The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-04
Mabel O. D: 3 O..
Versus yelsus Mabelle.
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BY CHARLOTTE sEDGw1cK.

i into our which; indeed,
were ready enough to receive it. /
knew that Mat was cEoss that, after
siiqon, just by the way he slammed his
whsA against the veranda and came
ssse here err IN M5'ig,s WAS l lib only
greating-always,. having, lived. next
Adoots' he is not always very ceremo-
inious-"why don't YOU girls take this
nonsense out of Mabel Rogers" "a
asked him, What, nonsensea?',. i
knew well enuogh, but Mat has such
sn=exasperating way efl breaking into
:. Don't be unnecessarily, densein, was;
81 the satisfaction / received. II tell
you,!. Molly, I'm ssick Of. .Mabel's; city
airs and affectations, and so are the
S tesse6 fellows n1, T. ahsy all ssg'anins
g \ Twas wicked of me, but could not
resist. - q
"And yet" said, when Mr..
i Matthew Bronson came home from COL
> iege, about two weeks ago, he said it
to find one really sttln-..
ming girl in town-a girl with some
! style and manner. girl who knew
what was what. ;AndEEhe considered IT
such arity that therest Of the ,Hsrwich
girls couldu' somebody ~ NeM
York, and" ~
But that was as far as got, for Mat
was fairly snorting something about
its being just like a girl to remember
everything q felloW. ever. said. and.
rake it up after he had changed his.
mind.
!: Then, when he felt little more COM
Portable. he said he thought it was
somebo dy's duty to make Mabel "cuti
1t OUT as he expressed it. Her father,
did not care! to, it seemed, and her aunt:
did not dare to- SO he thought it was.
left for us--his sister Nell and me me-
as Mabel's most intimate friends. She
was too fine a girl to be spoiled by
!: such Stiffness. If it were one of the
boys, now, the other boys would i"take
1t out of him mighty quick!"
t Nell had come up on the veranda
during this Grafton, and she asked
Mat, sarcastically, what method he
i: would suggest. Would he advise. us
to put Mabel on the floor and sit on her
until she promised to be nice and
!. natural again? She believed that was
the usual mode of procedure with
boys.
But Matthew only shook his head
and limited darkly that girls had
ways" he did not know how they did
I things, but he knew they did. He could
not tell, for instance, how they had
made Ned Bates stop smoking-but
they had.
Nell gave me funny little look and
said that she guessed Ned could not
/ tell, either, and I hurried to ask if
Mabel had been doing anything new
and striking. She was certainly inter-
esting in those days.
II was over there little while ago."
said Mat, "to see if she would go to
Edith's party with me. That new maid
held me up at the door for a card.
wouldn't let me in without it, either
. and ordered me to walk into the
: 'drawing-room' while she took the card
to Miss Mabelle. Mabel had seen me
from the window. too"
"Oh," interrupted, "did you hear
how she tried to make Timothy wear
livery when he took the horses out?
Fancy told Tim! OF course he
4 wouldn't. and for once Mr.. Rogers in
terfered. He said that he would pay
the extra maid and change his dinner
hour and call her Mabelle, but he
j. wouldn't let her make Ia fool 81 Tim:
I too.'h ~ - q M I'D: Il Il = i
ii Mat said, "Good for him! didn't
!. know he had the spirit" .s g., .,:.,.
d Then he told how he asked Mabel to
Ego to the party, and she wanted to
| know If he did not think that sort of
. thing SO country 9''' Mat asked her
what sort Of thing, and She said.
i thinking You must always go to places
with boys. And her aunt preferred her
Ito go just with one of the maids. e
4 Then Mat had said things. He told
y her that was all right in city, but in
1.-THE country, where they had been
saaretghbpes all their lives. It was simply
ridiculous. He finished by telling her