Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-06-02
CHAPTER vi.
A Fin and a PROPOSAL,

Fin and proposal.
Don't you know every wornans heart
Is soft towards counting whether she's In
al not?"
Miss Selma Lue.
Good mornYHg. Miss Seliny Luei l
Jest run in to git some nutmeg,
pound Of sugar and a quart of kero-
sene to make up some apple-pies for
Mr.. Kenney's supper; he do love 'em
So"
There never was such a hand as
you fer pies, Mis- Kinney, honey.
recommended you about it to Miss
Cynthfe not a week ago. / told her
would git you to show her how when
We'll, we was a-talking that over
last night, me and Mary Ellen Dobbs,"
interrupted Mrs. Kinney, land we
think it is fine fer Miss Cynthie ter
marry him, even if he is a painter;
cause when pictures is dull he can
git signs and SIGH to do to keep 60
ing When will it be, Miss Seliny
Lue?" And she gathered the bundles
in one arm and balanced the oilcan
in the other hand, ready to hurry on
as soon as she had extracted the NOR
sci of news she had run upon
why, Mis- Kinney, never heard
Miss Selma Lue's eyes were wide with
establishment
well, I think it was, to say the
least, disrespectful in him and her not
to have told you, him a-Iving in your
own barn and she so appearing to be
loving of you all the time. l hate to
think she's a deceitful girl, but l must
say | did mistrust that fower-garden
hat when l seen it the other day go
by with Ethel Maud and Bonnie
Debbs''
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, l didn't
mean no harm! II Jest"
Il know you didn't, Mis- Kinney,
honey, but sometimes little criticiz-
ings fly the track and run into some
cody that's easy hurt" said Miss Sc
dina 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 it or not
and every mans, too, for that matter.
though they tries hard to hide It? It
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 'em over-it's horned in women
to hatch out and hover lovers match
ings and the clucking over 'em 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
MANY Sd0SIl uSI EGlI III the grape
vine and's hanging by it. She was
eating em! Mas sick"
Miss Selma Lue hurried with all the
ispeed possible to the relief OF the
young Absalom, and Mrs Kinney call.
ed after her, BE sure and rub cam
lphire on the roots" whether of the
vine or Ethel Maud's hair she did not
say.
When she returned to the grocery
half an hour later Miss Selma Lue
found Miss Cynthia smiling at her
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