Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-11-14
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By o. HENRY.

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I'LL crazy ana broken themselves INTO
small strips called places These
| places make strange angles ana curves
one street crosses Itself time or two.
An artlSt once discovered IL valuable
POSSIBILITY III TINS street suppose Il
collector with a Dill for paints, paper
ana canvas should III traVerSlhS thlS
route suddenly meet hllnSef coming
pack without Il cent having peeh pald
on account!
SO to quaint old Greenwich village
the art people soon came prowling,
hunting for north windows and eight
eenth century gables and Dutch attics
and low rents. Then they imported
some pewter mugs and a chatting dish
or two from Sixth avenue and became
"colony."
At the top of a Squatty three story
brick Sue and JOhnSy had their studio.
Johnsy WAS familiar for Joanna. One
was from Maine, the other from Cal
ifornia. They had met at the table
dhote of an Eighth street "Delmon-
ico'S' and found their tastes in art,
chicory salad and bishop sleeves 50
conScnial that the Joint studio resulted.
Ihat was IN May. In November
cold, unseen stranger, whom the doc
tors called lheumohla, stalked about
the colony, touching one here and there
with his Icy finger. over on the east
side this raVager strobe boldly, smlt-
Ing his victims by scores, but his feet
trod slowly through the maze of the
narrow ana moss grown places.
MI Pneumonia was not what you
would call chIvaIrlc Old gentleman.
a mite OF little woman with blood
thlnned by Calllorhla zephyrs was hard
ly falr game for the red fSted, short
breathed old duifer. But JohnSy he
slho'e, ana She lay' scarcely moving,
on her painted IRON bedstead, looking
throu%h the small O'ltch WlndoWpanes
at ths oiahk slde OF the next prlck
mousse
one morning lhe puS! doctor invited
sue li'o 'ne halI"av Win shaggy
gray eyebrow.
Nle mas one chaice H. iet us say
teh' he Sald as ne shook down the
mercury III ms cllhlcaI thermometer
ana lhat chahce Is lor hef 10 want
TO I'VE. inns way people nave OF IN
ing up on the SIDE OF the undertaken
makes the entire pharmacopoela look
silly. Your niue lady mas made up
her mlnd that sheS not gong TO get
well. has She anything on her NINA
She-she wanted to pant the bay
OF Naples some day sald sue.
RANT: boSh! las she anything on
her NINA worth thinking about Twice
a man. for inStanceE
"A mani sald sue, with JeWsharp
tWahS III her voice rs man worth
but, no, doctor' lheFe IS hothllS Oh the
KIND,
ell, 1t IS the weakness, theh' sald
the doctor. i Will 40 all that science
so lar as IL may inter through my Ell
1ortS, can accomplish. But whenever
my patient begins to count the car
rlageS i'll her funeral procession sub
tract oo per cent from lle curative
power or medicines. II you VIII get
her 10 ask one question ABOUT the new
winter styles IN cloak sleeves Will
promise you a one IN hVe chance FOR
her instead OF one III ten.
After the doctor had gone Sue went
INTO the Wofhroonl anu crleu d Japa-
lleSe hilpklh 10 ii pup linen Sile s"as
Seleu lllt" 'ohisH loo'l WIN iei
ura Wig poaro' "nlS'ii'iS l"S'ili1e.
JohhSy iay' Scarcely masking ripple
uhuer tlle peuclo'heS, Win her l"ce TO
Ward lhe WlhuoW' sue stopped Wits
'IlnS' 'hihAllls She was aSleep'
Hhe arr'llSeu her poaru ana peS'il
pen anu lliA wing 10 Illustrate d
iaas"Hlhe Story Ao"ils arllS's must
pave lheir way TO "rt D! ola" i'iS pc
lures lor n'aS""ihe stories 'ii"' souhS
authors "rl'e 10 pave ''ieir way u
'lleralure'
AS sue was SNelCiilnS " p'n VI cle-
giant ho'Se Slio" ri''''is TROUSERS anu d
Idaho cowhov she heard n low sound
several times repeated She went
ouicklv to the bedside
Johnsy's ewes were open wide. She
was looking ont the window and count
inr-countiur backward
"Twclye" she said and little later
.eleven." and then ten" and "nine,' u
and then eight and "seven" almost
together
Suo lool,d .orinitors1v out the win.
dow What was therc to count? There
,.os onr,, - h,ro dreorv ward to be
ooor and tho lJ,nl, side of the brick
house tvortv foot away An old old