Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-04-15
A LETTER FROM BENNY

I
don't understand a great deal of what
they dc read; but here ana there a
passage comes out OF the printed page
and writes on the readers heart
Alien Polly Eckersley was gofug II
sleep over Emerson. she came upon
those words. Hitch Your wagon 10
a star
That's Benny" said Polly. he's
He wrote TO her every mali. and
Polly read each letter every day till
the next came, and thought about
them In school and out, during the
evening classes thar made her SO
SLEEPY and in her lonely lodgings
How Polly first came To be a teach
ef i really cannot say. Never sure
~ was girl less fitted for the vocation
She was about the last person in
the world who should have had 10
live by herself. She was such a chat
lterboN that she chatted to her
self When she was alone She would
nave chartered to Mrs. Burrage. her
iandjady, but that good woman did
not approve of her ways. She
! though Polly queer
But then Polly was nobodv's girl
but Benjy's, and he was too far away
TO keep her in order. Benny was i'm
Burmah, getting on famously, some
/
Polly, but not before he had made
a fortune out of teak
benly was writing letter, He
lay back YEARLY, gasping for breath,
for the heat was oppressive
This is glorious country" wrote
Benny I am writing in the YER
| anda of the bungalow as there is
such nice breeze there" glove.
that's a good Bit" ne exclaimed
t"The longer / stop here the more | am
| convinced that there is money in
teak. Mastering strength for an
other effort of fiction, he wrote on
herccly. I'm lust off to polo
match. so haven't time for much at
present Life Is so fun of interests
out here, ones time gets fun up be
fore fellow knows where he is"
| I'That's good" reflected BenjyD
"But you know | never forget nay own
little girl toiling away in her school
so far away. and in the gayeSt scenes.
my heart always turns to my Polly"
There" said Benny, He sealed up
| the letter Just i'm case-in case
get worse-buI / shan't / don't want
to miss the mail After when we re
married, We'll have many a laugh over
these fairy tales
And then Benny called his native
servants and gave orders to start for
the European station For the last
month inconsistencies had been strong
on HMM the intervals between the
attacks of malaria that took more
hold on him every time. And SO great
had grown his longing for the speech
of his COuntrymen that he threw up
the sponge and made tracks for the
station and hospital and English faces
Benny dosed himself tiercely on the
Journey.
Il shall he all right now I'm here
away from that hole said Benny
And then the face of the Engishman
faded in a mist, and in its stead came
Polly's face, dimplins and smiling, and
| Polly'S voice soOthed him, and il was
into Pollys ears that his hoarse
whispers were poured, He pegged
out very happily" said the old doctor,
And he mailed Benjy's last letter, and
wrote another by the next weeks mail
to Benjy's girl in England.
Polly hurried home to her lodging.
| tired and put out. but vastly Cheered
| by the expectation of a letter awaiting
her 1t had seemed a long week, and
today had been the longest day. She
had lost her temper. and boxed an inn
pudent boys ears, and was expecting
| a deputatiOn of angry mothers. She
/ wanted a letter badly to cheer her up.
Even on the stretch of moorland
| road between the village proper and
the cluster of cottages where Polly
lodged there was very little breeze
that evening and her head achcd,
| When she found a group Of angry
women waiting for her on the door
step Polly was very near to CRYING
Polly was to tired to argue with
them. She let herself in quickly and
hut the door i'm their faces The
6euptation uttered few shril threats
md departed in a body to lay the case
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