The Cairo bulletin., 1908-07-26

She Was the
One Girl

more. There might have been. ! an
pretty sure that if she had loved me-
it would have been different. She
would have given a rose colored tin
to the universe.
four room fiat with her would
have been equal TO a palace OF jas
| per and sard--whateyer that is-and
brown stone. A canary in the front
bay window would have been equal to
a grove vi nightingales. Twenty dol
lars down to an instalment house
would have given me all the luxurious
velvet piled rugs. pictures. statuayy
| bric-a brac, tapesteries and hangings
that | needed A half pound of cold
ham. a dimes worth of Saratoga
chips and a bottle of milk in the ice
box on the porch would have been a
worthy equivalent of the larders, Gel
lars and $4,000 chefs of the rich aaG
great. But now.
She strung me. She did ii to the
queens taste. She made me think /
was all the table condiments and
the after lunch mints. She did this
for months. Then the little gong on
the top of the clock breaks loose. and
| wake up and rub my eyes.
II wasn't me- Not at all. was re
garded in the light OF a very dear
friend-who was willing to fan for the
price most any old evening. Billy
Chandler was the real bales of costly
merchandise, Billy.
1t was her eyes and her hair-just
hers-her laugh and the way she
moved that got me razzle-dazzled
There's somewhere in the neighbor
hood of 'steen billion girls floatiag
around loose, but there isn't anything
Just exactly Ike her. That's what's the
trouble with me.
Wen, I've got TO buck up and bear
It, Guess III so around to the drug
store and get a cigar and then stroll
down TO the sad lake waves and thino
some more large thoughts, \ fellow
can't think with ragtime playing IL
the room below. Not the kind 0,
thinks I'm having
Three days gone by. I'm still alive
but didn't expect to do the frog act
anyway It's going 10 simmer down
to dull ache after little. I'll have
a feeling like the parluet at five tidr
~ on a matinee afternoon, according
10 the best authorities, and that will
stay with me for the rest of my days,
wonder what that Is they're play
ing now, It's new one to me Yes
it's going to be one great goneness
for Willie Some of these days when
| can bear the pain | shall chase my
self around to whore Mrs. Chandler
lives and see a golden haired little
child skipping the rope On the pave
ment outside or tripping measure to
the strains OF the piano organ. She
will have her mothers eyes.
shall say: Little one, tell mamma |
that an old friend would like to see
her" And she'll come down looking !
as If she's just about all In and with |
only pathetic suggestion of her for
mer beauty. After awhile she will |
say: and you never married.
Never once" / shall say. There |
was only one woman in tue world for
me" Then she'll blush and
guess do not kaow what that is, !
too. They seem 20 be whooping it up |
down there wonder If I'd be con |
sidered fresh II Kicked in? | was to
have the privileges Of the parlor with
the other boarde's so don't see why |
not. Those drug store cigars are
pretty bum
Wonder if thai Miss kesslck isn't |
In the bunch She isn't real horrid to
look at, anyway.
1t doesn't cut any ice with me, of
course. but she certainly is the real ,
Michigan specially, sunripened and
Just as good with the red mosquito bar
OF as with It on. If had only met
her about six months aTp there's no /
telling. But I'm spoiled for anything
else now. The dull ache has set in,
and unless I'm thinking Of something
else, 1t stays right with me, just like
Miss Libby says.
Kessick. Funny thing I never took
any particular notice of her until last
week. | guess | must have been toll
cradle busy since | came here. she
certainly isn't like the factory made
article, isn't little Margaret There's
something to her She's a mixer, all
right. and she'll stand for a joshing
and not Iinger at the come back.
And. while you're talking, that girl :
has got eyes that somebody ought to /.
nut smoked glass over in the interests
Of the public safety. I've seen eyes
before, butt don't suppose ! ought
TO buy her candy on a short ac1uaint-
ance but the candy money I've been
saving the last week or two certainly
ought to have an outlet somewhere.
After a short while, when the bunch
gets together, | must spring myself
for ice cream at the drug store as a
kind of starter I've got 10 do some
thing evenings.
That drug clerk is wise boy. He's
on to his job. all right. no, we
haven't any of that in stock. We don't
carry it anymore, anyway. Here's
something that doesn't cost as much
and it's every bit as good l think
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