Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-07-16
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TYPICAL SUMMER GIRL
BY KENNETH HARRIS.

along in the shadow of the shore, the
young man who grasped the oars
seeming disinclined to exertion. The
girl who leaned back among the cush-
/ ions in the stern seemed thoughtful.
The young man, bending forward to
observe her more closely, wondered
what she was thinking about. At
last he asked her:
Il was thinking that Martha Wash
ington cake at supper tonight the MIC
est I ever tasted" she said, with an
air Of simple candor Il must ask
Mrs. Rogers for the recipe"
The young man made an impatient
movement.
"Another mosquito? 2" asked the girl
mo, It was another sort of a sting, :"
said the young man.
Mosquitoes don't sting"
mo, but some other things do
Eyes, hornets and humble bees and
nettles-if you don't handle them
firmly"
you have to be handled with
care"
"oh, I'm not fragile. Are your"
eyes: if you drop me I'm likely to
break
Stop talking nonsense"
you are typical summer girl,
aren't you?" he said
Il am" she agreed, Gin the summer
time. In the winter I'm typical win
ter girl. Not wintry, though"
you can be pretty chilly at this
season, notice-at times"
Il wish / could at this present
time" she said, tanning herself with
her sailor hat. ''I'lI tell you what
you may do; row me back to the pa
vilion and treat me to pineapple ices"
Perhaps / will after a while,
want to talk to you now I've been
trying"
Il can listen and eat ices too
"If you can listen I wish you
would"
I'm not to talk, then. Is that it?"
Il want"
my conversation bores your"
You know perfectly well what I
mean. haven't had a chance to see
you alone all day. | want you to be
serious.
$50 does my Aunt Jane And that's
peculiar, too when think of it, for
you don't look at all alike. But she
thinks I'm frivolous, and you think
I'm frivolous. There's that bond be-
tween you, at any rate. So you think
I'm typical summer girl?"
mo, THAT is, at times I have
thought So
And you still think SO. Well, what
does that mean? Is it complimentary?
Why not row a little faster? You
don't give me steerage way"
II was going to tell you that / am
going back to town tomorrow"
well, that is information, certain
ly. thought you intended to stay
week or two yet.
''Will you be sorry to have me go?"
why, what an absurd question:
The only man left don't count jim
mie Temple, of course; he's too much
taken up with Myrtle to be of any use
at all But we'll say almost the only
man left"
yes, there's Parkinson
He doesn't count, either-so very
much, but We'll have to make the best
of him if you're going"
you mean that you will make the
best OF him"
Let's say auntie and IT, she sug-
gested, gently
well, auntie and you will miss me,
them hope"
I'VE shall be desolated-' speshully
auntie."
Eyes, ] suppose So" he said bitter
ly.
She's very fond of you"
81 had hoped" he said, that it
might have been speshully you,' but
suppose l fooled myself like the
rest of them
You mean the rest of the men
who-the ones who came before you
the fond donors of my little collec-
tion Of engagement rings, don't your"
DO you mean to say that you en-
gagged yourself to them?"
collectively? Oh, dear, no. But
individually, what could you expect of
a typical summer girl? They came,
they saw, and-and they went home
again. had to be here all the time.
Did ever show you those rings?
No, don't think did. Well, j must
sometime
4 don't think you will, said the
young man, grimly, beginning to row
TIL get you your ice now
Il don't want 1t now You lost
your opportunity. That ought to be a
lesson to you
He dropped the oars. Look here"
he said, determinedly. I'm going to
know about this Did those fellows
propose to you?"
This is outrageous!" she exclaim-
ed, Indignantly.
Never mind whether it is or not.
Did they propose%
DO you think everybody is as slow
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