The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-02-08
HAVING "A
GOOD. CRY
BY DONALD ALLEN
Copyright. 800. by Ruby Douglas
BY DONALD ALLEN


20 visit her aunt in her country home,
and for week she had been supremacy
happy. There were chickens and ducks
and geese, there were guinea hens and
doves and rabbits, there were innocent
lambklns and froicklng calves, and she
lad tried to milk cow, fallen of Il
fence and churned two pounds of but
ter. Bat for Arthur Tyson this dream
OF bliss might have continued another
week, and pretty Viola might have
climbed 90 the roof Of the wagon shed,
sold paper. rags TO a tin peddler and
gone blAclSberryng down in the mead
oW as 4 continuance of her romantic
adventures.
Arthur Tyson had not only fallen IN
love with her, but lie was intsAdlng to
ask for her hand. lie hadn't published
his intentions in any OF TIE journals
or told the country posmistross what
was IN his mind, but Miss Viola had Il
line on him. You can't fool girl about
such things. The man who is counting
her may talk about. the joys OF bache-
ior life ana pretend to be cynic on
affairs Gf sentiment, but she can read
him like a book. When Arthur had
snid that he would arrive at Nioll's
aunts on the 14tll-rnnlng down IN
his auto In the forenoon and running
back to the city again In the evening
there was q look in his eyes that said
there would be something doing.
The l4tlSc8me, ana then things be-
gan to happen. \ letter arrived from
Arthur to say that his mlndhothar
wanted him 10 hurry TO her diving bed
side; big humhlebcc came droning
along, even rs Viola was reading TIE
letter while seated on the vcranda, and
stnng her on The bare arm; windmill
man called on business and tried to
firt with hcr: she was chased ont Of
The baluyard by 4 calf and chased
back again by turkey Cobhler; the
deg got hold OF her cute summon hat
and cheWed it up, and she fen down
cellar while going after preserves ana
landed on top OF the family cat.
Several other vcXGtious things oc-
CURED between the morning Of TIE
1lth and noon Of the next day, and m
hour after dinner Miss Viola made up
her mind TO have Il good cry. II she
cried in the house her aunt, who was 4
sharp eyed cid lady. would SEQ her
tears ana ask questions; IL she went
TO the barn to cry among the cackling
hens and new mown hay, the hired
man would come stumbling in; If she
hid away behind the grape arbor or
the currart bushes. there were bugs 10
crawl down her back as soon rs she
was off her guard.
Down across the meadow and half a
mile from the house there was a small
grove, ana the disconsolatc girl finally
made up her mind that her tears of
sorrow should he shed around the roots
of those trees. Her manner Of lodging
her aunt and getting out of the house
and down to the grove would have
been called making sneak" by some,
but q pretty girl who is looking for
crying place should not he judged too
harshly.
She found the grove capital place
for her business There we're shade
and quietness and the whispering of
the summer breeze through the leaves,
and Miss Viola went at 1t and let the
fears fall her chin culver and her sobs
frighten away the lone chicladee that
was taking a daytime nap on branch
above her head
Mr. Tyson FASTENED to the bedside
Of his dying grandmother, thinking that
1t would be q whole week before she
would die and be buried and the will
him as sole heir read.
Upon his arrival a glad surprise await
ed him. 1t wasra case of bilious collie
only, caused by eating too heartily of
cOrned beef and cabbage at the adj
vanced age of eishty-three.
lie would have FASTENED away at
once but the grandmother objected.
She had story to tell--a story of how
that collie grasped and gripped her and
lasted her ten hours before the doctor
could bring relief. 1t took her all day
to finish the story, and then.it took her
nephew several hours in addition to
convince her that If he did not hasten
back to town the whole United States
would turn turtle.
He made things hum when he got
started. but 1t was midaftcrnoon of
the 10Th when his auto arrived within
cannon shot OF the farmhouse which
sheltered the girl he meant to make
bis wife and Of the grove wherein a
sad eyed maiden sat and wept--that Is,
she wasn't sitting there just then. She
had other business on hand.
vt 1 o'clock that afternoon at the
railroad station, two miles away. n
train bearing 100 lunatics on their way
10 newly completed asylum had been
shuntcd on to the side track to let the
express pass. They were given re-
freshments, and all of sudden. while
Inc guards were about their hospitablc
work and their vigilance relaxed, a
lozen of the unfortunate people, men
and women, escaped from the cars and
scattered over the country.
OF course they were instantly pur-
'ued. but three or four of them got n
ong start. Guards and farmers and
'armers' boys and farmers dogs took
lp the pursuit with avidity.
AS Miss Viola sat in her grove and
Iobbed and wept and threw sticks at
he bugs crawling about she was star
led by whoops and yells and shouts.
She brushed away her tears and re- !
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