Show NEW YEARS YEAR'S RECONCILIATION 1 tR h BLANCHE f TANNER t DILLIN 4 rf F ys ROOT and Mattie ADD I had always been fri friends until Miss Mattie claimed Miss Addles Addle's dog chased her cat and tore up her flowers The fence was built and the bounda- bounda boundary boundary ry line of the two places ran so close to Miss Addles Addle's gooseberry bush that some of the branches of 0 the bush hung over the fence The bush belongEd to Miss Addle but thet the t i L v tv t The Jar Had Held field Candled Ginger in Miss 1 Addles Addle's Childhood fruit Miss Matties Mattie's sIde of the fence Miss Mattie claimed So Miss Addle Addie picked the fruit on her side of the fence and Miss Mattie Mattle that on hers Last summer being sure that Miss Mattie was away from home Miss Addle Addie went in through the rear gate and picked the fruit on Miss Matties Mattie's side of the fence The jam in the jar before her which she sheI I had tak taken n down from the shell shelf for her er supper that cold New Years Year's eve was from that fruit The jar had held candled candied ginger in Miss Ad- Ad Addie's Addie's dies die's childhood and she recalled how she and little Mattie Mattle had eaten the ginger from it She recalled tha that t she and Mattie had picked goose goose- gooseberries gooseberries berries from a bush which which grew near the thc place where the bush bus h which had caused so much trouble e now grew She recalled the man many y happy times she and Miss Mattie e had spent together the times when n Miss bliss Mattie had been a real friend frien d in need had helped to ease some hur or lighten some sorrow What Wha t a pity It seemed that such friend friend- friendship friendship ship should ever be broken Miss Addles Addle's dog had been given away long ago and Miss l Matties Mattie's cat had ha d wandered awa away from home an annever and d never never returned With the two original original nal causes of the trouble gone wasn't it too bad for time one friends to remain enemies Wouldn't It be better to turn over o a anew anew new leaf this New bears bear's ears ear's day and andren ren renew w their friendship It seemed so to Miss Addle and she resolved not to waste another minute but do it right away So with a ajar jar of jam in her hand band and love in her heart she went to wish Miss Mattie Mattic a happy New Year ie Western Newspaper Union |