Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-01-11
A Bunch of Letters.
by H.ATTIE WHITNEY.

Copyright. 1901. by Daily story PUB Col
Glen Alder, August 3D.
Dear Jen:-Don't ever ask me to do
a benevolent thing again, for 1 won't
/ wouldn't have done it this time If
you and brother Tom and G. v. hadn't
dragged me into it whether I liked 1t
or not; then l wouldn't be worried IS
l am this minute, by specter in the
distance of red headed sister-in-law
who is regular Nobody from NO
where 1 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
day I met you and you suggested that
1 invite her to go with us on our camp
ing out excursion, because she was
having a bad time of it at home, with
her stepfather.
G. 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 If
she never had any good times it would
be a nice thing to help her have one
for once. l said 1 didn't see how we
could take girl like her; we were all
paired off comfortably, two and two.
she never had an admirer of her own,
as far as l 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. 1 said she was SO awfully
plain, and her folks weren't anybody;
her stepfather was a cranky old ex-
ranchman and hadn't got rich at the
business. either, and her very name
was a freak-Penelope Dusenberry.
Tom said, "Oh, we'll ask her any
way. and I'll keep a friendly eye on
her now and then" And G. V. said,
Yes. ask her. and I'll relieve Tom
occasionally if he finds the job too
much for him."
So 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.
Floretta.
Glen Alder, August 9Th.
Dear Jen:-That 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 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 looking, now that she
is having a good time. laundering
old moth he is; she'll have him in
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 1
asked Zellie just on purpose for Toms
benefit, so they would settle it defin-
ftely, and now here's Tom laundering
into that red-headed minx's web, and
as for Zellie, 1 used to consider her
amiable and artless, If she didn't have
much of a brain in her silly head but
l 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 l had settled it long ago that
he and l were kindred spirits She's
just been fooling Tom and watching
for a chance to snap G. ". 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 a good time
/ 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 performed made a rainbow in the
soul, and reckon it does, but the per-
Torrance of it, or rather the over-per-
Torrance 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
good deed wasn't performed very
cheerfully in the first place.
I'm afraid 1 might have effaced my
rainbow at one time, by mauling G. W,
IL 1 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 didn't
even have to call him out. as it hap
pened. The original scheme was that
g. v. and 1 were to take turns helping
Penelope Dusenberry have a good
ed -sz.-