The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
Our Daily Sport Story

"Yes. yes. Run along." Remember events? If she had not been afflicted with that bump of eventuality she would long ago have been a busy wife and mother instead of a weary hearted old maid. No wonder she was inter- ested in getting Henry stuthers mar ried. As long as she remained sim gle how could she hope to forget the chain of events that had come so near to binding them together for life. or that other event that had come like a cold chisel to cut the chain? If she |could have forgotten-but she could not forget And now he was home again on the old farm that was half his from his mother, and half hers from her father. Home again after a dozen years of travel, with his bump of stubbornness bigger than ever. Reading and sleeping in the hammock just as he used to do when he was a boy-a dear hard-headed boy; calling her Molly. and guying her just as he used to do before the dancing brook of their boy and girl friendship broke through into deeper waters. We'll, but that was over and done with. So done with, she had found it almost easy to comment upon his single state. pointing out that if he intended to marry he should not postpone 1t much longer. Mary. at fresh fifteen. had seemed to her exactly what would take the eye of mature thirty-five. And Stothers had laughed at her. Very much as she had laughed once when he proposed to use perch hooks for trout We'll! But. of course, he must marry. And surely Mary was much more attractive than that-that Sarah Saunders. Why, she had been a grown girl when they were children. But it was no use talking to him. He would do whatever he took into his head to do, and"
 ''Auntie. MT. Stothers says won't your dreams wait until after dessert?" Not by million. You never | dream. Why. you weren't dreaming l the time you sat up in the apple tree until the wind blew you out" F ssAuntie. did that ever. happen. to your s
 ''oh. yes; vixen I was quite a small child. About twenty years ago." "Twenty-Oh, MT. Stothers. you must have as good memory for events as Aunt Molly has,"
 Your Aunt Molly has no memory for events. little girl" why, yes she has. look what a bump of eventuality she has-at least you have to feel for it-but 1t Is right
  and. besides, she remembers every | thing"
 "EverythingT
 Everything that has happened to her, I mean"
 "Oh, no, she doesn't little lady. Why, she can forget ten things where cannot forget one. If that bump on her brow meant eventuality, there would be a regular rhinocerus horn in the middle of my forehead" But Spurzheim says that is what 1t means and she says" Some people will tell you that Spurzheim was a fraud" "I know. But he wasn't. Because | he says that bump on top of his head means firmness. and you have@' | She stopped confused and ~Stothers covered her confusion with half-ab- | sent kindness.
 50 Spurzheim has passed Judgment | on my head as well as on Aunt Mol ly's? Thus far I admit his meas
 urenaents. Prithee pupil of that
 prince of phrenologists. what other bumps have you placed to my credit?'' Mary saw her opening. Mir. | Stothers. did you ever see a ghost?'' And Stothers. also saw an opening one that he had been seeking through many lonely years.
 Then you have seen one?' Almost every night for twelve years"
 Didn't I tell you, Aunt Molly7 | Right above the forehead. Oh, please MT. Stothers, Is 1t always the same ghost?"
 Always the same. A young girl in a white dress. She comes down a moonbeam tearing red rose to pieces. Always tearing 1t to pieces" why, auntie."
 "It is too close in here for you,