The Cairo bulletin., 1909-08-23

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farm well enough and my relatives
were awfully good to me but-wel!,
| decided I'd rather pass the rest OF
my vacation in town.
You must have had some reason
for changing your mind?"
ITS quite story, but you are wei
come to it, dear on condition thar
you don't repeat II. You see, the
second morning after | got to Cherry
Hill ] had a letter from Aubrey John
son saying that he was coming to see
me and telling me not to make an ca
gagement with any country swain be
cause he could stay only one evening
and he wanted me all to himself
"Of course you We're excited
II planned moonlight row on the
river. | thought 1t would be grand
well, Aubrey had just arrived and
had hardly more than been introduced
to Uncle Dan, Aunt Hattie and my
bachelor cousins when terrific thun-
derstorm came up. It grew into
steady rain and we all had TO 80 into
the stuffy little sitting room. could
have cried, but of course there was
nothing to do but to make the best
of it.
Aubrey came at seven O'Clock and
the whole family sat there with MS
until $50 They entertained him with
talk about the crops, the bad roads
and how scarce hired help was get
ting in the country. At last Uncle
Dan yawned and said; Come, moth
er, it's our bedtime If you young
folks want to sit up little While
longer, ali right
Il couldn't help being glad when
Cousin heb said TO Cousin Dan that
they'd better go. too, for they had hay
to cut early the next morning if the
rain stopped.
After they had shaken hands with
Aubrey ana left the room Aubrey said
they were decent chaps to think of
the haying just then. and he changed
his seat to the sofa where was sit
ting. In about minute Uncle Dan
surprised us by coming into the room
with lighted lantern
II thought you'd have pretty hard
work finding your wny back to the
cross roads in the dark, Mr.. Johnson,
he said. You can leave this lantern
| at the hotel and Ieb'll get it when he
| goes to the creamery in the morning.
"Of course Aubrey thanked him and
said good night again lie was just
| turning the Kerosene lamp down Il
| little--the glare made the room so
| hot you know--when Cousin Zeb re-
| turned.
81 guess them patent feathers Of
| yours would be about spoiled IL you
tramped in EN- through the mud he
remarked as he handed Aubrey a big
| pair of rubber boots You Just take
EN- off and wear these. You can
carry your shoes and I'll get the boots
| tomorrow at the hotel
you're very kind, said Aubrey.
Say went on Xeb, If youll wait
a minute I'll get my rubber coat for
you. That's pretty thin-looking
suit you We got on.
I'm wait Aubrey replied
"Then he and discussed the wealth
| er from distant corners of the room
! while Zeh was gone After Deb had
| left us again and Aubrey had re.
sumed his seat on the sofa and was
beginning to tell me how he had
| wanted to see me so much, he was
! interrupted by the appearance OF
! Cousin Dan.
1T was awful careless of us noe
| to think to offer you an umbrella, he
! said as he produced huge old GOV.
ton affair thought of it just now
Here's one you can take all the way
to the city if you want to and send j,
back any time
| when we were once more alone
| Aubrey gave me the funniest look
and said: I'm going now quick be
fore your aunt comes down in her
| wrapper with a chest protector fci
4 me- | wanted to talk to you about
something special. but I'll wait TIL
you get back to the lonesome city
where there aren't so many Interrupt
tons Good-by, little girl
Then he went away with the rub
Der boots. the rain coat. the umbrel
la and the lantern.
l. Well the next day I made up my
mind that 1t was kind of dull in the
country and Ia rather be back in
town, 90 ! came home I'm having Z
lovely time Aubrey takes me some
where every night and"
Are you and he engaged" inter
rupted the girl friend excitedly.
Il was just going to show you the
ring" answered Mabel, bushing
Quick Change.
| E.tfv-yps that handsome younp