Connecticut western news., 1919-01-02
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 CMAPTER I-Barton Baynes. orphan - taken to live with his uncle, Peabody K4ynes. and his Aunt Deel on. farm or lAktleroad in a neighborhood called Lick 1Sxplit about the year 1926. Barton meets AnAy Dunkelberg, about his own age, but sReially of 8 class above the Bayneses AE3 Is fascinated by the pretty face Ane absent water sion didn't seem 10 hnkerest her. ##.@. r.
 Let's play house In the grove," said aA@. and showed me how to build a n0use by laying rows of stones with an opening for a door.
 Now you be my husband" said
 @ddly enough I had heard of hus- Einads but had only shadowy notion q what they were. I knew that there uEzs none in our house.
 Whats that?' Iasked.
 aae laughed and answered: Some madE that girl is married to-"
 Tou mean father?' .....
 ~Yes." ......
 'Once had a father" I boasted.
 W CAAt WC AA pAdy we lC 1uukA1Cu duO thsx you have just got home from a 1exney. You go out in the woods nua then you come home and I'll nsEet you at the door,"
 \ did as she bade me but was not Eak enough to see her.
 -Fou must kiss me-" she prompted - q whisper. t \ Kissed her very swiftly and gin- 1Mfy-like one picking up hot coal -And she caught me in her arms mra kissed me three times while her nnn hair threw it's golden veil over Nzr faces.
 -Oh, I'm so glad to see you," she and as she drew away from me and 1hrOk back her hair.
 -tselly this is funl' I said.
 Now go to sleep and I'll tell you - story" said she.
 Then she told pretty tales of fair 1nr and of grand ladies and noble gen @emen who wore gold coats and anE0rds and diamonds and silks, and snEd wonderful words in such won- d1ffuis way. dare say it prospered [ m the better in my ears because Of
 he-smystery by which it's meanings tynsrnr partly hidden. I had many | }NEstions to ask and she told me what tusre k,iries and silks and diamonds 'Wsk skgrand ladies and noble gentlemen.
 Ne sat down to one of our familiar Ghners of salt pork and milk gravy a1iK apple pie now enriched by sweet ufikfes and preserves and frosted aske. k query had entered my mind and ansn after we had begun eating I nsked:
 .Aunt Deel, what is the difference ukrMeen boy and girlT' Where was little silence in which " aunt drew in her breath and ex- G1hfmed, ssW'yi" and turned very red 1na covered her face with her pap- I'm Uncle Peabody laughed so loud tE that the chickens began to cackle. E and Mrs. Dunkelberg also covered sEk faces. Aunt Deel rose and went \ - the stove and showed the teapot |Fonnng, exclafming:
 ~Goodness gracious sakes aliver' The tea stopped oyer on the stove. vale Peabody laughed louder and llk Dunkelberg's face was purple. 1hep came running into the house I'd as I ran out of it. had made $U my mind that had done some 1nkng worse than tipping over what 1E Thoroughly frightened fled and 0Dgk refuge behind the ash-house, where Sally found me. I knew of ane thing I would never do again. She
 aezed me Into the grove where we ond another, play spell.
 KSneeded just that kind of thing,
 sd what a time it was for me! A
 1eassast sadness comes when I think ks that day-rit was so long ago. As ne Dunkelbergs left us stood look Ug down the road on which they
 nxe disappearing. That evening my EUS; caught,,a "a note of sadness in the msce of the katydids, and memory began to play its part with me. Best E all I remembered the kisses and He bright blue eyes and the soft curly 1nfr with the smell of roses in it.