Cañon City record., 1911-10-12
HAVING A
GOOD CRY
Likewise an Exciting Time
and Then Consolation.
BY DONALD ALLEN.

! Pretty NOid CrayQOn nao come
down to visit her aunt in her country
home. and for a week she had been
,upremely happy. There were chick
ems and ducks and geese. there were
guinea hens and doves and rabbits.
there were innocent lambkins and
frolicking calves, and she had tried to
milk cow, fallen OF 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
l to the roof of the wagon shed, sold
paper rags to tin peddler and gone
biackberrying down in the meadow as
q continuance of her romantic adven-
lures. -t,.- s,....s,<., 4,
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 postmis-
tress what was in his mind, but Miss
4 Viola had line on him. You can't
fool girl about such things. The
man who is eourting her may talk
/ about the joys of bachelor life and
pretend to be cynic on affairs or
sentiment, but she can read him like
q book. When Arthur had said that
he would arrive at Yiola's aunt's on
the 14th-running down in his auto in
the forenoon and running back to the
/ city again in the evening-there was a
! look In his eyes that said there would
be something doing.
/ The 18th 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 fiirt with her. she WAS chased
out of the barnyard by a calf and
! chased back again by turkey COB
bier, the dog got hold of her cute sum
mer hat and chewed II 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. IL she
cried in tho house her aunt. who was n
sharp eyed o'd lady would see her
4 tears and as! questions: IL She went
TO the barn To cry af8ong the cackling
hens and new riown hay the hired
man would come stumbling in; IL she
hid away behind the grape arbor or
the currant lashes there were bugs to
crawl down her back as soon as she
was OF her guard.
Down across the meadow and half a
mile from the house there was a 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 a pretty girl who Is looking for a
crying place should not be Judged too
harshly.
She found the grove a capital place
for her business. There were shade
and quictness and the whispering rf
the summer breeze through the leaves
and Miss Viola went at Il and let the
tears fall her chin quIver and her sobs
frighten away tie lone chickadee that
was takinr a daytime nap on a branch
above her head.
Mr.. Tyson hastened to the bedside
of HIS diving grandmother. thinking
that II woud be whole week before
she would die and be buried and the
will rnenticning him as sole heir read.
Upon his arrival a glad surprise await
ed him. II was case OF bilious collie
only, caused by eating too heartily of
eoriicd beef and cabbage at the ad-
vanced age Of eighty-three
He would have hastcned away ut
once. but the grandmother objected.
She had n story to tell--a story Of how
that collie erasped and gripped her and
lasted ten hours before the doctor
could bring relief. 1t took her all day
to finish the story. and then 1t 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 18th 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. a
train bearing 100 lunatics on their
way to newly completed asylum had
been shunted on to the side track to
let the express pass. They were given