Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1923-11-30
FIivver Plays
Providence
~ MARTHA WILLIAMS
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anal me something, please." Fan
said. wiping her forehead
- how did Maud Muller rake
= VET keep her looks? It's harder
M catherin' blackberries, but we're
'abtv near scarecrows; so near we'd
're scare judges if one came
IA aIudges don't ride our circuit, only
~oocbers; and you know you wouldn't
lave a preacher, not even fSr soap
oose as Nanny always put ii, y
,rnv answered, signing huge sigh
q, che swung her big round hat high
tove her head. Home plated from
70 straw. it was serviceable, but by
! stretch Of the imagination pictur-
sane. with its shoe-string band and
H. narrow place in the brim coming
tisbly over the left ear. "A preacher
Eouldn't mind even this" she went on.
All I ever saw are such gluttons for
Slackberry pie
..No preachers going to get even
8ook at these" Fanette flung back.
Srhey are meat for his masters.
<kearce meat, too-with so many roads
bear of hedgerows, and those wretch
"a autos, running with their dust
uore than half what's left. 1 mean
ask 30 cents a gallon for this lot
37batIl be two whoit dollars if we get
4 haf-bushel"
n ASK? You'll hardly receive" Linny
&ung back. "Well be lucky if old
lin Jones doesn't screw US down to
8fty cents for the whole lott
n "Hed love to, l know-but remem-
Ter we've got one pig left. And I'd
3ather kill him with blackberry feast
han let that old skeesicks plumber us
bat wayr Fanette snapped. Lord
How | hate him p she ran on. "He
&houldn't come inside the gate, if there
fas any other way of getting stuff to
market"
Il 81 WISH" Linny began desperately,
3pmebody'd lose a nice new car right
Where we could find it. 1 know I
Mould drive it,"
& ''Why, you little rascal" Fanette
Exploded with a grin. Have we got
Town to car stealing? Lucky we won't |
>e tempted, way 1 feel now.
Il wouldn't steal it, never in the
World" Linny protested. "Only load
J with all we've got-June apples,
3hese berries, early cabbage, whatever
Use is in the garden, and run it in
own hunting an owner"
"a lark. Too good to happen"
fanette sighed. For ten minutes they
)icked in silence, the sun getting high
d and hotter each second. But the
)ig basket brimmed, the gathering
ups we're so near full, human endur-
pee wilted-the pickers with one ac-
fmd made their way from the old-field
angle, carrying the basket between
hem,
As they freely admitted, they were
fghts-in ragged, faded print, scuffed
hoes, and the fioppy hats. They had
lever been able to afford either over
Ills or knickers; with five-cent cotton,
ma the taxes, every cent counted
No stranger could take them for the
they were-so they did
Ot in the least mind a sharpish hail
s they came to the main road in
ront of their gate. A nice new fiivver
TODD there with q man in goggles
touching over the wheel. |
Not thing of beauty even without
lem-lantern- jawed, dour and ram
'd-llke of contour; except his face {
lat was red and oddly puffy. He I
louted:
Hey, you two Git me somebody {
IN drive this machine! Quick-it's 8
II to meet the Teller that owns 1t in Z
wink or so-he's due on the twelve 7
CLOCK train. And l run into hor- I
Us nest back yonder-got so stung | q
MT hardly open my ewes. So you G
t busy-skeer up help O. some sort h
wait on the porch of that house t
nder, till you come back-and pay f
'll-a dollar, maybe-to whoever Il
es and comes back safe" q
Fanette looked at Linny-the look
IS returned. Followed a whispered s
nerence, quick shaking of heads, n
N quicker mods. 1t was Linny who ii
last said audaciously: Were just (,
IN to take load of truck to town T
your car can hold II, we'll take II Il
're-and only charge you three dol il
s." "
Inc man protested angrily-Linny O.
% pat. Consequently half an hour h
er' he watched with blurred vision el
vanishing car, the while swearing q
himself as seven sorts OF fool, b,
sung evidently poor girls with W
,rand-new machine. II they ruined el
tommy Hinton would use language