The Ocala evening star., 1915-08-21
UNREASONABLE

he sets forth a. follows:
Some weeks ago, he spent a few
days at the lake, making one Of
jolly party of young folks, with
some older folks 70 keep them from
being too exuberant, who were en-
joying the air and bathing Of Marion
county's Mediterranean. Among the
girls was one whom he thought pref
tier than any other girl, and, in case
her eye hits this narrative, he thinks
so yet.
Now this young man has q knack
of telling stories, and with his art
beguiles what might otherwise be
tedious minutes. All his stories are
harmless, but he gives some of them
all April fool twist, generally very
amusing, but sometimes causing a
person to feel just wee bit sore at
being trapped.
The young mans honeypeach is a
lovely young lady, but like most of
her sex her sense of humor isn't fully
developed. So, one morning after
listening in rapt interest to one Of
the young mans stories, which ter
minated in a hoax, she vowed in the
presence of the whole bunch, that
she would never believe him again.
By way of adding interest to the
occasion, he offered to bet her that
he could tell her a straight-out lie
and she would believe him, and that
he would also tell her a truth that
she wouldn't believe. The young lady
wanted to be a good sport and took
the bet. Unluckily for her, being
girl, she hadn't tumbled to the un-
wisdom of betting on the other fel-
lows game. The bets were as even
as most bets between the sexes-the
young lady bet a necktie against a
pair of gloves.
That afternoon the young man in
vited the whole party to go with
him to the store, saying he would
buy them soda pop. Off they went,
the particular peacherina walking
with the young man and carrying a
dainty parasol that would have kept
the sunrays off just about one freckle,
if she had any. She hadn't.
Arriving at the store, the young
man refused to buy. He said it was
the lie that he was going to tell and
which the young lady would believe,
thereby winning the first section of
the bet. The referee said he was in
his rights, but the sweet punkin vine
pouted and said he was mean. She
looked so bewitchingly vexed, and
did want some peachmeHow so badly
that the young mans heart ached,
but he was firm, promising himself
that he would purchase for her many
ice cream sodas i'm the sweet by-and-
bye.
That evening was pleasant and the
young folks were out on the lake
and romping on the shores, among
the. stately liveoaks and the orange
trees, listening to the mockingbird
mock and the whangdoodle whis-
per, and incidentally whispering
movie was with his honeysuckle
quite a much, but he was also with
other girls part and several parcels
of the time. When the chaperone
couldn't keep awake any longer, she
called them all in, and they flocked
into the parlor to have a last look at
themselves.
Our hero wore a coat of light tex
ture but dark hue, and when they all
came in the light of the lamps it was
cum powder on the cigar pocket of
the said coat, at just about the right
elevation for a lovely, peachblow
cheek to rest.
Everybody giggled but the hero
and the shero. She steered him out
on the piazza, and in tones low, but
of CONCEALED frigidity that would
have forever removed the sorrow of
the Florida Power Company at the
price of ice in Ocala, if they could
only have been utilized, asked him
why he wore so much of the high sign
Of the ancient and honorable order
of millers on his coat lapel.
He told her truthfully-at least he
said it was the truth, and there is no
way of disproving it-that he put the
powder on himself with the powder
puff that belonged to his shaving set
She vouchsafed him no word, but
with her head held high adjourned to
her room, where, according to the
rules and regulations of romance, she
shed so many tears that she drowned
the one solitary mosquito that had
blown across from the Oklawaha
river swamps to pasture by the
shores of the lake
Next morning Adolphus Percy Al
gernor, which we will call him be-
cause that isn't his name, returned
to Ocala. He saw not nor heard
from the young lady. A few days
later she came to town, and when she
met him greeted him with only the
slightest and coolest of bows.
Whereupon he wrote her a note,
reiterating his powder puff story and
saying he had played the trick upon
her to win the second section of his
bet He begged her forUivpDasS and