The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-13
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 which she objects the mater nal ip her rises to thll surface, and she treats and forgives him as she wotsld anaughty child, but -l man makes any Kind of woman affrent into lovers quarreI That is whS | masculine Glen dale has been doing ts it's women folks for four days, and relieve everybody has been secretly en1 9ying it.
 As to the rally thes have stood aside with their hands in s.hefr pockets and their nQses in the ails and if it hadn't been for Aunt AuguEa and Nell and Jane being natural bQ3n carpenters and draymen we might hs5ye had to give it own glory
 When Nell and JanL5 went to see MT Dodd about building she long tables to serve the barbecue tSnner on he said he was too busy to 5o it and hadn't even any lumber to Ssll.
 S Then things happesed in my back yard that it sounds Ike a romance to write about. Jane tent me over to borrow the Crag's t4am and wagon and Henrietta and GGasin Martha and any of the rest of his woman fmpedi- menta that I could g5et. He was out of town, trying case over at Bolivar, and wouldn't get bask until Monday night.
 Jane and Nell and Aunt Augusta took the two axes ana one large ham mer and tore down my back fence while I and the eSAers loaded the blanks on the wagon. Jane appointed Henrietta to sit and kold the slow old horses in case they Ahould have got demoraIized by the militant atmos4 phere pervading Glerdale and try to bolt. never saw aAy human being enjoy herself as Henrietta did, and it was worth it all just to look into, her radiant eountenance-
 Jane took all the h1rd top blows to do herself and left ths unloosening of the lower nails to Aunt Augusta while Nell ripped off the blanks that stuck could almost hear Nel1s long, polish ed finger nails go with rip every time she jerked a particularly tough old plank into. subjecjion, and Aunt Augusta dispensed encouraging axioms about pioneer work as she banged along behind Jane Jane herself look ed as cool as a cucumber, didn't get the least bit ruff1ed and had the ex- pression on her face that the truly normal woman has while she is hem ming a baby's flannel petticoat.
 And though during the day many de Hghtful crises were precipitated the most interesting were the expressions that devastated Polk Hayes and Lee Greenfield's faces as they came around the side of the house to see what all that hammering was about.
 s'sCaroIine.' exclaimed Lee. in per feet agony, as he beheld the lady Of his ardent. though long restrained, af- factions poised across the wheel of the wagon tugging at the middle of a heavy plank which Mrs. Dodd and 1 were pushing up to her, while Mamie. the mother of seven, stood firmly on top of the wagon guiding it into place. f'sHe1pr' Sasped Polk, as he started to take the ax from Jane by force.
 Then we all stopped while Jane quietly gurgled fife mo1asses of the situa ton to them, and sent them on down the street sadder and wiser men. I thought Polk WAS going to cry on her shoulder before he was finally persuad- ed to go and leave us to our fate and the expression on Lees face as he looked up at torn. dirty. perspiring Caroline, with smudge OH her nose and blood onA her hand from an ahso- Rutely insignificant scratch, was sucE es ought to have been on Ned's face as he ought to have been standing by Mamie with the asafetida bottle. That's mixed up, but the five ought to catch the point.
 It took up all Of Saturday afternoon