six star ranch

THE PRAIRIE - AND MOONLIGHT (8)

It was soon after this that the Happy Hexagons and Mr. Tim, returning on horseback from a long day on the range, met with a delay that would prevent their reaching the ranch house until some time after dark. “Oh, goody! I don’t care a bit,” chuckled Genevieve, when she realized the facts of the case. “There is a perfectly glorious moon, and now you can see the prairie by moonlight. And you never really have seen the prairie until you do see it by moonlight, you know!”

“But we have seen it by moonlight—right from your steps,” cried Tilly.

“Oh, but not the same as it will be out here—away from the ranch house,” cried Genevieve. “You just wait! You’ll see.”

And they did wait. And they did see.

It did seem, indeed, that they never before had really seen the prairie; they all agreed to that, as they gazed in awed delight at the vast, silvery wonder all about them, some time later.