Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-06-01
BABETTE
BY JANE GORDON
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PABETTE lived in little old
house with Z matched roof; out
upon this roof looked her bedroom
window, a tiny window. swinging on
Its hinge. Below, in the garden with
stone-laid paths, roses and sunfiowers.
and blue and pink and yellow flowers
all bloomed rlotously together.
Babette hummed gayiy as she tied
her white ruftied apron and smoothed
her waving dark hair and breathed in
the fresh fragrance of the country
side She was very happy in the sim
plicity Of her life, with grandfather
below, waiting for his breakfast and
ready with his timId, grateful morning
| kiss.
Babette had long been an orphan
and her grandfather was all her kin.
But there was Gene. No one else in
all the world like Gene, with his beau
tiful dark eyes, his lovely, laughing
llps-the tall slender length Of him.
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down to the garden, Babette would
listen for the musical sound of Genes
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