Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-07-26

orter known that Marthy wanted y
to kiss her, and Hepzi didn't care
whether you kissed her OF not"
WAL, Sairy and I set together
till 10 o'clock; then l went away.
KEEP my eye skinned durin' the
week for some other gal as looked
as if she'd taken likin' to me, but
I could see nothin' particular in
ary one Of 'em. Sunday come, and
| hadn't guess. Then a sudden
thort struck me. Sairy had admit
ted that Marthy Beams had wanted
me to kiss her. "She is the gal,
after ALL" | shouted, and when /
went to see Sairy that night !
guessed Marthy. She said I'dl
struck it dead wrong.
| didn't git away from the Hig-
ginses till II o'clock that Sunday
night. I started to go several
times, but Sairy always called me
back to tell me somethin'. When
| did git away and walked along the
road under the starlight it occurred
to me that I'd had bang-up fine
evenin'. And it struck me with a
heap O. force that l wouldn't mind
havin' Sairy herself to hum, SOS I
wouldn't have to go out anywhere
nights for company. But I'd made
up a pictur' in my mind of the gal
that wanted me, and | KEEP address,
in it up finer and finer from week
to week till when I called on Sairy
for the third guess / tole her I
didn't want none O the gals I
knowed-I wanted the pictur'.
Sairy looked kind O lniffed at
this an tole me ! couldn't guess an
imaginary pusson. So the guess
was lost. This visit was longer
than the last one. About IL o'clock
] was goin' home, but Sairy said I
needed somepin to walk on, so she
brought out snack and Jug O.
cider, and it was IL before we fin
ished 'em. Somehow when we
shook hands at partin' our fingers
kind o got stuck together, and it
was some time before we let go.
When l was a-walkin' along home
1t was moonlight this time-f
looked up at the moon, and Sairy
seemed to be lookin' outen it, smil-
in at me. And l thort that I only|
had one more guess as to the gal as
wanted me. And | thort, too,
b'gosh, I didn't keer whether II
guessed right or not. Ef 7 did
guess right it would end my visits
TO Sairy. Then l thort it would
be good idea to git Sairy to give
me four more guesses, SOS I could
60 and see her four more Sunday
nights.
Waal, when the mex Sunday
come round it was hard waitin' all
day-not havin' the regular work
to do-for time to come when [
could 60 and see Sairy. AS it was,
I got there airlier than usual. AS
soon as we was set on the sofy
Sairy said, says she:
s'You got to guess right this
time, cause I told you eff you didn't
I'd tell you anyway. And I would
not do that for the best milkin'
cow on your farm
tEWell," says I, E'you needn't wor-
rit about it, for don't keer a
tinker's cuss about that gal as wants
me, for 1 don't want her. I jist
want to come here regular Sunday
nights guessin' about her."
Sairy give little smoker at this
and sidled up closer to me, though
we was about as clost as we could
git before. And she says, kind o
sorrowful, ''I'm Altered that can't
be-"
'Why not?" says I.
"Waal, people would begin to
talk"
"Talk about what %
'They'd be sayin' we was en-
gagged"
This sot me a-thinkin'. 1t mought
be good idee to set 'em a-talkin',
and Sairy would have to marry me
to stop 'em. Nothin' stupid about
that!
"Besides," she went on, "pop
mought object to a young man com
in here every Sunday night sit
tim with me-"
''Why?" says |.
"Waa1, it wears out the sofy."
Suppose it does. I got one at
home better'n this I'll give him
when this is used up"
She thort awhile; then she said:
"How would it do to sit on your
sofy in the first placer"
"We'll do it. Well begin next
Sunday night"
"That's mighty student" says
she. ''I couldn't be married as soon
as that"
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