The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-07-14
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 in her queer way an lifts her
 brows like feller would if he - asking you if you hadn't forgot sC Cr;s Cstr;su thing" . iAa
 @Well, that shouldn't depress Sept ., Jim. That's a way with all gi' "nu There comes c time when they fS pou' their old friends and have to hs osl miss.S IAu- r
 "Oh, 'tain't that, siri But I got ot'locsa thinkin' about her, % that could, anu work, am when I'd take her back 'ape1 school felt like I wanted to kill teller that looked at her. You Ill.,. sir, I was likin' her too much." aaas. e
 "I see, Jim." ou!
 "Well, last summer I made up no' mind I'd tell her about 1t, an did. is asked her one night to go with me, a 'Hs we sauntered down along the edge that holler whar the timber is. T1Hu,o !, evenin' seemed so still that I couS !" hear my heart beatin', and when ol 1T. O them meader larks whistled "e' sounded like tho express to me. Sh would drop on her knees every noN, and then to pull some of the violetans that grows over there, an once sho.e laughed and pinned some O them to my shirt, an I wouldn't stand that I tux hole of her hands, an she jumpe kind O skeered like, but held len an looked straight in her eyes an tolt her. l told her that loved her, an, that I'd try to make her happy all he .. lie. I told her I'd loved her eve io'. ~. since she was little girl and used tt,N. t' set her on my knee." ~.
 Jim put his face in his hand snt''s seemed lost in the recollection, either of that evening or of the baby girl ot,5 whom he talked so tenderly. @ "a
 "I tell you it was tough, sir. She said she used to like me once, but thatd since she'd been goin' to school hen. learnin' has made her dissatisfied witho the lnjun country am the people here She said if she married 1t would hal to be & man that had read heap an ,s knew lots about books. She said hen n idear of a real man was an editor or some young feller that could write newspaper. She said l was a gooc enough fellow in saddle, and she's liked me as frien', but to bc even thai must never mention the matter to,d her again. Then she walked straight back to the house. watched her pass re this depot on them stones there an gt in the door, an then went down thing holler. Taint no use, sir; Eve trieth ! to brace up agin it, but can't, an th' folks can't see why go down to Musitp kogee an get full, an wrastle witl the deputy sheriff." ve
 "Why don't you go away, Jim Leave this quiet place-go up in thtrt busy states. You can't forget hel I when she is daily in your sight"
 "I'll tell you. She's home now ohe what they call the Easter vacation, an c- she won't graduate till June. See?'
 Hardly"
 "Why, she's set her heart on herst education. She's learnin' Latin am history and all about the stars. She's got lem all named. Well, itdd break her heart to quit now before June. Elf was to go away the ole man wouldn't keep her in school aal day longer. There's 90 many things to git. Her ma and me has planned to go to Kansas City to buy her fine O dress to graduate in an all that kind if of stuff. Why, Eve got to stay till then, an then"
 "And then?" il
 "Why, then, Pm going with Fore d paugh agin a-drivin' stakes an ay travelin', travelin'." ,.
 "Jim, does she-does Miss Bella know you are doing this for her that ., you are paying her tuition and pro-l. vidipg her expenses?"
 "Why, bless you, no, sir. She thinks the ole man is doin' it."-&. Louise e Republic.