Show d I J I f t The L Th That I hat i C 5 u Y LILLIAN TRUE BRYANT M RR maam m mornin Yes Yea lyl step rIght In Gue Guess a Ill 11 stop and ana an wipe my feet e t for tor the re kind of ot muddy and Im afraid 1 Ill up the house hou My Iy wife wire Mary Bays ay ys a man roan ought oll hl to think of those thos moren morn h ha 1 dues s sKIn In aa as how howg g hes C so r about the Oi of I his hla dumb lumb But flut land Its easy sy to toI forget org t I Doctor b be hor hore in a minute All Ail Allright right Ill IU jest set SOt down by the winder and nd jt All Ah hire here he is I now flOW no HOW i do dODD tor how do 9 J 1 IV Ive FYs como coma jet j jOUa as I you GU OUa said safe I would and It if youve got the time tima ra 16 i like to talk over a e few things An hour bour if It I like Im real glad Slad for I kind of or o want to get used to bein here h re a minute afore I begin The doctor led the way ay into the eon con suiting room and shut the tit door at the I same time motioning the man into one ne neof of at the chairs that stood lw at the thC right rl ht of o the tle operating table He HeT T seated himself elf nervously upon the ex extreme extreme extrema trema edge of the chair turning as far faras faras faras as poe from the surgical apparatus and twirled his faded fad hut hat in his rest restless restless I less leas fingers His Ills anxious lois eyes followed the doctors figure as IUS he stooped to lower the th sarti and aDd let in the sweet June airs air AI before seating himself and the sunshine fell feU with a 8 pitying touch on the mans gray hair and haggard face tace Laying Lt ln one Oil hand on the doctors knee he h leaned forward tor ward and scanned his face race hungrily as It if compelling strength and clearer vision from the theman theman man before him hini i Weve talked 1 it all oer Mary and andt I 1 t he said laid with childlike simplicity There ant no use UBe In keeping keepin it from i her and I T ha have ye e if Id tried for there been a thin thing sence we was I married but that weve planned over oer I together She aint seemed to mind it I copt for tor and I about me but then women like my I wife Mary Iary dont allers show what they feel teel But I had to come to you today A womans woman sot get her mother and her folks to lean on in II i times time like these thee but buta a man stands alone with his doctor and nd his tt Yr Y sure sur that ether does the business And she he wont know tf i U A d yete re got the i ight t j r toOt tool to work with God but butyer yer cuttino cuttin my m heart out to think of ot it Ive been eu to sense it all aU aUthe the way over ovet here from the farm but all I could think of was the pinky look hook of the alders and the big soft latches of or shadow on o the mountain sides and it H seemed as u if it tw re forty year ao ft O when Mary Mry and I 1 OMIt fleet begun to take lake notice of ot things together r I want a great hand to observe much about the country whether there then was a good hay crop on or whether J w were ere likely to turn out nut well But nut after atter A I got to about Mary fary somehow she shi he se seem Beem m to belong bJon to those tho things and the colors in the woods be began began began gan to perk up U and tell me inc Id rd better bf bt notice of o them And th thAn n when wed go to prayer PrYer to together together gether after we was keepin kee ln company shed say Oh Rael Rd jest look at that and that and that flower r till tm I r had to get out of or the team and amI get it for tor her And before long Ions I was wu itkin them too though thou h I T have haYe said so furs I know But It seemed a pert part of her bel I 1 lived on the hill bill and she lived down below Io m in i the valley valle Same old oldred oldred red rfd house that were livin in now only tw spruced up then with new De paint I L and Some folks folka would have thought terrible lonely up there thereso so near neat to the woods and without a neighbor in sight but Mary Iary ary want that kind Shed look off oft down dOn the valley yaney at the knot of ot lakes lak at the right and tho the river shinin like cornsilk and the town that glistened in m the sun like white pebbles and then ort oft at af the blue mountains She alters allers wild Mid they were the words of ot God standI stand In there sol solemn solOmn and n and to toe tofit see fit e It if we made the right use Ulle of at the world hed put us UI in One night I went don donn to swap with Marys father and that when wb n I first tn to take notice notie She he was settin in the doorway out yarn for tar a cardboard motto 30 ao oi oise I 1 Iset set se Re there too for a while till it begun un I to be dark enough to light UP un inside the house houst and then after that I kept goin oln She looked jest like Uke a Ii flower I Mary Mar did didone one of ot those pale ale little ones one onet that hat t you find in some teeny ferny fern spot in hi the woods wood and she mo morn generally generaU had ad a ribbon on or op that made me think of or blossoms I brought her one I one night and ami she Jibe said wild Thank you youna Rael na I jest as Ha ladylike and then I knew thet I 1 wanted to seep keep tight right on things thine for tor her though I tell her so eo soWe eoSe We Se used need to take walks wa lka together i alona Alon In