Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-12-13

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rival. You needn't tip your head back
and look through your glasses that
way!
We'll, then, | met him last spring.
and | was attracted right away, be.
cause he was big and strong and all
that We weren't engaged though un.
til June, and after that everything
was lovely until the cool days came,
this fall.
Cool days! That isn't so bad But
wouldn't you be cool yourself if you
got note after note saying, Cant take
that walk this aft. It's too good day
TO practice Or, Tn sending YOU both
the season tickets for that lecture
course. Better get some girl to go
with you. l might have known, when
| bought them, that | couldn't waste
October afternoons at lectures, but,
you see, never was engaged before
and | suppose it went to my head
1T was football, you see, uncle, and
man might as well be Mormon as
try to be true to football and a girl at
the same time. Days would pass with.
out his coming near me, and when he
did come he couldn't talk about
thing but tackles and bucking the line.
AT first | didn't show that | felt
hurt. Instead, got up a little evening
supper-the kind he always liked. Do
you suppose he ate it? He looked re.
proachful, as If l ought to have known
without being told that he lived on
birdseed and mush in football season
and he never touched a crumb!
Then he followed that by telling me
that he'd have to go to bed at six
every night after this and get up and
take long runs in the early morning.
But he said Oscar Keith had agreed
to be his sub in taking me to the the
atHr the next evening-an engagement
we'd had for two weeks-and he
seemed to think / ought to be very
grateful for-his kindness in arranging
that.
We'll, Oscar Keith! You know him Z?
A Phi. D.-never played football in his
life-but he was an attentive escort
and quite interesting. He found out
that I'd read few things myself, too.
THE night after the theater up came
Mr. Keith again with the word that
Kenneth had sprained his ankle prac-
ticing, and was in the depths Of woe
not because he couldn't come to see
mech, no!-but because he might
lave to miss playing in the game Sat
urday. That was the night Mr. Keith
brought me the copy of Peer Gynt
from his Ibsen set. A few evenings
later he came up on purpose to tell
me just where Ken wanted me to sit
on the grand stand Saturday, so that
| could see him best. The ankle was
coming all right, it seemed, but I
didn't get one word direct from Ken,
and.I couldn't help showing how | felt
about it when Mr.. Keith delivered his
verbal message.
Yes, | went to the football game.
1t was the third one of my life. There
were girls all around me- screeching.
Go it Ken! Go it, Go it. Go it,
just as If he We're an animal, and he
looked enough like some queer animal,
too! Those awful toys! Why, from
the minute he trotted into the field
with that noseguard on | could have
gone through the floor,
But the girls went on shrieking and
jumping up and down, and the terrible
miNed-up game went on, until at last,
without a bit of warning, they turned
and pounced on me, and told me how
proud | was because Kens magnificent
playing had won that game! Then
they rushed me down to the gate and
just as we got there, Kenneth was car
ried out on the shoulders of four bows.
Such fright! His hair was wild.
there was mud plastered all over his