Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-03-03

don't you remember, Tommy, my tell
ing you that once every six months
or SO l just cry and cry all day long
without anything special being the
the matter-except everything?"
Polly's hand with the big diamond
solitaire went up to her eyes and her
voice trembled. Tom is young man
Of resource. With quick and skillful
treatment the threatened attack was
averted
There, now" he said at length,
"as long as you can't seem to get
your mind off of it, tell me all about
it, Polly, from the very beginning,
and see what that does for you"
"Well," unused Polly, with pathetic
Indifference to what was demanded of
her, 81 suppose it all came about be-
cause my kitten got stubborn this
morning and wouldn't eat its oatmeal
out of my saucer. Perhaps that
wouldn't have mattered if Billy hadn't
laughed and mother smiled a little.
Isn't that enough to make any girl
think the whole world Is against
her? So | shut myself up here, and
then it just developed into one of
those blue days, Tommy, when you
cry and cry and think and think, and
just want to die"
"Why did you go on thinking about
the cat and its feed?" demanded Tom.
81 do think, Polly, that for a sensible
girl, YOU"
81 didn't" said Polly, with just a
! trace of her wonted spirit. Il thought
| about lots worse things-about all the
troubles l ever had in all my life.
! cried quarts of tears over my old rag
doll that Billy hacked up when | was
G years old, and about the party Mol
lie gave when | was and had the
humps. Why, I've cried about that
to-day till my face ached worse than
humps ever made it. Then after I'd
gone over all my sorrows | began to
remember my past joys. That was
worse than ever, because | saw that
nothing nice would ever happen to
me again. l remembered about my
first long dress, and my first silk one,
and boarding school and Mollie and
Jimmie Benham and my first box
party at the theatre"
Say" remarked Tom with interest,
"who's Jimmie Benham?"
Hes just boy knew once" said
Polly swiftly. $50 then | began to
remember future sorrows-things that
would happen. ! mean-and it was
all just as gray as all day has been
l saw myself old and wrinkled and
living with relatives because every
body else was dead and | was an old
maid. l knew it would be with Cou
sin Mary and | just hate her and heI
sister-BeSs is meaner than Mary
and they hate me. | saw, too, that
was going to be-horribly fat, Tom
my. I'd just get fatter and fatter as
/ got old till I'd be a sight. That's
the reason I'll be an old maid, and
you'll have stopped loving me"
, Suffering jeremiah" cried Tom
you've got 'em, haven't you? But
don't you suppose | cast an eye or
, your mother before let myself fall il
love with you, just to get an idea O
what you'd be at As? Anyway forge
IL, anu tell ABOUT IndI Bennam lei
:, low"
A faint CLEAN came into Polly!
! eyes. She Strengthened herself an,
turned on Tom alluringly. Her heaC
was thrown to one side, and he
glance struck him at an angle of Al
degrees. The everlasting feminine in
stinct was reused at last.
81 haven't told you all my old joy
yet. Tommy" she said, with a seduo
tive primness.
So the game was on and Polly
dreadful day was at an end.