The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-16

Of the nsehbo5ng farmers wives s had hap
morning, they would have remarked with anliable
suggestion late with your b5sak shsd
before She answered. She usually laughed first and
gh ss pnd s joy e iSues s OF
the untranslated emotion, and interpreted it later.
But the white farmhouse at the end of the line of
and ne one likely to disc her
vagsries. It had been such good morning! She
ing water from ono milk to another with a deft
turn while the rising cloud of steam dampened the ten
drs of blonde hair blown about her forehead by the
breeze from the open door.
Robert had done the clurning out on the broad back
Dc though ns se to s ae he
enough. year ago, when she had first entered upon
I o a asy If e4 hs
low had been m to Point int M
to make butter? He could take Milburn, and the
n,oncl would buy-shc would show him what the money
"a regular little farmer" Robert had laughingly
called her saving that nc believed she liked the country
course she. did; she had known. it would be that
way She had added that she would have liked South
Africa or Alaska-but he had not let her finish the
So this morning she had chosen to work her butter
out on the porch packing away sweet and rm IN the
little brown jars, while the morning GOODNESS still
in the air AS she pated and squeezed the golden mass,
the % % ne % @ the el3 e ps Tss
work Of the grapevine that grew the end Of the porch
was dotted with buds Of misty green tipped and veined
utterng feathered bali Of oy and had taken her into
his confidence with gush Of song, then flown away
tW esp little things they Should better
place to build she could get the butter out OF
the way Although she could not have put it into words,
she fc herself at with all nestbuildng creatures:
She part Of this vibrating harmony of color and
When she went down into the cool gloom of the eel
lar with the butter jars she rumaged out an old starch
saw and hammer borrowed from the barn. set work
to make it habtable She not skilful carpenter
dee see Of em ong in and
then turned but they held rather better that way
so it did not matter She surveyed the result with an
air of amused satisfaction and when, standing on
chair to REACH she had nailed the box to limb of the
old apple tree she thought it looked quite honelke
defects defects Robert would laugh when he saw it.
The wrens still fitting in and out Of the pump
seductive spout while the birds chartered adly weak
little creatures sometimes will when higher intelligence
had broken off great armfu and crowded them into
could see them while he ate his dinner:
All this had made the dishwashing late AS she set
epped to- watch agn She not
them-sna and slight With quick ways and bright
e sss s the gdse the posbes
of the starch box One of them perched on the top and
Aes ss d o He
was and companionship and the making of home to-
trailing from its spout as at vanquished destroyer Of
domestic felicity and went back to her dishes When
they baSs s 5n I'd, At the
It made of the events of her day to go down the
long lane under the naples and unlock the ma lib on
her pink dress uering about her ankles but she came
back slowly her head bent over letter. the swiftly al
ternating and shadow passing like rppes over her
bright hair.
As she slipped the letter back its envelope she
where the warm brown earth lay ellowing in the
Then she little decisive skip and running along
the soft at the side OF the ane she entered
her kitchen flushed and breathess.
When the team, their heavy harness creakng and the
passue to the BY the stood
in the door; dinner was ready Robert following some
and then strobe on swinging it BY his side How tall
and strong he was She could the crisp curve of his
black hair and the whteness of his forehead above the
line Of tan
She the dinner the table, then ran out to meet
him as he came from the barn ..,:-.
his hand and trying suit her step to his long stride
"Of course you are"
more nice things. Oh look at my bird house!'
critically Sticks Sticks projected from the opening al
pqessd their the @ m and nao
Birds like IT. that's all that's neess
sYou ssan't know about it until you're ready 70
figure ran ahead of him and disappeared through TIL
dning-room door. When Robert came in she wa
pouring the coffee.
"Whew!" as he saw the spreading branches Of appl
blossoms; regular little orchard in here Amt the
pretty? I believe they're fuller this year than com
mon'
.What do they remind you OFF, Alice asked as sh
gave him his coffee
Apple pie" he answered sententiousy, with just tn
hint Of a culver at the corner of his mouth
Robert Alice tried to look severe Have yo
forgotten what day it is next Thursday? It's ann
versary. have been wondering what could do
to be different from any other day-altogethe
different
Robert leaned back in his chair, smiling at her;
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