The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1921-03-24
Their Dream F arm
BY KATE EDMoNDS
20. 1921. Western Newspaper union,)

hall room Wnlcn he occupied III lh|
cheap lodging house, reading letter
from his folks upstate. 1t was signed
by his mother and his two sisters.
'We shall all be thinking of you
next Sunday when we eat our DIN
ner," they wrote. "Father sends you
his love and hopes you are well. He
Is glad you are getting along so nice
ly. We wish you could be with us
but, as you say, business is business,
and you will have to be at work Mon
day morning"
John Robinson was only twenty
four, but he knew that If he were for
ty his prospects would be no brighter.
He was just an ordinary clean-mnded
country boy, caught in the machinery
of the city, and just now earning a
wage Of fifteen dollars a week as
grocer's clerk. That was as we'll as
he could do.
He wished he were back on the
farm again. But he could not swal-
low his pride. He had gone off amid
the salutations of the haf-envious vii
lage lads Of his own age, and to go
back would mean terrible down
fall in their estimation and q confes-
sion of failure.
A strange and yet familiaf,smell as
sailed his nostrils.
He knew what 1t was. The girl in
the adjacent room was cooking Il tur-
key!
He knew her to nod to OH the
stairs when she came home in the
evening from the department store in
which she worked. Fanny-that was
the only name he knew her by--was
pretty and gentle and had a sort Of
frightened look in her eyes which
haunted him, since it was so like
the look which he had worn for the
first few months after his arrival. He
had never had the courage to speak to
her.
That odor was very tempting. He
that her door was ajar also, and, as
he went softly out he came face to
face with her. Her hair was dis
heyeled and her face red from bend
ing over her gas stove.
"Oh, won't you-wouldn't you like to
join me?' she said timidly. Its my
dinner" she continued, with little
laugh. II thought was afraid you
might be hungry. Mrs. Higgins said
you cooked all your own food" she
continued.
t. Johns heart was beating quite VIC
lently for some reason or other, as
he followed her in. Upon the stove
was frying psn that sent forth the
appetizing odors which he had dis.
cerned; and in it lay a quarter of q
delicatessen store turkey.
After they had finished eating John
looked at Fanny, and his heart began
| beating fast. How nice it would be
/ to have somebody like that--as nice
as that--as pretty as that--to cook
every meal for MIN and how he hat
1 hated to see her start out so early ant
! come back so late from the depart
i ment store! Before he realized it hi
| had forgotten all his shyness and the.
were talking learnedly and delightful,
about their homes. She, too, was farm
Bred and she had come to the city il
just the same way he had come. An,
she, too, had had letter. And it salt
just about the same things as his.
They thought Of the free countr.
air and the roads and fields whit,
with snow, and the peacefulness o
little farm of their own. And tn,
stuffy little lodging house room be
came filled with romance for them
and they looked wonderingly upol
each other and thought that fate wa
very kind.
"And it's this way" said John. g
know that was a fool to leave tn
farm and come here. There was jus
the one thing l knew all about an
could have succeeded at, and / threl
it up to take something / neye
can succeed at"
Same here" said Fanny briskly
IF you knew how tired I get of tryin
on ladies' shoesT'
Alu lHCH us tlcy SAT lhcEt aiuc ~
side John found courage to draw hi
chair so close that it actually touche
hers, and before he knew what h
was doing he found himself holdin
her little hand in his. And she le
! him hold it-that was the astonishin
thing!
Fanny" he said--it was the frs
. time he had called her that--"if
could save up three hundred dollar
could buy little place and mall
it pay. know / could make it pa
! But can't save a penny and nevt
: shall, for can't earn enough. 81
Q if you would go into partnership vii
$ me for lust one year, and we hi
one room instead of two-and tv
could live just as cheaply as one-al
g after yaar we Ind Sayad IN thr,