The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-12-06
HAVING A
GOOD CRY
By DONALD ALLEN
By DONALD ALLEN
Copyright, 1908. by Ruby Douglas

10 VISIT ner aunt IN ner country nome,
| and for week she had been supremely
| happy. There were chickens and ducks
and geese, there were guinea hens and
| doves and rabbits, there were innocent
lambklna and frolicking calves, and she
had tried to milk COW, fallen of q
fence and churned two pounds Of but
ter. But for Arthur Tyson this dream
! Of bliss might have continued another
week, and pretty Viola might have
/ climbed to the roof of the wagon shed,
sold paper rags to a tin peddler and
gone blackberrying down in the mead
ow as a continuance of her romantic
adventures.
Arthur Tyson had not only fallen In
love with her. but he was intending to
ask for her hand. He hadn't published
his intentions in any Of the journals
or told the country postmistress what
was in his mind, but Miss Viola had a
line on him. You can't fool n girl about
such things. The man who Is courting
her may talk about the joys OF bache-
| lor life and pretend 80 be q cynic on
affairs OF sentiment, but she can read
| him like a book. When Arthur had
| said that he would arrive at Violas
aunt's on the 14th-running down in
his auto in the forenoon and running
back to the city again in the evening
there was look in his eyes that raid
there would be something doing.
The 18th came and then things be-
gan to happen. A letter arrived from
Arthur to say that his grandmother
wanted him TO hurry to her dying bed
side; big bumblebee came droning
along even as Viola was reading the
letter while seated on the veranda. and
stung her OF the bare arm; windmill
man called on business and tried to
fiirt with her; she was chased out of
the barnyard by calf and chased
back again by turkey gobbler; the
| dog got hold of her cute summer hat
and chewed 1t UP, and she fell down
cellar while going after preserves and
landed on top of the family cat.
Several other. vexatious things oc-
Cured between the morning of the
18th and noon of the next day, and an
hour after dinner Miss Viola made up
| uGT uluu W udfc a SOOu CIy. IL sue
cried In the house her aunt, who wns
sharp eyed old lady would see her
tears and ask questions: IL she went
to the barn to cry among the cackling
hens and new mown hay, the hired
man would come stumbling in; if she
hid away behind the grape arbor or
the currant bushes, there were bugs to
| crawl down her back as soon as she
was Off her guard.
Down across the meadow and half
mile from the house there was a small
grove and the dlsconsolate girl finally
| made up her mind that her tears of
sorrow should be shed around the roots
Of those trees Her manner of dodging
her aunt and getting out of the house
and down to the grove would have
been called "making sneak" by some.
but n pretty girl who is looking for
| crying place should not be judged too
harshly..
She found the grove capital place
for her business There were shade
and quietness and the whispering of
the summer breeze through the leaves,
| and Miss Viola went at 1t and let the
tears fall, her chin Quiver and her sobs
| frighten away the lone chickadee that
was taking daytime nap on branch
above her head.
Mr.. Tyson hastened to the bedside
of his dying grandmother, thinking that
IL would be whole week before she
would die and be buried and the will
| mentioning him as sole heir read.
Upon his arrival glad surprise await
| ed him. 1t was case of bilious collie
only, caused by eating too heartily of
corned beef and cabbage at the ad-
vanced age of eighty-three.
He would have FASTENED away at
once, but the grandmother objected.
She had story to tell-a story of how
| that collie grasped and gripped her and
lasted her ten hours before the doctor
could bring relief 1t took her all day
| to finish the story, and then 1t took her
nephew several hours In addition to
convince her that If he did not hasten
! back to town the whole United States
would turn turtle.
He made things hum when he got
| started, but 1t was midafternoon of
the 18th when his nuto arrived within
cannon shot of the farmhouse which
! sheltered the girl he meant to make
his wife and of the grove wherein a
sad eyed maiden sat and wept-that is,
she wasn't sitting there just then, She
had other business on hand.
| At ! O'clock that afternoon at the
| railroad station, two miles away, a
train bearing 100 lunatics on their way
! to newly completed asylum had been
shunted on to the side track to let the
express pass. They We're given re-
| freshments. and all of sudden. while
| tn. guards were about their hospitable
! work and their vigilance relaxed. a
dozen OF the unfortunate people. men
and women. escaped from the cars and
scattered over the country.
or course they were instantly pur-
sued, but three or four OF them got
long start Guards and farmers and
farmers boys and farmers dogs took
up the pursuit with avidlty.
AS Miss Viola sat In her grove and
sobbed and wept and threw sticks at
the bugs crawling about she was star
tied by whoops and yslls and shouts.
She brushed away her tears and ro.
| pressed her sobs and stepped out OF
ihe shelter OF the grove to see what
| was up.