Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-19

the same disposition they show(' in seek
in divine grace AS / was tellin' you,
Spirit to his conversion, and thars whar
he fell short in his love-makin. He'd
been holdin Babe Sorrell for the apple of
his eye a right smart while. but he loved
her afar of. so to speak. and after the
meetin' he didn't have no more courage
than he had before to bear witness to her
of his lOve. Babe knowed what was go
in on inside of him, l reckon-women
generally do; but she warnt the kind to
give in before she was asst So she treat
ed him in an onpersonal manner. which
was KILN to the little spunk he did have.
Mister, / wish you could have seen Babe
sorrel when she was young. She warn't
pretty; jest fair and strong as If she'd
been put together TO last long time. She
had round. dinner-plate face, wide
mouth. fine. quiet eyes. and little soft
nose set down in the middle of her coun-
tenanCe like a short-topped monument of
love and kindness. l never see sech
nose. 1t warn't much for shape. nor it
didn't give no hint Of pride smartness.
but l be DANCED if it warn't the most
trustworthy feature 1 ever saw in a
git wife. be keerful about the style of
her nose. I'd as soon buy horse with a
blazed face and four white feet as to
marry woman with one of these high
bred. razor-backed noses. Ten to one
she'll kick the dashboard off your af-
fections afore you've lived through the
honeymoon with her.
We'll, sir. Bill kept followin long after
Babe, and because she didn't set down IN
the middle of the road like tame fowl
and wait for him to come and pick her up,
the dern fool thought she didn't keer for
him. Showed no more Judgment about The
heart of that woman than he'd showed in
estimatin' the goodness of God. One day,
not long after the revival. l seen Babe
down the road piece, and not far behind
was Bill Meeks ridin' in his buggy.
Directly he come 'longside of her. and in
vited her to git in and ride Always. Then
they come on slow, and l breathed a
prayer that Bill mought have the spunk to
say what man ought to say and do
what man ought to do under them cir
cumstances. But before airy guardian an
gel In heaven could a-had time to git the
answer ready seen him scotch his
wheels and she flung out of the buggy
like she didn't keer whar she went. Then
he whipped up his boss and come stavin'
by here like he was headin fer far
country. After while Babe come on. and
when she seen me standin at the gate, she
stopped If she couldn't go no further.
Her cheeks were jest mad with color, her
mouth was drawed down till the corners
looked like the sad ends of a smile. and
the tears were running from her eyes like
rain.
Honey, seq l. what's the matter?'
'Pappy" seq she. Then her breast be-
gun to heave. the tears to come faster
and her sweet face crumpled up like a
rose in a storm.
"'Pappy" seq she again-then busted
out cryin' good fashion.
Come in, set down and tell me what
happened. seq l, leadin' her 10 the bench
by the door She laid her head against the
watershed and cried all the top off her
feelin's the way women do when they air
mad or hurt. Directly she lifted up her
face. smoothed the ha'r outen her eyes.
looked at me. and l be goldern If she
didn't give out the sweetest little sobbin'
laugh YOU ever heard Then she puckered
up her face and fixed to begin over again,
but l seq:
Don't, Babe. You've shed more tears
now than any sorrow you've got ought to
come to. Jest tell me what happened
Haint Bill treated you right?'
No seq she. he hain't.
"'What'd he do?'
Asst me to marry him"
That warn't so bad seq l. very
guarded. because you never kin tell what
the female pint of view air till the woman
gives II to you.
But. pappy.' seq Babe with q storm
gatherin' in her quiet eyes, he hain't