Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-08-29
Two of
A Kind
The Widow Won
Out
BY CLARISSA MACKIE


Maria Fish was baking molasses
cookies while sat in the hot kitchen
reading aloud from the column of
Social lettings" in the Ounce Harbor
Weekly Echo.
"'Our genial neighbor, Captain Bar
nabas Fish, spent Thursday in the
great metropolis, l read at last.
"Trashr snorted Maria, popping d
pan of cookies into the oven and flying
back to the table to grease another
pan.
ITS true" remarked mildly, for
found the Echo fascinating In tho
extreme, for 1t carelessly tossed halo
of adventure or romance about the
most trivial facts Of daily life in the
little Long Island village.
That's as 1t may be-" retorted Maria
grimly, "but faint no news to nobody
Tom, Dick and Harry in town saw
him go off on the stage, and those TINT
didn't was up to the station loaflng
around when the train went"
True" | murmured, "but 1t does
sound so impressive when one reads
that Captain Barnabas went to the
great metropolis It's much moro
suggestive than plain New York or
the city"
"You air romantic, Miss Telham."
Maria wagged her head severely at
me. you can see romance in almost
nothing Mebbe you can find speck
Of rosy color in the fact that Barnabas
met that old scamp, Ananias Slime, in
New York and has invited him down
to Ounce Harbor for SPELL"
"Ananias Sline-herep' / cried JOY
fully. "Oh, Maria, isn't that too splen-
did! Just think of hearing his yarns
at first hand instead Of having the
captain relating themp
More lies, Miss Telham. l don't
encourage Barnabas in repeating those
old yarns Of his shipmate."
HAS Mr.. Slime any relatives" l ask
ed, with interest.
HAS sister somewhere who dress
makes for living and l reckon pro-
vides home for him when he's ashore.
He was married once and had wife,
but hear she ran away and left him
because he was so mortal mean and
stingy. don't blame the woman.
Most any human being would get tired
Of living with google eyed codlsh|
"A google eyed Goldfish! Oh, Maria,
is he as homely as thatT l gasped.
Judge for yourself Here no comesW
said Maria simplify as she threw of
her glngham apron and marched into
the front hall "Come along, Miss Tel.
ham. You'll have to talk to him while
I'm getting dinner"
Maria's bark was always worse than
her bite. SO It proved In this particu.
lar instance when she greeted the dap
per little man whom her husband In.
troduced.
MARIA, let me interduce my old
shlpmate. Ananias Slime. Ananias,
shake hands with my wife. Ha, hump'
The captain smiled delightedly as Ma.
ria gave pleasant greeting to the little
man, who did bear n striking resem
blance TO the google eyed Goldfish that
Maria had so graphically described.
"Pleased to meet you" grunted Ana.
MAS, bobbing his long head first ut Ma
ria and then Mt me. At last, with q
great effort, as If the mere formalities
of conversation cousod him agony ba
p,ut,oro1 .,NyIoo dovr
"prattv fair considoring TINT tho
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s'tloI OF trlst'
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oulnce harDor bankT
Yes M.
pondered carefully whnt posltlon
OF trust might DC nnhlled IN the Viilags
pank'
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