The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-12-24

UTduCneS OIL luS lTteS III ANSM VI o
Central Park, and an April sun
frightened the unshaded lawns be-
meath them, so that the air was at
once warm and cold. A couple walk
ing down the mall remarked this phe-
nomenon. He lilsened the weather to
mixed drink, and she encouraged
him with pretty show of teeth.
BLOWN ITSELF" he said of the
wind that tugged at her Sunday skirt,
tossing the feathers in her hat ana
blowing wisps Of her disordered hair
about her face.
She put them back with:
"It'll blow me to bits"
"Come an see the circus" he sug-
gested, meaning the menagerie. "The
monkey house-we'll be out of the
wind there"
"All right she agreed. They're
sunnin', amt they?-the monkeys"
Sure" he nodded "Are yeh
eold?" looking at her with more ad-
miration than solicitude. 1t was
plain that he spoke only as an excuse
for that look.
"Cold?" she laughed. Are you?
Put on yer coat, wy don't yeh? Aw,
io.'
The coat hung on his arm. He
protested that he was not cold; he
had only thought that she might be
30.
saw, put it on" she urged.
Now, no man of any spirit will put
On his overcoat in such a case. That
would be to acknowledge either that
he had not sense enough to know
when he was cold, or wisdom enough
20 put on the coat. knowing it.
Say" he said, waits the use of me
putin on the coat wen don't want
lt?"
"Yeh might put it on wen | ask
yeh," she pouted.
Jaw, say he appealed to her.
SWELL" she defended herself, "yeh
never do wat ask yeh."
The defense was lame, inasmuch
rs they had met only three times as
yet, and she had never asked him to
do anything for her before. How
ever, he saw that this affair promised
trouble.
"Gee!" he said, 81 amt goin' teh
scrap about it," thrusting an arm into
a sleeve of his coat.
She turned to him, all smiles.
"Yeh needn't put it on, if yeh don't
want it, she said.
"Sure, don't want 1t, he said. 81
tol yeh that
She took the coat from him, and
folded 1t over his arm.
SILLY she laughed, squeezing his
hand.
He grlnned at once.
"All right, all right he said GAS
Ions you're happy
She took his arm with an air OF
ownership, and they turned down the
path toward the menagerie. On or
binary days she was factory girl and
he a bricklayer, but this was a spring
Sunday afternoon, and they were a
pair for the poets. Several hundred
other couples on the crowded walk
were in the same happy condition,
but planets revolving in common
space could not be at further cry from
one another Each pair was the CEN
tire of its own solar system, with the
other worlds circling about in outer
darkness.
Therefore, these two went arm In
arm with Coney Island frankness, as
II they were the sole inhabitants of a
new Garden of Eden. They were just
on the pleasant verge of an intimacy
which each, unknown to the other,
very much desired. He turned greed
lily to her, and she to him, to hear the
lightest word. They impeded the
mid-stream of promenaders while he
turned up the collar of her jacket.
When he guided her around a corner,
helped her up step or passed her
through the crowd before him he
reached protective arm about her
waist and let 1t remain long after
these slight excuses for it's presence
there had passed. He wore his hat
jauntily on one side of his head. and
he tried to be witty beyond telling.
Wen getta peanutty fer de
monk, he said. swinging her around
to vendor of nuts and candies.
How mucha? Fiya centa? Sure, "
and paid out the coin like man OF
money. He put the bag of peanuts in
the coat pocket that was nearest her,
and invited her 10 help herself
which she did. Necessarily, his hand
met hers sometimes in the pocket,
and held 1t there until the difficulties
OF making a passage through the
crowd parted them again. He chaffed
her delicately because she ate SO
many nuts Here" ne said. "yehll
make yerself sick. You amt the
monkey got them fer"
She smiled gayiy. winking a happy
eye at him as abe broke a shell be.
tween her small white teeth. 1t Ii
certain that he looked longingly al
the lips that parted to show those
teeth.
"Arc yeh tryin teh make monke,
II me?7 she asked
This overwhelmingly witty retort
soming 50 unexpectedly. jolted him