Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1914-01-13

BY 3. C. ROGERS

Alr. Lynn Stafford was an only child
He didn't have to divide his sweetcake
and Jam with snybody If peanuts
were brought iato he house. they ali
belonged 10 nim Is me wanted to kick
the poodle or maui the cat that was
his privilege
Master Lynn ran the family and the
house and the neighborhood until nc
was about thirteen years old Then
he got a chcck-aeveral checks. He
fought the boys to have his own way.
and be got licked every time he
fought
Miss Mamie Holden was another
only" She had the same doting pa.
rents. She would have her OWN way
or bite and scratch and yell, and so
she was given her way. She became
naughty and snobbish and conceited,
but the remedy was at hand She
found the small girls Of the neighbor.
hood equal to the emergency.
At tweuty-three years old Mr.. Lynn
Stafford graduated I'm medicine and set
up an Office at Meadow Park II was
more % please a rich old aunt than be
cause he was in love with the profes.
sion and was anxious to win success.
Having no professional calls to
make. Mr. Stafford took things very
easy The first thing on the days
program after breakfast was a horse
back ride
Miss Mamie Holden also had a pro-
gram and that program also included
q horseback ride when the weather
would permit
Is was a beautiful June morning
when q score of citizens of Meadow
Park assembled in front of the inn.
When the horse the doctor rode came
walking out OF the stable on his hind
feet He paved the air. He squaled
RE k.oked He ran at Simon Green,
the grocer and snatched the hat of
his head Then he Kicked az the coop
err sQuealed at the blacksmith. and
went dancing down the river road.
Only the cook, the maid and the
mother saw Miss Mamie mount her
horse and ride away that morning.
vaulting a fence. Kicking over an ash
barrel, and climbing telephone pole.
There is a magnetic influence that
draws people together If it were not
SO the professional bill collector would
never come face to face with some
debtors. This magnetism is stronger
when the sexes are opposite. Or. Stat.
ford never had met the Holden girl
The Holden girl did not know Or. Stat.
ford from a roll of ealfskin.
Why didn't the doctor take the Clay
ton instead OF the river road when
his horse danced ont Of the stable?
Why didn't Miss Mamie take the
Willow Greek instead of the river road
whom her horse got through with the
telephone pole?
DR. Stafford had slowed his horse
down to a walk after a run Of a couple
Of miles, and was breathing deeply
and viewing a crow sitting on the
fence when he heard hoofbeats. It
was Miss Mamie coming up. and her
horse had bottled Just past the doctor
she ran the animal into q thicket and
stopped him without being dismount-
ed. As she regained the road the doc
tor advanced. and said:
Gle seems a dangerous beast for a
young lady to ride"
81 don't think sol"
Magnetism works like a sawmill
when once started. The next morning
Miss Mamie was thedrst TO pass down
the river road. SIZE had gone about
three miles when q great clatter caus-
ed her to look back Coming on the
dead run was the doctor on his horse.
The horse had the bit in his teeth and
had boited Just past the girl he was
refined into a thick growth Of hazelnut
bushes. and after doundering around
fora spell he got his horse sense back
He seems a dangerous beast for a
young man to ridel" observed Miss
Mamie as she advanced to where the
doctor sat his saddle with a humlllated
loCk on his face
"a rabbit ran out of the brush and
across the road" he sulleniy explain
ga.
1t so happened that the next three
mornings were bad weather for riding,
and neither horse Eas taken out. On
he fourth morning however, things
were an right, and rs the horsewoman
rode through the village she knew
.hat she was the first one out. she
was smbling along. keeping a sharp
eye on her horse for tricks. when Dr.
Stafford came laundering down upon
her. It WAS another bolt She pulled
her steed back to give the other room
10 pass. and had her mouth all fixed to
call out: u told you SOL" when the
horse seized the lit and was Off like a
deer. And the boiling horses turned
ont for a farmers load Of hay, and
both fell fat Neither ride was con
soious when the farmer brought helm. /
The doctor had a broken leg and
number Of bruises. and Miss Mamie
had broken shoulder. crushed
hand and was an bruises
And still magnetism played his part.
When Dr. Stafford could get out ne
rode over to the Holden's ano was
Hospitality received AS his leg con
mued to mend his visits grew more 4
frequent and there came an afternoon /
ben he said:
You ars pretty good horsewoman. 4