The Socialist press., 1914-06-20

the prey suddenly sprang from its covert and whisked swiftly into the hazel brush ahead? You-but wait!
 Fancy! Did you ever behold ten pretty. vivacious lithe-limbed young women chasing a handsome mana perfect stranger-through a dogwood swamp, their dresses swirling high above pretty ankles. their paying. shrieks of hysterical laughter?
 Catch him. Catch him!" shrilled a slender blonde to the leading lady running ahead with an athletic stride, her head and shoulders back, her hair rippling in the wind.
 Get him, Jackie." panted rav enous brunette. close behind. Darn these narrow skirts, anyhow. I'd like to be a man long enough to wear"
 "Oh, gee-this is-too-much for mel" and a solidly built blonde with a retrousse nose and red sweater toppled onto bed of moss under thornapple tree and gasped for breath that persisted in cross-circuiting a chorus of chortes struggling for freedom
 "E-Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay-I-Ay!"
 Run, girls, run!"
 GO it!"
 Hot foot,"
 "Whoo-p!"
 A startled rabbit, aroused from his breakfast of alder shoots, sat up in may bewilderment, took one hasty glance and bounded away into the marsh grasses, his funny little tall bobbing through the squashy places like meteor of down.
 Ahead the man was running freely. taking an occasional swift glance over his shoulder at the foremost of the foe. One by one the pursuers were falling by the way, their laugh ter becoming more and more distant. Suddenly the man swerved behind a ~greGt ash along the trail and waited. Through the brush behind he heard the leader coming like a wood nymph, light and airy.
 The man crouched She was upon him now, Agilely he sprang from his hiding place and opened his arms!
 With a gurgle of surprise, her cheeks as flaming red as the Oriental poppy on sunny morning, she collid- ed with his manly breast Before she could free herself, the mans lips were at hers, slipping the honey with an ecstasy of delight!
 "Oh!' she gasped, struggling. Were you looking for me?" asked the man, taking toll again and hold ing her close.
 Put" she cried. But" between kisses. And then with one free hand she boxed him soundly on the ear.
 He let her go instantly, rubbing his head regretfully.
 She stood staring at him, her laugh ter given way to anger.
 "Sir!" her eyes blazing. How dare you?"
 Never mind," said the man hum- bly, 'Ill take 1t back!" coming nearer and reaching for her slim waist.
 Some lame philosopher has said that a woman with sense of humor has never been born. In refutation, the girl suddenly broke forth into peals of laughter, backing away from him until she leaned against a tree trunk for support.
 The man kept his eyes on her.
 Anyhow" he said finally, T like the game. Who invented it?"
 Coming closer, he reached forth his hand and touched her lightly on the arm.
 "Tag!" he cried, and started to run.
 The girl sat down unceremoniously in a tangle of grape vines.
 T had my fingers crossed!" she pro tested-and the man came back, dis appointedly.
 "I'll wait until they cramp." he said determinedly, crouching at a respect able distance.
 There ain't a-goin' to be any core!" holding her golden head positively and striving to keep back the bushes.
 The man seemed saddened.
 Listen" she said soberly. "If I expected ever to see you again, I'd be mortified to death. But l don't, and I'm going to make clean breast of 1t. because" with maidenly modesty, "it served me right!"
 He waited patiently, nodding by way of appreciation.
 You're the first man that's come ] up to this forest primeval in five weeks. We were hunting for mocca- sin flowers when we caught sight of ,e