The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-05-19
CHAPTER vi.
A PIN and a Proposal.

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Don't you know every woman's heart
rs soft towards counting whether she's in
1t or not?"
Miss Selma Lue
Good morning Miss Seliny Luei I
jest run in to git some nutmeg, a
pound of sugar and quart of kero-
sene to make up some apple-pies for
Mr.. Kenney's supper; he do love 'em
So"
There never was such hand as
you fer pies, Mis- Kinney, honey. I
recommended you about 1t to Miss
Cynthie not week ago. told her Il
would git you to show her how when
wen, we was a-talking that over
last night, me and Mary Ellen Dobbs,"
interrupted Mrs. Kinney, 'tand we
think it is fine fer Miss Cynthie ter
marry him, even If he is painter;
cause when pictures is dull he can
git signs and SIGH to do to keep go
ing When will it be. Miss Seliny
Lue?" And she gathered the bundles
in one arm and balanced the oil-can
in the other hand. ready to hurry on
as soon as she had extracted the NOR
sci of news she had run upon.
.sWhy, Mis- Kinney, never heard -
Miss Selma Lue's eyes were wide with
astonishment.
well. think 1t was, to say the
least. disrespectful in him and her not
to have told you, him a-living In your
own barn and she so appearing to be
loving OF you all the time | hate to
think she's deceitful girl, but must
say / did mistrust that fower-garden
hat when seen it the other day go
by with Ethel Maud and Bonnie
Dobbs''
Il don't know what you mean. Mis-
Kinney, by speaking so about Miss
Cynthie, They don't nothing in this
world hurt me like hearing one Of my
friends make light Of another" And
Miss Selma Lue's Irish eyes snapped.
Law, Miss Seliny Lue. didn't
mean 40 harm! IL jest"
81 know you didn't, Mis- Kinney,
honey. hMt sometimes little criticiz-
inea fly the track and run into some
body that's easy hurt" said Miss Sc
lima Lue.
Well jest seen them setting here
in the door yesterday when you was
up the river with the Dobbses and
they was as thick as two peas in a
pod. her a-laughing and him a-talking
fer all he were worth. You may not
know counting when you see it, Miss
Seliny Lue, not having ever BEEN
mis- Kinney. child. don't you know
every woman's heart is soft towards
counting. whether she's in 1t or not
! and every mans, too. for5that matter
though they tries hard to hide It? II
amt only on count of my pitiful his.
tory with Adoniram Millsaps or your'n
with Mr. Kinney that we hikes to
watch the doings of young folks and
talk EN- over-it's horned in women
to hatch out and hover lovers match,
ings and the cluclzing over Penn is part
OF the good times of life, was jest
a-saying to-"
Miss Seliny Lue!" screamed Ben
ME from the Dobbs' front stoop
Come quick. come quick; Ethel
Maud's caught her hair in the grape
vine and's hanging by it. She was
eating 'em! Mas sicki"
Miss Selma Lue hurried with all the
8 speed possible to the relief OF the
young Absalom. and Mrs. Kinney call
ed after her, BE sure and rub cam
phire on the roots whether Of the
vino ar Ethel Maudss hair che Hid M,
say.
When she returned to the grocery
half an hour later Miss Selma Lue
found Miss Cynthia smiling at hel
from the back door. Miss Cynthia's
approach had been guarded. and in
stead Of coming down the public
street, she had slipped through the
garden and the chicken yard Miss
Cynthia risked no encounters with