The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-12-17


wood as of shafts yielding the ghost of usefuness
roar of mingled distress, a boy suddenly
thrown out of bis reckoning; torrent OF words
Gee, both shafts up With
the limit Me three miles from get
Pas just about right Everything gone dogs
coming back"
Through the cracking
don setter ears alert and friendly inquiry in his brown
eyes close second him, with sturdy trampng
the blackberry bushes, young
exceedingly good looking young manon whom the boy turned
in his wrath forgetf of everything his
"You done it. You know did. why couldn't you
made sort of noise before that
What the man hoy standing the wreck of his
buggy red the face his
manly tears The horse that had helped the mischief
quietly browsing the roadside herbage Taking
ton at glance the boys suppementing
It with long whistle the of
preston on him There laughter in his but his apology
ANONYMOUSLY polite
Il am afraid have gnorany put great Inconvenience
say The doggone old buggy gone all to smash three
miles between me and home and all that stun to
snoulders"
what stur He glanced toward the wreck It was beaped
high with holly branches
stnted yourself Where did you get your greenery3"
The waved HIS hat hensivey
wish dollars plentiful holly
so do would value my property more highly If they
Your prOpertya Then the at the old wat
mot very man. but the watson place is where
live and imagine that is making
With"
tbs oys an added shade Of red 1 suppose &c
e. bit you the rst heard begrudged
Pc dared toward he buggy find himself by
v pair OF strong white hands.
Hold young Peppercorni what did you want with
SO muhi You surely can't expect to kiss girl every
Of those branches" "A. ~
Girl nothing was taking 1t home Moyr q
mo molly s,.,sn wngr M.,, V,,.. ,,oru -EMMMM
saybook2 saybrook? that was the name OF
doctor somebody told to call in If got here"
my fathers doctor but he broke leg year. two
other doctors have moved here and
what makes everything gone to the dogs
with us, and reckon he's just about right"
The man with the slowly crcumnavigatng
sngyy. His musical whistle deepened musical
chsnt The boy forgot his troubles temporarily in listening the
I'm:
my grandpa worlds worn cogs and says we're
ns 70 the cogs his granoad in his house OF
going to the dogs his among bogs vowed
things gong to the dogs; the queer
toys s tnngs going the what wish
to st-te 5le dogs have had an awful wait"
The boy grnned his Say New Man. what
is man in skin togsT
"say have been polite enough give your NAME
want to return the courtesy My French
have fr all folks away up They call me Bernie
think I'd like to hear how 1t would sound down here
solemn old woods"
Bernie" "
II hope speaking to a gentleman"
Lont know about that amt but years yet ana
we go to the dogs faster than we're
Of starving to death before Pm old you I'd like
pa to hear those OF yours"
"oh they're not mine much wiser said that long
time ago"
Say "n aSan please want to say them Molya
my grandpa notes. And to the patterng oarters bare
Feet on the fallen leaves the rhymes repeated
Mr Bernard French consciously fvong time away
But time had no specific value for him lived
alone In house much big always
refshment him On his the young went out
with rush to this handsome stranger it was
the recitation the boy sighed
~ wish Molly could "a heard %'ty-Tn vwyttzs
"Why shouldn't she. otherY' -''" "~-F@S
POOR old Mol! She don't
70 the other She's always working at something"
"Is Miss Saybrook very odT
Il don't know what the family Molly saws herself
that she feels like she'd lived thousand years. knows
enough to "a been here since the began"
what remarkable young old ladyp 80
You're putting 1t just about remarkabe shn
must get awful tired sometimes but Moyd before she'd
whmper You since broke his TO keen
the pot boiling and Amt worth shucks was TO ram
III n n
would be good ddance OF bad rubbish"
~ don't powder gun sit down on this Ioo
with me and will show you load winchester"
much obliged and I'd like awfuly but all this time
poor old Molly just saining her eyes sockets
watching up the road for me-"
"And all this time wondering what you want with M
much stun Now, mind hegrudng Just curious
that's ALL"
"Well dogs Molly is put to Il TO
make dollar here and dime awfuly smart ana
she makes the purtiest weath and
ties rec satin bows Il them and ships a in New
York They say people there stick them
about Christmas time"
"They do l have them with my own eyes, I am glad
my woods full Of the stuff Miss Saybrook needs"
The boy had tund from him inspect load stuff
Jnys with the hope every pricker on the holly
leaves will stick into her for being so brightly"
u think do better than that out yon
der under that big sycamore where We can
that far ana ride Jimmy you can
ride bareback"
look infinite point Frenchs arrange
men but the boys words grateful