Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1912-01-18
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Katherine

ssua0. rave you DSe4 SICK
mo. I've heen up n the country"
said Wadley you know Katherine
iMorgan's people have a cottage at
Sunset lake. Well, Katherine invited
me to pass the weekend there. She.
said 1t was q Quiss. rsstful place. SO I
decided to break away from the BUSH
ness grind for two or three days, IL
i lost my job for it,
"Yeu did right" declared BECKER
Everybody needs q change once in a
while"
Well, I had : change, all right"
said Wadley. diamaliy.
Didn't It agree with you? Was It.
dulI?"
Dull! I'll just tell you what Kath-
crime. the adorable, the untiring, abb
soIutely indestruotible Katherine. ar!
ranged for my pleasure.
ut was $3.50 Friday evening when
my train arrived. Katherine was at;
the station with q carryall full OF,
young people. who welcomed me most
warmly. We drove to the cottage,I
where supper was awaiting me. After
I dispatched that and vas looking
longingly at one Of the porch ham,.
mocks Katherine announced that we.
were all to 20 down the shore half
mile TO a marshmallow roast
IF there's anything sticky sweet in
the name OF food that particularly
defest it's marshmallows, but, Of
course. expressed my delight at the
roast and away We went. After about
ten pounds of marshmallows had been
consumed and the beach fire was get
ting low Katherine suggested that We
have few lively games to warm our
selves Although I was really too
tired to move. Joined In the romp-
ings and tore back and forth across
the beach like schoolboy for a half
hour or SO
AT $50 the next morning rap at
my door woke me from a sound sleep
AREN'T you going for a dip?' called
Katherine. gayly. 81 take a swim ev-
cry morning before breakfast
TN about five minutes joined
Katherine on the pier. She dived into
the water and I followed, my teeth
chattering She struck out across the
bay. It was only by superhuman ef-
forts that | managed to keep up with
her had not been In swimming
before this year. and I never was
strong swimmer. proposed that we,
run home on the beach and Katherine
bat me box Of candy that she could
beat me She won.
After breakfast she challenged me
to tennis We played six sets before
lunch. I was too tired to eat and
longed to stretch myself in a ham,
mock. but Katherine said she was as
hungry as hired man, and she knew
/ must be starving, so sat down &C
the table and was making fairly
good meal when Katherine told me to
hurry. for she had arranged a four
some at golf with two friends of hers.
TT was O'Clock when We finished
playing golf and Katherine said we
should just have time for swim
before dinner When I was dressing
after the swim Katherine knocked al
my door and told me TO put on my
dancing pumps. - we were going to
hop In the evening.
I'VE went 10 the hop Katherine
was as blooming as q rose. She In
tro6nced me- to every girl there and
danced every dance on the program
and six extras. I don't know how I
managed to walk the mile back to the
cottage without falling by the side of
Katherine, who appeared TO be doing
Marathon, 50 briskly did she walk"
I hope you rot a rest Sunday.
said Blocker. alphabetically.
4 restl Katherine had planned a
walk around the lake. It was just
seven miles, and we got hcme In time
for o'clock dinner. | was deter
mined that I should sleep all the aft |
ernoon in hammock But 1t was |
not to be. Katherine asked me TO row
her 10 the far end OF the lake to pick
water lilies We got into weeds
where I could hardly move the boat
an inch without breaking my back.
I'm the evening Katherine had q
crowd in for Q Welsh rarehit and I /
was allowed to cut ND four pounds OF |
cheese. It was hard work One OF |
the girls came unescorted and Kath-
lerine and I rowed her home across /
the lake at midnight and walked a
half-mil8 to her house and back.
II didn't seem more than ten min
utes after ! got into bed when Kath-
RENE knocked On my door to see IL 7
was ready for my morning swim. I
answered brightly that / had already
been In. Then / begun throwing my
things into my suitcase. At breakfast
/ inquired about the first train to
town.
But George Katherine protested,
II thought you were going to stay over
today. There's lot OF things want
you to do We we're going to play in-
door baseball and
" Tn terribly sorry interrupted.
but It's imperative that return to
my ONCE this morning