Gunnison news-champion., 1922-05-26

~ stupid Nothing hAppena Sofh-
ing! OF course. n twas just Q story
could make up things-lots Of them
exciting. Interesting things. like
having Mother eiore with the violin
list. and Father shoot him and fall N
love with Mother all over again. o.
else With somebody elss. and shoot
that ones lover. Or maybe somehody'd
Try TO shooa Father. and I'd get there
just In time 10 save him. Oh. rd love
thati
Hut this b real story. %. Il course.
can't put In anything only just what
happens: and nothing happenA
And thaf's another thing. About
the love story-rm afraid there Isn't
going TO be one. Anyway. there isn't
. bit OF a sign Of one. yet. unless it's
Mother. And Of course. I haven't seen
her for three months. 50 can't say
anything about that.
Father doesn't like ladies'. know
he doesn't. Hs always runs away from
them. But they don't run away from
him! Listen.
Quite 4 lot Of them call here to see
Aunt Jane. and they come lots Of
times evenings nnd late afternoons.
and ! know now why they do II. They
come then because they think Fnther'il
b. a. home nj that time :and they
want to see him.
know II now. but never thought
Of Il TIL the other day when heard
our hired girl. Susie. talking about II
with Bridget. the Smalls' hired girl.
over the fence when I was wedding the
garden one day. Then I knew. II was
like this:
Mrs. Darling had been over the
night before rs usual, and had stayed
an awfully long time talking to Aunt
Jane on the front piazza. Father had
been there. too. awhile. She stopped
him on his way into the house was
there and I heard her. She said:
'oh. Mr.. Anderson, I'm so glad
saw you'll I wanted to ask your ad-
vice about selling poor dear Mr..
Darling's law library"
And then she went on to tell him
how she'd had an offer. but she wasn't
sure whether II was good one or
not And she told him how highly she
.prized his opinion. and he was a man
Of such splendid judgment. and she
felt SO alone now with no strong mans
shoulder to lean upon. and she would
be so much obliged n he only would
tell her whether he considered that
offer good one or not.
Father hitched and ahemmed and
owed nearer the door all the time she
was talking. and he didn't seem to
hear her when she pushed chair
toward him and asked him to please
nit down and tell her what to do; that
she was 30 alone In the world since
poor dear Mr.. Darling had gone. (She
always calls him poor dear Mr. Oar.
ling now, but Susie says she didn't
when he was alive: she called him
something quite different. wonder
what II wns.)
Well, as said, Father hitched and
fdgeted, and said he didn't know, he
was sure that she'd better take wiser
counsel than bis. and that he was very
sorry. but she really must excuse him.
And he got through the door while he
was talking just as fast as he, could
himself. so that she couldn't get in a
single word to keep him. Then he
was gone.
Mrs Darling stayed on the piazza
two whole hours longer. but Father
never came out at all again.
II was the next morning that Susie
said this over the backyard fence to
Bridget:
ut does beat all how popular this
house Is with the Iadies-after college
honrsr'
And Bridget chuckled and answered
back:
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