The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-12
The First Letter Of
Her Name
By ALBERT KENYON

tin down In front of the fire, got Il
thinkin' what a lot O. work | had tt
do that was usually done by women
/ could stand it all till it came te
washin dishes, and that / always
hated.
There came a rap at the door and
Cynthia Jones came in to ask me il
wouldn't lend her mother quart OF
milk. The Joneses have the nexl
farm to mine. There's one boy and
five girls. I've often wondered what
Farmer Jones'll do with all his girls
There's only one Twin at the farm,
and thatll go ts the boy. / went to
the springhouse and got Cynthia the
milk, and as / handed it to her she
said:
You're very comfortable here, Mr..
Crabb, amt your"
well, yes," / answered. I'm COM
Portable enough"
Don't you ever git lonesome Twin
all alone?"
mo. l don't git lonesome at all.
You see, by the time ! git the dishes
washed it's perty nigh bedtime"
do you like dishwashin'? Most
men don't"
II hate it,"
"Why don't you git woman to do
1t for your
II don't know anybody that would
like to hire out for that purpose"
you might marry some one. She
could do all the woman's work--the
sweepin', the cookin', the milkin' and
ALL
II don't know any one that would
marry me-"
"You don't mean Ill Why, there's
lots o. nice girls would be glad of the
position. / know girl that would
marry you and make you good wife"
who's thatY'
"Why, Mr.. Crabb, you wouldn't have
me tell you. She wouldn't thank me
for dom so. If she did 1t would be
1mmodest of her"
as it Susan Parkg'
mo"
1T amt Melis Billings, is it?"
won't give you any more guesses."
Seems to me that's kind o. mean"
"I'll tell you what I'll do. Come in
to our house Sunday night and I'll
give you the first letter of her first
name"
| made the call on Sunday evening
and found all the family except Gym
tha gone to church. There was a fire
burnin' on the hearth, and the brass
andirons shone beautiful. Cynthia had
some apples and cider on the table
waitin' and altogether everything
looked mighty fine. Somehow / could
never make my Twin room look like
that, and told her so. She said men
couldn't do such things; only women
could.
Cynthia made me feel so good that
/ forgot all about askin' her the letter
she was goin' to tell me, and went
away without it. l met her on the
road the next day, and ! said:
what was the letter you was goin'
to tell me? / clean forgot It,"
you'll have to come for 1T next Sun |
day." she said as she hurried on.
/ went the next Sunday night, and |
the first thing / did was to ask for |
that letter before forgot It. Cynthia
said she'd tell me just before I went
home, only was to remind her of it.
The family was mostly at home this
time, and Cynthia took me into little
by room off the dinin' room. There
was only one easy chair In 1t. Gym
thia set herself down in that and left
me chair with a wooden seat. To-
ward 10 o'clock got so tired couldn't
stand it any longer. got up and walk
ed about to rest myself, and Cynthia
moved aside, and, seem she didn't In
tend to be mean about it, / set down
beside her.
Would you believe 1t? i went away
without thinkin' to remind her of the
first letter of the girls name who
would like to marry mel I met her in
a few days In the store and asked her
for 1t, but she said I'd have to try it
again and IL I didn't remember this
time she wouldn't tell me at all.
/ went round the third time to get
that letter and found not only the fam
lily at home, but lot o. friends there.
So Cynthia had to take me TO a closet
where they kept old books and maya ]
zines, and we set on the pile with our
legs stickin' out into the hall. The
closet was narrower than the easy
chair we'd set In the second night j
was there, and there want no room ,
for my arm, so had to put 1t around 3
her We set there that away from I {
I'LL 10 o'clock.
by cracky," said Jest as 1 was
a-goin' away, eff / didn't pretty nigh
forgit ag'in to ask for that letter.
Cynthia larfed and said that the first
etter I had missed by not askin' for 1t
1t my first call and the second I'd
missed on my second call. So / was
only entitled to the third letter, which
was ~" l didn't like that way o. I
putin me off and went back and set :
Town ag'in to persuade her to tell me
he whole thing She wouldn't, but 6
We had our heads perty nigh together,
md a lock OF her hair brushed my I
heck. l kissed her. Then | said ! :
lidn't care rap for all the letters of
he other girls name. | wanted her to
ome in and do the woman's work on
ny farm for me.
And, laws. how we did kick up our