Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-10-03
|fr Love
Letters
By EDITH v ROSS

Ffry different aHd fifrfr D. no nnNNi
thar love before marriage l. Ike sle
viud playing ulou the STRINGS ~ q
harp u0R bringing forth iow sweet
Sounds and ugw the wl.desi strains
q s. Haf only toe freaines ~ lhee
thaas.s bai flie sudaegne fake the
tasa ai Gga pittefne aa4 sso Irar
taF Instance 1leg mei af barn
1aaet fa.I hes 90 each other as ~
6mar together by q palr Of liouaani
fai masueia IWD dHFs aief thes did
uai slsak % eaeh other - ben they met
in ihre morF 3ags fhey were engaged
Then they. living iu different towns.
began that voluminOus letter writing
which never has bern and never can be
equaled b. any other correspondents
than lovers The letters that passed
between them varied daily from one
20 nye. the one representing ordinary
conditions. the Eve when Gus wrote
something Sara did not understand
Alas. the day came when Gus per
petratcd q Joke 10 Que Of his letters
that Sara did not understand. aud she
slapped his letter right back 81 hifn.
Had be not beeD proud Of his Joke the
affair might have passed Ike their
,ho,saoa ana one other aoets A. il
was. gus wrote that since Sara bnd
Thought proper % return one " bis
lplteru she might return them au
TO This sam replied thnt she waa
not 40 aiilt a. 10 leave him ln naa
session Of her LETTERS and II he wished
hi. saa the efst fhine for him 10 DO
wss aend every acrnn she had ever
serifi.s him a. fhis f,as Realized fhat
ain-e i er.af deal ef raas nad ha.n
.sefftau 81 tatb parban wound D,
ura f.r fnsm h. maas 4n a4ehaasa
10 ftfs SARA aesaa aea said she
awaited a.. ratnrn III ba .ru.h aud
,eania thereafter b.. careful nsx she
Wr,fa any n,ere ~ a. fo spv man
number ~ very Short ana pointed
notes nass.d l.efae..o them, AZ 10 which
shoala nrat return III. others letters
aoa oo b.saesv ,ysa made rh,.n f,us
thar the. abonI1 eotapromlse
the matter .certafnlv- was IA, rc
piV t,Tm ready foy a compeeo,ls,
We'll Gns answered "sghat shall the
eompromlse befr why Won send
baet my letters Of course then ru
send back youru.~
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SET MS letters into MS own posses !,
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them FINALLY Dc proposed an ex !.
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'efy Msil WIS inc fepi'. won d
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sF reA tAf s'htt"efh must i' b.
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hr own 20 rtfNHnfe Sinsniar
sp ~ titat DE- NAa n'' Thought of
trl'fet ti" "f"te ihe sifi hr had
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''.a :" "ft ana f.ture Nis own atioF
'fh thfrr "npia ~ parting be N y.
.th tNrm th't """ld 'hsi tesefef
pr apfihF was coming 90. anu the "'
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