Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-06-02
|DIsPOsING OF THE CROP
BY JOAN RUGBY.

| Wuht 10 you Wantf ne cried.
please, Mr.. Landreth, the telephon,
rings"
Howard jerked open the door. Wei
might the little japanese tremble fol
his masters scowl was terrible to be
hold. Gone was the elusive idea he
had just managed to grasp after days
Of futile effort. His mind was Just
beginning to yield to the quiet sooth-
ing peace Of the country after days OF
irritation and unrest following a quar-
rel with Sylvia, and now his chance
of writing for the day was gone.
He strobe to the phone and jerked
down the receiver. "HelloT he
snarled.
A feminine voice came over the
wire. 'Have you any potatoes to
SELF"
NO" roared Howard.
"Oh" came the voice. "Well, have
you any corn or onionsT' O.
"NoW answered the master of
Yamasani. II have no corn or onions ~
"Well, have you anything at all to
sell? Tomatoes or cabbage or apples
or eggs or anythingT
Nothing, madam, but ideas, but
lately the crop has been small"
He hung up and turned away. what
are you fussing about, Yamasani?
We're not running a market garden
Just because we're in the country"
''Will master come and see? There
is so much potatoesl Men dig all day
yesterday. Outside there Is like a
house of potatoes. And the corn
Enough for all America. And cabbage,
sol" Spreading his arms high and
wide. "And onions, sol And beets and
turnips Everything there is so much
And the eggs The chickens. make
so many / fill the basket every night.
One day, two days, a week, two weeks
Some baskets l throw over the hill
when they got old Mister eat only
one. l bake cake. Throw out. / ]
make everything. Throw out. Yama- |
SAM tell mister many days before and !
mister say only, Shut up"
Howard laughed. "All right, Yama-
SAM |! / guess you did say something
about it and told you not to bother
me. Well, if the lady calls up again
or if you can find out who she is, give
her all she wants for nothing"
Howard put on his hat and went out.
II was beautiful day in early autumn
and the country was exquisite with
bronzes and reds. Although he had
taken the same walk many times be-
fore he had never been able to see any
thing but Sylvia. After all, perhaps
she was right to go away, If some of
those English, chaps in Bermuda don't
carry her off and marry her before she
gets back.
He felt better after his walk in the
cool bracing air and called the Jap.
'Yamasani, have you found out who
the neighbOr is who wants the
"Yes, think, Mr.. Landreth. A man
irive by and stop. He say there is a
zig house over there with many chill
lren and they eat, eat eat everything"
"Oh, l see! An orphan asylum or
hildren's home. Well, get those men
hat We're here yesterday and haul
'ver all the stuff you can find. After
his I'm going to write, and if the tele-
'hone rings smash it. Do anything,
,ut don't you call me-"
The days sped on and Howard lost
rack of them. One afternoon as he
cached for his pipe be found some let
ers he had forgotten to open. He !
ore them open without interest at
irst but an itemized bill puzzled him,
md he unfOlded the inclosed check /
with considerable interest. 1t was ,
made out to cash for $45, and it was
igned Sylvia Farnsworth. Sylvia
'arnswOrth, his Sylvia-what could it
mean? 1t announced that Miss Syl-
ia FarnswOrth was debtor to "a kind
leighbOr" for the following items:
0 bushels potatoes at so cents, 4
ushels tomatoes at 81, and so on.
But what had Sylvia to do with all
his? Without waiting to wonder any
niger he went back to the road that
I'd to his neighbours farm. As he
anne near to the house he heard the }
bouts of children. There were hun
reds Of them, 1t seemed, all sorts of
lnburned, healthy-looking little boys
nd girls.
as Miss Farnsworth hereT" he asked
ne Of them.
"Yes, she's in the house. Just go on
p" advised the small informant.
Then Sylvia came in, not the Sylvia
E had known, the languid society girl
3 had accused Of being useless In 7
le heat of the quarrel. This one \
as brisk and alert and with an air I
one who enjoys responsibility. $50 I
n. Kind Neighbor has called at last 7" G
II thought you were in Bermudal" Z
"The others went bub-well, de- h
ded that TO bring these Riddles away I
here epidemics couldn't reach fhem I