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Show denly become changed in hue. I did not attend the party Friday evening for the simple leason it was not a leap year ball, and my girl had become estranged from me on account of Dave Feft waltz ing with her too often to pleaee me. No wonder Atwood can boast of acquaintance acquaint-ance with pretty girls from Manti to Richfield be is a divine dincer and always engaged ahead, as S.aruh Richie remarked when he refuped her three times. Talk about painting, My! did you notice the co?m?tic on ths 'eadig musician's eye la.h? Steve attracted our attention to it bv winking at tfce little girl in crepe de- ehine with chiffon chif-fon rnfHes. That dnde from the north end of the Salina pole forgot his presence pres-ence in civilization and kicked his foot so high it was caught in the plait of a ladies' circular bell skirt and he circled around the corner with one of his eyes sticking to the end of his nose. Say I'm awfully smitten and Orson says he is going to marry the girl I adore. Another Anoth-er plausible excuse for suicidal intent. You wonld have died laughing if you Joshua on the Subject. Manti March, 11, 1892. Dear Helen Your gossipy letter was misdirected and fell into the hands of one of yonr admirers, and it was a calm to my troubled meditation. Eor three solid hours I had mentally executed all the antics that the fiend, madness, could suggest, and all for what? simply because be-cause I was crank enough to permit myself to be detained in abarbei's chair long after the dinner hour, and Mrs, Barton's delicious roast duck, chicken salad and all the accessaries that codfi;-tute codfi;-tute country Delmonico reDa t, h been consumed by hungry railroad ofli cials. Tinges, the gormandizer, had bribed Sperry with a promise of a mug of beer and a doughnut to keep me listening lis-tening to his (Sperry's)narratiou of his trip across the desert. I was unconsciously uncon-sciously arawn in to the trap, through ignorance of their motive and the result was 1 had to go hnngry. Tinges is awful ly seltish, anyway, for he won't even let any one dance with his girl, i called one evening to pay my respects to the lady in question. We played freezeout until 10 o'clock and then Tinges tired me ont of the hou?e with a pinless clothes line. 0! my, there are innumerable innum-erable pretty girls in Manti, and LeBoy thought he was in second heaven when he started to the Salina party with three young ladies. What a responsibility that would have been for one less courageous. cour-ageous. He has the happy faculty of proving himself equal to any task, jnst as Bradford did when he emerged from unconnscionsness and found the external exter-nal walls of his facial anatomy had sud- |