Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-02
A FELLOWS LOVE.
BY HENRY ". NESFIELD

yards told that the men had not yet
ceased from their labors.
Mary" Mrs. Hall called out pres
emily, as she heard some one moving
about inside the house. lis that you,
dear?"
Yes. mother" replied a tall 1.-the
looking girl as she stepped out through
a French window on TO the veranda.
Poor dear mother. YOU must be quite
knocked up"
Il am tired. darling" admitted Mrs.
Hail. Has Jack come up from the
shed YETI"
NO. not yet" answered the girl;
but supper is quite ready. and he
won't be long now. | expect"
/ do hope that your father will
come home tonight He said he would
he ten days perhaps. II is now n fort
night since he left"
Il wonder whether he will have
managed to get cook" said Mary.
as she sat on the edge of the veranda
at her mothers feet All this cook
ing is quite wearing you out. You
ought not TO have 10 do it,
II shall be ali right after a good
nights rest. and IL only your father
would come back Can you see moth
ing of him. Nary"
No. not a sign" said the girl. "but
here is Jack, sooner than | expected.
Now let us go into supper. and begin"
A stalwart sunburnt youth strobe
up the garden path. and tossing his
cabbage-tree hat upon a chair, threw
himself at full length upon the grass
plat.
Well, Polly" he exclaimed. I'm
just baked, | can tell you, wish the
governor would hurry home. Leav-
ing me all the shearing TO look after
is no catch. All this broling after
noon I've been drafting out strangers.
and working just like niger"
Mothers been working hard, too"
said Mary reproachfully. "And she
doesn't grumble. like you do"
NO. by Jove; but then the matters
an angel" he answered, springing to
his mothers neck. Il bet no angel
ever cooked dinner for seventy men.
with the thermometer at a hundred and
ten in the shade, without a murmur,
Oh, I'm not to be irreverent, mother?
Well, | won't, to please you; but upon
my word it was shame of that brute
Johnson to go off at moments no
tice. just at the very busiest time"
Never mind. Jack" interrupted
Mrs Hall, as she leaned her head back
over the rail on the lounge-chair and
clasped her hands behind her neck.
Don't talk so much, but look out with
your young eyes and see if your father
is not coming in the distance"
''Or, in other words" said Jack.
laughing" Sister Ann, sister Ann.
do you see some one coming?' No.
mother no one-neither Bluebeard nor
the governor. Talking of blue. | won
der what our new Gordon beu will be
like. Drink like fish and swear like
a trooper, suppose, as they all do"
Perhaps father won't have got one
at ALL" observed Mary; land. if so.
l pity you all, for I'm going to try
my hand at cooking. | stood with my
nose close to the meat safe today to
break myself into the smell of raw
meat, which always make me feel more
or less ILL.,"
''Pshaw-you might as well be an
English girl" said Jack scorpfullv
If you were anything like a trump
you'd kill as well as cook-.Jennie
Smith does"
Never mind; we don't want Mary
to be quite such masculine person AS
Jennie" interposed Mrs Hall: which
brought forth rejoinder from Jack
that Miss Smith was no end of a
good fellow" after which he suddenly
remembered that he was hungry. and
added hurriedly-
But I'm ready for supper. if Won
are. I'll just run in and wash off some
Of this dust, and be With you i'm a few
moments" and Mr.. Jack swung him
self through the veranda and disap-
peared within the house.