Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-01-09

VINO taught SCHOOL III Il ~uelSHBoiihS
village in the winter and managed her
parents during the summer vacation.
There was also the hired man, whose
form passed across her range of vision
as he cut across lots to and from the
Tanner meadows. Sometimes he was
driving the COWS: again he swung
along with hoe over his shoulder bound
for the cornfield. Susanna was inter
ested in George. the hired man, be
cause she had never seen his face. He
always wore II tapping straw hat that
brushed bis broad shoulders and quite
hid his features from her view.
He walked well. He lacked the
stumbling. Ieisurely gait of Mr.. Hol-
den's German farm hand. and he car
ried his head up.
One day Susanna was introduced to
Florine Tanner. and the girl Invited
the summer boarder to take a walk
down by the brook that rambled
through the meadow bottom.
Il saw a blue heron there the other
day." she remarked as they crossed the
orchard.
"Wouldn't 1t be splendid If we caught
a glimpse of him todayT" cried Susan
ma. i've been keeping a notebook of
all the birds | meet up here. I've
found ten strangers already"
I'VE have bird study In the school"
remarked Florine. whose conversation
invariably reverted to her chosen yoca
tion. Can you climb a fence?" she In
quired skeptically, preparing to assist
the city girl over the bars.
Susanna smiled. One of her most
fetching scenes in 1.-The Farmers
Daughter" was where she crossed a
fence. disdaining the assistance of the
villain.
I'm try" she said, and, lifting her
pink skirts, she deliberately set II
daintily shod foot ON the lower bar.
barely touching the post with her hand.
stepped Il the next rail and then turn
ed. looking down nj Florine from mis-
chievous eyes. "GomingY she asked.
Not that way returned Florine
rather sourly. Il can get through this
way" She moved along a few steps
and. bending down. crept through a
pair of fallen rails into the other field.
There she watched the graceful descent
of Susanna with strong disapproval in
her long. narrow countenance. Just
then her mouth snapped open with sud
den surprise.
MY graciousI' she calculated, star
ing at Susanna.
What is the matter? Not q snake
or IA bug?" faltered the city girl.
feeling tentatively Of her hair and
skirts.
"No-only-say, do you yer go to the
moving picture shows?" demanded
Florine abruptly.
81 have been to several places!' Su-
sanna's eyebrows arched with sur
prise. "Whyr'
"You haven't been over to Riverside.
then? They had a show there a few
weeks ago-something about a farmers
daughter-and one of the pictures
showed a girl crossing a fence just as
you did now. and she did 1t the same
way. and she looked just like you too.
Funny, isn't itT
ut is a singular coincidence" admit
ted the young actress demurely. 1t
flashed across her now that she and
her company had enacted that popular
play before the film makers.
1--WE got my opinion Of actresses"
remarked Florine as they walked slow
ly through the clover field.
1--WE got mine, too" rejoined Susan
ma merrily.
mine isn't a very high one either.
l could pick one out of a crowd any
day"
I'm what way?" Susanna was en-
joying herself.
I'm the first place. they always dye
their hair yellow. and they paint their
faces and veal low neck dresses all
day long. with earrings and such stuff"
returned Florine scornfully.
Have you seen very many actress
esq" asked Susanna sweetly. Il am
sure you never could have. for your
ideas of stage people seem sc old fash
Toned somehow"
"Old fashionedF' shifted Florine Tan
ner. That's just what George says.
l asked him what he knew about It.
He's only a hired man, you know, and
never has had advantages"
Susanna vas amused. What did
George say?" she inquired.
"Oh. nothing! He merely laughed and
went off whistliug."
Here comes your hired man." said
Susanna as the first of the herd OF
Tanners Holsteins came slowly round
the turn of the path.
The girls stood aside as the cows am
bled homeward. with the farm hand
bringing up the rear. His straw hal
was pushed back. and Susanna saw /,
very handsome sunbrowned face. with
sparkling blue eyes, In strong contras'
to straying locks of jet black hair. He
stopped whistling as he glimpsed the
girls, and his happy, careless expires
sion was ~crystallized in a look of min
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