Putnam patriot., 1911-07-14
mhat consarnsdness is

dove; got roped in just to De made
 guy of. was stupid iuuEnead
 then. Now [ know better to trust
 one of the vipers | tell you. | know
 all about em now; cant any on em
 fool me.
 ~Didnt you fall into any other traps?"
 "Yes. onct" he replied haltingly.
 'Tell me about that one.
 Tt was the same gal. Mary Owen.
 She went away 10 boardin' school. and when she came back she was kind citytied. But she was purty. tell you she was purty as new painted mowin machine. When she met me she talked about when we was boy and gal and our fshin together, and all that. not sayin' anything about that slabsided boy she was ieadin on as she did me She asked me to go with her to see the place where she got the tishhook into her finger. Like fool. | fell into the trap again. l went with her to the bank of the creek. and we stood lookin' down on the water Tbere mad been durable lot of rain. and the creek was high Mary was laugh in and giggiD as though she was mighty pleased about somep'n She walked right up to the edge of the bank The current had washed it away underneath. the piece she was standin on broke of. and down she went with splash into the water
 'Ot course l jumped in. too; got her arm around my neck. swan with her 10 place below where the bank sloped and put her. drippin. on the grass What did she do but just what | she'd done when sbe rammed the fish. hook into her hand so she could make me cut t out. She pertended to faint" w bat did you do?''
 Oh. made fool of myself just as
 | done before. kissed her. He looked very much ashamed at having been obliged to confess that this imp of darkness had entrapped him a second time.
 What happened theu?" asked What happened thenl Why, l talk
 ed no end of seft stuff to her. and she shed some crockodie tears and all that and when we parted we was engaged to be married But when got home and got to thinkin how many times I'd been fooled and 1 was gittin deeper and deeper into the pit she WAS diggin 1 for me 1 jist sot down and swore. | Then 1 went to see her again and told | her that what I'd been talkin to her was all rot.
 "She jist looked at me kind curus I for awhile, and then she up and con 1 fessed she'd been foolin me all along" The farmer paused. evidently having l finished his story. the conclusion of which he seemed to consider bore him | out in sll his assumptions as to the wickedness of Mary Owen.
 How long ago did this last parting | take placer" 1 asked
 "Oh. that was only three months | ago"
 Mary hasn't married" said. and. whats more. she won't marry unless | she marries you. Please excuse me for
 telling you the truth; but. though I've | seen many big fools. never before | saw so big one as you"
  | "I mean that from the first the giri fancied you. and since you wouldn't | show any interest in her she practiced | feminine plan to make you do so | Then you dropped her. expecting her to show how she took the slight as | you thought she should show 1t She | wouldn't have been real girl if she | had Since then she has been giving | you chances 10 stop making fool of l yourself which you have been too stu | Did to take advantage of It's quite | possible that you've made such blun 1 der of the whole thing that you'll never | be able to straighten 1t out with her | You have probably committed the uD l pardona ble"-
 By this time he was looking at me | wildly out of his eyes. bis color ali | gone from his face. apparently con
 science stricken at what he had done
 sin he collapsed.
 | "Go right off and humble yourself before her for the jackanapes you are. and. ten to one. she will forgive you" Do you really mean itT l "Yes. l do."
 | He left me alone in the house and
 went away to learn his fate. went to bed and to sleep. At midnight he | woke me up with a whoop and shout
 ed into my ear:
 1 ITS all right. I've fixed it up with | her. We're goin' to be married right l off"
 l "rll give you tin eoander for
 wedding present" l replied That's
 more than you deserve"
 1 made visit TO the couple after l they were married 1 never saw such | a subsorvient husband in all my life | Not that his wife dominated him. al least not intentionally His action dur Ing his long courtship seemed 10 have | taken away all his self confidence and
 left him like a child He never re
 covered 1t. remaining always self
 constituted slave,
 A City WIthin a City. Tn Augsburg. Germany. there is | little city in the heart of the city shut l in all by itself with two gates and
 named the "FuggereLs It is so called
 because the 106 houses within It were
 built with money left by Fugger, the
 wealthy sixteenth century banker. | When he died be directed that these l houses should be built and then given
 .n the poor aged families for marks
 id i2 pfennigs rental year, which is
 .actly one American dollar. They
 ave four rooms and kitchen, with