Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-03-25
BUILDING A ROMANCE
BY CLARA INEz DEACON.

We'll, mother, it's time for me to be
on my way to the depot"
BE careful, Bessie, and don't take
the wrong train"
"Oh, l shall ask at least so people
if it's the right one"
And be sure you are not carried
past Redfern."
q shall be out on the platform and
waiting"
THE name of the station is Red
fern, isn't it?'
rs sure is, mother, and don't you
get it mixed up with Red Hill or Red |
Head"
"And Kitty ST. Clair will be there
to meet your"
Eyes, unless she is laid up with a
broken leg"
You may be killed in railroad
wreck before you get there"
IF l am I'll telephone you. I'm
off"
Just another word, Bessie. Mrs.
st. Clair is a sober, sedate woman, and
you and Kitty must not go to cutting
up or she'll be shocked"
Not a cut-up, mother There
now!"
And about the same hour Mrs. st.
Clair, at her country home, was say
ing to her daughter, Kitty:
This is the day when your friend
Bessie, comes down"
Yes, mother"
well, we must give her a good
visit Didn't you say she was rather
sedate?"
she's almost as solemn as grave
stone"
I'm glad of that, for she will act as
a check on you. You have spirit
enough for any three girls. do hope
that while she is here you won't act
quite so like boy!'.
81 shall go around with tears In my
eyes and my hands tied behind me!
An hour later there was a meeting
at the country station that was wit
messed only by the old depot master
and small boy.
"Oh, Kitty"
ooh, Bessie"
Hip, hurrah!"
"Whoop-la!"
I'm so glad"
I'm so happy"
And after kissing each other exactly
Is times they joined hands ana Went
Waiting up and down the platform
and then drove away in the pony
cart
The old man and the boy looked
after them in establishment, and the
boy exclaimed:
Gee, but did you ever see anything
like it?' -,
my son." answered the man VIII
a sad shake of his head, that VIVA
you've got to come to-.
What? Turn into gal?"
you've got to marry gal ike one
of them, and she'll make it so blame'
I. rapid for you that you'll be lunatl'
in less than year"
= When the girls had arrived and Tn
stranger had been welcomed to ne
room. Mrs. st. Clair's face wore
!, troubled look, and she said to hei
# self:
r II don't see anything as solemn q
r. a gravestone about that girl. On III
- contrary. she looks like a girl tina
would turn a somersault off haystac
any day in the week. l hope the
won't get to carrying on too hlgh.
And upstairs there was g1gglln
e and tittering and jumping over chall
and exclaiming:
u "Oh. but won't we make Rome nov
when we get at it?"
It was three or four days be1oI
h. there was any bowling. Then on
"a dav the girls got on their old sklr'
and set off to view the country,
thew termed it. AS they were reao
to 90 Mrs. st. Clair felt it her mot
erly duty to say:
"At this season of the year thel
are lots of snakes, you know!
- I'VE shall carry clubs to XIII the
- with"
:. You know there is dangero'
=. bull in Blacks PASTURE?
"a Eyes, but he went hurt couple
- demure maidens."
>. "Tramps we're never as numero'
as now"
- I'VE are each armed with tan
=, knife. Good-by and don't worry.
~ Half a mile down the road !"
- Blacks bull pasture. The bull was
R1u home and had chip on his should'
- The girls sat on the fence and ga
d. him a bad half hour. They shouted
a. him and tainted him and detied hl
until he broke his way out ana r
down the road aud chased a farm
tn the roof of his wagon shed.
os- That was enough OF the bull Wh
oi- he had careered away they went TO
q grove and climbed trees. IL was 10
as fun until both had falls and oum
Fo When they had eaten lunch circ
-oi was suggested. 1t would be oetrayl
confidence to say that they
am tempted cart-wheels, hand-sprln