The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-07-03
H1s HAIR WAS HDER POINT.


ON her as q champiauty. didn't
lose FIVE minutes tislling my feel
ings Of adulation sdmiration, but
the most she woul, was that she
would ride down himy hand sled,
borrow my geograI preference to
any other and allovto sharpen her
slate pencil and ickooys who snow
balled her after sch Thus we loved
and loved, or at leasd. There came
D time when i could: back and see
where Melvina was calculating and
level headeds-wherr love stopped
dead short and bus began, but !
was blind then.
A year passed by b a rival entered
the field. We had outs. There were
occasions when weie up faces at
each other across thsbolroom; when
she turned from me let another boy
wash her state; wheias glad that she
left of at the foot o, spelling class;
when ! added up Q d on the black
board and made 10, she giggled and
was rejoiced. On whole, however,
we were happy. led IA different
boys for her direchefit that year,
and her pen cent geography was
the highest Of any in the school.
We were enkaged-s is, had asked
Melvina about half dion times II she
would have me, aud had always re-
piled that she guessihe would II the
hogs didn't get in sroot up the gar
den or some other avcalamity occur.
My rival was q CIV youth named
Sam Greene. SomeK warned me OF
peril the minute seSes on him, but
an hour later. when Ard.that he could
write poetry, realizshat it would be
fight to the death. N went straight
to work to unhorse NAT the forenoon
recess he presented elvina jackson
with lead pencil anGlate sponge, and
she smiled sweetly a. accepted them
wrote her . note nat to annihilatt
her. but she read 1t " her mouth full
Of apple and didn't so worth cent
Long enough before IN had deter
mined to lick Sam Gne. A licked bo,
goes right out Of the al business ant
doesn't bother any re. II Melvin'
had melted q little 4 assured me o
her fealty, ! might We changed m.
mind, but she didnmelt. She ever
went so far as to whir to a girl VIII
would whisper 1t to rthat Sam Green
had dreamy eyes andaose like Cicero
After that my resolun was unshaka
bla
My callow rival hao be provoked bt
fore no would fight. ! when we got q
II he proved to be q rling Antagonist
For . leng time victo wavered in tn
balance, and then I ON by scratch
His hair wes bis tend point, and whe
! got hold with bothands be gave II
Fov-s week Mslvin.plaoed me on
pedestal and slucstgreed to elop'
Then Sam 0reepe ct her Q piece
poetry entitled 'srhs1aidens Heart
and lost my grip aga. The only Thin
TO be dope was to hchim again, bat
had had his hair shgled In the meal
lime, and the conflictid not terminal
10 my satisfaction. ONE OF the DO,
taid I "hollered," si others said
licked, and II was an pen question as
who won. He wen right home al
wrote another piece poetry ennti'
she Died ct Sunset, and lshould ha'
becn goner but for rovidence. Nv
hanging around Mr.. ackson's house
the evening. hoping tst least see M'
vins's shadow q ths kitchen winao
curtain, when I dicovered that :
trnokehouse was ON lre. horoica'
puenched tho flames, burned my :
heel and saved seven ,ama from an
glorious fate That 1as pofe than
Offset for ''She Died u shnssk 90
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