The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-07-15
EIisF1appiiest
Day
By r. A. mitchell

chat bespeaks not returning LIE.
i. April or May, or growing life, like
-. but ripening life. The sun shines
s there Is the hum Of Industrious
, 80 and pleasanter still is the sound
: distant moving machine. 1t is
~ mellowed rattle that bespeaks
III, II denotes long swaths of rip
s ssaa grain lying on the ground ready
10 gathered into barns, then to be
s,oda into bread to give strength to
rO,llious Of people.
- was such a morning as this that
,s.-v Robbins, a farmers daughter.
s.u9bt the sound of the moving ma
sh,na down in her fathers wheatfeld.
rho day before young man had APP
.,,ad for work. He was strapping,
..sn,v fellow, with a pair of honest
sras toward which his thick hair grew.
and he was continually tossing his
head to throw it back. He had been
engaged for the harvest, and now he
vas driving that moving machine
wbose rattle was waited up to the
farmhouse on the breeze.
ats a mighty hot mornin'," said
Mary to herself, land l don't envy that
young Teller sweiterin' out there In the
mn. drivin' round that square field.
He's been out there since o'clock,
and It's now 10. He must need
snack. I'll Just put some O. that bacon
that was left over from breakfast be-
tween two slices of bread, get some
mink out O. the springhouse and take
em down to him."
A little later John Horton, the farm
hand, paused to give his lathered
horses a rest and, looking up, saw the
farmers daughter from the waist up
ward above the waving wheat.
aPurty as sail ridin' the waves"
he remarked to himself. "She seems
to be heading straight this way"
Presently Mary emerged from the
standing wheat, treading upon that
which had fallen. Then the young
man saw that In one hand she carried
something rolled in q napkin, while in
the other was a large tin cup. He
wiped the sweat from his brow that
he might see more clearly, and some
thing pleasurable rose up In his breast
when he realized what was coming.
"Gettin' hungry?" said Mary, with
smile, as she reached the farm hand
and, unrolling the white napkin. dis
played the sandwich.
"Waal, now, amt this jist too fine
for anythingY
He took the sandwich. and as his
teeth struck the succulent bacon the
expression on his face would have
served for an advertisement for pre-
pared food. Then he took the cup and
drained half of 1t at gulp, and it
seemed as If he had poured the es-
sence Of joy into his stomach
TITS long spell between breakfast
and dinner" said Mary. Il just thort
you'd like a leetle sittin' up. so
brought you a snack"
They had never met till the night
before, and, since the young man was
stranger to her and Mary did not
wish to appear bold. she turned to go
back to the house.
Cant you wait a bit" said John,
It'll ! finish the milk so you kin take
back the cup?"
oh, I'm In no consid' able hurry"
replied the girl, and she stood still.
This milk is cold" said John, land
they say heap o. cold milk put sud-
Dent into the stummick Is liable to
bring on collie"
de looked at tree beyond the fence.
Mary took the hint and said It would
Dc better for him to eat his snack In
lne shade. He let down few rails,
tney stepped over the rest and. going
% the tree, sat down on the grass.
Jonn finished his refreshment, but
mary made no move to return to the
farmhouse. and he did not resume his
moving.
Inc sweetest moments neither wealth
nor power can buy. The cool breezes
pew upon these two young persons;
me necked sunbeams danced upon the
grass about them. They were tasting
me incipient sensation of two hearts
urawing together. delicious as the first
swallow Of rare wine. The July seen
cry was around them with It's odor of
production. The moving machine was
silent The horses were switching the
MES with their tails.
"Maryp
q woman's voice, the voice of Mary's
.hosner. came over the fields from the
mousse. At the same time the sound of
norm came from a neighboring farm.
La sakes." cried Mary, Its dinner
timer
mat evening after supper Farmer
noobins paid John Horton a days
wages and told him to move on. John
anew the reason, but said nothing. In
wardly he remarked that the two hours
~ mad spent with Mary were worth
uiscnarge ten times over.
Farmer Robbins locked the stable
uoor after the horse had been stolen.
= may require a burglar ten minutes
" steal watch; girls heart may be
seoien during fash of lightning. John