Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-05-20

the agitation OF his shoulders be-
trayed him.
"Go on and laugh Well, so we
stayed there quite a while. but befere
we left she got kind OF more like every
day, you know, the way people do. II
was half-past nine when we walked
back to town, and | was commeDcin'
to feel kind of hungry. so l asked her
II she wasn't and she sort OF laughed
and seemed to be ashamed OF II, as IL
1t was a disgrace or something, but
she suid she guessed she was; so
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
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 lot of trouble, and SO on.
and she was sorry, and she told me
goodnight"
"What did you say thenf'
Moth Oh, shut upl So then sha
skipped out to her Dorm, and | came
on home"
"when did you see her next, RAM
seyf"
II haven't seen her next" said RAM
sey. II haven't seen her at all-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 couldn't
tell IL she was lookin' at mel kind OF
thought not / thought 1t might look
sort O nutty to bow to her II she
wasn't, so didn't"
sand you didn't tell her you wouldn't
be one of the ones TO help her with her
paciflsm and anti-war stuff and all
| thatr
"No. j started to, but Shut upl"
Fred sat up, giggling. 80 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 upf'
swell, wouldn't argue with her,
said Ramsey. Then, after a silence, ne
seemed to be In need Of sympathetic
comprehension. at was kind o. funny
though, wasn't III" he said, appealing.
| ly.
what wasY'
1.-THE whole business"
what whole bus"
"Oh, 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, mean. II seems
we'll IL does seem all kind o. funny to
me-"
"Why does it7" Fred inquired. pre-
serving his gravity. "Why should IL
seem funny to your"
IT don't mean funny like something's
funny you laugh at" Ramsey explained
laborloasly. Il mean funny like some
thing that's out of the way, and YOU
wonder how 1t ever happened to hap
pen. mean 1t seems funny I'd ever
be sittin' there on bench with that
ole girl never spoke to In my life or
had anything TO do with, and talkin'
fabout the United States goln to war.
What we were talkin' about, why, that
seems just as funny as the rest OF It.
Lookin' back to our class picnic. f'r
instance, second year OF high school,
that day jumped In the creek after
Well, you know, 1t was when ! started
maxim 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 / did, and all ] thought
about that girl. Why, she Well, I've
got old enough to see now she was
lust about as ordinary girl as there
ever was, and II saw her now
wouldn't even think she WAS pretty
I'd probry think she was sort OF loud
iookin'. Well, what's passed Is past,
and 1t isn't either here nor there
What / started to say was this: that
the way 1t begins to look to me, u
looks as IL nobody can tell In this life
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. mean--you look back
to that day Of the picnic--myl but
was rube then--well. mean you look
back to that day, and what do you
suppose I'd have thought then II some
body'd told me the time would eyei
come when I'D be way off here at col
lege sIttin' on a bench with Dora To
cum.-wlth Dora Yocum, In the FIRST
place--and her crying and both OF III
talking about the United States goin
to war with Germanyl Don't 1t seen
pretty funny to you, Fred. tool"
But as near as / can make out,
Fred said, that isn't what happened
"Why isn't itT'
"You say and both Of us talking
and SO on. AS near as can make out
you didn't say anything at ALL
"Well, I didn't--much," Ramsey ad
mItted and returned to his point with
almost pathetic persistence. Blu
doesn't 1t seem kind o funny to you
Fred"
"Well, ! don't know"
at does to me-" Ramsey insisted, III