The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-01-05
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 trif1e for an old maid to
knock eight years off her life at a
single blow. Miss Blake went about
among her guests with shippers and
giggles and "girl-girp' shrugs and said:
Mother contends that / 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
UP to Miss Blake for a year. He was
twenty-eight years old and, though
somewhat smitten, he worried consid-
erably about her age.
Mr.. Nash heard some of the 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 l don't
think she is over thirty!"
Can you find out her true age for
me?" asked Mr. Nash.
ut must be recorded in the family
Bible"
Very likely
nd xrrho T ~ no
Bible was kept on stand in the par
lor."
But it isn't now. At her party last
night she claimed to be twenty-one."
"Well?"
"How many chocolates can you eat
in a week."
"a pound day."
"You copy the record of her birth
from the Bible and the chocolates are
yours"
I'll do my best to earn them"
Miss Fanny Blake had a brother fit
teen years old. He was head over
heels in love with the girl of nineteen
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 a story
as that?" he demanded.
But a person who calls there has
looked around without being able to
see Bible
and why not? Because sister Fan
ny gave me a nickel to carry it up in
the garnet and say nothing about it,
| "Oh, she did, Ell? frankie, would
| you like to go fishing with me tomor
| row."
you bet,"
did you ever read the story of Lac
arus in the Bible?"
Il never did,
IF / had Bible I would read the
story while you fished."
That will be bully! I can bring ours
along"
And that sacred book was sneake6
out and taken along on fishing trip
and while frankie fshed for bull
heads and suckers Miss Louise reaC
him the story of the beggar. She also
turned to the family record and cop
led it.
AS soon as the record was COPIED
engagement that must take her home
at once.
And off the girl went to place thu
record in the hands of Mr.. Nash, ant
receive her chocolates-seven pounds
full weight.
And then Mr.. Nash did a mean thing
He gave the old maid the mitten. o
course, he tried to ease his conscienc,
on the ground that she had prevari
Gated about her age, but suppose sh,
had?
In due time Miss Blake learned o
the conspiracy, and no matter wha
she vowed to do to get even with tn,
mink she kept it to herself and bidet
her time. When a man wants to ge
even he goes out and punches tn
other mans head and has it over with
When a woman seeks revenge she ha
!, the patience to wait until her oppoI
tunity comes.
But-in time the tangle was Vi
tangled and Miss Louise Wincheste
became Mrs. Reddick, Miss Fam.
Blake was married to Deacon Spencer
Mr. Nash married a girl of twenty an,
, she used to throw coffee pots an,
other things at him, and Franki
Blake got over his calf-love and be
came head bookkeeper for a sand an,
lime company
Copyright, 1914, by the Mcclure Newspa
per Syndicate.)