Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-27
BUILDING A ROMANCE
BY CLARA INEz DEACON.

BY CLARA lNEZ 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."
Il shall be out on the platform and
waiting"
The name of the station is Red
fern, isn't it?"
"Is sure is, M zr, and don't you
get 1t mixed up wt.h Red Hill or Red
Head"
And Kitty st, Clair will be there
to meet you?"
Eyes, unless she is laid up with a
broken leg"
You may be killed in a railroad
wreck before you get there"
IF I am I'll telephone you. Pm
or"
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"
mot 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"
We'll, we must give her q good
visit Didn't you say she was rather
eedate?''
shes almost as solemn as grave
stone"
I'm glad of that, for she will act al
a check on you You have spirit
enough for any three girls. do hope
that while she is here you won't ae1
quite so like boy!"
Il shall go around with tears in my
eyes and my hands tied behind mel
An hour later there was meeting
at the country station that was wit
messed only by the old depot master
and small boy.
"Oh, Kitty!"
"Oh, Bessie!"
Hip, hurrah!"
"Whoop-la!"
| I'm SO glad!"
I'm SO happy!"
And after kissing each other exactl.
Is times they Joined hands and wen
waltzing up and down the platform
and then drove away in the pom,
cart.
The old man and the boy looket
after them in astonishment, and th'
boy exclaimed:
Gee, but did you ever see anything
like it?"
My son." answered the man witt
q sad shake Of his head, that's wha
you've got. to come to-"
What? Turn into gal?"
You've got to marry a gal like on
/ Of them, and she'll make it so blame'
rapid for you that you'll be lunati
! in less than year"
4 When the girls had arrived and tn
stranger had been welcomed to he
room, Mrs. ST. Clair's face wore
troubled look, and she said to hel
self:
i Il don't see anything as solemn a
a gravestone about that girl. On tn
contrary, she looks like a girl tina
would turn somersault off haystac
any day in the week. / hope the
won't get, to carrying on too high
4 And upstairs there was gigglinl
and tittering and jumping over chair
i and exclaiming:
"Oh, but won't we make Rome how
when we get at it?"
1t was three or four days befor
there was any bowling. Then on
day the girls got on their old skirt
and set off to view the country, a
they termed it. AS they were read
to go Mrs. st. Clair felt it her mott
erly duty to say:
AT this season of the year ther
are lots of snakes, you know!'
4 We shall carry clubs to kill thel
with.
I You know there is a dangeror
bull In Blacks pasture?"
Yes, but he won't hurt a couple
demure maidens."
I. "Tramps we're never as numerol
as now"
II I'VE are each armed with a tab
knife. Good-by and don't worry"
Half mile down the road W;
. Blacks bull pasture. The bull was
home and had a chip on his shoulde
The girls sat on the fence and ga,
,, him a bad half hour. They shouted
! him and taunted him and defied hi
until he broke has way out and re-
down the road aIsl chased farm,
! to the roof of his wagon she'd
. That was enough of the bull. Wht
he had careered away they went to
grove and climbed trees. 1t was jol
fun until both had falls and bump
When they had eaten lunch circ,
was suggested. 1t would be betrayir
confidence to say that they a
tempted cart-wheels, handspring
somersaults and standing on the
heads. They probably didn't do
thing of the kind, but sat with the
feet braced against each others al
pulled at stick to see which wi
the stronger.
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