Arizona republican., 1904-12-25

Sight or onseen, come in ef you nose is clean. ehirruped thin voice.
 Byron Theodore Lonsberry grinned, jerked his red handkerchief from his trousers pocket. Blew his nose vigor- ousIy and entered his grandmother s room.
 "It's only me, granny he said. rather sheepishly, shifting his suspenders into place. "Ain't any use whatsumever tellin' who it is, Byron Theodore. They ain't anybody else in the fambly as knocks like they was hopin' to break the door in. l reckon you don't know how stout you are. What a monstrous big fellow you're gittin' to be. Elf you keep on you'll oultgrow all your uncles."
 I'm a plum man, ain't I, granny" tte great boy asked, surveying his long legs and large feet clad in heavy boots. Law me, yes, in size. You're big enough to be out in the field doin' a mans work. What do you want, honey? Why ain't you out plowin'?"
 T come in while the folks is out to have a talk with you, granny. Pas down in the far field, an mas lOOkin' over garden seed in the smoke house. I sent the children down to the crick sos we could talk. You see, granny. er-I want to git married"
 Grandmother Beck cougEed violently then said with pretended indifference:
 Well, that ain't so surprisin'- Most folks, if they're sensible. wants to git married some time in their lives"
 But I want to git married right away"
 "Ner that ain't surprisin'. Young folks is mostly in a hurry to git into somethin' they don't know nothin' bout
 Byron Theodore's face flushed.
 i've been thinkin' bout it for long time, an so's she.''
 "'She? Lizy Ann Perkins, I reckon" :" You know better. granny
 But your ma and pa warlt you to marry Lizy Ann, when you do marry. I reckon they ain't countin' on you marvin fer some time to come. LiZy Ann's a good worker an a good man. ager. I reckon they adn't a girl in this rart O the country as done as well with chickens as she did las year."
 "Chickens!" Byron Theodore grunted disda:nfully.
 "Yes, chickens. An they's money in 'em, too. Folks says they'll be some propputty for Lizy Ann, an it won't be SO onhandy fer you an her as you think"
 Ter me an her? No not fer me an 1er. I can't see, granny, how she'll ever git any propputy. Her pas only got forty acres O land, and they's seven children. Hmi Propputty!"
 Well, they'll be enough for piece toUt the size of a town lot for each child Byron Theodore. Hitd make 'nough ground fer a chicken yard, am it'd oe well enough to own ones chick en yard, wouldn't it2"
 She leaned over for a handful of car- pet rags to hide smile.
 Not with Lizy Ann throwed in," he answered savagely.
 wy, honey they ain't a religiouseI girl in this section"
 Nor a longer faced one granny"
 "Oh, well hit takes some folks that way. Religion makes some folks faces ong, an some it makes wide out. The wide out kind suits me best; but fer al that Lizy Ann Perkins is a good girl Byron Theodore"
 "Aw. what's the use of lookin' Like you're to a funeral all the time. I won never marry Lizy Ann, never. I thought you'd help me, granny. DrGe it any, how"
 He thrust his hands deep in his pock. cts and sighed. His grandmother re garded him thoughtfuIly.
 T ain't said l wouldn't help you honey. Lemme tell you somethin' Las Sunday when we come out of the meet ln'house Lizy Ann was walkin' jes ahead, her an another girl, an'--"
 Was it Libby Steele, granny"
 "They's other girls beside Libby. ain they, Byron Theodore? As I was a sayin', when you bothered me, Liz! Ann an another girl was walkin' jes ahead of me, an' when Liz. Ann come to the door an looked Ou sae says, so doleful it alnos' moved m te tears. oh, I jest know hitdl cloul up and be rainin by tomorry. Oh dtar,' And the other girl says, wit her eyes a. -danoin' and her lips a-smil
 Then it was Libby granny; l kno7 1t was" Byron Theodore said eagerly.
 An what if it was? Ain't the