Show BLACK ICE IN THE COUNTRY carrie careless goes from the city to ilenea her old jois BUT SOMEHOW IT THE SAME her hep city non beau was 11 y disappointing compared with watt tommie V N coss contrast that 1 in a nay day pr of the llie Daro piti no time like tho the ola old copa right IM by csmos W wo saw the crowd till half f a IA block ock away it was smiling jubilant jubil ani incited oil kit I 1 queried do you yon think it 11 can laban skating hurrah burrah hurrah hor rah dont believe that would canso such a commotion dearie more likely its ila a pretty plok pick print of the I 1 lurre bree graces to be ba riven given pway away with next sundays whirled answered kit who can make pointless re remarks marRs but billa 1 know knew better for I 1 im am versed in tho the ways of 0 men and I 1 dragged her conw onward yes tho bill ball was up A great flaming red disk and underneath tho the words at van Con cortlandt landt lako lake which meant skating irig at last and T avo wold iel go a of f courso course 1 I 1 would as soon as danco Everybody pv also elso who had alog a log to aland on bould go too I 1 could see that aliat quite plainly all except aba tat at old inon who appeared softly reminiscent as though 6 ov 4 k f 5 carrie ana on the old pond they were trying to remember how long ion lt it was since they had bad askale on and the abo city bred girls like kit but van Corti cortlandt andt laka laba that was riot not nice it is too near the tha tiresome town and the railroad runs to the shore share bringing the city mob no I 1 would go to long pond near the town where 1 I was born and I 1 would take regalo Ee geloVan van tho iery nicest man I 1 know with nio there the ice would bo be black and smooth and oear clear and there were the fallen logs loes and the winding turn t among the houll hemlocks where chero I 1 was so happy years ago now flow happy I 1 should bo be again among amone tho the same old mconeal of course I 1 coald forget that I 1 am a thoroughbred thorough brod now and the tha best fellow going goine tor for a few hours bours while reggio should make country love to me perhaps he would do it as aa roy my first little lover over did on that very pond when I 1 was 15 I 1 find and he was throe three years older that fat and freckled little lover lavor I 1 shall never forget him never ills taca face was round and I 1 bcd ed and ho he wore a blue knit cap pulled over his cars and forehead but I 1 thought him perfect as ho he knelt before me putting on oa my skates like a snub nosed cherub offering prayer then when abers he had knelt as long as we wa dared we would whirl and whirl and draw nearer as though guided by a r magnet agnet to one of the sheltered nooks among the hemlocks how flow fis flushed as bo be asked rue mo it I 1 would nt reg rest L a minute while le he tightened my skates and tommie trembled too trembled all over but not with cold for tit v eliere ere it is L asu to edl e LO love CC rn 68 f of hl his hands ads as behold hold iby iny foot beaw eon them so motives I 1 fillol pil lol my iny oil slid and to show ebow iny idy subject that he be might bit aft beside me ing 01 on ny my throne bot bat while ho he was up tile tho shriving ice ifould I 1 would alaway ll away and taunt him though I 1 was bitterly disappointed that he ba should not bave bare caught rue rua and given use uio the furill lye vo frightened little 1 dab upon michaelc mr chaek elc which by courtesy was called a iress later when the tha boys boya to light tile the pond and were ere absorbed in n watching it tommy grow brow bolder and skated with willi lili ilk arm around my mt aalst in the hemlock hollow as for the tha list last time lime ho he my runners ho he used to slammer sl st ammer ammor mat hay I 1 kiss you carrie and ho he looked so very handsome in ID the moonlight where hill freckles rac kloa show thail aloiys said yes at once was vas it ihnot not quite right were we not to 10 ua be married just as soon as he had gone to tollese TOl leee and studied law and earned oh ch I 1 would choose you yon this LUIS morning jB instead istead of reggie boggle if I 1 could bat reggie Is ringing Dr tho the bell now md and you are lost so go ho he shall lalta me as to our old hats bac nta nf A ah R reginald orn aid glad to ti seo gen you yon did tho Is gar flod fidd you jau at i YoL your reub club ive been waiting walling an hour or tuoro by the bra dreaming of or the wd hilll 11 have hav ethla this 1 wily way in tha