The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1907-02-27

"win you try to learn II teach
your
think twill pay for the wear and'
tear on your nerves-and the furni-
turep" ,e,
"Tll risk the nerves, and we need
some new furniture anyway. Come
Wen begin now. I'll hum the tune.
and you can imagine that Bonnie DIS
three piece orchestra Is playing Annie
Rooney with their own variations
and that you're waltzlng-well, with
Georgiana Bailey"
Great Scott! Let's imagine some
/ thing pleasant to begin on. All right
here goes! Get out of the channel
Winfield"
One evening toward the end Of the
month Gus said to him: Brad If you
were | would you go to the ball on the
evening Of Decoration day at the
town hall? I've had two invitations"
"Humphr' The answer was some
what hesltating.
81 supposed you didn't know. Other
wise, OF course
II should have invited my dancing
teacher to go with me. Gus, would
you have liked 1t IL l had invited
your
81 should"
"well. then, Miss Baker, may 1 have
the pleasure OF escorting you to the
grand fandango to be held In the Or
ham Crystal palace. under the super
vision Of his royal swelledness, Mr.
Solomon Bangs?"
you may, sir. Oh, Brad. OF course
I'd rather go with you, because
Because what"
Because | want to see how my pu-
Pill looks dancing with somebody else"
Gus was prettier than ever the night
of the ball She was dressed simply in
white, but when she came out of the
dressing room at the hall and took his
arm Bradley noticed that the eyes of
half a dozen young men followed her
and that they whispered to each other
Gus "order" was filed In few min
utes after the first number was over;
there were more applicants than
dances. Bradley danced a quadrille
with Clara Hopkins, who was pretty
and jolly, and he enjoyed it thorough
ly. He labored through a contra dance
with Georgiana Bailey and didn't en-
joy it as much, although that effer-
vescent young lady purred that she
had had a perfectly lovely time" and
he was "lookin' so well' and why
didn't he call at the house
Miss Baileys blue silk gown had an
imposing and very troublesome train,
and she smelt like a perfumer's shop.
Captain Titcomb came up the stairs.
He had a dripping umbrella in his
hand.
"Why, hello" exclaimed Bradley. II
didn't know you were coming"
Hello YOURSELF retorted the cap.
tain. IL didn't know you was comm
either, so we're square on that hitch.
It's BLOWN up a regular shorter out
side" he added.
"Georglana's gayer'n tin peddler's
cart, amt she?" continued Titcomb.
"Cap'n Jabe's the only moulin pullet
in that coop"
He broke of suddenly and was silent
for a minute or more. Bradley asked
him what the matter was.
"Oh, nothin'" was the hasty reply.
"Quite a crowd here tonight. Who's
the little clipper In the white with blue
pennants in her fore riggin'-the one
dancin' with Jonadab Wixon's sisters
boy?"
That's Clara Hopkins"
"Humph. You don't say! Jim Hop
kins girl. wouldn't have known
her" And the captain subsidized once
more.
A little while after that, as Bradley
was dancing his Virginia reel with
Gus, he noticed a disturbance among
the crowd of watchers at the door
He was in the middle of the line at
the time. and "Snuppy" Black stood
next to him.
"Hellow exclaimed "Snuppy." why,
It can't be- BY thunder, it is! Sam
Hammonds come. 1 didn't know he
was expected"
Hammond II was, and In all the glo-
ry of city clothes and unlimited self
confidence. When the reel was over, he
came across the floor to where Gus
and Bradley were standing.
"How dye do, Gus3" he said, extend
ing his hand. I'm down for a few
days. Got a vacation that 1 wasn't
looking for. Came on tonlght's train
and thought I'd run up here for little
while soon as l could get away from
the home folks. Let me see your order.
Hello, Brad! How are your
He was well dressed, still In the
rather conspicuous way, and he had
an easy, masterful air about him that
none of the country fellows had,
though they all envied 1t. And he was
goOdlooking. That couldn't be denied.
The last dance was the lanciers, but !
as "Bennie D." arose to "call OFF, he
announced that there would be, by spe-
clal request, an "eXtra"-a waltz. Brad
ley had seen Hammond talking with |
the prompter and with Mr.. Bangs, and |
he knew whose the Especial request"