Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-12-09

Reynolds called for volunteers n
check the invasion.
Abe, whose address to the voters
had been printed in the SangamoO
Journal, joined a volunteer companv
and soon became its captain. On the
tenth of April he and Harry Needles
left for Richland to go into training
Samson was eager to go, but could pn
leave his family.
BIN Kelso rode out into the fields
where Harry was at work the day be.
fore he went away.
"Tm going away" the boy said. in
a rather mournful tone.
81 hate to have you go. / just love
to know you're here, If / don't see you,
Only l wish you was older and knew
more"
There was half a moment of silence
She ended it by saying:
"Ann and / are going to the spelling
school tonight"
"Can 1 go with your"
could you stand it to be talked to.
and scolded by a couple of girls TIN
you didn't care what happened to
your"
eyes; I've got to be awful careless"
"Wem be all dressed up and ready
at quarter Of eight. Come to the tay.
ern. I'm going to have supper with
Ann. She is just terribly happy. John
Mcneil has told her that he loves her.
It's a secret. Don't you tell"
al won't. Does she love himT'
"Devotedly; but she wouldn't let
him know it-not yet. l reckon he'll
be plumb anxious before she owns up.
But she truly loves him. Shed die for
him."
"Girls are awful curious-nobody
can tell what they mean," said Harry.
Sometimes they don't know what
they mean themselves. Often l say
something or do something and won.
der and wonder what 1t means. Did you
ever ride a horse sitting backwards
when you're going one way and look
ing another and you don't know
what's coming?" she asked.
whats behind you is before you
and the faster you go the more danger
you're INF" Harry laughed.
isn't that the way we have to
travel In this world, whether we're
going to love or to MILF" the girl ask.
ed, with a sigh. 1--WE cannot tell what
is ahead. We see only what is behind
us. 1t is very sad"
Harry looked at BIN. He saw the
tragic truth of the words and suddenly
her face was like them. Unconscious.
ly in the midst Of her playful talk this
thing had fallen. He did not know
what to make Of it.
II feel sad when / think of Abe
said Harry. HE don't know what is
ahead Of him, 1 guess. 1 heard Mrs.
Traylor say that he was in love with
Ann"
81 reckon he is, but he don't know
how to show it. He's never told her.
I reckon he's mighty good, but he DON'T
know how to love a girl. Did you ever
see an elephant talking with a crick-
et?"
mot as 1 remember" said Harry.
IT never did myself, but If 1 did, I'm
sure they'd both look very tired. It
would be still harder for an elephant
to be engaged to a cricket. I don't
reckon the elephants love would fit the
cricket or that they'd ever be able to
agree on what they'd talk about. It's
some that way with Abe and Ann. She
is small and spry he is slow and high
She'd need a ladder to get up to bis
face, and 1 just tell you it amt pury
when We get there. She amt got 9
chance to love him"
II love him." said Harry. II think
he's a wonderful man. I'd fight for
him till 1 died. John Mcneil is moth
ing but a grasshopper compared 70
him."
THAT'S about what my father says
BIN answered. II love Abe, TOO, and
so does Ann, but 1t amt the hope
to die, marryin' love. It's like a mans
love for a man or a woman's love for
a woman. John Mcneil is handsome
he's just plumb handsome, and smart
too. He's bought a big farm and u
going into the grocery business. MI
Rutledge says he'll be a rich man"
II shouldn't wonder. Is he going
to the spelling school?"
mo. he went off to Richland today
with my father to join the compan!
They're going to fight the 1n1uns
too"
The shell sounded for dinner. Bid
started for the road at a gallop, waE
ing her hand. He unhitched his team
and followed it slowly across the blaeA
burrows toward the barn.
He did not go to the spelling school
Abe came at seven and said that d.
and Harry would have to walk "
Springfield that night and get tneu
equipment and take the stage IN u.
morning. Abe said If they starIeu
right away they could get to the GlOVs
tavern by midnight. In the hurry anu
excitement Harry forgot the Spellls