Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-26
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Bunny's Slide


Ing TO marry MT. Errick, auuOunCCu
! Caroline, casually, at the family din
! ner table.
Goodness mel" shrieked Caroline's
mother. "Why, Mrs. Kemble never
| said word to me about it when she
was here. Lucy only met him
| month ago when she came to VISIT.
Tell me this minute, Caroline, who
told you?"
"Ch, nobody told me-" Caroline ex-
planned in surprise. 81 just know"
"Uh, huh," agreed Caroline's broth
er. "They are going to be married."
BE calm, darling" Caroline's faith
er advised his wife. Life is full Of
these maddening moments! Now, my
CHILD, if you will be so good, kindly
enlighten us as to your source of in
formation in regard to this amazing
news!"
"Huh?" questioned Caroline, vague
iy, "Oh-about Bunny's Aunt Lucy?
Why, Bunny had the dandiest slide
| made from the front steps clear down
tc the gate the walk slopes, you
i know. He"
"Caroline!" begged her mother. 81
don't care about Bunny's slide! /
want to know who told you Lucy was
going to marry"
"Hush!" admonished Caroline's
mothers husband. "You should
realize that Caroline will get there
presently after she has told you what
| kind of collar button the khedive Of
Egypt wears!"
who's he?" demanded Caroline,
+, with interest. "Say, you ought to have
slid on Bunny's slide! Once the gate
: was open and he shot clear out under
an automobile. Wasn't it lucky it
wasn't a horse standing there? The
| horse might have kicked BunAg to
| death!"
"Yes, should always pick. opt an
automobile as safe thing t&bfds un-
DER" agreed her father. ~ course
| an auto couchant is calmer than an
auto rampant"
you're trying to be funny" sus-
piciCusly broke in Caroline's brother.
| Gee! It was lucky Bunny got there
| in time to stop the furnace man from
| putting ashes all down that walk!
| Bunny knew, of course that his moth
| er would like to have him happy and
enjoy himself, and so he just told the
! furnace man she had said he could
| have a slide there. You see, his
mother wasn't home to ask. Anyhow.
it saves time to ask afterward. We
! had a bully time sliding, except that
! people kept coming along the front
walk and getting in the way"
| 81 expected that was where Mrs.
! Kickem got knocked down." inter-
rupted his mother. 81 wondered why
she kept telling me about it, and ex.
| patiating on the rudeness of the
small boy who"
"Aw, 1 did yell at her!" defended
| her son holly. "Just as loud! Il she
didn't get out of the way it wasn't my
| fault was it? It would "a been easier
| for her to walk on the other side OF
| The street, anyway! When we got
| tired of sliding it was getting dusk,
| and we went and sat on the side
| fence, and then Bunny's Aunt Lucy
and Mr.. Errick they come along walk
| ing slow and kind of interested like!"
1--WE heard her just as plain" broke
| in Caroline. "She stopped with one
hand on the gate and looked back
over her shoulder and smiled in that
wav ladies have of smiling and said,
Till tomorrow, then!' and started up
the walk. And when she sat down
her feet went way up in the air. So
did Mr.. Errick's. Huh? Why, he was
hanging on to her hand even if she
had said good-by and he didn't let go.
So when she fell he fell, too. His
eyeglasses shot off and he was feeling
around for 'em and saying, Are you
| much kurt?' and she said, ooh, not at
| all, David And then they tried to get
up and they tumbled down again. BE
very CAREFUL Mr.. Errick said, and !
| will help you. Those wretched child
rem have made a slide!"
''Well, they got as far as the steps
and then she slipped and he slipped
and when they quit going they were
back at the gate. And he swore one
word and she said, 'Oh, David!' and
he put his arm around her.
"'When that child is really my
nephew he said, awful fierce, I'll pay
him up for this, the young imp!' And
then she laughed so she fell down
again, and he said kind of shaky, You
will, won't you, Lucy?' and she said
she guessed if she wanted to be re-
yenged on Bunny she'd have to, and
he PICKED her up.
81 don't know what she meant, but
if Bunny was Mr.. Errick's nephew ne
couldn't be without Mr.. Errick was
his uncle, could he? And he couldn't
be Bunny's uncle unless he married
Bunny's aunt, So"
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