The Virginia enterprise., 1909-07-09

great thing these days. You would
never believe, to see Sue Granger of
Betzvllle lick two-cent postage
stamp, that she was born tongue-tied.
She was, though, until she was two
years old, and then a surgeon came
down from the city and loosened up
her tongue, and when he was done she
had the best quantity and quality Of
all-'round tongue in the village. She
has such sizeable tongue that when
she is writing letter it lops out like
a dogs on hot day, and it was only
last week that she bit it badly whilst
fellow that comes up from the city
to see her on Sundays.
I never shall forget that day last
winter when she was walking down
Main street eating a hunk of yellow
taffy and choked on it. Just as she
choked she had to cough and her
tongue flew out and the end hit an
lamp post glued the tip of her tongue
to it so tight that it seemed as if
nothing short of warm weather and a
thaw would ever get 1t loose again.
OF course we're not what you might
call curious-minded in Betzville, but it
amt human nature to see girl stand
ing right in front of the grocery on
our most prominent corner with the
end Of her tongue against lamp
post and her hands waving in the air,
and not take a little interest. So
mostly all the population gathered
there in two minutes, being surprised
to see young lady of our best social
circles rolling her eyes wildly and
connected close up with lamp-post
like she and it was a sort of new
style Siamese twins. We walked all
around Sue and talked it over but we
couldn't make any sense out of it, and
We was just about to decide it was
some new suffragette notion that had
just come to town when Uncle Ash
dod Clute thought he might as we'll
ask Sue. So he did. She rolled her
eyes at him kind of grateful.
''Uth wuth wuth nth uth!" she
said.
Uncle Ashdod is pretty wise old
man, and he guessed what was the
matter right away, and as we seen it
might be incOnvenient for Sue to
stand there that way until warm
weather turned up, on account of that
lamp-post being a favorite hitching-
post, and some horses being biters
and liable to bite Sue on the tongue, so
we set to work and formed a commit
tee to get her loose.
But it wasn't any use Sue Granger
had the most flexible tongue l ever
saw, and when the fellows had pulled
her back to the window of the gro
cery store they saw the tongue wasn t
going to come loose at either end, so
they let go, and the tongue contracted
like a rubber band and yanked SUI,
across the sidewalk and slammed her
up against the lamp-post. All she said
was "Uth!" but we could see she did
not like it. And she wasn't going to
have it tried again, either, for she
wrapped her arms around that lamp.
post and hugged it tight.
Then the committee didn't know
what to do! We walked around and
around that hmp-post and studied the
situation, and then we saw that when
Sue had slammed up against it two OF
three more lengths of her tongue had
struck the iron post and glued them.
selves onto it tight Well, 1t was
. lucky it was a lamp-post, anyway, fol
while we were cogitating over it night
came on, and all we had to do was to
light the lamp on top Of the post. It
made it more cheerful for Sue. So
when We had done that and had got q
high ONCE stool so she could sort OF
sit down we felt that the committee
had done about all it could for that
evening, and we adjourned: But Uncle
Ashdod Clute saw that 1t wasn't right
to leave a girl out that: way all night
alone, and that she ought to have q
chaperone, so he 6ent =. for; .Au1,
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would be glad to chaperone Sue, but
she didn't believe q word Of that non