The Florence daily tribune., 1902-02-10
A Bunch Of Letters.
BY HATTIE WHITNEY.


Copyright, 1901. by Daily Story Pub. Coz
Glen Alder. August Sd.
Dear Jen:-Don't ever ask me to do
a benevolent thing again, for | won't.
l wouldn't have done 1t this time II
you and brother Tom and G. V. hadn't
dragged me into 1t whether l liked 1t
or not; then | wouldn't be worried as
l am this minute. by specter in the
distance of red headed sister-in-lsw
who is regular Nobody from No
where. | didn't care to make her ac-
quaintance in the first place. when you
wanted me to take her up.
My wretched mistake came about that
My wretched mistake came about that
day met you and you suggested that
invite her to go with us on our camp
ing out excursion. because she was
having bad time of 1t at home, with
her stepfather.
u. V. dropped In that evening and
took tea with us. and foolishly men
toned what you had said, and he and
Tom were Just daffy enough to fall
right in with the plan. They said II
she never had any good times 1t would
be nice thing to help her have one
Tor once. ! said didn't see how we
could take a girl like her we were all
paired of comfortably. two and two.
she never had an admirer of her own,
as far as | knew; she would just have
to tag around after Uncle John and
Aunt Alice. who were to chaperone our
party. G. V. said why hadn't she any
admirers. | said she was so awfully
plain, and her folks weren't anybody:
her stepfather We cranky old ex-
ranchman and got rich at the
business, either, her very name
was freak-Penelope Dusenberry.
Tom said. "Ob. we'll. ask her any
way, and I'll keep friendly eye on
her now and then" And G. v. said.
Yes, ask her. and I'll relieve Tom
occasionally II he finds the job too
much for him.
So | couldn't get out of 1t, and there
we are. But she wouldn't have gone
half an inch OF the way II I had had
as much sense as red ant. I'll tell
you why in my next letter.
Disgustedly yours,
Floretta.
Glen Alder, August 9Th.
Dear Jen:-Thst Dusenberry girl OF
yours is repaying my kindness by get
ting around poor Tom as fast as she
knows how-sly red-headed thing; and
always SO excruciatingly amisble to
me, and SO grateful to mo for giving
her this little bit OF fresh air and
streak of sunshine-gushl Tom says
she is not SO bad looking, now that she
is having good time, blundsring
old moth he is; she'll have him In a
wink. I'm disappointed in everybody
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 en-
gagged before they came here, and |
asked Zellie Just on purpose for Toms
benefit. so they would settle II denn-
itely. and now here's Tom blundering
into that red-beaded minx's web, and
as for Zellie, | used to consider her
amiable and artless, IL she didn't have
much OF a brain in her silly head, but
| 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 | had settled 1t long ago that
he and | were kindred spirits. She's
Just been fooling Tom and watching
for chance to snap G. V. up, and
Tom, like the exasperating old mole he
is. is letting her spin her webs while
he goes around trying to make that
Dusenberry fright have = good time
wish there weren't any men.
Flo.
Glen Alder, August 14th.
Old Chum:-How goes the camping,
say yeu? Slap-up. rye heard that
duty performed made rainbow in the
soul, and | reckon it does, but the per-
formance OF It, or rather the over-per-
formance OF 1t like to have got me
into an elegant mess for little while.
Flo has repented OF her good deed
forty times a minute. but then Flo's