The sun., 1900-11-14
Icopyrlght. 1loo. " {. d. LewIs.l

needn't beat around the bush at all.
but tell her right out. She'll rather be
expectin the news. She was over here
this afternoon, and she said | was liza
BILE to git my summons at any time.
I've got II all arranged with her about
the funeral"
Mr. Gallup did not look around. With
calm deliberation he spat on the whet-
stone, and with calm dcliberation he
drew it back and forth across the
blade.
Yes, Samuel. my time has come"
sobbed Mrs Gallup after waiting
reasonable time for him 10 speak. "A
few hours hence ana you will be a
widowcr and few days hence you
will he wearing red nccktie and can
term around after Il second wife. When
you started over town. | was as happy
as lark and hadn't the slightest idea
of dyin. Ton minutes later when
went to carry the butter down cellar
there came seven knocks on that emp
ty cider bar'l, and rs ! stood there
shakin heard q whispered voice say
in, IIanupr Gallup, cit ready to he an
angel" Il was my summons, and I've
got 70 80. Noh0lv kin hnll hacl, ag'iu
4 summons. What Kind Of second
Wife shall yon marry, Samrcl:'
Nir. Gallup had paused III hs lahors
and WAS laolins absently At robin in
ch"rry trne.
You needn't feel at all delil.it about
talkln il over With mo-" said Mrs. Gal
lup rs she fahhcd at her eyes with the
apron. ave allus s'pccted you'd git
married agin if should die. and
shan't howl ANA sq1eal about it. Mrs
Behcc says if her husband marlcs
\ ag'in she'll haunt him, but you needn't
/ be afraid of me. I'd lmthcr YOU mar
ried ag'in. If you didn't, you'd be goin
to circuses and dogfghts and candy
| pulls ana become as wicked as Silas
Johnson. S'pose you've kinder had
your eye out. hev'n't you. Samuel
that is, you've kinder made up your
you'd marryF
Mr.. Gallup withdrew his gaze from
the robin and returned 10 his work Of
sharpening the sickle, ana Mrs. Gal.
lup's nose had grown very red with tic
pulling when she eontnued
There's the Widder Lapham, sam,
ucl. ana everybody says shes wuh
81 900. but wouldn't want YOU to mar
ry her. Shes too hty tity for man
of your age. While she WAS swingir
in hammock she'd let The bread bur,
up in the oven. She'd want you to 70
oil to picnic every day in tie year
and if you had any soft soap in th,
house you'd hey to hug II. Ana there
the Wilder Davis. She, q good hoTsr
Keeper. Samuel. rs Ill admit. but The!
say she gits StrcHks on one day shp'i
be laualin ana giggln all day long, an,
the next 'laY shell he rs sully rs
) mule. She kin make Il pound Of II;
go rs fur rs ! kin. but she told IN
with her own mouth that she had fou
pairs Of stocSin's last ycar Could yul
Dut up Witt sch extravaganza rs that
samuel? wouldn't you he thinkin o
how alus got along on two pairs
year,"
Mr.. Gallup whistlcd softly to himscl
as he felt of the edge of the sickle vii
g his thumb. The whistle conveyed n
- direct information, but was a whist
/ In the abstract. Mrs. Gallup looked Il
the back of his neck for moment an
worked up and choked back a sob an
then said:
'There's Phnbe Cousins. whom rv
erybody likes, but she's an old mai
j. and sot in her ways. She never barl
e bites nor gifts mad. but she wants ~
nrvthing jest so. If you come into II
""d throwed your hat down d
the floor or pulled your boots off in II
narlor in the evenin. she'd raise RI