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Copyright. 1885,. by Mary McKeon,

tn the sap bush, and his invited guests
numbered dozen Of the young men
and girls Of the neighborhood- Such
parties are always given with the last
run of maple sap and are simple AZ
fairs. The guests all gather Mt the
sugar bush, where the sweet sap has
already been. Boiled down to- thick
sirup and seat themselves IN log
while the sirup is boiled a little more
aud then served around on clean maple
| chips There is SNOW yet left in the
| woods. and d dab of sirup dropped
| Gu the snow produces maple wax.
| There Is general sickness, general
| state. of hilarity, and the girls go home
| with wet feet and the young men with
| wax on their chins.
| In one sense this party referred 10
| was great success. In another II WAS
| II calamity. \ sewing machine agent
| had been stopping at Farmer Halidty's
| for the last two weeks While he beat
| Up the country. lie happened to be a
young man and Il taking fellow, but
| there was nD earthly reason for Burt
| Seymour to, be jealous of him Eunfcej
| Halliday and Burt had been eng;tged
| for three or four months, and While
| she. was naturally fatteEed at the COM
| plunents paid to her by the agent,
| whose. name was French, they didn't
| turn her head by any means She saw
| from the first that Burt was inclined TO
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circumspect. but Burt's jealousy still
ranked He took good care that the
| stranger shouldn't he invited to the
| sugar party. to which Eunice was duly
| escorted by the host. but cheek is n
| part of the stock In trade of agents OF
| all sorts, and M one. was greatly sur
prised when 3Ir. French shovel up as
| cool as u snow bank and took the big
| gest chip In the collection
| AS old Aunt Martha used To say, all
girls that amount to anything have
| spice of deviTtry in their nature. Be
| they ever SO sweet ana nice, there are
/ times when they like to hector. When
| Eunice saw. with I'll the othe y, that
| the coming of the agent annoyed her
| clined to put himself out Ia another
| and more agreeable way TO make
| things success, she came as near
| flirting with him as she could and miss
/ it. The harder Burt scowled and the
| more he showed his veXation the more
reckless she became. She didn't in
| tend to go too far. but just far enough
L to r,nnfs1, kinl N uDItl1 hn GJlllpn
| and sulky going home, but she would
make up with him before they reached
| the gate--that is she thought it would
| be that way, but she was mistaken.
| Burt referred to the agent as ''snids,
| a squirt and several other things,
| and, although she only defended mild
| II, ii was sufficient to keep his tenn
per hot. He announced that he had
been disappointed in her; that there
| was no such thing as loyalty known to
| her sex; that few compliments from
| ''masher" were valued by her more
than his enduring love, and when the
| gate was reached she announced that
| she wouldn't submit to be browbeaten,
| and he flourshed his arm in reply and
| exclaimed:
Farewell, false girl. l have loved
| you as no man ever loved before, but
you have let Il fool part us. | may be
| sunstruck this summer or die of Il
| broken heart or commit suicide, but
twill not matter to you. You will have
| simply broken one more human heart
| shattered the faith OF another man in
| woman's integrity"
OF course Eunice went into the house
| prepared to brave It out, and of course
| it wasn't fifteen minutes before her
mother suspected that something had
| transpired and whisked her into the
| family bedroom to say:
Nov. then. has that Hattie Jones
| been saying mean things about you
| againW
mo, MAJ replied the daughter as
| she burst into sobs
BY and by all the details We're in the
mothers possession. The girl die not
! deny that she had fiirted bit, but
| she had not really meant anything ser-
| Gus. She was deeply in love with
| Burt Seymour, and rs she thought of
his dying OF sunstroke and going to
| his grave believing sl. cared for any
| other man, no natter how many sew
| Ing machines he could sell in a week.
| it almost broke her heart
well, now, stop crying while talk
to you said the mother. You should
not have tlirted. and Burt should not
have made n fool of himself He's
gone away to chew the rag. as your
cousin Ben puts IT, He thinks he'll get
letter from you in n day or two ask.
ing his forgiveness. Then he'll take a
week before coming around and con-
descending to make up. First and
foremost, you are not 10 write him a
line Second ana hindmost. he's got 10
come TO You il there is any coming
about 1t. Your father was just another
such idiot when he was running after
me, and l made him crawl That's
why have always had the whip hand
Of him"
but YOU know how sci Bprt Is N
his ways" pleaded Bunice.
but you can be just IS set in
yours
but suppose he's found dead with
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