Douglas Island news., 1916-10-13
(Fable in Slang )

thought he was about the sleokest thing that ever wore pants He inn agined he was made out of better mud than any Of his neighbors and he passed up the home girls as tho they were pikers. He was a lovely two-stepper, but said none Of the bunch could keep step with him. He said they always musscd him up when he honored one Of them by asking her Co dance with him.
 One day now corkerina struck the town. She came Co visit @ school friend. She had played the home circuit until she had begun to fray around the edges and yet, although she had had many nibblcs at her bait, not an eligible had talk en hold in a way that meant busi- ness.
 She was a nice girl. but she de- spaired Of catching on at home, SO went on the road Co see what was doing in the town where her school friend lived. The slcekest thing that ever wore pants cavorted the first time he ct her. They could glide forty times around hall without losing step or corning" each other. and the rcsuult was that they both made a mash.
 When Corkerina went home she had the sleekest Thing going like runaway freight train. He was harpooned in dozen places. He said that. whom it come Co picking them up and setting them down in the mazy whirl she made the home bunch look like pack of cripples He was bugs on dancing, but he cared only for dancing with "Corky."
 After she went home "slecky" mooned around like an adopted boy at family reunion. He was as dull as a Wednesday night prayer meeting. He wanted to write to Corky but he was afraid Co. At the same time she was just dying to hear from him. One day hc put hls backbone In splints and sent her picture postcard She heart-so- loed and came back with an acc by sending him a letter that smclled like drug store when he opened it.
 After that it was like shooting fish in a cistern.
 sleeky wrote Monday and Corky answered Tuesday. then slceky wrote Wednesday and Coorky an swered Thursday. lt was the same on Friday and Saturday. and on Sunday they took day off and both wrote.
 By November writing had been going on for five months and things were getting too warm to keep much longer without ferment- ing. In fact their letters began to burn holes in the mail sacks.
 Finally Sleeky took a big dose of nerve food and asked her straight from the shoulder 1T she would have him. The answer came by wire. The mail was too slow for the ex- igiencies Of the occasion and Corky believed in striking while the iron was hot
 (Am this time sleeSy believed Corky looked ust like she did the night he had seen her at the hop when she wore silver tips on her harness and an overhead check rein. Corky could imagine Sleeky only in white gloves. patent feathers and a necktie that combined all the col- ors Of sunset on Lake Ponchetrain near New Orleans)
 The wedding took place in Feb ruaary and during the next three months loves young dream received some gosh-awful jars Corky was thirty if she was a day and in th' dapple iron grey of the morning before she was arrayed in her wal paint and gimcracks, the frayec edges stuck out like door knobs sleeky would look at her wher she had from forty to sixty hairpin' in CT mouth and say to himself "N at a chump was to be ropeC a branded by that"
 But all the same Corky had way of being boss Of the ranch tha showed she took after her mootheI and whom she found that Sleek! had very little sentiment in him sh' used to sit around sad-eyed an' penslve, as tho her mind was il Fargo. North Dakota, and her bod, in Hepysdam. But she was de