Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-08-05

ern. I'm going to have supper witt
Ann. She is just terribly happy. Johr
Mcneil has told her that he loves her
It's a secret. Don't you tell.
~ won't. Does she love himF.
"Devotedly; but she wouldn't let
him know lt-not yet. | reckon ne II
be plumb anxious before she owns up.
But she truly loves him. She'd die for
him"
Girls are awful curIous-nohody
can tell what they mean" said Harry.
Sometimes they don't know what
they mean themselves. Often say
something or do something and won
der and wonder what it means. Did you
ever ride horse sitting backwards
when you're going one way and look
ing another and you don't know
what's coming?' she asked.
"What's behind you is before you
and the faster you go the more danger
you're in?" Harry laughed.
isn't that the way we have to
travel in this world, whether we're
going to love or to mili?" the girl ask
ed, with sigh. I'VE cannot tell what
is ahead We see only what is behind
us. II 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.
81 feel sad when / think of Abe"
said Harry. HE don't know what is
ahead of him. | guess. | heard Mrs.
Traylor say that he was In love with
Ann"
Il reckon he is, but he don't know
how to show 1t. He's never told her.
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-
at?"
Not as | remember" said Harry.
81 never did myself, but if l did, I'm
sure they'd both look very tired. 1t
would be still harder for an elephant
o be engaged to a cricket. | don't
eckOn the elephants love would fit the
.ricket or that they'd ever be able to
gree on what they'd talk about. It's
ONE that way with Abe and Ann. She
5 small and spry he is slow and high.
'he'd need a ladder to get up to his
ace, and just tell you it amt purity
ihen We get there. She amt got a
nance to love him."
Il love him." said Harry. 81 think
i'm till died. John Mcneil Is moth
lg but a grasshopper compared to
i'm"
That's about what my father says"
i'm answered. II love Abe, too. and
, does Ann, but it amt the hope
die, marryin' love. It's like mans
We for man or a woman's love for
woman. John Mcneil is handsome
IS just plumb handsome, and smart,
o. He's bought big farm and is
ing into the grocery business. MIR.
1tledge says he'll be rich man."
II shouldn't wonder. Is he going
the spelling SCHOOL,"
mo, he went off to Richland today
it'll my father to join the company.
ley're going to fight the Injuns,
o."
The shell sounded for dinner. BIN
lrted for the road at a gallop, wav-
: her hand. He unhitched his team
d followed it slowly across the black
rrOws toward the barn.
He did not go to the spelling school.
e came at seven and said that he
d Harry would have to walk to
ringfield that night and get their
lipment and take the stage in the
'rning. Abe said if they started
hit away they could get to the Globe
FERN by midnight. In the hurry and
element Harry forgot the spelling
lool. To BIN it was tragic thing.
fore he went to bed that night he
ote a letter to her.