Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-17
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Copyright 1907, by Mary McKeon.

in 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 af
fairs The guests all gather at the
sugar BUSH where the sweet sap has
already been boiled down to thic
strip. and seat themselves on a L.
while the strip is boiled a little NOR
and then served around ON clean map
chips There is snow yet left in TIN
woods, and n dab of srup drop,
on the snow produces maple wa.
| There is a general sickness. Il genera
/ state of hilarity, and the girls 20 home
with wet feet and the Young men with
wax on their chins.
In one sense this party referred
was a great success. In another it wa.
a calamity. \ sewing machine agent
| had been stopping at Farmer IalidaY's
for the last two weeks while he beat
up the country. He happened to be a
young man and a taking fellow but
there was no earthly reason for Burt
Seymour to he jealous of him. EunicN
Halliday and Burt had been engaged
for three or four months, and while
she was naturally flattered at the com
pliments 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
be Jealous. and she was therefore more
circumspect, but Burts jealousy still
ranked. He took good care that the
stranger shouldn't. be invited to the
sugar party, to which Eunice was duly
escorted by the host but cheek is a
part of the stock in trade of agents of
all sorts, and no one was greatly sur
prised when Mr. French showed up as
cool as a 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 a
spice of deviltry in their nature. Be
they ever so sweet and nice, there are
times when they like to hector. When
Eunice saw, with all the others, that
the coming of the agent annoyed her
lover and that Mr. French was in
and more agreeable way to make
things a 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 20 too far, but just far enough
to punish him. He would be sullen
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 "snide, y
squirt" and several other things,
and, although she only defended mild
ly, it 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 n few compliments from
a "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 flourished his arm in reply and
; exclaimed:
Farewell false girl! | have loved
you as no man ever loved before but
, you have let a fool part us. may be
sunstruck this summer or die of 8
broken heart or commit suicide, bu
twill not matter to you. You will have
simply broken one more human heart
shattered the faith of another man il
woman's integrity"
OF course Eunce went into the house
!, prepared to brave 1t out, and Of course
it wasn't fifteen minutes before bel
mother suspected that something hat
transpired and whisked her into thu
family bedroom to say:
Nov. then, has that Hattie Jones
been saying mean things about YOU
againT"
mo, ma" replied the daughter a
she burst into sobs
BY and by all the details We're in tn,
= mothers possession. The girl did no
deny that she had hirted bit, bu
she had not really meant anything seri
= Gus. She was deeply in love witt
a Burt Seymour, and as she thought o
= his dying of sunstroke and going t
:, his grave believing she cared for an.
;, other man, no matter how many sew
:; ing machines he could sell in a week
! il almost broke her heart.
well now, stop crying while tall
- to you" said the mother. you shoulC
q not have fiirted, and Burt should no
have made a fool of himself. He
;, gone away to chew the rag, as you
; cousin Ben puts 1t. He thinks he'll &c
n letter from you in day or two ask
!, ing his forgiveness. Then he'll take
: week before coming around and con
n descending to make up. First ant
foremost, you are not to write him
line. Second and hindmost, he's got t
come to you If there is any coming
1t about 1t. Your father was just anothe
If such idiot when he was running afte
" me, and / made him crawl. That
If | WhV | have ALWAYS had the whiD han