The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-07


the one that had .
rival You needn't tip your head back
and look through Jour glasses that
wayl
Wen, then. met him lsst spring.
and ] vas attracted right away, Be-
cause he wa @s bRd EipspT aud All
that We weren't engaged though, un.
III June, and after chat everything
was lovely untn the cool days came
this fall
"Cool daysi That lsnt 40 bad. But
wouldn't you be cool yourself II you
got note after note saying, Can't take
that walk this aft It's too good a day
20 practice. Or. I'm sending you both
the season tickets for that lecturs
course. Better yet some girl 70 50
with you. ] might have known, when
! bought them, that couldn't waste
October afternoons At lectures, but,
you see, never was engaged befors
Snc suppose u went 70 nay head
1T was football, you see, uncle, and
. man might as well 10 . Mormon ~
try 70 be true 70 football aud . siyl A.
thS same time. Days Wdnid pass VITA
ont his coming near ne, ans when he
dia come he couldn't talk about .
thing bat tackles and buckng the lina
AT hrpt ] didn't show that felt
hurt. lAstosd, got up little eTsniBs
suPper-the kind no always liked. Do
you suppaSs be ate n? he looked 70
| proachful, ~ II ought 10 have known
without bsinB told tAAt he lived on
biraBesd ana uush IN football season
.-and he nsYer touched q ervmbi
TnSn he followed that BY telling re
thSt hsa have 70 30 20 bed at sin
every night attss thh and get up ana
taka long runs Ia the ea1iy mornEnS.
But he aSid Oscar Keith had agYes6
to be his 'ydb' IN tAhtxy me 70 shs thR
ator the nsIt evening An engagement
we'd had for tvo weelts--and he
seemed tn think ! 81 Sht IN be Ver1
| grateful for hts hndnsHs IN RrrnngtnH
that.
Wen, Oscar Keith! You know himi
A Pm Dr--Dever played football In his
lne--but ae wsg an attentive sscort
and quite interesting. He found ont
that Ia read q few thiaEs myself. too.
The night after the tAeater up carnS
Mr.. Keith again with the word that
Kenneth had sprained his ankle pTNs
ticing. and was In the depths Of EoA
not because he couldn't come 20 sea
mO-oh, hol--but because ne might
have to miss playing In the game Sat.
urday. That was the night Mr.. Ksith
brought ne the copy Of Peer dynt'
from hts Ibsen set A few evening"
later he came up on purpose TO tell
me Just vhers Ken wanted me 20 sit
on the grand stand Saturday, 30 that
! could see him. best. The ankle wAI
coming all right, II seemed, but
didn't get one word direct from Ken,
and | couldn't help showing how felt
about II when Mr.. Keith delivered his
verbal message
Yes. went 10 the football Eamo
II was the third one Of my life. There
were girls all around me, screschinK
Go It KEN Go III 90 IT. 90 H.
Just as H. he were an animal, and he
looked enough Ike some queer animal
tool Those awful toys! Why, from
the minute he trotted into the fleld
with that noseguard on ! could have
gone through the aoor!
but the girls went on shrioking aud
Jumping un and down, and the terrihIu
mixed-np game went on, until Of last,
without a hit Of warning. they turned
and pounced on me. and told me Row
proud was because Ken,s magnificent
playing had won that gamel Then
they rushed me down 70 the gate aud
just as we got there. Kenneth WAS car
ried out on the shoulders Of four boyx
Such fright! His hair was VIA;
there was mud plastered all over hiI