The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1922-05-25
the agitation Of his shoulders be.
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we icft she got kind of more like every.
o'S' you Know. the way people do 1t
was ''"'l-past nine when we walked
Dack 10 town, and was conmpncin'
20 leei KIND of hungry. so l asked her
IL sie wasn't, and she sort of laughed
ana seemed to be ashamed of il. as II
IL was disgrace or something. bu.
she said She guessed she was: so
ieit her by that hedge Of lilacs nrnr
the observatory and went on over to
'he lerla ana the fruit store, ana got
some Stulied eggs and olives und hnf.
a-do%eh peanut butter sandwiches and
box O StrawberrieS-kind of ,,ir,-
1ood. you kn0w-and went on bock
there, and we ate the stun nm 60
then she said she was afraid sho,a
taken me away from my dinner and
maze me lot Of trouble, ana so on.
ana she was sorry, and she told me
goodnight"
what did YOU say then?"
Moth Oh, Shut up! SO then she
Skipped out to her Dorm, and came
on home.'
"When did you see her nex,. Ram.
sey?"
II haven't seen her next" said Ram
sey. II haven't seen her at aii-not to
| speak to. saw her on Main street
| twice since then, but both times she
was with some other girls, and they
were across the street, and I couldn't
tell II she was lOOkin' at me-l kind of
thought not l thought it might lool,
sort O. nutty to bow to her If she
wasn't, SO l didn't"
"And you didn't tell .ier you wouldn't
be one Of the ones to help her with her
pacihSm and anti-wRr stuff and all
that?"
NO. / started to- out Shut up!
Fred sat up, ggglng. $50 she thinks
you Will help her. You 6:dn't say any
thing at all, and she must think that
means She converted you. Why didn't
you speak up?"
well, | wouldn't argue With her"
said Ramsey. Then, after silence, he
seemed to be in need of sylnpathciic
comprehension. at was kind q fuiny
though, wasn't it?" he said, appealing.
ly.
"What was?"
"The whole business"
W nat 'WnO!e bus"
"Oh. get out Her stoppn' me, an,l
me gon' pokin' along with her. and
her-wel, her crying and everything,
and me being around with her while
she felt SO upset, l mean 1t srems-
We'll it does seem all kind o funny TO
me-"
why does it?" Fred inquired, pre-
serving his gravity. "Why should 1t
| seem funny to you?"
II don't mean funny like something's
funny YOU laugh at" Ramsey explained
laboriouSly. 81 mean funny like some
thing that's out of the way, and yo.'
wonder how it ever happened to hap
pen. mean it seems funny I'd eve.
be sittin' there on bench with tha.
ole girl l never spoke to in my life or
had anything to do with, and talkin'
about the United States goin' to war.
| What we were talkin about, why, TINT
seems just as funny as the rest Of +, !.
| Lookin' back to our class picnic, f'r
instance, second year Of high school
that day jumped in the creek after
Well, YOU know, it was when started
maxim fool of myself over Il girl.
Thank goodness, | get that out o. my
| system; 1T makes me just sick to look
back on those days and think Of hhe
| fool things I did, and all / thought
about that girl. Why, She Well, I've
got old enough to see now she was
Just about rs ordinary Il girl as there
ever was, and If saw her now |
wouldn't even think she was pretty;
I'd probly think she was sort of loud
loollin. Well, what's passed is past,
and it isn't either here nor there.
What | started to say was this: that
| the way it begins to look to me. 1t
looks as If nobody can tell in this life
| 4 darn thing about what's goin to hap
| pen, and the things that do happen are
| the very ones you'd swear were the
| last that could. mcan-you look back
| to that day of the picnc--my! but
| was ruhe thcn--well, | mean YOU look
| back to that day, and what do YOU
suppose I'd have thought then If some
body'd told me the time would ever
| come when Id be way off here ut col
| legc sittin' on a bench with Dora Yo-
| cum-with Dora Yocum, in the first
| place--and her crying and both of us
| talking about the United States goin'
to war with Germany. Don't it seem
| pretty funny to YOU, Fred. too?"
"But as near as l can make out"
| Fred said that isn't what happened"
"Why isn't it?"
"You say and both Of us talking
and SO on. AS near as can make out,
YOU didn't say anything at all"
"Wcll, I didn't--much," Ramsey nd-
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