parents. ■ Her hair -was as black as a raven's wing. Her clothes were of a coarse .black material. On her feet she wore heavy clogs. With a'crook in her hand she sat day-dreaming; while the unruly geese quacked noisily. Her work was, to mind the .geese of Earl Langley. - Her master-was harsh and cruel, and his wife'was almost as bad. Often Linda went to bed tired and hungry,-after a long day's "work. She had only one meal, which was in the middle of the day. It consisted of two^ slices of stale bread, a stale bun, and a drink of water. * She felt unhappy aY she.«at daydreaming. Only that morning Mrs. Melville, the woman with whom, she lived, had given her .'a beating because she. Linda, had, been five 'minutes late in getting up., She often wondered who her parents were. All she knew was that her parents had left her when she wag six months old. This was told to her by Mrs. Melville, but it was not the truth. She, although she did not know it, was the real mistress of the castle. When she was six months old, the castle was attacked by the Earl and his men. The real Earl and his wife were forced to flee for their,lives, leaving behind them their little .daughter, Linda Lovelace. Linda was. found in a little cottage, and wag given to Mrs. Melville. One day Linda was minding her geese when the sound of a voice aroused her. "Do you work 'at Lovelace Castlef" she was asked. "No, sir, I work at Langley Castle, but my name'is Linda Lovelace," she answered. ''You are my daughter," the man said. ?■' Ho 'took, Linda away to. her. overjoyed mother, and soon after returned with a strong force, which defeated the false Earl, and drove him from the country. So the goosegirl became an Earl's"daughter again, and lived at the castle happily ever after. "BILLY DOVE" (10). Miramar.