country alone well go tc ecate to on A black ice like children antl do you on tay say 1 I say are you going to jo rut cul culah lh a s studio racket this afternoon and how d do 0 you expect a fellow to be ba enthusiastic when he just out of bed after a stag slag daumer but alono with you Is th o t to mike J 1 laugh laughingly bot gly land la in duty bound but bat that glauco glance which kich reggie tho the he li is the InI ceist of them all can give la in common with other men made mo me wish I 1 might walk away from him without smiling yot yet nothing could make me ino loio my afternoon so wo hurried to the station and caught our train wo dined at the country inn ina boca became tiit im in dj with my iny family at lour corners and then wo we trudged down the gaind sain old path from the schoolhouse to tile tho pond it wits was black with s skaters katers and it made ineido me laugh to see them how yes it changed ft a biej bit ibo boys bout beat hilair bodies at right bugles angles lo 10 their legs and add torn across tho the ic lan waving their arrus arms and taking about a foot fool long tile tho girls giggled ind slipped and said right thino for or benefit I 1 knew nono iloilo of them tho and thoy they refused to lo become br como A acquainted c quain ted ith ill a stuck up city thing so ao wo wn alone arid and spoke spuro to rono nolle all the afternoon poor reggie ho be could very well a and 1 tid t htiu lie boys laug luis lied and the iho girls made mocking remarks when ho be tripped and fell find and brought A t 1 Y 3 A 77 little Tim warm binnee jinnee me sown down beside him I 1 laughed too but lie to did not take it 1 l at all well I 1 think ha be bwarie softly under his breath hut bat we skated hack back and forth a long time lime and reggie was wai borod bored to death whon when ho he fastened my skates his hands chilled mo me through throng Is my I 1 hill boots lie ila wanted to tob bi back in town lie he could not help ahm he could find FlOth nothing lug to pay him for his bis trouble and so EO bo be causo cacao I 1 was not quite as delighted as 1 I had hoped to be among the other skaters kater and because his head ached and we wore were both chiliad through I 1 said I 1 would take him where ho he could bo be alone and rest awhile surely its the little nook whore where I 1 used to he be so happy I 1 would bo be elul quite to content again stoop low I 1 cried and hold held the hemlock boughs bo drha aside a and lot let them together tOi behind him um uin fairish fal rish he bald ai aid now were out of the sight of those puritan kids you must take drop of brandy with me carrie its so EO confoundedly cold and dhow ual io I 1 sure sura ditc 1 I im so rocky today to day la where we wore were to bo be alone did you bring me all these miles lor for this you little villain illi aln IV ils not in it with the conservatories conserva tories in town kliore wh its warin and a maddening w waltz altz Is outside where hore its easy to show how bow much a fellow cares but hero but hero here byre bure I 1 by th the only person who ever and aud I 1 was more moved than thad iiii since ji by jove javo ho he whistled iral about without the fizz and the music to all ah that Is it that la Is you dont oven even play at being N out your machinery all around ya yali A syba bk cant bee the beauty of this not nol one or of you its a al bore and you foel feel out of place aud and you dont know how to talk tali to a girl whon when she in a a ball or supper room 11 I 1 was shivering with cold and halt crying with disappointment oil oh why hd had I 1 come I 1 might have known that nothing would ever bo be tho the same 2 ai t it had been I 1 could no more ba carrie Care careless lebs of the old days than reggie nele could be as nice n ico out here bore with ills hla real nature as lin lie was in town where wo both belonged but h he w was intolerable A preat greit insufferable unbearable blind cadi confound it all carrie youre halt half frozen froen and im not used to lo this sort of thing lots RO go back to town and have supper dont you want a bottle of G n M I 1 spelt g to my toot feet my skate in shell ico ice and foil fell no I 1 sobbed bobbed 1 I dout dont want a bottlo of U G II if M but im going home borne this minute why you are as cold as a little seeberg iceberg let me dont touch al me e A dont on t aspea speak to me aln again to nighia v wen the cledice said reggie underneath der death neath illari CA milt CARMES 13 |