Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-06-02

was half-paSt nine when we walked
back to town, and l was commencin'
to feel kind of hungry. so l asked her
if she wasn't, and she sort of laughed
and seemed to be ashamed of it, as if
it was a disgrace or something, but
she said she guessed she was; so I
left her by that hedge OF lilacs near
the observatory and went on over to
the Terra and the fruit store, and got
some stuffed eggs and olives and half
a-dozen peanut butter sandwiches and
a box O. strawberries-kind of girl
food you know-and went on back
there, and we ate the stuff up. So,
then she said she was afraid she'd
taken me away from my dinner and
made me a lot of trouble, and so on,
and she was sorry, and she told me
goodnight"
what did you say then?'
Moth Oh, shut up! Sc then she
skipped out to her Dorm, and 1 came
on home"
"When did you see her next, Ram
sey?'
81 haven't seen her next" said RAM
sey. 81 haven't seen her at all-not to
speak to. I saw her on Main street
twice since then, but both times she
was with some other girls, and they
were across the street, and l couldn't
tell if she was lOokin' at mel kind Of
thought not l thought it might look
sort o. nutty to bow to her if she
wasn't, so I didn't
"And you didn't tell her you wouldn't
be one Of the ones to help her with her
| pacifism and anti-war stuff and all
that?"
'No. I started to, but Shut up!"
Fred sat up, giggling. $50 she thinks
you will help her. You didn't say any
thing at all, and she must think that
means she converted you. Why didn't
you speak up?"
"Well, I wouldn't argue with her."
said Ramsey. Then, after a silence, he
seemed to be in need of sympathetic
comprehension "It was kind O. funny
though, wasn't it?' he said, appealing.
| ly.
"What WASP"
sThe whole business"
"What whole bus"
ooh, get out Her stoppin' me, and
me goin' pokin' along with her, and
her-well, her crying and everything,
and me being around with her while
| she felt so upset, I mean. 1t seems
| we'll, it does seem all kind o. funny to
me-"
| "Why does it?" Fred inquired, pre-
serving his gravity. "Why should it
seem funny to your"
II don't mean funny like something's
funny you laugh at" Ramsey explained
laboriously. 81 mean funny like some
wonder how it ever happened to hap
pen. / mean it seems funny I'd ever
be sittin' there on a bench with that
ole girl 1 never spoke to in my life or
had anything to do with, and talkin'
about the United States goin' to war.
What we were talkin' about, why, that
seems just as funny as the rest of It.
Lookin' back to our class picnic, FIR
instance, second year of high school,
that day jumped in the creek after
Well, you know, Awas when started
maxim a fool oE&yself over girl.
s9sfsn it s' SICK S15 to . ro %z
back on thoE days and think of the
fool Thing y2@did, and all I thought
about that Gin Why, She Well, I've
got old endSssW to see now she was
just about all ordinary girl as there
ever waA AID if I saw her now I
wouldn't SKsh think she was pretty /;
I'd prob'lx think she was sort of loud
lookin'. Veil, what's passed is past,
and it MsRt either here nor there.
What tied to say was this: that
the val i@hegins to look to me, it
looks aAifnSAedy can tell in this life
I darn HinS ab%t what's goin' to hap
PeNsg4 thSthings that do happen are
onss~x6ud swear were the
that could. mean--you look back
10 fhsF day of the picnic-my! but I
EasH f$be then-well, I mean you look
kback to that day, and what do you
supposesFd have thought then if some
| hodv'd fold mo the time would ever