Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-06-04
MARRYING SUE OFF
BY c. 3. LEWIS.

Bobbie was twelve years old, and there
we're 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
han he.
I 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
one thing. 1 have found a husband
for you at last!"
"W-h-a-t %
"Oh, you have come to your senses,
have you? thought it would astonish
you. 1 have needed brother-in-law
for the last two or three years, but no
one seemed to take shine to you.
went out looking for one this morning
and found him without much trouble.
J Susie, he is a cracker-ja ck-nicest fell
Ter you ever saw. His name is Earl
Cosgrove, and he is good Teller from
head to heels"
"Bobbie Winthropt, what are you
talking about I" 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
I rifle to kill bear. 1 knew there
| wasn't one left on Long Island, but /
e 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 only hope you'll fall in love with
v him ~
"You are talking pure nonsense "
exclaimed Miss Susie, as she knocked
the cap off his head.
"There is no nonsense about 1T,
4 Susie 1 didn't quite invite him to
q come back to the house with me, but
IS I shall tomorrow. I am going to do
n It to show you off and see if you can't
n catch a husband"
l. "You weren't forward enough and
20 bold enough and mean enough to tell
" him you had a sister," queried the
girl, as her cheeks famed up.
81 don't remember that l did, but
I am rather absent-minded at times.
~ If told him anything about you, it
was that hope you'd get married soon
because I was tired of seeing an old
p maid about the house. 1t shan't last
w much longer"
90 Bobbie received a shaking which
S, clicked his teeth together and push
pit which sent him far out of the room
es and Miss Susie returned to her book.
De Bobbie hunted up his mother and re-
u lated the circumstances to her, and. II
q was with a very sober face that she
IN received them and replied:
Sc "Bobbie you must not plague your
Sc sister about men. That is the way to
lg make q girl hate them. Don't bring
~ this young man to the house, and don't
talk about Susie to him."
"But can't a Teller like me talk
:. protested Bobbie.
ds Eyes, but talk of general things"
Bobbie went away growing ant
= muttering and next morning he saw
the stranger again. He was a little
more on his guard this time, and wher
he got home he had nothing to say
and no one tried to pump him. For {
week to come he was out in the woods
and fields with the naturalist ever,
q. day, but not a word did he have t.
say around the house.
The following week he went ava.
on visit to his aunt, to be gone
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 picke'
a single berry she heard q voic
calling to her and, looking around
she saw a young man seated on log
He beckoned to her to approach, AM
as she drew nearer he said:
81 beg your pardon, miss, but hav
met with an accident. BY careles
step I have turned my ankle and car
c not use it. Would yor so to the higl
way and ask aid for me from the frs
passerby|
. Miss Susie was all sympathy q
once. She told him to lean on he
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 tn
tender mercies of mother and the cool
Later on a doctor was telephoned TO
The patient gave his name as Eal
Cosgrove, but that brought no men
cries.
When Bobbie came home he foun
the patient still in the house, but h
hardly bowed to him. For a wee
more he hardly had a word to sa,
and it was at the end of three month
that he one day said to his sister,
"Snsie. something tells me that yo