Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-09-14
HAVING A
GOOD CRY
Likewise an Exciting Time
and Then Consolation.
BY DONALD ALLEN.

Pretty Viola Craydon had come
down to visit her aunt in her country
home, and for a week she had been
supremacy happy. There were chick
ems and ducks and geese, there We're
guinea hens and doves and rabbits,
there were innocent lambkins and
frolicking calves, and she had tried TO
milk COW, fallen off q fence and
churned two pounds Of butter. But
for Arthur Tyson this dream of bliss
might have continued another week.
and pretty Viola might have climbed
to the roof Of the wagon shed. sold
paper rags to tin peddler and gone
blackberrying down in the meadow as
a continuance of her romantic adven-
lures.
Arthur Tyson had not only fallen in
love with her. but he was intending to
ask for her hand. He hadn't pub
lished his intentions in any Of the
journals or told the country postmls-
tress what was in his mind, but Miss
Viola had line ON him. You can't
fool a girl about such things. The
man who is counting her may talk
about the joys of bachelor life and
pretend to be cynic on affairs OF
sentiment, but she can read him like
book. When Arthur had said that
he would arrive at Viola's aunts on
the 14th-running down in his auto in
the forenoon and running back to the
city again in the evening-there was
look in his eyes that said there would
be something doing.
The 14th came, and then things be-
gan to happen. A letter arrived from
Arthur to say that his grandmother
wanted him to hurry to her dying ben
side; a big bumblebee came droning
along, even as Viola was reading the
letter while seated ON the veranda,
and stung her on the bare arm;
windmill man called on business and
tried to f1rt with her, she was chased
out of the barnyard by calf and
chased back again by turkey COB
bier, the dog got hold Of her cute sum-
mer hat and chewed it up, and she
fell down cellar while going after pre-
serves and landed on top of the fam
lily cat.
Several other vexatious things Oc-
Cured between the morning OF the
14th and noon of the next day, and an
hour after dinner Miss Viola made up
her mind to have good cry. If she
cried in the house her aunt, who was n
sharp eyed old lady. would see her
tears and ask questions; if she went
to the barn to cry among the cackling
hens and new mOwn hay the hired
man would come stumbling in; if she
hid away behind the grape arbor or
the currant bushes there were bugs to
crawl down her back as soon as she
was off her guard.
Down across the meadow and half a
mile from the house there was small
grove. and the disconsolate girl finally
made up her mind that her tears of
sorrow should be shed around the roots
of those trees. Her manner Of lodging
her aunt and getting out of the house
and down to the grove would have
been called making sneak" by some.
but pretty girl who is looking for a
crying place should not be judged too
harshly.
She found the grove capital place
for her business. There were shade
and uuietness and the whispering of
the summer breeze through the leaves.
and Miss Viola went at it and let the
tears fall, her chin CULVER and her sobs
eat, hn oh cd
was taking a daytime nap on branch
above her head.
Mr.. Tyson fastened to the bedside
Of his dying grandmother, thinking
that it would be a whole week before
she would die and be buried and the
will mentioning him as sole heir read
Upon his arrival a glad surprise await
ed him. 1t was case of bilious colic
only, caused by eating too heartily OF
rornef beef and cabbage at the al
vanced age of eightythree,
He would have FASTENED away at
once, but the grandmother objected,
She had II story to tell-a story of how
that collie gruSpcd and grippel her ana
lasted ten hours before the doctor
could bring relief. 1t took her all day
TO finish the story. and then it took her
nephew several hours in addition to
convince her that If he did not hasten
back to town the whole United States
would turn turtle.
He made things hum when he got
started. but it was midafternoOn of
the 10th when his auto arrived within
cannon shot of the farmhouse which
sheltered the girl he meant to make
his wife and of the grove wherein
sad eyed maiden sat and wept-that
is. she wasn't sitting there just then
She had other business on hand.
At l o'clock that afternoon at the
railroad station, two miles away, n
train bearing 100 lunatics on their
way to Il newly completed asylum had
been shunted on to the side track to
let the express pass. They were given
refreshments. and all Of sudden.
while the guards were about their
hospitable work and their vigilance re
Taxed. Il dozen of the unfortunate PEG
pie. men and women. escaped from the
cars and scattered over the country.
OF course they were instantly pur-
sued. but three or four Of them got