Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-02-09

and she unbent so far as to thank
him. The ice was broken. and an &C.
quaintance was formed.
Jim hadn't forgotten his valentine.
but the imaginary girl with golden
hair and blue eyes gradually faded
away, her place being taken BY the
brunette who drove the cows to pas
ture. He was seized with desire to
do something for her. When idle he
dreamed day dreams Of finding her
chased by furious bull and his re-
ceiving the animals charge with a
p1tchfork. Another scene attractive to
him was the girl swirling around in
the river while he was swimming for
her and finally carrying her to shore.
"Well, Jim gradually forgot his red
hair and his freckles and his other
deficiencies and sided up to his new
found friend. A year passed. and
when another st. Valentines day came
around he wondered If the girl who
had sent him valentine before would
send him another. but he didn't care
much whether she did or not, for by
this time he was engrossed with q girl
he knew, and she was much preferable
to one he didn't know. But with all
the courage Jim had gained he hadn't
enough to say to his COW driver what
he wished to say-that his heart was
just Dustin for her.
Happily st. Valentines day let him
out of that, at least he took it for
granted it would. and he sent his real
fame valentine. Unfortunately Jim
hadn't one handy and was too busy
to 60 to the village to buy one. so he
sent her the one he had received the
year before.
'The next day he met his flame on
the road. and to his chagrin she looked
straight ahead without taking the
slightest notice of him. Jim supposed
that she had in some way learned that
he had sent her valentine. and this
was her answer. He took his medi-
cine bravely at first, but his courage
didn't last. When he was not at work
he used to 60 into the barn and up in
the hayloft and sit down and nope
It seemed to him that the bottom had
dropped out Of the universe He
didn't go up the road where he had
been used to meeting the girl. Instead
Of wishing an explanation he was
afraid to receive one. II her cutting
him dead was so terrible to bear what
would he suffer If she told him in plain
words that he had offended her by
Offering her his love? And yet why
should she know that the valentine he
had sent her was from him?
However, he suffered 90 that at last
he mustered up courage to face the
music and find out what he didn't IN
derstand So he walked up the road
IN the evening at the exact time she
was driving in the cows. He met her
and said:
"1'm sorry you didn't like my send
in you valentine
1T wasn't your sending me a valen-
tine didn't like; it was the valentine
sent you last year.
"You could have knocked him down
with feather. He was the most as
tonished fellow you ever saw.
Did you send me that valentineT
he asked. " ... -. 4
Didn't you know I sent it?'
"'No.' -
"She blushed, and Jim went right up
to her and said: s.--.-@- !
"'HazeI .
"Hazelr' exclaimed several Of the
children at once.
Eyes. Didn't I say her name was
Hazel" ..@r d.
mo. Why, that's grandma's name"
$50 it is. That's funny. isn't it?'
Are you sure Hazel wasn't grand
mar
well, to tell the truth, don't know
but that she was"
or ran the children to find grandma
to tell her all about the story Of tho
girl who drove the cows to pasture.
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