The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-26
HER ARTIFICIAL LIMB.
BY Maude Lawry,


way?"
Yes I'm boarding UP near your house
now, at Mrs Browns"
THAT so! How do you Nike 1t thereT'
queried jenkins.
20. it is nice place" answered simms.
Adding after a pause: Mrs. Brown has
niece living with her, a cashier down
town, and, by Jove, believe this niece
has an artificial limb. Ny curiosity is all
worked up about it."
"A girl with wooden leg!' exclaimed
Jenkins. well, I think she has infringed
on mans rights A woman has no bust
ness with a wooden leg.'
II did not say she had wooden leg.
1 said an artificial limb" This from
Simms very impressively. II have no idea
what it is made of, but do not think 1t
is flesh and bone"
"Oh! What do you know about It?
When you first spoke l thought there was
something startling" jenkins remarked,
tantalizingly.
Simms did not reply to this, but invited
his friend-ro spend the evening with him,
which invitation was accepted. And
as they entered the house. Jen-
kins caught a glimpse. through the
curtains that separated the hall and
parlor, of a young lady. Rather pref
ty red-headed girl" he thought, as he
followed Simms up stairs.
1t was in answer to a question from
Jenkins that Simms said: You see my
room here is right at the head of the
sairs, and I can't help but hear every
body as they come UP or go down. Well
| noticed that someone seemed to come
up stairs quite laboriously, as though
stepping up with only one foot. AS there
AID or eick In
the house. this excited my curiosity. One
evening l was starting down town, when
heard this person coming up stairs.
opened the door and was surprised to ind
It was Miss Auburn, and by the way, d
very appropriate name, her hair being
| auburn"
Its red" interrupted jenkins.
Her hair is auburn" said Simms COM
| pressing his lips in a way that made Jen-
kins think argument would be useless.
After learning that IT was Miss Au-
burn that came up stairs so slowly" con-
| tinued Simms, Il took advantage OF every
opportunity TO study this young lady, and
find that she has a very peculiar walk,
| and when she sits down she has queer
way Of crossing her feet. But that is not
all One evening when 1 first came over
here-you remember that last freeze-up
we had? Well. it. was about that time.
Little Mabel Brown was teasing Miss Au-
burn to go skating. You need not skate,
DEAR she said; but let me use your
skates Then turning to me she said:
Cousin has the incest pair of skates, but
! she never uses them"
II naturally asked Miss Auburn why
! she did not skate.
40, 1 got my skates several winters
! ago. late in the season. she answered
but the ice all melted before learned
to skate, and since then, have not cared
for it.
II took an opportunity TO ask the la
dies If they danced. Again, Miss Auburn
used to dance, but dances no more. Now,
Jenkins, why don't she dance and why
don't she skate when she used to do
| both? I say, undoubtedly, she has good
reason"
MY dear boy can't say you have I'M
| deniable proof that this young lady has
a wooden leg"
jenkins" said sdmms uneasily; 81
don't like to hear you say wooden leg,
1t sounds too familiar"
"Ah! I see"
you see what?"
Nothing, my dear boy, nothing.
only said did not see that you had I'M
deniable proof for your statement"
Here Jenkins, who was a married man,
| began to explain that women were very
queer and It was useless to try TO under
stand them. As for himself, II would not
surprise him at all, IL his wife should
take notion to come up stairs three
steps at a time or one step at time,
without any reason whatever
Here they heard the swish-swish OF a
woman's dress as she ran lightly up
stairs.
"Bv Jove! cried simms, that sound
ed like her. It's odd, but Mrs. Brown S
skirts never rustic, while Miss Auburn
cannot move without her skirts rustling
like silk That could not have been her
though"
my boy, you are entirely too curious
about this young lady. You remember