Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-09-27
NJ. Shutters, Bachelor,
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 CEe June morning MT. Smithcrs bachelor. sat locking out of the win low as he smoked his after breakfast eigar. In all open window across the |tre't girls face suddenly appeared. 6he had birdcage in her hand. ard |be looked all around for nail t1 lang it on. While she was looking fer be nail Snlithers was looking at her. e saw vision of loveliness, aged bout twenty, and while the bird was 'pppine about on it's perch Smithers' part was hopping about in his bosom ven before the girl had disappeared search of hammer aud nail he lalized that he was close to that state rmed "goneness'
 The girl began operations with the mmer with great show of conf nee. In her innocence she supposed nt a nail could be driven into q brick easily as into hunk of putty, and paid for her innocence by pound her finger. When she uttered a fe howl of pain and dropped the mmer to the sidewalk within an h of &~redestrian's head and then fled tie bruised digit into her mouth suck away the pain the bachelor Fly groaned in sympathy. After a ment she disappeared, but his heart nt with her. The idea came to him hun across the street, introduce him. and pour out his sympathies, but er combing his mustache and put on his hat he decided not to.
 owever, he set himself to watch her reanpearance. and, though it three long hours before he caught t of her again with white rag bnd her finger, he did not feel that had wasted his time. She looked bss at him, and he thought he saw bnging for sympathy in her face. Therefore waved his hand. It was ko sense an act of Irritation on his
 His sympathies went with the Ee It was the same as if he said. or little orphan girl, but l pity The girl drew back, and Smith sblew her kiss Not the slightest of flirting entered his mind. He simply conveying by signs what eouldn't put into words and yell Sss the street-"Never mind, little you'll be happy yet"
 bat afternoon the girl and the fin @and the rag walked out together. Slid Smithers and his sympathetic It. After being charmed with a of the young lady's back they Sed her and were still more charm eWith/a view of her face. That face k efheral, tender, affectionate. It 5the longing look that comes to the of girl left all alone in the d and two weeks behind on her to hard hearted landlady. Smith Knight have found excuse to raise bat and say something about the her. but a peanut man pushed his against his knees and sent him wling, and all romance was driven pf his soul for the next three or minutes.
 at same evening as Smithers sat bis window smoking the same l and wondering how much he have to pay waiter in res Int to write an ode entitled "The Fingered Angel" the girl appeared er easement She sat down and d up at the starry heavens and Id her sore finger on the sill to it. She didn't see Smithers at but when he thought he detected in her eyes and quivering of hin lie thrust himself forward to hpman being in this world who For her.
 same rag and the same finger the same girl walked out next Smithers was on the watch. and talked out too. Nothing was fur. from his thoughts than "p,ashing' rting. That was something he never done in his life. After fol 2 the girl four or five blocks and ing up just what words of sym
 to address her with he over Id her and raised his hat and about to get off his little speech
 big. lusty fellow without the romance in his soul took him he scruff of the neck and ad led him for a moment in words |ervid eloquence. while the gir the sore finger stood by with a Pant and eXpectant look on hel
 Her expectations were realized t is, Mir. Smithers was shaken till eeth bit his tongue. Then he was to perform strange antics with >eels. while his legs would kink ul then straighen out again in won hl way. Before the big man was lgt1 with him his collar and tic yrY off, his coat ripped beyond 4d his hair badly mussed up
 d not afterward swear that he also kicked and cuffed. but he reasonably sure of it. What hur, more than the kicks and cuffs, ii got them. was the pleased and placcnt look on the girls face dur