The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-11-02
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ANY special poetY"

ANY special poet?"
swell, she seemed to like my stuff.
You never read my sonnet-sequence
on spring, did you?"
mo. What other poets did she like
besides you?"
"Tennyson principally" said Eus-
tace Hignett with a reminiscent
CULVER in his voice. "The hours we
have spent together reading the Tdylls
of the Kingv"
''The which of what?" inquired Sam,
taking pencil from his pocket and
shooting out cuff.
The 1dylls of the King My good
man, know you have soul which
would be considered inadequate by
common earthwOrm, but you have
surely heard Of Tennysons Idylls of
the King?'"
"Oh, those Why, my dear old chap
Tennyson's Idylls of the Kingr Well,
I should say! Have / heard of Ten
Ayson's Idylls of the. KingY Well,
really! I suppose you haven't a copy
with you on board by any CHANGER
There Is a copy in my kit-bag
The very one we used to read together
Take 1t and keep it or throw it over
board. ! don't want to see it again."
Sam prospected among the Shirts
collars and trousers in the bag and
presently came upon morocco-bound
volume. He laid 1t beside him on the
lounge.
Little by little, bit by Bit" he said,
Il am beginning to form a sort of pic
ture of this girl, this-what was her
name again? Bennett-this Miss Ben
nett. You have wonderful knack Of
description. You make her seem so
real and vivid. Tell me some more
about her. She wasn't keen on golf, by
any chance, suppose?
Il believe she did play. The subject
came up once and she seemed rather
enthusiastic. Why?"
swell, I'd much sooner talk to a girl
about golf than poetry"
You are hardly likely to be in a
position to talk to Wilhelmina Bennett
about either, should imagine"
mo. there's that. of course. / was
thinking of girls in general. Some girls
bar golf. and then it's rather difficult
to know how to start conversation.
But, tell me, were there any topics
which got on Miss Benefits nerves, If
you know what / mean? 1t seems to
me that at one time or another you
may have said something that offended
her. mean, it seems curious that she
should have broken off the engagement
II you had never disagreed or quar-
relied about anything"
well, of course, there was always
the matter Of that dog of hers. She
had dog, you know, snappy brute
OF Pekingese. If there was ever any
shadow Of disagreement between us, it
had to do with that dog. made rather
q point of 1t that / would not have it
about the home after we were mar
RED"
Il seer said Sam. He shot his cuff
once more and wrote on it: ''Dog-con-
ciliate." "Yes, of course, that must
have wounded her."
Not half so much as he wounded
mel He pinned me by the ankle the
day before we-Wilhelmina and l. I
mean--were to have been married. 1t
Is some satisfaction to me in my
broken state to remember that / got
home on the little beast with consider
able juiciness and lifted him clean
over the Chesterfield"
Sam shook his head reprovingly.
You shouldn't have done that |" he
said. He extended his cuff and added
tbezwords "vitally Important to what
he had just written. 1T was probably
that which decided her."
well, / hate dogs" said Eustace
Hignett ENORMOUSLY. II remember
fWlhelmina once getting quite an
neyed with me because refused to
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