The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-05-01

cabin, one Ot the many nesting among
the foothills of the Cumberlands.
There was the CLINT OF brown, blue and
pink-Kentucky Garrettson's brown
head, blue dress, and pink apron, and
she stood in the doorway.
"Howdy, Daw. Come in
The man glanced down at his right
hand lying on his knee, and shook his
head
mo, I can never enter Ben Garrett
sons house again"
"What's up? Have you and daddy
been scrappingT.
She came out and leaned on the
gate, evidently undisturbed.
Il am going away, Ken, and I want
good long last look at you before
60"
"You are really and truly going? I
never thought you would. Why, Daw,
you love the dear old mountains as
much as I do. 1 don't see how you
can leave them-I couldn't. I wouldn't
even try, for I know the inconsistencies
to see them again would kill me-"
Daw Simpleton's whole attitude
changed in a moment. His upright
figure dropped, and the lips under the
black mustaohe, that were usually
close set and resolute, tremb1ed. His
eyes gazed wistfully over the wild,
rugged scenery for a moment then
came quickly back to the girls face.
Yes, Ken, they are much to me,
but you are dearer than everything
else in the world, except the desire
to hit back when I have been hurt.
I would do anything to injure the
man who has dared to make you love
him, even if the doing spoiled your
whole life"
She looked at him with gray eyes
that suddenly filled with tears.
"Oh, Daw, that is why you are go
ing away You don't want to hurt
Doctor Hearst because you know it
would break my heart Why don't
you hate me?'
Ken, don't you know that NOUN
taineer's hate and love are always
too deep to be put aside? My love
has made me do many things,'' he
continued in a musing tone. when
your father sent you away to school
| took an oath that when you came
back you would not find the untaught
tout you left. I quit chewing tobacco,
drinking mountain dew, and buying
loud necktles in order to get money
to buy books. [ quit fighting so as to
have time to study them I read
everything I could lay my hands on.
AS fast as | learned how words should
be used I dropped the mountain dia-
lect-'thar' was the word that chung
longest You cannot know how hard
this was, for you never had the noun
tain tongue. Your mother taught
you better. When you came back you
seemed to like me better than the other
boys that went wild over you, al
though we had our little tiffs OCCASION
ally. Ken, do you remember the night
your father thrashed me because I
would go home with you from Caleb
Vests candy pulling after you had
told me I couldn't ga? That night was
the first time | asked you to marry me,
and you told me you never would be-
cause you never could bear the idea OF
being called Kentucky Simpleton.
took another oath that might told
myself and God that I would one day
kill Ben Garrettson, and all that has
saved him from that day to this is be-
cause he is your father. I believe I
could have won you in time if that
cowardly sneak of a Doctor hadn't -
''Stop!" The eyes that could fill
with tears could also flash with quick
resentment 'There isn't man in the
state who deserves that less than Doc
tor Hearst, and you know it. He
came here and went to practicing his
profession when the mountain gums
were Kissing like rattlesnakes, and