The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-11-07
BY LU CY PRATT

t but Farther began to tell her somethin,
! more about the newspaper man that wal
| coming, and could see | would have tC
| wait. II didn't seem 50 very long then either
, before she was starting Of for the cora
: sussiety, and We were out on the side poarch
watching her as She went out the gait
They are having it in our church now. lust a
littel ways down the street. and Nj May
nard only lives next door Mother looked
very nice ! thought as she went over to get
her. because she had on something very
thin and white and gauzzy on account OF It's
being 50 hot Her dress was like that and
the long thing she had over It seemed to be
like that too and she picked up her skirt
and turned her head as she went out the
gait and said, Oh, won't you go up and
open the west blinds In Felixes room, Toe.
Il will cool The room of before he goes to
bed.
Farther said Yes. ard 60 on or shed be
late, and then he walked up and down the
pcarch littel with his hands in his pockets
and got the curridge to ask him If | was
going to the dancing party tomorrow.
Well, | don't know, Felix, he said.
don't see how you can 90 without shoes, do
your
didn't know whether he meant by that.
IN my stocking feet or just barcfooted, but
either way | didn't think | would like it
much
Where are the shoes you've been wear
ings he asked rather quick, and told him
they were upstairs in my room.
Well III take look at them when 60 up
to open the blinds and let you know, he
answered and he walked round a littel more
with his hands in his pockets and then
turned round and went in. | knew it
wouldn't do any good to take look at them
though, because one Of them had big hole
burned in IT, So ! was feeling almost dis
courdged when Luly came out of the door
with her littel new washerble doll Mother
just got her. She got up in the big chair
with it and watched her taking its cloes
OF Tor minute and then ! got into the
hammock TO cool Off
/ was thinking how nice it was to lie
there and cool OFF like that, with the air
bringing the roses to you, when | heard
some steps right there on the walk They
were rather slow and quite light, and when
| looked up there was lady with a red
skirt on and something like rcd hand
kerchiei on her head. A gpsy lady it was
Is anybody at home2 She said it in a
kind Of ltte smiling voice, and as if she
cculdn talk very plane
said yes my Farther was and | would
call him. He was sitting by the window
with the evening paper when | went in, but
he hoped up real brisk and pleasant He
locked littel disappointed though, when
he came out. and without making the least
wait for her TO dscribe what she came for.
he shook his head at her and said, No, I
don't care for a thing.
lie needn't have said that either. because
ihe really didn't have anything to sell So
shat she said was | tell your fortune?
Just ike that
Farther had his paper and was CLEANSING
1t il but he shook his head No, he said.
see bright future for you, the lady said
r the same littcI smiling voice. tell you by
ards or hand. That was the Wv she /
ated
No Farther said. guess praps he s
hought she was deaf, because she couldn't {
ak very plane Anyway, he hollered il
MT very clear No, he said, | don't care r
or thing :
] don't know what Farther kept saving /
e didn' care for a thing for, because she .
idn I have anything TO sell, anyway, and il
ounded very queer. really hoped she y
idn notice it, and from what she said
raps she didn't !,
tell past or future, she said, | tell love r
r business s.
No ! don't want thing Farther \
ollered, I'm busy. g
] was afraid she would think he was crazy n
nen. for sure, but she turned round just as
leasant as ever. S
Some other fme2 she said, but Farther G
irned round too, and went in, not really G
aiting for complete answere. \
Good Lord, heard him say to himself,
nd just then Luly went running out into Il
&c yard. II was to get rose for the gipsy
dy. ! saw her holding it up and giving il L,
her right ont there by the gait and the ST
psy lady stood there smiling down at her fo
Ut | noticed her step back very quick. too le
was because there was a man hurrying
TO the yard right past her al
Hullo, young feller, the man said, Is your
lrther in2 sh
But before he had hardly said il there was It
lrther right out on the steps himself til
Hu.Io, Barker, he said Ii was the news
per man that wanted to have Farther SD
aver. Sc
How are you, Mr. Blanchard? he an
,ered, and then they both sat down OF the Ell
arch, and got into the hammock again. be
cool off II
II was just as ] said in the beginning
out seeing evrything out through the end 3,
the poarch Only YOU couI6 see i ali
lch brighter now, because the moon was ID
/. so the leaves Of the sycamore tree