The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-10-01
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C HE'S q pretty little thing.s But
sss yo1 know / always faneieA girl
rho had plenty courage (Which don't
think she has), and who went in for
&thletics. Thengshe can't sing or play
0ugh she likes music. So. all things
npnsidered. guess I'll remain true to
sp1ne of my Detroit girls. y.
sssss However, the fair sadie and#ds aFN
wing boating on the so-called river, this
evening. It's about the only diversion
tside Of buggy riding over bad roads
three dollars an hour ESQ don't drive
sil1ch) !. 10 can 'tssay I'm stuck on Kan
lbs Gty-too Wild and woolly for me.
Eli tell you more about her in my next.
Write soon. Yours, as ever
s MART 8. WILBUR.
Mr.. Mari Wilbur sealed the letter.
10 Nas The s1osin1 paz-
agraph-and went to keep HIS APPOINT
ment.
A. dashing young fellow he was truly.
He had left Detroit and q gay society
crowd j. few weeks. before and had
come out to Kansas City. This was in
the spring Of 1881, and perhaps Kansas
City at that time did deserve the rather
severe criticism he had passed on it.
Not knowing anyone there he had found
1t rather dull, and rough, and he was
just . little homesick.
And then one evening he had been
introduced to- Miss, Sadie johnson as
he was walking home with one Of his
fellow clerks, Mr.. Mead, who had left
them q few minutes later and turned
OF on another street. Mr.. Wilbur had,
however, walked out home with Miss
johnson, and secured permission to call.
She had found him rather different from:
the other young men she had met. More
Of q polish. and better talker-and GER.
tainly very good looking. "Awfully
sconceited, though. !" she confided to her
chum, Ella Terry. sind DON'T believe
he'd do to be with ID time Of danger.
He's what we'd call u eastern dude :.
out In Kansas But he.ll do for q sum-.
.mer Irritation" M: Wilbur had called
later. and passed very pleasant even
ing. and made the present engagement.
Sadie was waiting for him on the.
porch IS he strolled up the walk. She
was 4 pretty little thing, as he had said
lin his letter. Big blue eyes, wayy brown
hair. and dainty. petite figure. I'M b
few minutes they left the house, and.
boarding one Of the old fashioned, rick
sety mule cars. rode to the river bank
ON the Bottoms" behind the Stock
yards Exchange. where Mart engaged
a boat from the old boatman, and helped
Sadie to her seat in the stern.
(Which way shall we go; up the
river Qr. down." he asked, as he tossed
on his coat and took up the oars.
IF we go up the river we can go clear
to Argentine. II we go down we will
only go quarter of = mile, till we strike
the Missouri, and it's dangerous an
swered Sadie, adding to herself: ST
don't believe want to trust myself on
the Missouri with YOU -
I. Wilbur smiled q little. Brought up as
he had been on the great lakes and the
mighty 0OGIOAS A1vO1s nS u0O . supreme
coal To- tn :ssiirsy lit s,aIkk 81
called the Kaw. and for the big muddy
river into which it flowed. But as he
Intended to while awaysaylargef part of
the evening in = pleasant Irritation with
mis- pretty compsnion shs was not par
ticulargas. to Whistler he: had i Schance
to show his seamanship or not. So he
pulled leisurely mp the stream. and in
Z little while they were floating under
the shadow Of the big hill that lies be-
tween the stockyards and Argentine.
on the Kaw river. They had been talk
ing ON various subjects. and he now
decided II was time for . little lovemak-
ing. Not that he was in love with her.
but he made love to every girl he met.
and this was his first Opportunity since
coming west.
did you ever try to row." he asked.
as he dropped his oars and leaned for
ward. Sadie said she had not, and he
offered to teach her This he did BY
having her come and sit on the same
seat with him. and 1t was the most nat
aral thing In the world for him to slip
his arm about her waist when he helped |
ar to 1it down beside hin: - a, Of