The Washington herald., 1914-04-21

floor but that was the way she saw
things
When she was seventeen they got a
long skirt on her and her hair was done
up high. but they had to stand over her
with a club to accomplish it. That year
she also attended two or three parties
and didn't turn a handspring nor pick a
fight. By threats and bribes they got
her to church and she only Uttered
aloud once during the sermon.
Then grandma came and heard all
about the hOyden. Indeed. she was
made to feel as we'll as to hear. On
the first night Of her arrival a ghost
visited her bedside and scared her into
a cold fit On the next morning. when
she was too nervous to leave her bed
and there was talk of handouts ami
shackles and a bread and water diet for
the hoyden. the good old lady said;
You jest let that girl alone! l don't
blame her one mite
But she's most eighteen was re-
piled.
Il don't care IL she's most a hundred,
That girl has got some life about her.
and don't want to see it crushed out"
But, grandma. If YOU only knew what
a hoyden she is,''
Makes no difference. She sees one
side of life and you another. 1t would
be a good thing If YOU and stephen
would do a little grinninC yourselves.
Your faces would make any one think
there was a funeral in the house
Let me tell you what she did yes
terday ! had the minister call to talk
with her. but she ran away. When
he got ready to go he fell over lot Of
stove wood she had piled on the steps
to trip him up
I'm glad of it. He had no business
to be here
The other night she hid among the
holIyhocks and jumped out at old Mrs.
BraytOn, who was coming to borrow a
cup of sugar, and frightened her most
TO death.
But old Mrs. Brayton ought to have
had sugar in the house instead OF bOr-
rowing OF the neighbors. l wish June
would scare away the dozen that come
borrowing OF me-
I'VE want to send her to some beard
ing school. but she won't go
''Hain't she been to school here
oh. yes. but YOU know they don't
teach the higher branches nor deport-
ment.'
What docs the girl want Of the higher
branches: She is Eoirg to marry a man
who'd rather nave a good beefsteak than
a cartload of French or Latin. Let her
department take care Of itself. It's a
heap better as it is than as il she didn't
know how to laugh when a laugh was
due"
Shell never find husJand-ncver."
said June's mother.
she's more likely to marry within
a year. I've seen such girls, and they
,Iu ~,
made the straightest kind Of wives"
But if she would only steady down"
Sarah. have some sense about YOU.
A boy may be full of the old nick from
sixteen TO twenty. and then steady down.
\ girl may be a hoyden up to eighteen
or nineteen and then sober up
But what can sober June
Leave that TO chance and stop peck
ing at ner.'
One day. three months after grandma
had gone home. and while Miss Juna
was still hoyden. she took a half DAY
of to go fishing. She had always beaten
every boy in town at the game. Wheh
she reached the lake. a mile away. SIC
discovered that her favoritc spot vaS
occupied by stranger. He was young
and good-looking man. and was
stranger to the neighborhOod.
Miss June marched boldly down to ;he
rock on wnlCn ne sat ana STOOD therc
facing him. He looked at her. bat made
no move.
She got her fishing tackle ready. No
move. She coughed and walked back
and forth. No move.
II always fish here" she said at last
Yes
And if any one has the place he takes
a walk when | arrive:
Il Sec
largest fish of the season and then said:
Sir. you have not vacated"
''N-o-o?"
For a minute she was tempted to Srab
his hat and muss up his hair but she
thought Of a better way. There was a
cliff fifty feet high above him. The crest
was reached by n winding path. She
took it and soon passed out of sight.
Ned FOrdham, you are no gentleman.
said the stranger to himself: but. then.
you had heard of the Eaton hOyden and
that she would run you OF II she found
you here. She found NE all right"
When Miss June reached the top NJ
the cliff she was about half a minute
rolling hundred-pound rock over the
brink. II fell with a great splash within
ten feet of the fisherman.
Holy smoke" he exclaimed as he SaEL
great jump.
- SS'ohu pi- io'N lOlI'''N"' o''' 'S
made a further retreat. He stood wait
ing for a third. when there was scream
from ABOVE. and the body Of the hOyden
came sailing down to alisht In the top
of a pine tree above him. In seeking tn
roll down n third rock the girl had over
balanced herself
1t was wonderful thins tina; bones
were not broken. even If she escaped
death. When the white-faCed young man
reached the spot she needed help TO clear
herself OF the broken branches, but the
fall had not deprived her Of conscious
neks. She was weak and had to sit