The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-06-26

secret Of their own, for Ira, LOOKING
at his watch, murmured sentimentally
to Anne: only a few hours more
Annie"
And Anne turned geranium-color
and dropped handful of checkers. Il
don't know how can face IT,"
Ira growled like lovesick lion:
Jaw, what do you carer"
But ] was never married before,
Ira," Anne protested, "and on a train,
too"
why, all the bridal couples take to
the railroads"
81 should think II would be the last
place they'd go" said Anne--a sensible
woman, Annel Look at the Mallories
how miserable they are"
Il thought they we're happy" said
Ira, whose great virtue II was to pay
little heed to what was none of his
business.
ooh, Ira," cried Anne, 81 hope we
shan't begin to quarrel as soon as we
are married"
"As If anybody could quarrel with
| you, Anne, he said.
do you think I'll be so monotonous
as that?" she retorted.
Her spunk delighted him beyond
words. He whispered: Anne, you're
so gol-darned sweet if don't get
chance to kiss you, I'll bust"
why, Ira--we're on the train"
"Da-darn the trainl Who ever
heard of a fellow proposing and get
ting engaged to a girl and not even
kissing her"
But our engagement is so short"
well, I'm not going to marry you
until | get a kiss"
Perhaps innocent old Anne really |
believed this blood-curdling threat. 1t /
brought her instantly to terms, though |
she blushed; But everybody's al |
ways looking"
Come out on the observation plat
form"
"Oh, Ira, AGAIN."
81 dare you"
81 take you-but" seeing that Mrs.
Whitcomb was trying to overhear, she
whispered: Let's pretend it's the
scenery"
So Ira rose, pushed the checkers
aside, and said in an unusually posi-
tive tone "Ah. Miss Cattle, won't you
have a look at the landscape?"
'Oh, thank you. MIR. Lathrop," salc
Anne, 81 just love scenery"
They wandered forth like the Sleep
ing Beauty and her princely awaken
er, and never dreamed what gigglings
and nudgings and wise head-noddings
went on back of them. Mrs. Wellington
laughed loudest of all at the lovers
whose heads had grown gray while
their hearts were still so green.
1t was shortly after this that the
themselves came into
prominence in the train life.
AS the train approached Green
River, and its copper-basined stream,
the engineer began to set the air
brakes for the stop. Jimmie Yelling
ton, BODILY half-awake in the smok-
ing room, wanted to know what the ,,
name of the station was. Everybody
is always eager to oblige drunken
man, so Ashton and Fosdick tried to .
get window open to look out.
The first one they labored at, they
could not bulge after biceps-break- '
ng tug. The second flew up with such l
ease that they went over backward.
Ashton put his head out and an
bounced that the approaching depot
vas labelled Green River" Yelling
on burbled: What a beautiful name
or a shtation."
Ashton announced that there was d
omething beautifuller still on the
latform-"Oh. a peach!-a nectarine!
nd she's getting on this train"
Even Doctor Temple declared that
he was a dear little thing, wasn't u
he?
Wellington pushed him aside, say -
ng: Stand back Doc, and let me
ee; have a keen sense of beautiful"
BE careful" cried the doctor, q
he'll fall out of the window" "N
Not out of that window" Ashton W
agely observed. seeing the bulk of tn
wellington. AS the train started off IN
gain, Little Jimmie distributed alco- es
Ollie smiles to the Green Riverers on Ell
he platform and called out: &c
Goodbye, everybody. You're all
owl" He clapped his VI
and TO his eye and crawled back into ne
ne car, groaning with pain. IN
What's the matter?" said Wedge nc
God. Got something in. your eye?" pf
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