The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-08-14
SAVED BY A Fly.
And the Other Girl Thought They Were
of Some Use After All.


And the Other Girl Thought They We're
of Some Use After All.
They woro as trim Il team of wheel
girlies as the streets of Buffalo have
seen this summer One of them, who
had been younger, wore snuff colored
boomers, spectacles and n bicycle face,
which said to the gazing passcrby:
"Oh, look if You like and be hanged.
I've got as good right to wear 'em as
anybody, there now" That's tho way
she looked when some ono stared at her
from passing carriage. When she
WASN'T conscious of being looked ut she
just studied the road and looked anxious.
Her COMPANION was younger and more
pink and white and peachy. She wore
tan leggings and Il blue skirt and Il pink
and white waist with big sleeves for tho
wind to push on. They leaned their
wheels up against the curb, over on the
Front, Iand stopped to rest.
OH dear, tho horrid flies!' said the
severe one.
Eyes, they're nasty things" giggled
the pretty one, can amt they just aw-
full thick! But do you know I think
fviey re nice.
II "Nicc!" The oldor one fairly soueal-
ed.
j well, you SEQ, said the jolly one,
they bring luck anyway. Last night
George an L were riding, an when we
got round here Oh the Front got fly
i'll my eye or thought I did,
Gone of those big soft Canada flies?''
"No, you goose, OF course not 1t was
n little fly that you couldn't sec, but
rubbed it an told George that 1 just
couldn't go on, an he asked if it hurt.
an said yes, some, mi ho said ho was
SO sorry, an shouldn't he try to get it
for me, an thought no might help it
some"-
'Well go on. Did hc?"
Miss Pink and White hesitated
well, you see, if there was Il fly, I
suppose got it out myself, but 1
Thought George needed encouragement,
SO l said L did wish he would trv-an
wo stood our wheels up against tho
curb, an he took out his silk handker-
chief an-an you'd have died to SEQ how
shy he was about touching my face, but
bimeby he took hold of my chin an
turned my face up to the light, an he
tried an tried, but he couldn't find no
fly i'll my eye, an so cried just Il little,
as one naturally would, am
You huzzy," said tho older girl Sc
verely, land you stood here and let him
paw away at your face before everybody
that was passing!'
"Huzzy nOthing" was the smart re-
tort. Wasn't it all right? I couldn't
rldo with fly in my eye, an George
we'll, thought he needed encourage
ment an would like to try, an it
wouldn't hurt me- y An after
awhile, when he'd got pretty nervous,
and, oh, so red in the face, I said, ooh.
there, it's gone! 1t feels ever so much
better, an thank you ever so much for
being so gentlcr An l guess that fetch
ed him, for he didn't say ten words till
he got me home, an then he said, Miss
Mamie, I've got something very impor-
tant to say to you-an-an-he up an
proposed, right on the veratlal An wo
must hurry homo now, for he'll DO thore
again tonight, sure rs preaching"
The older girl sighed, hut said not n
word. They mountNd their wheels and
pedaled along up tYNs drivo i'll silence.
Presently tho little one said:
We'll, amt You got nothing to say?
Amt mad, are you:"
mo, dear, not q bit. I'm awfully
glad for your sake. I was just wonder
ing If L Couldn't mean do you know
how long fiytimc LASTS" -Butralo Ex-
press.