Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-06-13
InlEerable t1ev 90.

now miserable they Hfe.'
81 thought they we're happy" said
Ira, whose great virtue It was to pay
little heed to what was none Of his
business.
"Oh, Ira" cried Anne, 81 hope we
shan't begin to quarrel as 500 as we
are married"
"As If anybody could quarrel with
you, Anne" he said.
"Do you think I'll be so m~onotonous
as that" she retorted.
Her spunk delighted him beyond
words. He whispered: Anne, you're
SO goldarned sweet if l don't get a
chance to kiss you, I'll bust"
why, Ira-we're on the train"
"Da-darn the train! 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"
We'll, I'm not going TO marry you
until | get a kiss"
Perhaps innocent old Anne really
believed this b%lood-curdling threat. It
brought her instantly to terms, though
she blushed But e~verybody's al
ways looking"
Come out on the observation plat
form"
"Oh, Ira, againf"
q dare you"
q take y~ou-bus" seeing that Mrs.
Whitcomb was trying to overhear, she
whispered: Lets pretend it's the
scenery"
So Ira rose, pushed the checkers
aside End said in an unusually posi-
tive tone: All, Miss Cattle, won't you
have a look at the landscape?"
"Oh, thank you, Mr.. Lathrop," said
Anne, II Just love scenery"
They wandered forth like the Sleep
ing Beauty and her princely awaken
er, and never dreamed what giggling5
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
Wellingtons 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 a drunken
man, 50 Ashton and Fosdick tried to
get a window open to look out.
The first Il they labored at, they
could not bulge after a biceps-break
ing tug. The second flew up with such
ease that they Went over backward
Ashton put his head out and an.
nounced that the approaching depot
was labelled Green River" yelling,
ton burbled: What a beautiful name
for a shtation."
Ashton announced that there was
something beautifuller still on the
=, platform-"Oh, a peach!-a nectarine!
and she's getting on this train"
Even Doctor Temple declared thai
she was a dear lite thing, WASH
she?
Wellington pushed him aside, say
ing: Stand back Doc, and let me
see; I have a keen sense of beautiful
[ BE careful" cried the doctor
= hell fall out of the window"
5 Not out of that window" Ashton
! sagely observed, seeing the bulk o
Wellington. AS the train started OF
l again, Little Jimmie distributed ALEC
=, holic smiles to the Green Riyerers OF
the platform and called out;
Goodbye, everybody. You're al
r abglootly-ow- owl" He clapped hi
hand TO his eye and crawled back int
8 the car, groaning with pain.
c Whats the matter?" said Wedge
wood. Got something in your eye?'
NO, you blamed fool, I'm trying t
look through my thumb"
Poor fellow" sympathized Docto
Temple, its a cinder!"
"A cinder! It's at leasht a ton Q
e coal"
:. q say, old boy, let me have a peek,
o said Wedgewood, screwing in his nor
ocle and peering into the depths c
r Wellington's eye. ~ cant see a ball
thing"
y "Of course not, with that blinde
on growled the miserable wretcl
g weeping in spite Of himself and rul
bing his smarting orb.
10 Don't rub that eye" Ashton couI
y. solled, rub the other eye"
.y It's my eye; I'll rub it if l want t
Get me a doctor, somebody. II
Is dying"
d Here's Doctor Temple" said AS
K ton, right on the job" Wellingto
IS turned to the old clergyman with p
thetic trust, and the deceiyer writhe
in his disguise, The best he couI
ut think of was; will somebody len
sy me a lead pencil?"
lo What for?" said Wellington, u
RI easily.
le q am going to roll your upper !
Of up on it," said the Doctor.
y "Oh, no, you're not" said the p
lie tient. you can roll your own lids
I'd Then the conductor, still anoth,
r. conductor, wandered on the scene al
iy asked as if 1t were not a world-impo