The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-27
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! phlnca Talbyt .Ns bashfui as
taby. If quy neighbofiHg woman came
IA uul lifted him un be cried because
o. could noi hide his face. He was
!. tushml as "a boy When he attended
I school nothing So gave him the hdgeis
/. us TO have Dis teacher coli him or q
Z prelty glli smile az him. As youth
I De was still more bashhl His mother
lad 20 coax and 1ribe him % get him
% go on 80 ernnd 10 the store II a.
\ ed came 20 the ralb0t hOuse. away
went Phueas on the rum
Phlncas grew 20 bashful manhood.
i He learued piano making. ana. ia time.
be opened little agency. II was all
7 most torture TO have two or three
young ladies enter his place and begin
/ 10 talk music 10 him. Bashfulness hurt
! his business, aud men often talked To
4. him about t, hdt he was horn to blush
and siammeS he might kitk himself'a
dozen times day, hat it would DO no
good
there was something in store for
rhineas ana the perspIration stood on
his brow nj the mere thought OF II He
\ lived with his mother aud lived very
r0ntentedly, but she was old and grow
iRg older, and the day would come
when he would have 20 set up a home
for himself. A single mar. bashful or
not. cannot make hom'i himself
He has got te have a wife u do ii.
Great heAyehs, phineas had got %
ask some woman 10 be his wife, ana
how was he ever to get through with
II without being made a cripple for
lifel
Every morning when he went 10 his.
riace 81 business he pasSed house
where there was good-lonking girl
Snmedmes she sat IN the window view.
Ing the street and sometimes she was
working among the flowers m the front
/ lard OF course she never smiled ct
nim and Of course he took one look
aad then looked away
GA certain summer morning the
unknown mslden ran across the street
oarehea0ed 10 speak to young lady
af her acquaintance. Just then phineas
4 Talbot came along. Just then, as well,
g man came along leading cow
hvery sight was new sight with her.
she missed the blackberry bushes and
oullthistlcs growing In the pasture.
She was nervous. She was pertarhed.
Presently She grew excited and afraid.
All at once that COW. concluded thar
sic would return home before s0me-
;hlng awful happened. She started on
] her return down the street just as tho
+ go0d-looklng girl started across the
street for her home She made for the
/ sirl with a below and her head held
lsw down, There was q scream of ter
I rar-pgher screams fpm pedestrians,
and phineas Ta2bot had jumped two
teet high. Tie saw and realized every
thing in 4 moment. 1t was his duty to
Z 20 to that Gitl's rescue. Bashfnlness
I chained his feet for half minute.
Then a sort OF crisis seemed to come.
/ Tie must do ii or die lie rushed out
into the street and grabbed that COW
/ by the horns and prevented o tragedy.
/ The COW tossed her head and lifted
/ Phlneas clear OF the ground. She
swung her head to and fro and swung
him with it. ana in one OF her swings.
intended TO land him on the roof of a
house, she fell down and her owner
came up and recovered his rope.
( Phineas wasn't much the worse for
+ his hero work. He was gone almost be-
fore the good-lOoking girl had real
lied her danger and recovered from
her fright A small crowd gathered
aud she was conducted across the
street, and every one had word Of
I praise for the daring young man who
[ had seized the opportunity as wei as
: the COW. Phineos hurried down to his
shop, and he sat down to eomnme
with himself, and he soon saw anatlNr
ghost rise lip before him. Although
he hndn' been Ia society mum. he
Ruew the rules of good breeding He T.
had saved thar girls life and he must
eall upon her % talk the matter over. !
L ke aiaa't eau she must think him a
b0or
Il haunted him an day. ana when ho
went home az night he weni by a light
"a street. He yold his mother MS soon
as he GOT in the house thsi hc had
been feeling strange $40 day and
thought De would go 10 q doctor The
old iasly was looking for something
ike th's and She tald him straisht out
taat De uust make hat caL PhIneas
could n1t eet out 81 iL Hc DELAYED
aud lslayed. and he went over rs the
girls house like murdcrea walking
to ihr eleciric chair. He made all
y rua and then rang the DOOR
ln ae senr sln door waS
1 i fen f1 tAe -ri her
ssif Sht hi >.-.e nU usl l1ee. wl
shc r.aeit. t.l oel q veif-> spa. srm eel
soft haud ana ha6e him enter She
dia en- tae tsikius io- tea tirsi five !
minutes Shc tasnsel Sim again ara
assln ara praisvl 'i> coT1v e ana
S,re -i n3 before he snew WHIST he
was dosing. he hsShfui nan was tals-
ing He want over there 90 makc s.
laN snf ne ended Sc bg making visit
and coine home very suaiisnt 30 say to
his moshe7: