Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-02-03

4 eligible party around in ase she want.
ed to 60 fishing. He might be all her
father said, and yet she wouldn't like
him He would have disagreeable
traits
Three weeks had passed and Rex
Franklin hadnt been even sighted
from a distance He Was 70 drop in
some evening with his parents In re-
turn for a call It was so said and
Miss Nellie took care to have on her
prettiest Gown every evening bnt not
on his ACCOUNTING, sir! Just because
she felt like dressing up bit. She
erracticed the airs of two or three
SONGS In harmony with her voice, but
that had nothing to do with his COM
ins She Just liked to hear her own
voice.
And on a certain morning Miss Mel
lie RathNone not np feeling OFT Of sorts
with the word. She fell out Of bed
irstead of hopping out like cricket.
Then her hair tangled as she brushed
II Then she found that her powder
RAP had been chewed IN by her Boston
Nrl'dog and about half dozen other
things had zone wrong when she trip
ped az she was going down to break
fast and rolled clear down to the hall
floor or course. she snid things and
sirg,,larlv enough she said most Of
them aro,t the vovng man next door.
EIe was a ninny: he was no sc"ln'or:
he was homely and awk~ard II he
eve~ dared call she would make him
LOOT small.
| r Rev Franklin had known this he
| worlI have thr- d~red back a "ro!"
wher his mcthe" asked him to use
hnrrmer and nail to secure shelf.
, Tho bemmcr was broken but at her
s,~rert'on he gail, tro+ted over to the
Rathhone house He would see the
hired man only. AID rieht there was
the trrrir~ poirt Of his ffe.
| Miss Nellie had found the oatmeal
undergone and the coffee muddy. and
had laid both at the door Of the new
| yorrp man when she started out to
J feed the doves. There was a large
place twice a day Poised over her
head like an aviator on his way from
New York to st. Louis was a hen
hawk. Although henh9wk. he was
not averse to dining on dove now and
then for change. He had been man.
euvering for ten minutes for nosition,
i and It was when the feeling doves got
| hrn rhed that he closed his wings and
dropped to gobb'e one in each claw.
The herhawk snldom gets off in his
calculations. but this one made bad
error He came on Miss Nellie Rath.
| homes head Her hair was coiled up
! and he got his talons entangled and
. Couldn't release them. Scream? Why,
they heard her half mile away! Ca
wort? Why colt couldn't have beaten
her gal'op around the yard! The hawk
| clawed and peoked. and the girl yelled
and danced, and Of course Providence
| seized upon that very minute to lead
| forward the new young man. He had
never seen a chicken hawk trying to
carrv off 125,pound girl before. but
he Was equal to the occasion. He grab.
bed the bird and choked it's life out
and then released the tangle.'
| With morning dress on that wasn't
a bi, pro+ with her chestnut hair
! full of kinks and knots and flowing
| down to her knees-with her heart
| beating with fright and one ear bleed
! inc rrom bite, why-why, anyone can
imagine just how the maiden felt! She
made three Jumps for the kitchen and
! waS ont of siGht. And the son Of the
old ~nkes was nice about it. He didn't
as', the cook for hammer, but went
home and tod his mother that they'd
have to use 'rickhat to po"nd with.
Some young men would have run
hit back within the ho"r to see If
a doctor was wanted. and to express
the hope that tho affoir "onld not have
a fatal termination but Rex Franklin
J.>Jf I,
rpon a young 'ady With an old gown
end a Crouch on. and hc' '1ad Nc sense
not to offer any ccnFoiotton He had
irtn0drd TO call thai rninR but he
nut # off until three ,-orings later.
ard hon he never referred to the
heroic rescre until Miss Nellie intro
1,1ced the suhir~t che 9idu't find him
pokv. and neiih~r id he say too much
greet things p ont his work, but she
bad to ask quest ons to draw him ant,
end then he dcdged most of ttom
When The rorrp man had taken his
7oavo Mr. Rathbone asked Of his
darehter
"Well you've seen the new young
mar a. last?"
EYES,"
"Disa p~Oi-ted In htm?"
"K,n" O. that way
"Put whv?' w. .-.,
"'rcthpr what an old rcose da5dv
is TIo ront ~no'i1n ths' ~irl wsn'S
70 Nave th"on or So~r b IF FOOL yorng
NOR aro"n1 @ an-ec by for 'i'ra
befnr s~~sb'a e "om"s n IN e"a
asks hove ~ he his life. I'm looking
for +ho ha 'o,ls 4us' now"
'Icv log are vow going to Re at
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