The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-05-11

and me being around with her while
she felt so upset, I mean. It seems
well, 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. II mean funny like some
thing that's out of the way, and you
wonder how it ever happened to hap
pen. I mean it seems funny I'd ever
be. sittin' there on a bench with that
ole girl I never spoke to in my life or
had anything to do with, and talkin'
about the United States goin' to war.
What we we're talkin' about, why, that
seems just as funny as the rest of 1t.
Lookin' back to our class picnic, fr
instance, second year Of high school,
that day I jumped in the creek after
Well, you know, it was when I started
maxim a fool Of myself over a girl.
Thank goodness, I got that out O. my
system; 1t makes me just sick to look
back on those days and think Of the
fool things I did, and all l thought
about that girl. Why, she Well, I've
got old enough to see now she was
Just about as ordinary a girl as there
ever was, and If I saw her now ]
wouldn't even think she vas pretty
I'd prob'ly think she was sort Of loud
lookin'. Well, what's passed is past,
and It isn't either here nor there.
What I started to say was this: that
the way 1t begins to look to me, 1t
looks as If nobody a tell in this life
a 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. I mean-you look back
to that day of the picnic-my! but !
was a rube then-well, I 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 I'd be way off here at col.
lege sittin' on a bench with Dora 70
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 1t seem
pretty funny to you, Fred, too"
"But as near as I can make out"
Fred said, "that isn't what happened"
"Why isn't lit"
"You say and both Of us talking
and so on. AS near as I can make out,
you didn't say anything at ALL"
"Well, I didn't-much," Ramsey adj
mitted, and returned to his point with
almost pathetic persistence. "But
doesn't it seem kind O funny to you,
Fred?"
swell, I don't know"
1T does to me-" Ramsey insisted. 1T
certainly does to me-"
"Yes,n said Fred cruelty. tive no
ticed you said so, but 1t don't look any
funnier than you do when you say
it."
Suddenly he sent forth a startling
shout. "Wowl You're as red as a
blQshing beet"
II am not!"
"Y'arel' shouted Fred. "Wowl The
ole woman-hater's get the Pushes. On
look at the pretty posy"
And, jumping down from the window
seat. he began to dance round his
much perturbed comrade, believing.
Ramsey bore with him for a moment,
then sprang upon him; they wrestled
vigorously, broke a chair and went to
the floor with a crash that gave the
chandelier in Mrs. Meigs' parlor, be-
low, a n attack Of jingles.
"You let me upl" Fred gasped.
"You take your solemn oath to shut
up? You goin' to swear til"
"All right. I give my solemn oath,"
said Fred; and they rose, arranging
their tousled attire.
"Well," said Fred, when you goin'
to call on herT
"You look herew Ramsey approached
him dangerously. "You just gave me
your SOL"
81 beg!" Fred cried, retreating. Il
mean, aside from oil that, why, I just
thought maybe after such an evening
you'd feel as a gentleman you ought to
20 and ask after her health
snow, see here