The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-02-01
THE PLOTTERs
BY LAWRENCE A. CLAY:

On her twenty-ninth birthday Miss :
Fanny Blake had party and cheer
fully announced to her guests that it
was her twenty-first anniversary.
It's a mere trifie for an old maid to
knock eight years off her life at
single blow. Miss Blake went about
among her guests with shippers and
giggles and ''girlgirf' shrugs and said:
Mother contends that 1 am only !
twenty years old, but l am letting it
go at twenty-one, so as to have no
dispute about it."
There was one guest who was par
ticularly interested in that question of
age Stephen Nash had been shining
MP to Miss Blake for year He was
twenty-eight years old and, though
somewhat smitten, he worried consid-
erably about her age.
Mr.. Nash heard some of tho whis- :
pered doubts, and next day. when he
happened to meet Miss Louise Win
chester in the street, he said: DO you
think Miss Blake is over twenty-one
| years old?"
Why don't you ask me if ! don't
think she is over thirty"
Can you find out her true age for
me?" asked Mr. Nash.
1t must be recorded in the family
Bible
Very likely"
And when l used TO call there the
Bible was kept on stand in the par
lor."
nj iC11ft Al hnr 1rfU In CT
! night she claimed TO be twenty-one."
! "Wen?"
e How many chocolates can you eat
/. in week."
/ "A pound day!"
S You copy the record of her birth
Il from the Bible and the chocolates are
: yours
: I'm do my best to earn them"
!, Miss Fanny Blake had brother fif-
f teen years old. He was head over
/ heels in love with the girl of nineteen.
i 1t was his first love.
Miss Louise took occasion to meet
the calf-lover at an early date and to
say: frankie, is it true that your folks
have no Bible in the house,"
Who has been telling such story
!! as that?" he demanded.
I But person who calls there has
- looked around without being able tc
. see a Bible"
II And why not? Because sister Fan
is ny gave me a nickel to carry it up il
At the garnet and say nothing about it,
st oh she did, Ell? frankie, would
m you like to go fishing with me tomor
on row.
ne You bet!"
= Did you ever read the story of Lac
!. arus in the Bible?"
ta Il never did"
IF / had a Bible | would read tn
story while you fished.'
an THAT will be bully! / can bring our
We along"
And that sacred book was sneake
= out and taken along on fishing triI
and while frankie fshed for bull
heads and suckers Miss Louise rea
him the story of the beggar. She ais
'ur turned to the family record and col
led it.
As soon as the record was copie
Miss Louise remembered an importar
be- engagement that must take her HON
mt at once.
&c. And off the girl went to place th
~, record in the hands of Mr. Nash, an
III receive her chocolates-seven pound
full weight.
And then Mr.. Nash did mean thin
Sc He gave the old maid the mitten.
us course, he tried to ease his conscien'
et on the ground that she had prevail
I'D Gated about her age. but suppose 81
AN had?
her In due time Miss Blake learned
ow- the conspiracy, and no matter VIII
she vowed to do to get even with Il
mink she kept it to herself and bid
for her time. When q man wants to &
No, even he goes out and punches q
led- other mans head and has it over wit
kid When a woman seeks revenge she h
nee the patience to wait until her oppt
my tunity comes.
dld But-in time the tangle was l
any tangled and Miss Louise Winchest
!, ~, became Mrs. Reddick, Miss Fan
1od Blake was married to Deacon Spenc
Mr.. Nash married girl of twenty a
IN I she used to throw coffee pots a
get other things at him, and Franz
that Blake got over his calflove and
Co, came head bookkeeper for a sand a
lime company.
. Copyright, 1914, by the Mcclure Newsl
per Syndicate.)