The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-23
TIE DAILY
ST IQRTI Story
The Life Of the Party
sy MARTHA MscuLLocH.WiL.
az LIAms.

10y MAN ma FAgGgkLOCr1.nlL H.
i,1L give you apknGr o. pins, II
Il that's the way love begins
Il you viii marry meme! II
you Will many mel"
Billy Train chanted through the
itchen door Emma Lao loekeL
ID from the apple she was petllne
y she answered hin:
won't deeept 4 paper OF pins
that's not the way that love
begins,
Nd I viii not marry Sou-you. :
viii not NARY y6u!"
cioodnesS, how dee-ternined.
Bounds like you thought l was In
|sarnest,r Billy commented. ''YoL
jsugnt 70 know II It was that way
|Sd have sung ths last verse"
sM.ns.mi" tom Emma-nethins
Anofe. Billy. ran % undaunted:
That would have fetched you surs
sheotin'. See-hofe rhther--it
ees real pfstts-tais way.
Ir'iI give you the keys 70 my ehett,
so.yop may have gold at your
request,
you dill marry ms-me-meI
n you will marry mai"
! stlenes even teaser from Emma.
II provoked him 10 further chant
ins s'Tel know how II runs, but
s1n,re that Obstinate you wone sing
r Iknow you're dying 10 hear II
soct we 90:
Win accept the keys Of your
4 chest, that / may have gold
81 your request,
Itnd ! WIN marry you-you! And
1 ] will marry you'll"
j Both EMma's htnas went up-a
Pound apple hard and juicy sailed
tfa!ght toward her tormentor's
lace He sidest6pped neatly-the
lsppio landed on the grass plot fully
thirty feet beyond him EyelnR
hen naffoWly, he said mourntully:
Hard luck, but real. Unless ! had
Found out your temper and how
Israight you can throw might
aaye persisted in my notion Of mar
-yins you. Now-wGll, II will take
m 6fdaf Of court And a whole
|suohs.Atn posse to bring such a
lhins 10 pAsa."
'tndsedp Emma tried hard to
rowi but her eyes danced Ia spite
l3t her. She knew Billy through
lard through, by heart. He had
roufted her on all possible and i'm.
cesible occasions for at least q
ears In fact ever since the day
tier he CANT to HillWRys, his rn.
fsie.s place next door TO the cot
6age which Lees hadNbullt four gen.
|eretions back, and which had es
kped alien ownership. It had been
nodefnized 81 course, Sipce the
lees each and several, born farm.
YRS withal good traders, were
warm folk, held ID high esteem by
Ill the Countrywide. Billy had told
|Eniiia three hours after they met
iihat d country girl with modern
|lmpso rements had been his hope
Psss ideal until be found It realized
Iln her.
sposen We were to hiss and be
|traendsl" Billy Sentured advancing
|ana bending over Emma. She
| rfhnE up. shaking a stained fist IN
y. face. and saying: "sposen We
I4ont 'Sposen again you clear out.
(tnless / set these yillainous appleH
'ssady for the dfIers, however am ]
10 and time for the picnie7"
by letting me help-iny middle
PANE Is kpple-peeler.' Billy an.
EFsred with d heavy Sigh. Two
Minutes later, equipped with knife,
b and ons Of black Maria's big,
WAT cook aprons he was proving
That he could peel-in any com.
'pAny. Emma watched him covert
y VOW and again dinpltng roEulsh
y ASade. II only Billy knew! The
dokeS &lftost oYercanne her. Picnies
we're nothing to her-pienics com
u Cd or garden variety. This after.
ncohsk would run on into q moon.
ilght.-And she had promised by
|lettSf, IN black and white, to save
~ the one.steps for q partner she
bid never seen.
Further an amateur poet, part
'edtteF Of q spriEhty local daily
'pneiisAed Ia a town near 1 hun
fred miles away. In Aunt betH'i
own, n fact, and Aunt Beth knew
aint TEL, She had had the home
NAPIER follow her when she made
a long visit to the Cottage. Some
ming Whimsical IN II had moved
Emma TO make . brief yet spark
ing comment, which had been an.
swetsd IN kind. After that-the
.aeluBe. onee 4 week at least theIt
etterA had crossed: The result, ii
first due to accident, had proved
IniquRnt and provocative enough to
5hye made the crossings later q
natter Of design. Oddly enough
emma had refused TO ask qties
ions regarding the unknown's per.
s6rality. She liked his name
Eeaimer Brice-it looked we'll, print
ID or written. and was printed fire
,Snently. This she knew through
from other local dailies
'Ehieh had come IN his letters, some
4 them hninoeonsly severe, othefR
odsnSd Hith'th sincerest flattery
4 imitation, Emma was not q
5ove With hira-hov could she be,
die sbked herself with Billy on the
5otstep half the time7 But In such