The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-11
THE ADVERTISERS
 DAILY SHORT STORY
Glen Alder. August ad.

Glen Alder. August Sd. 1 Dear Jen-Dont ever ask me to do a benevolent thing again, for I won't. wouldn't have done it this time if you and your brother Tom and c. V. hadn't dragged me into 1t whether I liked 1t or not; then I wouldn't be worried as I am | this minute, by a specter in the distance | of red headed sister-in-law who Is a
 regular Nobody. from Nowhere didn't care to make her acquaintance in the f1rst place. when you wanted me to take her up, and said she was nice girl, but didn't have good time. and I wouldnt t
 that don't have good time. and detest people don't dislike. I suspected she be plain and stick before I saw her. and found her plainer and stickier than than saucepan, and what has got into Tom-of course It's her scheming My wretched mistake came about that day l met you and you suggested that I in- vite her to go with us on our camping
 out excursion. because she was having a bad time of 1t at home, with her step- father.
 G. V. dropped in that evening and took what you had said, and he and Tom were just daffy enough to fall right in
 with the plan. They said if she had any good times 1t would be 2 nice thing to help her have one for once. l said I
 didn't see how we could take a girl like her; we were all paired off comfortably, two and two, and she would be the odd one and make a bother, unless we asked another man, and l didn't know who 1t would be; she never had an admirer of her own, as far as I knew; she would
 just have to tag around after Uncle John and Aunt Alice, who were to chape-
 she any admirers. I said she was so awfully plain, and her folks weren't any body; her stepfather was cranky old
 ex-ranchman and hadn't got rich at the hHrU f1A Atf hAa rara
 a freak-Penelope Dusenberry.
 Ton said. "Oh. well, ask her anyway,
 and I'll keep. friendly eye on her now
 and then" And G. V. said, Yes. ask if he finds the job too much for him.
 So I couldn't get out of it, and there
 we are. But she wouldn't have gone
 half an inch of the way, if I had had as much sense as a red ant I'll tell you why In my next letter.
 Disgustedly yours;
 Glen Alder, August 9th. Dear Jen-That Dusenberry girl of yours Is repaying my kindness by getting around poor Tom as fast as she knows how-siy red-headed thing; and always | so excruciatingly amiable to me. and so | grateful to me for giving her this little bit of fresh air and streak of sunshine | gush! Tom says she Is not so bad look ing. now that she is having a good time, | blundering old moth he is; she'll have him
 In a wink. I'm disappointed in every body-yes. everybody. The country air
 or something else has turned the whole | set into driveling idiots. Here were Tom | and Zellie Waters as good as engaged | before they came here. and l asked Zel-
 lie just on purpose for Toms benefit, so | thev would settle 1t definitely, and now
 here's Tom blunderlng into that red
 headed minx's web, and as for Zellie. l
 used to consider her amiable and artless, | If she didn't have much of a brain in her | silly head, but I believe now, she's as
 deep and willy as an old sea serpent, and
 has had her eye on G. V. all the time, although she knew I had settled 1t long
 ago that he and I were kindred spirits.
 She's just been fooling Tom and watch | ing for a chance to snap G. V. up. and l Tom. like the evaporation old mole he | is, is letting her spin her webs while he goes around trying to make that Dusen- | berry fright have a good time.
 I wish there weren't any men.
 | Flo. Glen Alder. August 14th.
 Old Chum-How goes the camping, say you? Slap-up. I've heard that duty per l formed made a rainbow in the soul and
 l reckon it does. but the performance of
 1t, or rather the over-nerformance of it | like to have got me into an elegant mess for a little while Flo has repented of her good deed forty times minute
 but then Flo's good deed wasn't perform | ed very cheerfuly in the first place.
 1 I'm afraid I might have effaced my 1 rainbow at one time. by mauling G. ",
 If I hadn't reflected that that wasn't
 the most approved manner of settling a
 rival in these days. and besides l might
 get licked, myself. But l didn't even | have to call him out, as 1t happened
 The original scheme was that G: V. and | I were to take turns helping Penelope | Dusenberrv have a good time; and the | little girl isn't bad company. at all 1T sh6 | Ia freckled; she can say more original | things with less talk than any girl know; so l put in my best Ticks for hel
 rnursdav,s story, THE DELIVERING