The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-04
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 Borry is because there will be no one new to talk to about things both has read was considerable took down when she said that.
 Martha" I says. tits more'n likely won't never see you agfn after I go away
 She says that kind of parting comes between the best of friends.
 I seen I wasn't getting along very fast nor saying what wanted to say. reckon one of them Sir Marmeluke feIlers would of knowed what to say or Dr. Kirby would or mebby even LoOey would of said it better than I could So I was kind of mad with myself. and says mean like:
 If you don't care, of course don't rare neither"
 She never, answered that. so I gets up and makes like am starting of.
 T was going to give you some of Lhem there Injun feathers of mine to remember me by" tells her. "out if you don't want 'em there's plenty of others would be glad to take 'em."
 But she says she would like to have them.
 -wen.@ I says. '-I will bring them to Syou tomorrow afternoon.''
 She says. Thank you-''
 Finally couldn't stand it DO longer. got brave all of sudden and busted nut, Martha. I-I-I''-
 But I got to stuttering, and my brRveness stuttered itself away, and finished up by saying: @i
 II like you a hull lot, Martha. Which wasn't jest exactly what | had planned fur to say
 Martha. she says she kind of likes me too
 Martha says. q like you more'n my girl ever run acrost before.''
 She says. Thank you.'' agin. The way she said 1t riled me up She said 1t like she didn't know what meant nor what was trying to get out of me But she did know ali the time. | kno1ved she did She knowed. know ed it too Gosh dern 1t. I says to my self here am wasting all this time 5est talking to her. The right thing to do come to me all of sudden and like to took my breath away. But 1 done ft r grabbed her and kissed her.
 Twice And then agin. Because the Erst was on the chin on account of her Jerking her head back And the sec nnd one she didn't help me none But the third time she helped me little And the ones after that she helped me Considerable.
 Well they afn't no use trying to talk about the rest of that afternoon couldn't rightly describe tiff wanted oo- And I reckon it's nene, of any bodyss business
 Well. 1t nalzes- you feel kind of fun ny You want to go out and pick on somebody about four sizes bigger'n you are and knock the socks off'u him. It stands to reason others has felt that away. but you don't believe it. You want to tell people about it one min ute The next minute you hnve got chtIls and ague fur fear some one will guess it. hnd you think the way you are about her is going to last fur all ways
 Tbaf evening. when I was cooking supper. I laughed every time was spoke eo- When Looey and I was hitching up to drive downtown ho give the show. one of the bosses stepped on his foot and laughed at that, and there was pUrty nigh a fight After the show. when we got back to camp and the hosses was picketed out fur the night had Co tell L,ooey slb about how felt fur an explanation of why R1ghed at him.
 which it made Looey right low tn his sp.zTzts. and he shakes hla head md says no good will come of fE
 -Buf 1t ends happy somedmes,'' says
 '.Sot when it is true love it don't" says Booey. Look at Anthony and Cleopatra
 HYes," I says. ~and so is Adam and Eve and Dan and Burrsheba and all. ehe rest of them old timers But I bet Khey had a good time while they lasted"
 Looey shakes his head solemn and Eighs and goes to sleep very mourn ful, like he has to give me up fur lost. But can't sleep none myself So pur- Ry soon gets up and puts on my shoes and sneaks through the woodiot and through the gap in the fence by the ap- pie tree and into Miss Hampton's yard. It was beauty of moonlight night, l hat white and clear and clean you ronlda almost see to read by 1t, like all of everything had been secured as bright as the-bottom of tin pan And l =the shaddezs was soft and thick and l yelvefy and laid kind of browuisn- gTeeney on the grass- I Topped down l la the shadder of some lilac bushes End wondered which was Marthas l window I knowed she would be in l bed hong ago. but-well, I was jest 1 plumb foolish that night, and I couldn't | of kept away fur any money That | moonlight had got into my head, it | beemed like, and made me drunk The porch of that house was part eOvered with vines. but they was kind 1 Df gaped apart at one corner. As I l laid there in the shadder of the bushes 1 { -zczTn a huttering movement, light l and gentle. on that porch. Then all of f n sudden seen some one standing on | the edge of the porch where the vines 1 was gaped apart. and the moonlight | was falling on to them. They must of | rome there awful soft and still. Who | aver 1t was couldn't see into the shad- amr where I latd-that is. If it was