The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-11-20
THE DAILY
SHORT STORY
Azinauth-Ann.
BY MARTHA mccuLLocH.W WILL
LlAMS.
Copyright, 1913, by the Mcclure
Newspaper SyndlCate.)

n to her mothers ear for the un-
usual and her filial piety. Nav
she wouldn't never git over 1t II thar
wasn't Ann somewharS in babys
name" she had confided to her vist-
tors. "But do like names that sound
tasty-Ann never was much to my
mind"
So Azlmuth Ann toiled up the years,
through Group, measles, school, first
love and getting religion, weighted
with her name. BY the time she was
nineteen it had shrunk in all mouths to
Azan-the faintest pause after the Az.
Still it was sufficiently affective all
the more so that Granny resenting
Azimuth had left her whole string OF
gold beads, no less her chain and lock-
ct, to little Ann, her next eldest grand
child. That was shame-little Ann,
dark skinned and pale haired, became
the heirloOms so i'll. But since she
had inherited also fine farm, money
in bank, also her dead fathers thrift,
the neighborhood did not say out loud
she was home!y-but though it ali the
larder
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beauty, wit! big bla * ewes and cheeks
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her dancing was worth watching =
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