Norwich bulletin., 1912-01-20
AN ICE EPISODE

, mine Her home is that house whose chimneys can be seen from your room. The DaltonB are not our nearest
 neighbors, but they are not far away. and we are great friends. l wonder
 Dorothy has not been in to see me. We must have them all over for the day before she returns to her school. : Yes" joined in her amiable spouse. let's have them over. l want game ot chess with Dalton. I guess he has forgotten how beat him the last time
 he was here. That was a fine game, and I'd like another chance at him.
 He is a good player, an opponent
 worth beating. Let's have them over
 soon'
 The invitation for the day was sent and speedily accepted. thus paving the way to an acquaintance which devel- oped into friendship. The young peo- pie enjoyed skating during the day, and after dinner, while their seniors
 spent the time at chess or in neigh borly chat, Trowbridge and Miss Dor othy tetook themselves to the greater attraction of the ice. Hand in hand they slided over the surface of the river. They Vied with each other in cutting various devices on the ice. and ran races, darting in and out of the shadows, until at last they re- turned to the house to join their friends.
 There they found the game of chess just concluded, and Mir. Dalton the
 winner in the contest.
 "Yes,'' said his friend Elkins, "he has had lis revenge for my beating
 him last time, but we've had a nice
 game"
 They look as if they had an ice
 time, too," laughed MT. Dalton, who loved a Iun almost as well as he did chess, "an ice evening, I judge from their appearance. When I was young ually found an ice girl to skate with.
 It gave me an ice chance to fall at her feet. Girls can never put their skates on or off when an ice young man IS at hand. How is that, Doro- thy? Your mother used to skate In fact, I courted her on ice, and it turn , out an Ice thing for me"
 There there" interrupted Mrs.
 Dalton. do stop those dreadful puns, for we must go home" Dorothy's
 glowing cheeks grew still rosier under her fathers teasing, but she affirmed
 that she had spent most delightful cay.
 Many such followed, for they made
  ing. With such surroundings, friend ships ripen faster than under more
 prosaic circumstances, and the two young people found that they shared 1 in common many other tastes as well
 as their fondness for skating, and be- fore the vacation was ended they were firm friends, and Leslie found he was
 an ardent lover.
 His warm southern blood led him to quick conclusions, and he pressed his suit with Dorothy, who dutifully re- 1 ferred him to her father. That gen. 1 tleman at first secuted the idea of giving his daughter to one they had known so short time, but Trowbrfdge | pleaded his cause well, and Dorothy s mother helped 1t on by reminding MT. i Dalton of their own early experience, so he finally yielded a consent to Les 1 lies plea, that at the end of the school year he might claim his bride. "A nice way to rob a man of his daughter" grumbled MT. Dalton, when l he told his friends, the Elkins, of the l decision. T want Dorothy myself for
 year or two. It ali comes from skat- | ing. I wish that ice had melted be-
 fore they came here for vacation" 1 Now, I call that an ice ending to 1 'an ice story. You have gained an ice
 son, who will give Dorothy au ice l home and an ice husband"
 "Oh, stop your punsi" exclaimed Dorothy's father. If there is any l thing I despise it is a fondness foI puns. I do not see any wit in it."
 But none of them ever regretted SC
 nice a conclusion to an icy chronicle AN IDLER. 1 Denmark boasts S1 head of cattle tC 1 each 100 inhabitants