hi the early erty evenin Thor There was tu a brook that crowed the road ma a olf H down flem 1101 and wed stand standon on that bridge and watch the water rattle down over the stones tone and nd slip UP f oft off through the fields field and anil I used ue to s I Ia say a Now Mary Mury what do you want most And shed say KY Oh Ob a melodeon Rael Reel RaelAnd ReelAnd And Id say y jest as a A what I 1 want went That was the difference between bet us ua usand usand and yet there want no one that under understood stood Mary ar as well as I did Shed Shad read reed out of ot the weekly paper sometimes and Id set and whittle and look at her and then wed discuss We e ewaa was waa great groat on dl that year cud and I used to carry her over to the school schoolhouse schoolhouse hool house to h hr her r em so ip it at lyceum lyceums One night they was di hether nether Lm 1 t olp or Washington Va was a the greater f man map and I got tired of o it for tor or Id 14 heard he Id that same anne discussion elon before so JO I t got up and anti says say been talked about long Ions lon enough I 1 think There probably been maren moren half haJt as u much mu h to t them thom as thorp was wan if It it been for tor their folks behind them Then I sat at dow down n and anti they began begun to laugh and snigger and the thought ht come to me that they thought I 1 waa isas w a shinin up to lo Mary It struck me alt all oC of oCa ofa a heap and I looked over and there she sat lookin down into her lap with the color up into her face jest like Uke a white whito apple blossom with a little stain of ot pink In It IL I Iwas was terrible cut cutup et up find end when whan I put her It into the sleigh and we started homo home I J nt say all saya a word We e jangled along the road there want no one on n near ar us and It wets J all aU white and still sUII and finally we come cometo cometo to the top of t the hill hUl Somehow we ve could get set a free roe breath up there I looked off art at the fields and the woods like JUte dark patches below us in the moon moonlight moonlight light and I felt pretty bad Mary was a little but by and m 1 by she stopped and then them I put my hand band over oer hers hen and I says layS Was Wan yet yer terrible ashamed of or me Mary And site she 0 lashed flashed right out quick Hk JU hii No I 1 want Raol Rani Tt U kind of ot surprised mo me she was waB allers aliers so IiO o quiet and kind of ot gentle but butI I got pt ot my breath again and nud I l a s slow slowly slowly ly Would ye it be a of at me m for Cor forO o u hu Mary M She never said a word and andl I 1 set et there my heart und cud the bells belle and then than she jest slipped sUpped her hand into mine and antI I knew it was W all aU right We Ve man married led till un June I had to set get et reedy ready g did she She allers 4 Mt I 0 i 1 t C Ii i i t i e i iy L il 11 Y I i We Wc Used to Take Tale Walks Together in the Early Eaily Evening ing had ideas Itle of ot propriety did Mary I Iwas Iwas was IRS a and ani the old oldhouse oldhouse oldhouse house up and lud she was though Id loved her jest as well veil if it she hadn t brought with Avith her hei I was on havin a ho and then be such hard work vork and andI I could have more time to home but butone butone butone one day as I was as around a aman aman aman man come along and he says Want to buy a melodeon l lAnd And I says ys I 1 dunno how much be bethey bethe bethey they theAnd the And he says Ill lJJ set sot one right up and wonder Bonder how yer YOI over ever got sot along without it and it shant cost yer er much either Wall I knew twant no use to think of ot the after that so about a week from that time I 1 over to Marys and I 1 says Ive some thin to I show yer Mary So she came alongside of me ne sing in a little song and am out every ever o flower and fern Cern on the way wa and I her Into the house and then she saw that She jest jet put her arms around it a minute and then thon run right at me and alid hid her face on my shoulder and alt all she says was Oh Rael Ruel and I could feel her She never nevor know about the Aint been I could get set that I aint tried to give gie her Yell Well June come and nd w had a real pretty pr ty Plenty Plent of ot lowers flowers and the neighbors come and had 1 a good time Had some too toe Blest Be the Tie that Binds and Come Ye that Love the Lord Mary liked things s done in style though I sense but her shinin eyes and the white dress dr si And then when it was all ail over and the folks had gone I 1 hitched up and we drove home through the twilight The sky was vas all pale and the stars were out and the frogs fro down in the tho marshes wore and we say a 0 word till we I reached home I stopped the horse at atthe atthe the door our door and when I see tee her there so like a lily so MJ trustful and white a great lump ump come up In my tin oat to think of Or her bet to a Jump lump of clay like Jike me And I held her close clode as I lifted her down and then come over me nui and I s says sas Honey air yer sure yer or aint goin gom to tobe tobe tobe be ashamed of yer er husband And ud she looked right up at me with her great eyes so and saye says I aint goin gem to be ashamed of my m hus hue husband husband band Rae Rael RaelAnd And I says MYS Please God yer never shall nall Then we went