The Kevin review., 1926-12-02

road train had time enough to make into
tables, Miss Hortense sent and got them
and stacked them thicker and thicker on
every shelf, and stuffed them deeper and
deeper into every bookcase 1t crowded
Miss Mary and Miss Abigail Linda a great
deal But Miss Hortense didn't care as long
as she had her time tables.
My Uncle Hubert called her Never
Went.
ever a peddler came around with new
kind of cold cream or pink powder, or hair
brush or tonic that would make her beauti-
full, she bought it and piled it higher and
higher on every table, and crammed 1t
farther and farther into every closet! 1t
crowded Miss Hortense and Miss Abigail
Linda a good deal. But Miss Mary didn't
care as long as she had her beautifiers:.
NV Uncle ubert called her a Never Was.
Miss Abigail Linda collected bird houses.
/ don't know where she got them. But
every time any one went to see her she
was just unpacking another one-for lin
nets, for martins, for chickadees, for boDo-
links, for any thing-and setting 1t down
where some one would step on it. 1t
crowded Miss Hortense and Miss Mary
good deal. But Miss Abigail Linda didn't
care as long as she had her bird houses.
NV Uncle Hubert called her a Never Had.
Miss Hortense was seventy years old, and
looked something like steam engine. MISS
Mary was sixty years old, and looked
something like bottle. Miss Abigail Llnqa
was fifty years old and didn't look like
anything at all, unless it was little smile
that had forgotten what it was about.
When you added them all up with their
looks and everything, it made them nun
dred and eighty years old and seemed al
most too much. But nobody could help IL.
1t was all their fathers fault, my Uncle
Hubert said. Their mother didn't have any
faults But their father was rich man
and had almost everything. He lived just
as long as he possibly could, ana ruleu
everybody with rod Of iron, and never
gave any one a dollar if he could flnd a
T1,,E hon hn ind
Hortense was thirty years old and Miss
Mary was only twenty years old ana MISS
Abigail Linda was only ten years ola, a anu
he was so afraid that some one mlgnt
marry them for their money and get IL
suuandered that he tied it all up IN pags
or something at the bank and left them
only the round yellow house, with JUST
eno.uoh money to live in it every year until
Mss Abigal Linda should be old enough
TO marry and the whole three OF them
should find three worthy brothers ana De
married all together by his most sacred
request in the back garden under the whlte
acacia tree that he'd brought home from
the HOLY Land on his own wedding trip;
It was our Uncle ubert who told us ali
about it one Sunday night after supper,
when we were sitting on his lap before the
opeW p.sWeI. ii. isn't she?" l said.
sIsn't-who? And what?' said our Uncle
q MISS aSfts; Abigail Linda" explained, "old
9Not so fasti Not so fast p said our
Uncle Hubert. 'You forget about the three
woTThs aThe thing is an outraged said my
father.
uIt has been an outrage for forty years,
si iohed nv mother. every time near tne
Story told-eyery time T.
NV father sat up very straight in his
otair suddenly and looked at our. Uncle
anhert fTaht It was with severity that he looked.
s.Hnmphr' he said. "Any decent lawyer
,,,oriS have found some way to break that
abnminable will the day it was probated
orr ITncle Huberts feeling didn't seem