News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-03-08

funny about that iS-why, 1t looks
if she never knew the way / Away
hated her So"
eyes" said Fred. 'It wasn't fat
tering"
swell, sir, 1t isn't, kind Of" Ram
sey agreed, musingly. ut certainl
isn't when you look at 1t that way
"What did you say when she salt
that2" Fred asked.
"Nothin'. I started to, but sort o
baked again. Well, we kept on sitting
there, and afterwhlle she began to
talk again and got kind of excited
about how no war could do anything
or anybody any good, and all war was
wicked, no matter what 1t was about,
and nothin' could be good that was
founded on fear and hate, and every
war that ever was fought was always
founded on fear end bate She seid
II the Germans wanted to fight us we
ought to go to meet them and tell
them we wouldn't fight"
"What did you say?"
"Nothin'. I kind o. started to-but
what's the use2 She's got that in her
head. Besides, how are you goin' to
argue about a thing with a person
that's crying about II? tell you, Fred,
l guess we got to admit, after all, that
ole girl certainly must have a lot Of
heart about her, anyway. There may
not be much fun to her-though Of
course / wouldn't know hardly any
way to tell about that-but there
couldn't be hardly any doubt she's got
lot Of feeling. Well, and then she
went on and said old men made wars,
but didn't fight; they left the fighting
to the boys, and the suffering to the
boys mothers"
Yes !" Fred exclaimed, and upon
that he turned, free of mirth for the
moment. "That's the woman Of 1t, !
guess. Send the old men to do the
fighting! For the matter of that,
guess my father'd about a thousand
times rather 60 himself than see me
and my brothers go; but Fathers so
fat he can't stoopi You got to be able
to stoOp to dig trench, guess Well,
suppose we sent our old men up
against those Dutchmen; the Dutch
men would just kill the old men, and
then come after the boys anyway and
the boys wouldn't be ready, and, they'd
get killed, too; and then there
wouldn't be anybody but the Dutchmen
left, and that'd be one fine world,
wouldn't itl''
"Yes,' said Ramsey. "Course
thought of that"
"Did you tell herr"
mo"
"What did you say?"
"Nothin'. I couldn't get started any,
way, but. besides, what was the use?
But she didn't want the old men to go /;
she didn't want anybody to CO."
"What did she want the country to
do?" Fred asked, impatiently.
"Just what It has been doin', I sup.
pose. Just let things simmer down,
and poke along, and let them do what
they like to u.s."
81 guess sol'' said Fred. "Then,
afterwhile, when they got some free
time on their hands, they'll come over
and make It really interesting for us,
because they know we won't do any |
thing but talk. Yes, guess the way |
things are settling down ought to suit |
Dora, There isn't goin' to be any
war"
"She was pretty sure there was,
though" Ramsey SAID thoughtfuly.
"Oh, Of course she was then. We
all thought so those few days"
mo. She said she thought II prob'y
wouldn't come right away, but now II
was almost sure to come sometime
She said our kilograms and all the talk
and so much feeling and everything
showed her that the war thought that
was always In people somewhere had
been stirred up so It would go on and
on. She said she knew from the way
she felt herself about the Lusitania
that a feeling like that In her would
never be absolutely wiped OUT as long
as she lived. But she said her other
feeling about the horribleness of war
taught her to keep the first feeling
from breaking out, but with other peo-
pie 1t wouldn't; and even II war didn't
break out right then, 1t would always
be ready TO, all over the country, and
sometime 1t would, though she was
goin' to do her share to fight 1t, her
self. as long as she could stand. She
asked me wouldn't be one of the ones
to help her."
He paused, and after moment
Fred asked, "Well2 What did you say
TO that?
"Nothin'. ] started to- but"
Again Fred thought it tactful to
turn and look out the window, while
The agitation of his shoulders be-
trayed him.
"Go on and laugh Wen, so we
stayed there quite a while, but before
We left she got kind of more like every
lay, you know, the way people do. II
vas half-past nine when we walked
back to town, and | was commencin'
o feel kind Of hungry, so asked her
( she wasn't, and she sort Of laughed