Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-21

but she thought l felt big and
naughty. but good land! how mistook
she wuz if she thought SO. l felt a.
small as l stood there that very min.
ute, a. one drop OF milk in the hull
milky way.
But when my senses got kinder
collected together, and my emotions
got 9uelled down . little, l passed the
usual compliments with Miss Plank
"How de do?" and so forth.
And she proposed that We should
go round little together -she said
that she had been here So many times,
that she felt she could offer herself a.
our "Sissy Roney."
She looked at Josiah and she spoke
kinder koketish, and l though to nv
self, "You are q actin pretty kitten
i.h for a woman Of your .ee.",
"Siss,!" Sec l to myself, "The time
for you to bs called sissy rightfulIy
lays fur back in tho psst-ss much a.
fifty years hack. anyway" As for
the 'Roney,' I didn't know what she
did mean, but spozed it WIZ some
sort Of pet name that had been gin
her far away in that distant past.
And spozed she had hrung it up
to kinder attract Josiah Allen; but,
good land! il his morals hadn't been
like iron for solidity, I knew that for
her to try to f1irt wuz like old hen to
try to bite; they don't have no teeth,
hens done. even when they are young.
ard they won't be likely to have any
when they are Fifty or sixty years old.
So l looked on with composure. and
didn't take no notice of her f1irtacious
ways. and consented to hi. proposition,
and Josiah did too. Tha, man hadn',
been riz up by his emotions as had,
by the majesty and glory of the scene
no. he felt pretty clipper; and Mis-.
Plank, after .he ouieted down little,
and ceased talkin' about her eirlish
days. she could tliok of pancakes.
even in that rapt hour; for she mem
toned. when I spoke of how high the
wat"rs Of the fountain ,iz up. "Yes,
SEE She
"Speakin' Of risin', I LETT some pam
cakes risin' before l left home";
and she wondered il the cook would
tend to 'em.
Pancakes! in such time as this.
And then Josiah proposed to 90
and see the live stock, and Mis-. Plark
said dreamily that she would like t"
go to a certain restaurant al the fur
Ind of the grounds to see the cookin'
OF . certain chef; she had heard il
went ahead OF anything i" America.
"Cher'-I didn't want TO act green,
but did wonder what .'chef wuz
| thought mebby it wuz chaff she
meant, and spr zed tn had got mp
some new way to cook chaff.
would liked to seen it and tasted
Of it. but Duty hagoned to me. and
followed her b indy. end sez, as
planted my foot firmly down on the
ground, seq l.
/ "Here l take my stand; don't
often stand out and try to have my
way
Here Josiah gin a deep groan out
to one side, but he had no need to-
spoke truth, or pretty near the truth,
anyway.
"S-z I, "tIere l take my standw
and I hrung down my good cotton
umbrell s9in firmly, as if to puncta'e
my remarks, ard add weight to it, ard
| wuz so earnest that before | knew
it fell into q fervid elokence-
catched from my old revolutionary 4
fathers, l spoze-and. seq l.
~ care not what course others may
take"
'Bu'," seq Miss Plank, 1--WE will
hang together in such crowd as this"
"Yes," seq Josiah; "you mustn't 20
wanderin' eff Ky yourself, SAMANTHA;
il hain't safe"
l wuz brung down some. but I KEEP
on with considsrab BILE e!okence, though
it wuz kinder drizzlin' away onbe-
know" to me, such is the power Of
environment.
Seq I, ~ care not what course