Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1919-01-15
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Every no iday should be arranged
10. arrive on g Friday s drawled Ma
than Ware, frank antagonist Of the
ife strenuous one Saturday morning.
It's so easy to stretch them over Sat-
/ urday and then the blessed Sabbath
gives us another day in which to rest.
T tomorrow Bert, you and Miss Thorn
& ton can have the sport Of your lives
!. hunting gray squirrels. The woods
are full Of them, and If there's any
better fun than chasing squirrels, l
don't know what It is unless making
1 love to q pretty girl beats It.
You and Miss Thornton got along
famously today, !" leased Nathan. IF
]. you and Dora aren't to be congratu-
lated before leaving here Sunday.
Phebe Ware Is going to be the most
disapp pointed woman in America. :
Really z? q laughed Bert. our wife
IS dear, but He hesitated, smil-
4 ing. s55g .s#
She'll be after me soon If I don't
go out and Join her. said Nathan,
rising and placing his hand on his
friends should Ter. Hope the but Is ]
not serious, Bert. Miss Thornton is a
i brick and she likes you. Good night. !
Have your smoke out, and # there's
anything you want and cant find, why
keep on looking for It, or spring
the burglar alarm. Z
It had been a. day full Of pleasure
for the little house party at. Wares
place "a bungalow IA miles from the
i city and a million miles from vexa-
ton. J" E5is5s Re
The evening before as they sat In
theiIlibrary, various topics had been
discussed, chief Of which were, "wom.s
ans rights. a charming exponent of 4
this subject had been Dora Thornton,
and thus the thorn that pricked the
love and admiration Of Bert. Yet the
former day -dreams Of a clear-headed
bachelor held no vision such as this.
It was the creature Of another world
that appeared in his dreamsa girl,
gentle, home-loving and dependable.
I Now in the fairy smoke circles that
foated from his scigar, mother form
is visible; "a girl, muscular, brown
armed and alert; who paddles a canoe
like an Indian, and whose archery and
rifle scores are among the best; vet
possessing none of those soft feminine
traits which the average man admires
most in a woman. s. i.
Bert threw the end Of his cigar into
the fire and mounted the stairs to his
room. Half an hour later, hesitating
between accusing himself of being
either a prig or an idiot, he fell asleep.
Saturday morning daWned clear and
beautiful. An early coach brought
several more to the little house-party.
Sorry I haven't another rife, PHIL
said Ware to a shooting guest; you
might catch up with Bert and Miss,
Thornton and catch some squirrels 4
We. saw Dora and Bert as we came
over the hill said Alice Bates.
md a jolly time they seemed to be
having all by themselves, : said Phil
81 whistled, but they were too busy.
to hear me-
Guess they'll come back squirrel
less. It's dollars to doughnuts Bert
wouldn't see a squirrel if he fell over
one. However, we won't blame him
under the circumstances" remarked
Ware.
s He was mistaken, for just about this
time Bert had caught sight of the first
squirrel, fat gray one, which bounded
1 to a tail chestnut tree a hundred feet.
away.
IT see the rascal, |" he said. - Stand
here, Miss Thornton. Look up between
those two branches. Do you see him ~
10y on don mean that broWnish e1;-ss
screscence on the bark q
sz8s chat the chap. 4
s5il.sI don't believe. it,
him th a shot and you Il see.
Squirrels We're not behind the door
when protective coloring was handed
out in d the animal lSingd om Steady
now
The girls lips closed flrnl Their
a mufledS rep ort was heard.
.sYY5 ols've apt Y excl aimed Bert
I sflliTrel' clutch on the bart
SLOWLY relaxed and he fel .s53s s
Bert oVer. and picked up the he
yet d yer1ing cree tture.
cried.
Al nlenflid Is a 8s's
gs5S he ehedl he 81 RI she shrarals6
from him put fiji q 1inaal
into ii peck let of his tin s acket.
oora sal placingS lsis.
! hand tenderlY on her shoul lei. II
Don'' IT, I, she cried passio nately.
a brute
what d cruel thin g to do The
poer arrnl ess hff1tl fell oy Oh. how
.s.:onld u Ter III broke i'm II