The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-08

anu sIurGy Dy q mans side and then to get siGht of a gourd vine tangIing 1tstelf up between them. I'm the d1ryad out of one of my own twin oaks down by the gate, and I want the other twin to be
 wonder if his eyes really look to other women like deep gray pools that you can look deeper and deeper into and never seem to get to the bottom, TO matter if the look does seem to last forever and you feel yourself biushing and wanting to take your eyes away or if it, is just I that get so drowned in them!
 You've gallant stroke, Evelina," he said softly as I at last gained pos session of my own sight. And here 1 am With hand out to you for as- sistaEce in carrying out your own plan that seems to be just the thing to-
 "Gay, Cousin James, Aunt Marfy says for you to come home to break fast right away. Mis- Hargrove won't let nobody begin until you says the blessing, and Cousin Jasmine have got the headache from waiting for her coffee. What do you want to fool with Evelina this time of day for anyway?' And with the delivery of which message and reproof Henrietta stood on the edge of the path looking down upon us with great and scorn- ful interest.
 You've got on your nightshirt and haven't combed your hair or washed your face she continued sternly. '"There'n be -s to pay with all the Breakfast getting cold, and I'm empty down to n,y feet. Come on.rquickr''
 r r to my feet, live asked you once not to say ugly words like that''l
 ''I,1l go make the lightning toilet, Henrietta. Do run like a good girl and ask Mrs. Hargrove to let Cousin Jasmine have her cup of coffee right away. I'll be there before the rest are dead from hunger and Cousin James skillfully interrupted the threat ened feminine clash as he emptied~ my glass bowl into his tin, can and stuck the sharp stick in the ground for fu- ture reference. Even Henrietta'S pointed aIlusion to his toilet had not in the least ruf1ed his equanimity or brought shade of consciousness to his face !
 .sN4is' Hargrove said that the Bible said not for any woman to say bless ing at any table or at any place that anybody can hear her when Cousin Marty wanted to be polite to the Lord by saying just a little one and go on before we was all too hungry, an swered Henrietta in her most scornful- ly tolerant voice. eff women eat out loud before everybody why can't they pray their thank you out loud like any manT'
 Answer her, Evelina,'' laughed Cous- in James as he hurried down the walk away from us.
 Henrietta asked in a calmly ar gumentativc tone of voice as she and I walked up the path to the house, didn't MT. Haley talk to you just yesterday and tell you how wicked it is for you to use-use such strong words as you do?s
 MT Haley had told me just a few days ago that. he and Aunt Augusta had agreed to open their campaign of reform on Henrietta by pastoral lee ture from him, to be followed strongly by a neighborly one from her.
 tNo, ahe never did any such thing, |" answered. Henrietta promptly, and what Henrietta says is always the truth, because she isn't afraid of any body or anything enough to tell a lie. sHe just telled me over and over in whole lot of words how I ought to love