The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-07-17

| loosely, were "earmarkS" of an Ali
gail every time, the young man assert
ed.
AS he glanced at the crows this par
ticular morning, he saw her come anC
brighten them away. They alightet
across the creek in his field of oats.
Tut, tut, Abby" he said aloud, ~
banker not for crow"
When she turned he went to the hill
and heaVed q rock at the birds. The,
settled again on the Hilltop property
whence, in half-anhour, Abigail
"ahooed" them again to the field of her
neighbor.
"Confound her impudence!" said
Forrest Il don't care now If she doe;
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 ne"
he repeated. But perhaps he did, a:
least, in that particular garb, for he
donned ragged coat and a crumpled
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 gel
him as even to avoid her fields ii she
thought him abroad in his. She trem-
bled daily lest he come to her door,
or across the creek, to pour a $25, 900
tale OF love and alteration in ner
startled ears. She had long before con-
cluded, with every indication of logic,
that she hated this person, suggested
as he was in the will of her ancient
distant relation, yclept Uncle 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.' chuckled 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 acknow-
Judgement of your eminent fitness,
only fear you'd think me proposing.
But If you can be scareWoman, | can
n ;o1,
ly remember"
He planted himself on the slope, and
the crows went off in dismay.
Then stood the two, distantly glaring
at each other, and telegraphing hate
messages along the filmy lines of web
that spiders had stretched between.
This will never do, unused Forrest.
I'll fetch a proxy, thatll make her
wild" Forthwith he proceeded to
build a regulation scarecrow, of mas
culine mein, that tapped its 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 a string about it's slender, unbend-
ing waist. 1t too waved its armlCss
sleeves.
Now was a strange duet enacted,
that was wrought by the zephyr 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, and
extend them forth towards each other,
on the hills, in a shocking and palpa-
BILE 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 the figures
were Indignant would be utterly mad.
equate, they were right down mad and
outraged, They were also ashamed 70
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 had
oosened the joints of the scare-couple
10 such an extent that their frantic eff
forts to embrace across the vale were
nearly equalled by their shameless
bowling and scraping from morning
ill night
Abigail meditated flight. Forrest
thought of suicide, and of slipping
across in the night to do a personal
violence on the scarewoman, with an
TX.
AS soon as the hay is in" he NUT
cred, I'm get away from this and G
o seek Miss Rockland"
Early one morning, while the vari-
'us preliminaries of a thunderstorm
we're being completed, young Boreas,
he clustering brother of Zephyr, came
q rir In IL,