Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-02-25
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES: se6s:a6:s:Q0saG!
BY CHARLOTTE sEDGWICK.

1T was Mat Bronson who put the idea
| into our heads-which, indeed,
were ready enough to receive it. I
knew that Mat was cross that after
noon just by the way he slammed his
wheel against the veranda and came
charging up the steps. -,
"See here, Molly was his only
greeting-always having lived next
door, he is not always very ceremo-
nious-'"why don't you girls take this
nonsense out of Mabel Rogers?"
/ asked him, What nonsense?" i
knew well enuogh, but Mat has such
an exasperating way of breaking into
/ subject! -. ,..
Don't be unnecessarily Dense" was
Ill the satisfaction received. II tell
you, Molly, I'm sick of Mabers city
airs and affectations, and so are the
other fellows They're all beginning
to keep shy Of her."
It was wicked of me, but could not
resist.
"And yet" said, when Mr..
Matthew Bronson came home from COL
lege, about two weeks ago, he said it
was refreshing to find one really stun
ming girl in town-a girl with some
style and manner, girl who knew
what was what. And he considered 1t
such a pity that the rest Of the Harwich
girls couldn't visit somebody in New
York, and"
But that was as far as got, for Mat
was fairly snorting something about
it's being just like a girl to remember
everything fellow ever said, and
rake it up after he had changed his
mind.
Then, when he felt a little more com:
Portable, he said he thought it was
somebody's duty to make Mabel "cut
it 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-
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 take
it out of him mighty quick!"
Nell had come up on the veranda
during this grafton, and she asked
Mat, sarcastically, what method he
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. FL - l. SlF
But Matthew only shook his head
and limited darkly that. girls had
ways" he did not know how they did
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 l hurried to ask il
Mabel had been doing anything new
and striking. She was certainly inter.
esting in those days.
Il was over there little while ago.
said Mat, Ito see If she would 60 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" 90.
"Oh," I interrupted, t'did you hear
how she tried to make Timothy wear
livery when he took the horses out
Fancy. it-Old Tim! OF course he
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
wouldn't let her make a fool of Tim
too"
Mat said, Good for him! I didn't
know he had the spirit
Then he told how he asked Mabel tt
60 to the party, and she wanted t.
know II he did not think, that sort OF
thing $50 country" Mat asked hel
what sort of thing, and she said
thinking you must always go to places
with boys. And her aunt preferred bel
to 60 just with one Of the maids.
Then Mat had said things. File told
her that was all right in city, but in
the countl5. where they had been
neighbors add their lives. it was simply
Eiaiculous, Hs finished by telling he,