The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-02-17
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VIraInIa-a VoaetabIe Garden

digging In her vegetable garden
Il don't see her aunt sad, 4why
you like 10 dig IN the dirt
Virginia flushed alf you would let
me have llownl 81" she began
Il never could fuss WITH Flowers
Miss Coyncliu grumhled They ain'i
uttIul And lebtlletaofn people being
3useful aid things being nseftne
Virginid0 ia hot ar&ne the dues
tion. ~ avt'lVirsina did not argue
anything She was still fair. shrink
/ ug child, In spite OF her q years
She bad come 60 live with her aunt
when she was little SRI, and Il had
not taken her long TO find out that
argument With that strong. stern per-
sonality was like beating her head
against 4 stone wall
The one compensation for the lack
OF sympathy which she found III her
homo was the beauty of The country
surrounding t. virginia's childhood
had boon spent In the city. ana her
SGnts rlmhing white house, With the
orchard 10 the right OF It, and with
The garden TO the left Of II, and the
stretch OF wooded land tehiud 1t.
alled her soul with delight, II was In
he spring that she liked 1t best.
Miss Cornelias ideas as to the du
Ues Of young women we're old,fash
laned She ked to see Virginia per-
forming domestic tasks In the Kitchen
or in the living room, where they
sewed together
hui Virginia loved the out Of doors
She had begged The privilege OF talk
ag care Ot the vegetable garden when
I she foWd that she could not have
lowers, OF late, too there had beer
A deeper reason for Virgiuia's Joy In
4 her outof-door work, Across the
@Ate was Snojhet garden. and II
. galtlen some lhne worked whose
whistle was as cieHr as the call u
y yae hlackhird on thesGence. Now ane
'hcn the whistle would stop aud &
Voice would give a rheery greeting tt-
I lrginia
y Virginia always sent back tinlld an
swers. Miss Cornelia had no use foi
he n0lghhars on the 0thee side o
The fence She called them shiftless
yud refused 10 reeognxe that the sor
the family w,ls different from tho
others. She would nut admit tha
is Industry WAS tedeening The scrub
hy farm thai his father had lot run Il.
waste, indeed Mrs tssabam's get
len promised 10 he superior TO Nils
sniaS Virginia had spoken OF &
thar morning hi a shy conversation
per The fence
z don't see how YOU make your
lvst8ee and ralshes GROW So fast
she had murmuled, Mime are JUS
faeglnning 70 show above the ground,
\ snd yours will be ready TO eat he
.ore many days
Well man knows more about
such things Mark had said. With u
glance at The slender hands on the
fence rail 1, doesn', seem as II q
Woman ought 10 dig.n
oh, ia die il didn't Aunt Cor
nelia would keep no sewing IN the
Aouse, and love To he on, Of doors
It's a shame Maek muttered.
that you cannot do rs you please.
i l--" lie stopped suddenly.
Virginia knew what he wanted Il
say 10 her She knew that he loved
aer. and she knew too. that he would
acrer tell her as long as he was q
poor and struggling farmer. She
irew that even Il he did ask her Miss
'crnelia would never consent TO she,r
narrigse
She sighed and he saw her shadow
a eyes,
Y wish could ten you all that
5 Ia my heart Virginia. Mark said
Nieglnia smiled hravely and said,
SNl NoW mustn't MarA" and then she
had run away from him into N,
houSr
Miss Cornelia bsd scen The i've hy
;hc fence and had resolved ta keep
Virginia. Il possible. Om of the ga,-
len Miss Cornelia had her own IDEAS
shout m0'r'moay FOR her niece. The
NoWng doctor IN town who called now
ami thcM and whose admiration Of
Virginia WAS Obvious. haa money na.
+ uen and a gOod prsCtice Therefore
MiSs Corncia argued, ii Virginia
married why not marry ne doctor
NifSMM Used isv docinr. Int whom
Size Ndc with nun ur walked with
aim 0r talked w'rh him On ihc vile
t0m poVh there came 10 her no such
a'ouenlS 1T ocsisey as she felt h
these hriel meellHgs with MaFk M
Pc division ijur 0f ihe two gardcnS
somehow IN her A'Aa Aa-k seemed
assecalcd with the woods. The hlle
SkN aud ihe slnSAltN She Knew Il
,ht m~led tae doc.oe she wnnl
hANe io live in ioNn SAu, ua IN tae
rs aoIso lha, bad coynt 10 HIM from
Is stauliataer en- iae Olhcg hand
seveaer Il she married The doctor
NVNU Elsc hal ihC pretty lhNgs
Aef sool cENel foe even as Virginia
oNed thc pinN and white vi the or
rha 4 and 'as Nluo 20 Zoe SKY "a She
owed tee 6f'ntness 81 Silhen g0Nu>
aa he sparkle ol Jewels
Agce4@e g lhat eig shvu ihe doc
' HSkcd hpT ,n aArrv h,a,. Nirgn'a
pn' MIN 0lf With iiM haN pro.n
tSp
= uin> .hiak ahoa, W sn ssis
aua went 81 lied 20 DE- awake ana
wOaslcr 4 sac ceal3 1Ne fAr resi- al
Scr hsc IN iae Dim ola hvNSc Ii toWN
NHh q riaa sht 3sl no i0se
la' ihc nsoCp,Ns s1c went Oat rariy
ie motN IA the sars~n she coUii
eeat Marks NNiS,se. bus tftn whvn
dt g8liei Goa fn.ogulng. she sla nct
sc-e.'e fearN Ele- broad hs' hia her
a0faine cee,,l,s and her hands ,rem-
SEA SSosAe eRe ashera her raalsAes
Frcseath sfN'.k came cioser sns cGli