The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-09-25

going TO pay all the funeral expenses.
but III never let another In my canoe
II die bachelor" no continued. "A
canoe is the one spot on earth where
II Is good for man 10 be alone.
The girl ! was with to-day had
lump Of red-gold hair. and a nifty
bunch OF white ruiles around hen hat
that made every girl on the horizon
look as WORKOUT as Canadian on
May 20. The other men on the boat
kept sizing her up until felt so lucky
at having made a hit that | was az
important as sporting editor at a
ball game
But | knew what | was up against
the minute we pushed away from the
canoe shelter. She was trying to live
up to the daintiness OF her attire. and
she took up the paddle as though II
were a teaspoon at a pink tea. In less
than three minutes had mentally re
peated the prayers for the dying. re.
signed myself to the Inevitable and
reiolced In the fact that hadn't paid
my board bin yet
In spite OF my coaching. we kept
going around In a circle. until felt az
though had been living In the Elec
trio park swing for a year, and whe'
we finally got Strengthened out for
minute We hit the bank with thumi
that might have started anothe'
quake in Frisco.
1T bumped so hard that several
cushlons-some OF those paid for
by many theater tickets and boxes OF
candy-went into the water. and then
she got mad because when | flshed
EN- out ! insisted on slowing the
wet. bedraggled things in the boat.
MY skirts will be a sight she
walled. and in trying to tuck them
around her ankles ran the paddle
so far up her short sleeve that she
tore lot OF the lace before we got
untangled. When she went at II
again she grabbed the paddle as
though she were going to WELD It like
broom.
But we got more water later on in
the game. She tried to force a pass
age through stone bridge, and !
scraped my arms steadylng the craft
by hanging on To everything In reach.
Il tried TO use diplomacy and get
her 10 change seats with me. but
well, say. did man ever get a girl
to do what was reasonable? During
the argument we drifted right into
the worst disaster OF all. II happened
to be another canoe which we never
noticed until It was right upon US. and
then the girl In my boat shrieked and
stuck her paddle into the water send.
ing us precisely the way she did not
intend TO. | was Just wondering II
we would walk or swim back. when
the other boat swung around, and
its def guider got out of harms way
in a wink
Say, you should have seen those
women glare. The girl with me was
so angry and excited that her pompa-
dour was drizzling all about her face.
Her sleeve was torn, her ha. at q
slant. and her finery rather the worse
for the water she scooped In with
every stroke.
THE lady In the opposite canoe
had a pompadour, but II was as slick
as a politician, and her shirtwaist had
something around the neck that
looked cool and simple. Her arms
we're bare and didn't notice any
ruffles or rings or bracelets. She just
grinned cheerfully at my girl and
said:
"'Oh. you'll learn after a while
and hoated past
81 guess my girl would have gone
to the bottom rather than give up
the paddle after that. We Jared the
foundations Of two bridges until |
thought the canoe would split from
one end to another. She spattered
me, the cushions and herself very
impartially, and then she called me a
brute for sitting still and not swear
ing.
. IF she had made any progress by
the time we got back to the boat
house / couldn't notice II, and was
more occupied in estimating the dam
age than in soothing her vanity when
we landed.
Il really think we should have
parted without row, though, II the
trim-looking expert had not passed us
on the way out.
she glanced at my companions
dampened skirts, torn waist and fiat
tened hat.
"'Wear a bathing suit next time
she advised and the way that red
headed lady of mine glared would
have raised anything but a June day
temperature.
IF | had to teach padding for
living instead of for pleasure I'd
starve to DEATH
And at that" supplemented viii
Bee, you got off darn sight easier
than the chaps who do that same
thing and pay for 1t at 20 cents an
hourl"-Detroit News.
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