The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-08-29
SAVED BY A FLY.
And the Other Girl Thought They Were
of Some Use After All.

And the Other Girl Thought They Were
of Some Use After All.
They were as trim team of wheel
g1rlles as the streets of Buffalo have
seen this summer. One of them, who
had been younger, wore snuff colored
boomers, spectacles and bicycle face,
which said to the gazing passerby !:
"Oh, look if you like and be hanged.
I've got as good right to wear 'em as
anybody, there now" That s the way
she looked when some one stared at her
from passing carriage. When she
wasn't conscious of being looked at she
just studied the road and looked anxious.
Her companion was younger and more
pink and white and peachy. She wore
tan leggings and blue skirt and pink
and White waist with big sleeves for the
wind to push on. They leaned their
wheels up against the curb, over on the
Front, and stopped to rest.
'Oh, dear, tile horrid fies!' said the
severe one.
eyes, they're nasty things" giggled
the pretty one, IAN amt they just aw-
full thick! But do you know I think
they're NICE"
"Nice!'' The older one fairly squeal-
ed.
well, you see," said the jolly one,
"they bring luck anyway. Last night
George an I were riding, an when we
got round here on the Front got fly
in my eye or thought did,
f1r,n ~ L. l. 0ss
mo, you goose, of course not 1t was
a little fly that you couldn't see, but I
rubbed it an told George that I just
couldn't go on, an he asked if it hurt,
an said yes, some, an he said he was
SO sorry, an shouldn't he try to get it
for me, an I thought he might help it
some"-
"Well, go on. Did he?''
Miss Pink and White hesitated
"Well, you see, if there was fly,
suppose got it out myself, but ]
thought George needed encouragement,
so I said did wish be would try-an
we stood Cur wheels up against the
curb, an he took out his silk handker-
chief an-an you'd have died to see 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 nc
fly in my eye, an SO cried just little,
as one naturally would, am
"You huzzy," said the older girl Sc.
verely, "and 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' 4
ride with fly in my eye, an George
well, I thought he needed encourage.
ment an would like to try, an il
wouldn't hurt me. An after
awhile, when he'd got pretty nervous
and, oh, SO red in the face, I said, oh
there, it's gone! It feels ever so much
better, an thank you ever SO much for
being SO gentle!' An I guess that fetch
ed him, for he didn't say ten words til
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 al
proposed, right on the veranda! An W.
must hurry home now, for he'll be Their,
again tonight, sure as preaching"
The older girl sighed, but said not {
word. They mounted their wheels ant
pedaled along up the drive in silence
Presently the little one said:
"Well, amt you got nothing to say
Ain't mad, are you?"
mo, dear, not a bit I'm awfully
glad for your sake was just wonder
ing if couldn tt mean do you know
how long f1ytime ?''-Buffalo Elk
press.