The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1906-06-16

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''Confouni her impudence!" said
Forrest * don't care now if she does
see me. I'll go right down now and
bounce her saucy black scoundreis."
She was standing in her field wilfully.
No, | don't care if she does see rle,"
he repeated, But perhaps he did, a:
least, in that particular garb. for he
donned ragged coat and a crumpied
hat before proceeding along the hill.
Il think, maybe, she won't be so anx-
lous to get me-" he unused, IF she
thinks I'm a blooming hobo"
But why should the spirit of Forrest
be proud? The woman across the way
was so very far from wanting to get
him as even to avoid her fields IL she
thought him abroad in his. She tcem-
bled daily lest, he come to her door,
or across the creek, to pour $25,OOO
tale of love and alteration In ner
startled ears. She had long before IN
cluded, with every indication OF logic.
that she hated this person, suggested
as he was in the will of her ancient
distant relation, yclept uneFe James,
as a suitable future husband. And now,
to add further insult to the injury
caused by his presence on the opposite
farm, he drove his wretched crows IN
to every field she had. This specified
morning found her flushed, angry and
determined, hence her obstinate stand
against the birds.
"Oh! oh. my Abby!' chucllled For
rest, you undertake to make a scare
crow of yourself, | see. Well, my dot
ing Giddygreens, | should very much
enjoy removing my hat in aclnow
Judgement of your eminent fitness
only fear you'd think me proposing.
But if you can be scarewomalr, | can
also be a scareman, which same kind
ly remember"
He planted himself on the slope, and
the crows went off in dismay.
Then stood the two, distnntly glaring
at each other, and telegraphing hate
messages along the filmy lines of web
that spiders had stretched between.
This will never do" mused Forrest.
'I'll fetch a proxy, that'n make her
wild" Forthwith he proceeded to
culine mein, that tapped lis sleeves in
the wind in a vacuous ecstacy.
Was Abigail SO disconnected? No,
not Abigail She caused to be erected
a female scarecrow, on the hill mat
was hers, with a bonnet on it's head,
and string about, its slender, unbend-
ing waist. 1t too waved its arm.Css
sleeves.
Now was a strange duet enacted,
that was wrought by the re. ,hyr that
waited through the vale of the creek
and weaved about the hills. Toying
with the scarecrows from behind. The
breeze would lift the sleeves, first Of
the scarewoman, next of the man. end
extend them forth towards ca n other,
on the hills, in a shocking and palpa
bic invitation to come" If the zephyr
were strong it would lean the scare
man forward and nod his head in gal
lantry, and then go about and bend the
woman sweetly, and move her bonnet
in a manner quite coquettish.
To say that the owners of tho figures
were indignant would be utterly mad
equate, they were right down mad and
outraged. They were also ashamed 10
pull the wooing figures down, for that
would be indeed confession that the
spooning antics had been noticed At
the end of week the zephyr mad
lOOsened the joints of the scare couple
to such an extent that their frantic eff
forts to embrace across the vale were
nearly equalled by their shameless
bowling and scraping from morning
till night.
Abigail meditated flight. Forrest
thought of suicide, and of slipping
across in the night to do a persona.
violence on the scarewoman, with an
AK.
LAS soon as the hay is in" he NUT
tered, IN get away from this and 50
to seek Miss Rockland"
Early one morning, while the vari-
GUS preliminaries of a thunderstoi m
were being compl eted, young Boreas,
the clustering brother of Zephyr came
tearing up the creek-vale and issued
forth at the top as a whirlwind, mat
scudded hither and yon, and up the
hilla and down. When he had gone he
landscape was utterly innocent of
care-people-hats, bonents, and all.
Forrest was late upon the scene.
Thank goodness" he said aloud, The
storm pulled the scare-Abby out by
the roots" Then he added as he took
in the lay Of the country, Hello. the
doggone wind has leveled our Beau
B,ummel, too. He walked to the place
where the beau bad fiourished and found
only a hole in the ground.
Down to the. creek and through en-
folding willows Forrest went. Coming
at length to little clearing, he leaped
the brook-to find himself face TO face
with Abigail, who likewise sought her
departed Grow"
What" he cried, "you-Miss Rock
land"
"Oh-why Leslle?" she