Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-11-22
MARRYING SUE OFF
BY c. B. LEWIS.

lAiopl, DIS lie entered lue SltlluS TOOlu
and found his sister Susan curled up
on the settee and reading a book.
She looked up at him and frowned.
Bobbie was twelve years old, and there
were those who termed him precocious.
At any rate, he thought he was man
enough to boss his sister around, al
though she was eight years older
than he.
ut seems to me you take the great
news rather coolly," he went on.
Here I've done for you what mother
and yourself have been trying to do
for the last two years, and you haven't
a word of thanks for me-"
"Bobbie, what do you mean?" asked
the sister as she sat up and laid aside
her book.
"Mean? Mean? I can't mean but
n thing. I have found a husband
for you at last!"
"W-h-a-t!"
"Oh, you have come to your senses,
have you? I thought it would astOnish
you. I have needed a brother-in-law
for the last two or three years, but no
n seemed to take a shine to you.
went out looking for one this morning
and I found him without much trouble.
Susie, he is a Observation-Disclosures fell
Ter you ever saw. His name is Earl
Cosgrove, and he is G good Teller from
head to heels"
"Bobbie Winthropt, what are you
talking about" half shouted the girl.
"Why, about the chap you are going
to marry, of course" was the sober
reply. "You see I went out into the
woods this morning with my Flobert
rifle to kill a bear. I knew there
wasn't one left on Long Island, but l
thought one might swim over from
Connecticut just to please me. I found
the young man, while hunting around.
He is what they call a naturalist. Oh,
Susie, he is a peach of a good Teller,
and I only hope you'll fall in love with
him!'
"You are talking pure nonsense! !"
exclaimed Miss Susie, as she knocked
the cap off his head.
"There is no nonsense about it,
Susie. I didn't quite invite him to
come back to the house with me, but
I shall tomorrow. I am going to do
it to show YOU off and see if you can't
catch a husband"
"You weren't forward enough and
bold enough and mean enough to tell
him you had a sister?' queried the
girl, rs her cheeks famed up.
81 don't remember that I did, but
I am rather absent-minded at times.
If I told him anything about you, it
was that 1 hope you'd get married soon
because I was tired of seeing an old
maid about the house. 1t shan't last
much longer"
Bobbie received a shaking which
clicked his teeth together and a push
which sent him far out of the room
and Miss Susie returned to her book.
Bobbie hunted up his mother and re-
lated the circumstances to her, and it
was with a very sober face that she
received them and replied:
"Bobbie, you must not plague your
sister about men. That is the way to
make a girl hate them. Don't bring
this young man to the house, and don't
talk about Susie to him."
! "But can't q Teller like me talk p
protested Robbie.
eyes, but talk of general things"
/ Bobbie went away growing and
, muttering, and mex morning he saw
the stranger again. He was a little
more on his guard this time, and when
he got home he had nothing to say
and no one tried to pump him. For 6
: week to come he was out in the woods
and fields with the naturalist every
day, but not a word did he have tt
say around the house.
The following week he went ava,
t on a visit to his aunt, to be gone {
q week, and it was during this week tina
Miss Susie took a saunter in tn,
fields, looking to gather some will
Strawberries. Before she had picket
q single berry she heard a vote
calling to her and, looking around
She saw a young man seated on q log
d He beckoned to her to approach, an
as she drew nearer he said:
I'll 1 UeS yOuI pdluOL, AuloS, UuI L 1idf
1t met with an accident. BY a careles
% step I have turned my ankle and car
not use it. Would you go to the high
way and ask aid for me from the frs
. passerby?"
Miss Susie was all sympathy, a
once. She told him to lean on he
3 and she would take him straight t
= the house, where her mother could us
= some remedy for the sprain. He hes
tated to accept, but finally did wit.
many thanks, and after a slow an
painful effort, he reached the hous
and was at once handed over to til
tender mercies of mother and the cool
Later on q doctor was telephoned fol
The patient gave his name as Eau
= Cosgrove, but that brought no men
cries.
When Bobbie came home he foun
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