The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-17
DRIFT w 0 o D
sr PHIL H. ARMsTRoNa

l As When child how often I've dreamed by day
 i While the silvery clouds would drift away.
 Lying down on the cool green grass, Trying. to make the long hours pass, The half distorted shape of dream. There were giants and dragons, ana There were aufrS; haired nymphs with . laughing lips
 When one Is child with thoughts 'Tis many cioua, fancy he seesl When a. child how often I've dreamed That some great cloud ship would bear me away
 To some wonderful haIf-enchanted Where childs desires they could una derstand. Where hand in hand with the fairies I could go--where the sweetest of l tunes were playing; No sculptor has ever shaped from clay { Such marvellous forms as my thoughts , And in later life there is naught T. Lik: the cloud fancies that once came &%ss Sarcasm.
 oI; LaSy S,,;, If give y9H this nickle will
 
 Tired Ted; Just as you say---bnt I was thinking about buyIn' loaf of bread.
 Oh, Yum.
 They ,sSsy. say there are microbes in a. Which I don't doubt a miutes.
 I thought such .unalloyed bliss Always had something in it.
 The Quarrel
 She stood with folded arms and ereeE figure, her nostrils slightly quiverinR, a stray sunbeam falling upon her face, look of unutterable contempt. depicted thereon. With the hauteur of a queen she remained rigid in. every limb knew through intuition must come.
 Bragsley was the first to break the, "T---I-have come to tell you to--to-- Well, why don't you say it like a man she almost hissed through her The man felt keenly the thrust for she had most pointedly emphasized the word man as though to taunt him sidering this--er--move and-and -and-"t The woman said nothing only cold indifferent smile played about her but not without a certain beauty.
 'Ha, ha." she laughed. You come to tell me this. YOU" she almost shriek-
 
 'Piease do not refer to my wife" he said. hoarsely. "perhaps it would have been better if I had done so. but must tell you now or never YOU MUST For a moment there was an awful silence: only the ticking of the hig clock in the corner was audible and to the man 1t seemed marking the years of an eternity of waiting. You want me to go do you satd the woman with scorn. She looked around her and thought of what she had done for him himapd HER-hia wife. The. long months she had given pp to their pleasurei how she hsd ing. It wouldn't have taken much more to draw the big tear-drnns from her eyes. But she would be brave i'm this. the terrible crisis.
 "Yes, he returned with obvious tim. idity. Ives. I-I am sorry but you wiit have to go away--we- we my wife. not slept--lt--it is awful. but you "well." she took on new dignity. "You needn't think but there are otk- CTS in the world who want me-"
 This was a home thrust
 Bragsley toyed nervously with his "Aii right" said the woman. with a cold smile as. she turned to go. you should have told me two weeks ago. and you would have if you had been any mart of a gentleman.
 Then she departed. lAavino the man standing there In the half light with folded arms meditatlng deeply, but a oy ogesr smile playing aroSnd the S.oT corners laugh outright as she disappeared in the dNeo long row of trees that Dor" dered the walk
 And as he weut in search of his wiso, BraEsley swore that he'd never undeE any. circumstances discharge a ccQA again