Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-12-19
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CASE OF hay FEVER
sy CLARA lNEz DEACON.

country.
Miss Cressy declared that she'd di'
first The doctor recommended quiet
village on Long Island. Miss Cressy
said she'd drown herself in the Sound
He knew Of nice old couple that
would take her In and make pet Of
her. She would make 1t SO hot fol
that nice old couple that they would
wish they had never set eyes on herl
However and nevertheless, Miss
Greasy duly arrived at the quiet VII
lage spoken OF, and was also duly In
stalled IN the quaint but very comfort
able house occupied by the good sa-
maritans.
When II comes to shortness of
breath when it comes to red nose
when It comes to talking the English
language through that nose when the
eyes water and there is need of a
small boy to follow one around with
a bundle of handkerchiefs, why, even
a spoiled girl Of twenty must see the
sense Of retiring to some quiet spot
where society is not and wait for
change.
Miss Cressy went, but she went with
a determination to make somebody
everybody pay for her sacrifice. She
would be just as mean as she could be,
and if people didn't like it they could
lump it
A day or two after her arrival the
girl strolled through the village. Sew
eral people bowed to her, as is the
courteous custom of the village, and
each bower was coldly snubbed She
saw sign of "Postoffice," and she en-
tered and dueried;
"Any bail here for Bliss Greasy Fair
bangs?"
1t was the hay fever pronunciation,
of course, and the postmistress ought
to have known it was, but she made
Miss Cressy try three different times
and then said there was nothing for
Miss Fairbangs. The cold glare she
got in reply gave her chills for week
AS Miss Cressy started homewards
she encountered young man. 1t may
be added that he also encountered her.
He had heard that there was good
looking girl from the city stopping at
the Peterson's, and concluded that this
must be the one. On her part, she
had never heard of him and didn't
want to. She simply saw that the
young man about to pass her was not
one of the villagers, and as he seemed
about to bow and lift his hat, she made
up face at him and passed on. She
had got even with the postmistress!
When the hay fever victim, later in
the day, carelessly mentioned meeting
the young man and asked who he was,
Mrs. Peterson replied:
THAT must have been young Felix
Blair. His home is in the city, but he
spends three or four months Of every
year here in the village We all think
him a nice young man"
Looks stupid to mel" said the sui
ky girl.
"Oh, dear me, but he's anything but
that. He Is naturalist, and said to
be the smartest one In the state He
knows everything about birds, fish, in
sects and animals"
Does he board with some old WON
an who holds the cats and dogs while
he stuffs them?
''He has a cottage of his own down
near the water. Pa and know him
we'll. and I'll take you down there
some day, If you wish. His collection
is we'll worth seeing"
Possibly so, but he struck me as
being very poky young man."
Dear! Dearl"
When Miss Cressy Fairbanks had
been in the house a week, and her en-
had so far improved that she
could make her name plain to others,
she took stroll in new direction.
Nothing further had been said about
Mr.. Blair, but she meant to walk past
his cottage She meant to do it de-
family. she had tried hard to make
herself believe that she detested him.
The only charge that she could bring
against him was that he looked as If
he thought q good deal of himself
That was his mental criticism of her,
and perhaps intuition told her so.
The cottage was passed. The de-
fiant attitude was superb Had Mr.
Blair been standing in his door he
must have been flattened out like
pancake, and without knowing any
reason why she should pick on him!
But he wasn't standing there. He
wasn't even at home, When this fact
became plain to Miss Cressy she was
putchy about It. 1t was another rea-
son why she should detest the man.
According to all social laws he should
have been at home and looking for
her, and should have advanced hat in i
hand and given her his name and
begged to be forgiven for something
Or other Consequently more putch! II
However, If Mr.. Blair was not home
his boat was. 1t was drawn up on the J
beach, and the idea came to the girl to
make use OF It. It would be splitting
and getting even with the owner.
The boat was showed OF and the girl
entered II. She knew nothing NJ rou,.