The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-04-04
A SINGULAR
BIRD
BY EDWARD BATY
Copyright by American Press Asso-
citation. 1911.
BY EDWARD BATY

IL
TITS just as bad one way as tother
I'm goin' to shut my baby boy up and
never let him see GAL" said Mr.. Tod
Ter.
II was thinkin' o dom the same
with my baby gal"
eve mought do II up hyar in these
mountngs and bring 'em clean up
without the boy seeln a gal or the
gal boy"
"1ts powerful lonesome. Nobody
ever comes ur hyar unless it's rev.
enue men lookln' To- stills"
"Waal, mornn', Miss Barker"
"Mornin', Mr.. Todler.
The homes of these two persons were
far up in the highlands of east Ten
nessee. They were successful in keep
Ing their children from seeing one of
the opposite sex till they were sixteen
years old. Then the boy demanded
gun. His father gave him one on con-
ditlon that he never hunt off the In
closure. But one day the youngster
followed a bird from tree to tree till
no got on to Mrs. Barker's premises.
There, sitting under a tree knitting, he
saw Miss Barker. They looked at each
other In establishment
"Oh, mother" called the girl, come
here! There's the funniest thing you
ever saww
But Mrs. Barker was not within
hearing.
"You mean," said young Todler, "that
you are the funniest thing in the
world. Queer, isn't III You can talk
just like a man, only your voice is
different"
"You must he some kind of wom-
an"
"You must be some kind of man.
II know; mother often told me that
there was thing like you that must
keep away from. She says they poi.
son wpmeu's lives. She's always been
afraid I'd meet one Of them"
Pops told me the same thing about
what he calls Il she man. He said
one Of them wrecked his life"
well" said the girl, II don't see
anything SO terrible about you"
''Nor / about you"
She approached him, put her hand
on his shoulder. drew It away quickly, |
put It on his neck, took off his hat and
combed his hair with her fingers. He
touched her cheek.
"Arc you going to bite meT' she
asked
mot l. Have you got any poison
about your"
Poison! No Why do you ask
thatF"
Pop says these she men are vipers,
That means snakes. Most snakes are
poisonous"
"Your pop must be horrid."
She patted his cheek with the palm
of her hand. He put his arm around
her waist With the other hand he
pulled her chin around near his face.
Instinct told him to touch his lips to
hers.
isn't that nice" he said.
"Kind o nice"
EDO you wish me to do 1t AGAIN."
II don't care"
He did IL again and again. Then he
noticed her hair done up in knot Mt
the back of her head. Pulling at It,
he at last got the hairpins out, and
the coil fell on her shoulder.
"By gum" he exclaimed. What In
thunder do you let your hair grow
like that for?'
why do you cut yours off?"
Following Il natural inclination, these
two young things chung to each other,
win al ha
girl and the girl about the boy.
"Tm thinking" said the girl.
about whotf"
my nom has warned me against
your kind, and your pop has warned
you against my kind II we tell them
anything about this they'll tie us both
up the way they do the dogs"
I'VE needn't tell"
suppose we don't"
They concluded that they We're too
near the she-man's mother for safety,
so they strolled away to safe dis
lance and remained together several
hours When they separated the he
woman kissed her, which shows plain
ly that lovers kisses at meeting and
Ihl NlllF uAN a. biblN'i VI ihHAihNA'
When the girl went into the house
and met her mother she said not a
word about the queer creature she
had met. And this shows that prime
law OF nature with the sex Is to get
the better of each other which>enables
them TO get the better of their hus-
bands. Her mother asked her where
she had been so long. and she said she
had been out In the woods listening 10
a frog croaking IL the creek. A queer
sound came from It she had never
heard before.
When the boy went home his father
asked him If he had had any luck. He
replied that he had seen a bird of
paradise, but It was so beautiful he
hadn't the heart to kill 1t. His father
suspected from an Observation-Disclosures
about his boy that he had seen a girl.
He asked what the bird looked like.
"Pretty near as big as Ia big top
knot at the back of its head and no
legs. At least could not see any"