The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-07-07

feel quite we'll acquaintednow.' Then
he said: Won't you please introduce
US, Miss Josephine?' and said !:
Marian, this is Mr.. Kenneth Ken
sington. He's my beau that you
couldn't guess Then they both
laughed, and he said he wanted to
know her, because his sister had
written so much about her. And
Marian said she'd wanted to know
him, because Kate had told her so
much about him. Then Marian said
she'd missed Kate so much since she
went away, and she was glad she was
coming back next week. And he
said he was, too. I didn't know she
was his twin I thought twins always
looked just alike and dressed just
alike; but they don't.
HE didn't swing me while he was
talking, and I stood up and swung
myself. You can, if you keepsbend-
ing out and in only you can't swing
up high that way. But after while
he began, and I sat down, and he
swung me up real high. Then he
said: Let's let the old cat die That
means Just swing till you stop. And
when the old cat was dead he asked
Marian if she didn't want to swing.
She hasn't swung since summer before
last, because young ladies don't, she
says. But she laughed and got in,
and he began swinging her, and she
said Don't swing me high and
he kept swinging her higher, till she
began to scream, and say: oh, stop
me, I'm dizzy /; and then he took
hold of her and stopped her, and she
got out, and her face was red.
''He walked up to the house and
sat on the piazza for more'n an hour,
and she said he must come again real
soon, because we were such near
neighbors we ought to be neighborly;
aud he said he would.
1.-The next morning I went down
and was swinging myself that way
when Marian came down and said
didn't want her to swing me? She
hasn't swung me since summer before
last. 1 said 1 didn't care, and she
swung me about minute, and then
said she'd got to sit down and rest.
She kept looking toward the next
house, and I knew what for, but
didn't tell. He didn't come but in
the afternoon when I got back from
Winnie brakes he was on the piazza.
He staid till most supper time, and
when he went he said he hoped that
the next time I'd stay at home. He
said it looked as if I didn't care much
for my beau, going off that way. But
I'd like to know how I could know
he was coming.
"He came over and swung me lots,
and one morning Marian came down,
and he asked her if he shouldn swing
her, but she said No, it made her
dizzy, and, besides, she was too old
to be swung. But she staid, and they
talked, and swung myself that way
till got kind of tired OF il, and I
said: L don't think much of beau
that lets his girl swing herself while
he talks to other girls Then he
said: I beg your pardon, Miss Jose
phine / didn't mean to-. Then he
swung me real high, and the last time
he run, clear under me, and my feet
almost touched the branch, and then
he let the old cat die.
1.-The next day, or next to the next
Il don't just remember-we went
blue-berrying. was going over to
get Winnie, but I met him, and he
wanted to know why couldn't he go.
He said +: Wouldn't Marian like to
go, too?' and 1 said she'd gone down
to the village to buy some things.
The berries were awful thick, and he
picked into my pail because he hadn't
any. He can pick awful fast. There
was cow there that shook her horns;
but ne said if just stood and looked
she wouldn't hurt me, and just stood
and looked, and she walked away.
It didn't take any time at all to get
the pail full, and when we were tell
ing Marian afterward she said she'd
like to have gone, too. She hasn't
been since summer before last. I've
asked her, and she said she didn't
want to. He said: Let's go to-
morrow morning. and she said All
right
"He picked into my pail awhile,
and then he said he must help Marian,
and 1 went off and found bed where
the berries were awful thick, and I
said: Come here; they're awful
thick here 7 but they staid where they
were, and when I looked they were
sitting on log and weren't picking.
Pretty soon I heard noise, and
looked round, and there was the cow
and she shook her horns, and Marian
screamed and caught hold of his arm,
and he laughed and said the cow
wouldn't hurt her but she was scared
and wouldn't stay. Her pail wasn't
more'n half full, and mine was almost
heaping.
''He came and sat on the piazza
lots, and got so we knew him real
we'll, and I'd sit on his lap because he
was my beau. He took Marian to
ride one evening, and I was sitting on
the piazza, pretending I was reading,
and he didn't speak to me; and the
next morning 1 was swinging half
way and he jumped the fence and
said I'll swing you,' and I said I
don't want you to- and he said
'Why?' and I said 1 don't like you,'
and he said 'Why?' and I said I
don't think much of beau that won t
speak to his girl. and he said When
wouldn't speak to you?' and 1 said
Last night, and he said You were
reading, and 1 said That don't make
any difference; you ought to speak
to me if I am reading and he said
IF you'd stopped reading and spoken
to me I'd spoken to you, and / said
Il don't think much of beau that
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