in and shut the thedOOr doer dOOr Two years went by and Mary was wasi wasU U i happy as a lark the hou e fixed up and the posies pastes and out to bring me a doughnut or ora ora ora a dab of o dough and to be sure the bread was riz na jest to me likin on oil the melodeon and comin out to set with me under the big elm tree In the corner of ot the yard and and emilin all day But by and by she be begun begun begun gun to get et quieter and shed look at me mo meso meso so 10 out of her great eyes and then wed set tiet and talk and look toward the mountains that stood be before before fore for us like the words of God and the theold theold theold old tree would wave its arms arm over us like hike It was blessin us I was husband and mother both those thoN days and I r Iu u say buy This is the way the tho Lord meant it Mary and its all aU right The new ew book of or motherhood shone deeper and aud audd deeper d per in 10 her eyes eYt and then one day duy in the fall fad I said saltI honey the doctor says as how hov ho hed like Uke to come up u here for Cor a day or two if It be convenient to have him round He wants to go gunnin with me up IP on the mountain and as theres plenty pleat of good food cooked up and anti theres there some seine one to stay with you ou I told him him right off orr to come She hid her hel face fRee on my shoulder antI ami said Mid Oh Ob Rael Hael jest as ah she did over the melodeon and I never let on that I Id lid been toward 20 nil all the J to make him want ant to o come comeje je jest t at this time But Bul somehow W she You dont need to tell a woman everything they th know U the tell In We e named the baby pence Peace we e was wasso w wasso s so glad Iad to have her here Seems If Mary be happy happ enough those days baby bab this and antI bH b beDy y that all the time Who ho she was om tin tinto jn to look like Uke and how her eyebrows was Aas comiti and how she ahe was to put hec het he thumb into her mouth and there thore was so 80 much baby and so o little me mt that I begun to feel teel kind of t f out Twant sensible L I 1 know and I have havo had Mary know it for tor anything Was Vas too shamed of or it my great grant thing like Uko me to sPOil sp il Marys happiness with her bet baby bab I thanked the Lord Lara after afterward afterward afterward ward that th t I say But you see sec Mary herself had bad idlers ahlem been my baby and now she hc sem se m to care about it lint But one night I 1 Irae wag rae WK s tUn in Iii tho the doorway Off cit at the holds Held and she bhe come conie of or her hel own and says Rael Raci I want wa 10 io come homo home And she put hor her heal down in the old way on my slid then thon I knew she want changed a amite mite lotto and I thought what an old fool tool I Id be ben n a moan ungrateful erector But B t Mary was of or all nil this and want I glad She have thought much of at me If It size SIC had atoe mt out because I the only i one that was wa beta bain made mada of The baby stayed with us us till May and I guess w l wont say SU more rn ro re about that Ther Thre come como a day when I had fInd to taO faca that thai I do for Mary that we 0 was wa jest jost children In tho the hands han I of ottie Lord and ana I could only stand by b bIntI end and help belt her beat bear it I 1 take g 1 J it away aay sames I had hud overy every other othar trou trouble trouble trouble ble I went to the minister and I says SD s The buryin ground is on one mile away and I J aint g in to have havo Mary her baby way aft there thorO and and off oft there th ro when tho the snows come conic Im if It yer think the Lords to have havo one of our own right close c to the house hoube undu und r the old elm lm Wh we set and IUd planned together afore the baby come coins And tho the minister says The earth oarth is the th Lords and anti the fullness Qs thereof and wherever yet yer er place a n human bela with witha a prayer above it that spot is sa 50 sacred cred So we laid the baby away under the elm olm Mary Mury know hll about Out it because she was In a high fever and i settee sence but hir It r folks was I scandalized to see me makin a 8 flower I garden out of tho tim grave rave But 1 I 11 knew Mary better than they the did and I when I e stand it to watch her any longer Id 14 go out there and putter around One day dRY she opened her eyes and I 1 si e shed come back and she says yer taken my baby Rael Rae And I i says Jest where yer can see her and anti mother her ner honey and look out that all aU right She was slow in gettin well and I used to carry carr her out into the sunshine and shed set under the old elm and look at the flowers fi Id built a seat there and there was some rose bushes and some lIttle tittle soft blossoms bloss ms and the grass graas was trimmed and green Shed Silt set and look and look 1001 and one day she says SIlS We Ve will have some flowers that will grow glOW for a long Jong time and a 8 fence and by and by this will willbe willbe VII be our little home together Lord but you dont spose its comin comm now do dojer doer doyer jer yer er jerMary Mary was alters allers fond of or children and was Awas tillers allers doin doln things for tor them but when the spring days come she sIte never neer seemed to care about any thin with Ith me rue And shed say it was because she |