The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-30
MAKING TIME FLY
BY JANE OSBORNE,

clock struck eleven.
eleven O'Clock already" she ex-
claimed, looking reproachfully from
her work in the kitchen toward the Of
Tending timeriece.
"Only eleven O'clock" sighed Jack,
who was arranging fishing tackle on
the kitchen table, Goodness 1t does
seem as if mealtimes never come here.
think it's in the air-the air and
your good cooking"
Jill placed two watersoaked, small |
hands squarely in the pockets of her
bungalow apron.
Jack Mast, I'm just ashamed of you.
Why, you had enough pancakes and
| sausages for breakfast to feed large |
| family. Home you wouldn't think of
eating anything but eggs and toast"
Jack looked self-reproach and guilt. |
I'm sorry, honey, but I'm as hungry
as a bear. This mountain air is i'm
mense. Maybe in day or so 1 won't
eat so much.
I'm glad you like my first cooking"
sighed Jill with weary smile, as she
hurried to the cupboard for flour and
sugar for the mullins for luncheon.
Jack and Jill Mast were on their
first vacation together-that is, except
ing the wedding trip of week or so
a few months before, when there had
been no thought of anything so rustic
as a trip to Jacks little cabin in the
: mountains, or anything so mundane as
the cultivation of large appetite.
After luncheon they planned short
5 walk through the woods. While Jill
was changing her bungalow working
frock for a short khaki costume, Jack
: carried out the plan that had been
| brewing in his mind since daybreak.
, The clock pointed to five minutes of
4 three. Jack reached up, opened the
! glass face, and, carefully listening for
Jill's approach, turned the hands
ahead to FIVE minutes of four.
] 1t was not hard to get the converse
ton around to the subject of watches
e "Of course there are no trampS or
e burglars around the shack, but / was
thinking that you ought not to leave
/ that watch of yours around" com
mented Jack. Suppose l take it and
: put it in a safe place for YOU
II Jill looked up with q little surprise
H and then: II was thinking exactly the
same thing myself-about your watch
You left it in the bedroom the othel
day when you went fishing. And, any
II way, now that we are away from civi
II lzation, why should we keep track o
II timer"
III oh To oh
: delighted that Jill had fallen in s.
- readily with his schemes. Lets bot
> put our watches away" - II e7''i
.rll take them both right now" sug
:. gested Jill easily.
SO at the outset of the ramble tn
watches We're rolled into Jills hant
~ kerchief and slipped into the cartridg
ne pocket on her khaki suit.
" Funny how time flies in the woods
ed he remarked by five. Il can tell b
nd the shadows that it is about Ska
IT'S most time for dinner
k "Oh, you silly man." sQuealed jill
" I'm sure we haven't been gone q
hour I'm sure | can't tell anythir
u from the shadows, and | don't belieN
to you can, either. You're just trying
up bluff the new wife and make her thin
as you are a regular Indian"
or, They both smiled, and with one a
ne cord started to retrace their Stel
toward the cabin. Jack stopped
=. gather some wild strawberries at Jill
ito request. He wondered whether 81
would be surprised when she saw Il
if clock pointing an hour nearer supp
rro time than she supposed.
, | F. OF course there was this Difficult
that had occurred to. Jack when
d first formulated his scheme for ma
ing time fly. BY leaving the clock ;
mo hour faster it would mean an no,
I'M earlier rising time, and in order
to hasten meals Anymore the next d;
wn there would have to he anoth
tor, abridgement of the time. which woul
of course, be rather difficult in the lol
cue run. That was why he made an e
cuse about going to see the 'possu
mo traps that night after dinner.
! . So Jack walked around the cab
|. three times in the starlight, and tn
nat, noiselessly went toward the liyil
room with designs on the clock. b
cen as he was about TO turn the KNOB
ne saw through the window u figure
~ a. white-Jill, to be sure. She heard hi
+bo and stopped, and then lighted cand
Hello, you up?' he asked, casting
vbe guilty look toward the clock, Jill al
Dr. looked at the clock. He had motto
pop it when he went out. 1t said nj
'ver o'clock then, and now it said ten.
He started in alarm. Then he hea
Jill's nervous laugh. He looked at h
and to his surprise she laughed aga
nervously and whispered. I'm sOrl
9th Iool- I'll bovo 70 copfass tbouo
sing - ,,,o,,1d +ol-o ,o,gar for Won IN
ms those traps. That's why you caug
a. me. You see-you see, set the clio
ie an hour back when you were gath
una ing berries, SO I'd have more time