The daily sentinel., 1913-06-10

Sunday-school doesn't count for much.
Then when you came to look at her she pretty
enough lawful round and little Of course, but nice
enough) and do tfina she has the prettest eyes.
Only Of course, she hasn't much hair. And sho
wears good shoes, too; and she has a cunning voice.
l think; only it too much like baby's (When I
came to think it over, decided that liked people
to have nice voice. None of the fellows had eve-
thought of that before. But did, and so stick to
1t You forget to look for it because you're so used
to hear everybody call all day, upstairs and DOWN
stairs, like, Get up" or. Come TO dinnerl' or
Aren't you in bed yet?" And it spos it. But Lefty
has very nice voice for little girl, and liked it
when she spoke her piece at the Strawberry Festival
When she did that and they all elapped I made up
my mind then that I'd better marry her. And was
ever so glad later, when l saw her looking at the
map of the Holy Land that they have on the wall
IN the cloak-room l went straight over where she
was looking at it, and I said to her, "Say, do YOU
like geography" And she says, "Ye-es Don't you9"
And l says ITS the only thing like in the whole
match-the jaguars' n the islands, n the exports n
all the rest of tl'
"Ohr says she, DO you? So do Ii' Well did YOU
ever? just like her I came as near as ever to
telling her right then that I'd take her for my Wife;
but saw that I'd better wait and decide first how
everything was going to be. 1t was great fun PLAN
nmg the good times we were going to have when we
grew up
got out my school geography next day and began
spotting places for to live on the map There's n
pink island up off Scotland for one-that ALWAYS like
ana then Siberia looks so empty thought it would
be fun TO live there. It's so large and empty and de-
serted, they'd be glad to have people settle there
should think, And when we wanted to be charitable
we could feed the Exies. And then its so near
Japan it ought to be interesting You could 90 homo
whenever you liked, that side without stoppine TO 90
all around the other way). Summer would be hes,
tor Siberia, for while. Then when the cold grew
mercer and drove us southwark with the other wan
dering tribes, could leave all our children (ner
fectly warm and safe with nurse of course) and
we could go to Africa to explore Lefty would he old
enough by that time not to mind spiders and boa-con-
suletors and things; and would take barrels of
beads to please the natives and trade them for gun
powder or postage stamps; and bring home lots of
uger-skins and elephants tusks and gold dust l was
gong to discover some unknown tribes in the INTERIOR
don't see why not There must be some there And
alter we had discovered them they might want me
to come and govern them; for while anyway till
they were able to do it themselves. And l hadn't
planned much more than that.
But tell you what was really glad about Lefty
1t was curious that I'd never thought of her before
though was near it It's funny how my Wife seemed
to run in that family Just wait, though
One Sunday, after Sunday-school was through I
walked home with Lefty and it seemed a good time
to tell her because Benny Davenport was waiting 70
whose Wife she So | carried her Sunday-scbooI
books for her, and her leaflets and her mtebox us
ana MI up M you can't jingle it, but you don't get
thing yourself You have to take it back to school
take it home and go through ali of it over again and
you you; keep that up forever I'd like to know how much
fhey getl. g.; Wen as | was saying started off when
and III tell you something '~
70 50 sa she came Ca along and will she's always ready
to go abroad sometime?" '"'''
And she said, Yes, of course I dol"
10 siberia and Japan-and Africa.
fe-es she says and her eyes began to get big
Well said to her, you just look out and keep
wen go around the world three times WITHOUT sn And
ping, first of all And we won't stay home, forever,
II we ed don't on. wan want TO- to Won't it be greatT
And says, Say. you'll marry me then, for sure,
Says she ac Why, yesI I was going to- anyway"
Says !; What, when hadn't asked you tor"
Says she: WHY. yes was always going top
Then said: Great snakes! you're not cheeky are
you1 You were planning to marry me, anyway, with
out me knowing thing about it3'
II, And she says: Why, yes I don't why not
Just said Didn't you know Girls can't do that1"
mo, says she (You can't make her understand
anything. She's exactly like the Tyler's Maltese kit
TEN; a};.un .
body marries them. But they can't marry anybody un.
less he wants to"
But didn't" says she.
81 guess you didn'tp says T. "But you were going
to. fast enough Said so yourself You were going
to, anyway Now you've gone and spoiled it all"
WHY have ~ she asked me. ii you'll believe it!
said to her, Because it isn't any Surprise.
had it all planned, and going to surprise you
and everybody. Nobody wants TO be married without
asking his leave And tell you, you can't do it. It's
all gone up.
Then went on and told her 81 planning where
I'd take you and where we'd live. picked out that
farthest one Of the pink islands up Scotland for
part of the time; and Siberia, too And when it was
cold we'd have left there and gone to Africa to Ex-
pore." IN"