Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-02
DAILY SHORT STORIES

W ihc hNSk uuN ttSutut ttu utCk 10
the barn. aud all the while was
tEinkm' who that gal was that wansc.
me SO bad. thort over all the gals
roundabout. but couldn't hit ON any
one OF 'em as had ever appearel-t
take any interest into me. Then 10
membered the barn dance n week ~
fore and alf-the gals I'd danced WIN.
but couldn't think o. any one on 'em
as had looked longin' at ma Marthy
Beams haa always been frien'iy to
ward me, and onct she'd invited me to
tea. wondered II It could be Marthy.
There was big cornhuskin, a few
days after my meetin' with Sairy Hig.
gins. and ! was there. 90 was Marthy.
She was sittin' on a pile OF corn, and
jined her. both huskfns hard. When /
struck red ear tried to kiss her,
md she fit ~
But later on, when I was huskin'
with Hepxt jenkins. I got another red
ear and kissed her without her maxim
any fuss DIT all. SO concluded to
name Hepzi for my first guess.
When Invent TO see Sairy Higgins
on Sunday night found her with a
new dress on and lookin' spick and
spap When tole her I'd thort furst
o. htimin' Marthy Beams, but had set
tea on Hepxi Jenkins and why I'd
chqhged from one to the other she
larffd hard and said: IL heard YOU
waS-n- fool about gals, but I didn't
think you was rs big fool as that.
You'd orter known that Marthy want
ed y tte7 kiss her. and Hepzi didn't
care whether you kissed her or not"
Wnal, Sairy and set together TIL 10
o'clock; then went away. l l5cp' my
eye skinned durin' the week for some
other gal as looked as II she'd taken
a likin' to me, but could see nothin'
particular In airy one OF 'em. Sunday
some, and I hadn't n guess. Then a
student thort struck me. Sairy had nd
mitted that Marthy Beams had wanted
me TO kiss her. "She Ia the gal, after
an" shouted. and when l went to see
Sairy that night guessed Marthy.
She said I'd struck It dead wrong.
Ididn't git away from the Higginses
till ii O'Clock that Sunday night. /
started to go several times. but sairy
always chilled me back 10 tell me some
thin. When I did git away and walk
al along the road under the starlight II
loocured' to me that ia hada bang-utJ
ina evenin'. And II struck Hi,e with a
heap o. force that wouldn't mind
hayin' Sairy herself to hum, SOS
wouldn't have 60 go out anywhere
nights for company. But I'd made I'D
pietur I'm my mind OF the gal that
wanted me. and I KEEP a-dressin' It up
finer and finer from week to week till
when i called on Sairy for the third
guess tole her 1 didn't want none o.
the gals knowed-I wanted the pic.
tur'. rE I0k
Sairy looked kind o. mifred Mt thia
and tole me l couldn't guess an Inn
aginary pusson. So the guess. was lost.
This visit was longer than the last one.
About IL o'clock / was goin' home. but
Sairy said needed somepin TO walk
on. so she brought out n snack ana n
Jug o. cider. and II was II before we
finished 'em. Somehow when we
shook hands at partin' our fingers kind
O got stuck together. and It was some
time before we let 60.
When I was a-wallxin' along home
IL was moonlight this tIne--I looked
up at the moon. and Sairy seemed TO
be lookin' outen it, smilln' at me. And
thort that 1 only had one more guess
as to the gal as wanted mo. And I
thort, too, bgosh, didn't keer whether
] guessed right or not. Ef did guess
right II would end my visits TO sairy.
Then I thort It would be a good idea
to git Sairy 10 give noe four more
SOS / could go and see her
four more Sunday nights.
WAL. when the mex Sunday come
round Il was hard waitin' all day-not
hayin' the reg'Iar work 70 do-for time
to come when could go ana see sairy.
As it~was, got there airlier than usu-
" As soon as we was set on the gofy
sairy gaid. says she:
"Y0dsGo to guess right this time.
cause j told you ef you didn't ia tell
you anyway. And wouldn't do that
for the best milkih' COW on your
farm"
What makes you object so strongf"
"Ef you was a gal you'd object to
tehint q thing like that too"
'WeiL"' says !. you needn't worrit
about II. for ! don't keer tinker's
cuss about that gal as wants me. for I
don't wnnt her list want to come
here reRHr Sunday nights guessln'
about her"
Sairy give little sucker at this and
sided up closer TO me. though we was
about as clost rs we couId GIT before.
And she says, Kind o. sorrowful. I'm
Altered that can't he"
why nof?" suys T.
WAL. people would begin TO talk"
Talk about whatY"
They'd be sayin' we was engaged"