The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-04-06
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IL you ueSlTc 10 realize tndt tlind
is fitting and you are getting old" said
the girl who likes to talk, "go live at
Q summer resort for few years!
81 still can swim half mile and
am in hurry. don't use crutches
nor false teeth. Nevertheless, this
season a crushing sense of my anti
guilty has descended upon me. When
/ investigated the queer feeling that
surrounded me / found it was the at
mosphere of the shelf I was upon.
There was, tucked away coldly! I've
been peering out over the edge lately
at what is going on down below and,
believe me, it is both appalling and
entertaining
"Just a few years back the Daggett
children used TO go by with their
nurse. They were scrawny and quar-,
reling and Tom Daggett always made
Susie cry. I used to think what a
mercy it was that their parents were
blind enough to love them, because,
goodness knows, no other human be-
lu6 WOuiu nave uOuc SOs
81 wish you could see Tom this year.
He is the best looking creature in five
counties and all the girls are crazy
about him. They hang on his slightest
word and if he asks one to go canoe.
ing she nearly faints with Joy. The
other night he led the cotillon at the
party. AS for Susie-I helped her
| make dolls dress just yesterday.
believe, and yet at that same dance
found myself admiring willowy, dark
eyed, rose checked, naughty young
person, and bless me If 1t wasn't Susie
Daggett!
at seems perfectly absurd that she
should be sitting up later than
o'clock! She isn't satisfied with being
q belle among the boys Of her own
age, selfish thing! but she has to graf
out for the older men, too! I'll have
to box her ears II she doesn't lool
out.
"Just year ago realized only
vaguely that the Crosbys had daugh
ter Lillian was shy, silent little
thing, always slipping out Of sight ant
incoming by herself and scared t.
death when any outsiders appeared
don't know what has happened t.
her, but suspect that some one toll
her she was pretty, and that settled
1t. l can't turn around now withou
setting eyes on Lillian Crosby In tn
most distracting outing suits, work
ing her eyelashes till l know they'r
getting frayed and smiling at precisel
the angle to show her dimples!
. "'We're going to have hay ride
she told me casually once when ther
was nobody else to talk to. TIL
young crowd. mean. Dear me,
should think It would be SO stupid 70
the rest Of you. with nothing to dot
q IT restrained myself from graspin
y her firmly by the shoulders and shall
Ing her! Haven't taken hay ride
y till l had so much hay down my nee
r and in my ears and eyes and thros
II that l never wanted to look at a ha.
"a stack again as long as lived? Haven
:, I had suppers on the beach and cate
/ Sduu inc ucNhCd C66ot ohso a. -
- sandwiches and June bugs in II
: cake and thought was having Il
d time Of my life? Haven't l sur
1t We're here because we're here, b
IT cause we're here till l swallowt
Of mosquitoes all the way hom'
er Haven't I fallen oysr the fence tr
Id ing to get into the front door In u
r. pitch dark? And then that infant h
lie the nerve to act as though all the 10
y of life were denied me, just becau
- she was going on scratchy, unco
a Portable, choked up expedition inste
90 of sanely eating supper at home!
d "The last straw. however. was VIII
al Jim came over from Chicago to S
me. Naturally, I wanted to show h
Id the place by moonlight. 1t was not
d. all that We were hunting seclud
spots. Besides, all the chairs on 9
!, front porch were occupied. Quite c
~ ually We headed for the sunni
y house on the lake shore. but as
stepped inside ! heard some one m
muir: Did you ever care for anotl
girl before mel 1t was Lillian q
Tom Daggett.
Is 'I should have spanked them b
"a and sent them home, but l conten
myself with saying, In stern to'
ne oh. excuse met Then We wall
&c on, knew of a most charming
~ treat under the wild grape vine, VIII
~, you have lovely view of the mo
"a Just before we stepped around he
On. a deep masculine voice Of nineteer
10 twenty blurt out: Susie, did you Q
OF care for another man as you do
ia me?'
t- 81 grabbed Jim Historically at
- and we ran. There was another
-, =, FAINT couple at the end of the pier
a. a. still more infants were out in all
, w., rowboats. There didn't seem to
" any place on earth for Jim and me
40 cept under the lake or up with
Sil old people under the glare OF the
DIN light telling stories about what
tch pened before the war.
to Jim growled in disgust: 'Befo
due come here again wish you'd mar
l. to kill off few dozen of these pc
ths erous children: There are so N
$50 of them that few more or less "