| Show if 44 ni SUPPER 1 sk 7 1 CHASE MAW supper at the old red farm house where farmer peter wheeler Vb eeler and hie his wife had lived for a score 0 of years bad had been over tor for half halt an hour the grai haired bust husband and eat sat smoking bis his pipe under the cherry tree at the comer corner of the house when aunt jane ble his wife camo came out to take a seat meat on the homo home made bench beside him look a here ma said uncle peter aa as ho he looked out across the garden ive been wondering the matter with kate she been tall like herself for tho the past month manth kate was their 18 year old daughter a and nd there were plenty of people who called her the belle of ingham township she got cold and had a baah break out on her you know was the reply but theres bothin to be over I 1 think these hot days make her eort sort 0 al stupid too 11 its the first ive heard about a r rash ash kate aint no baby to be hevin rashes I 1 tell ye ma that gals got sunt buntlin lin on her mind idohl pooh I 1 wall I 1 believe it she used to be ingin and whistling whist lin and cuttin up from morn till night and now sties as dumpy as a sick lamb yes sir air sun thina thins worrying wor her and I 1 im m jest coln to find out what bat it Is you are lest gogul to let lot things alone and not go around said aunt aun t J jane 2 n C then tell me the matter matte r I 1 was chinkin th inkin today to day that joe KI kidder adder been over here tor for for why ma it must be a month since he was here has ehe she and joe had a spat all lovers have spats youn me get mad a dozen imes over it joe kidder wants to say away no ones coln to lasso and ancl drag him over here 1 I was down in the back field today to day where be he was and I 1 thought h he 0 was party grumpy it if id known what I 1 do know id told him what waa was what hes lies a good nutt feller and w would probably make kate a good husband but he be growling ln around like a soreheaded sore beaded bear ill make it my ba business siness to 1 I 1 to attend to your business pa and that Is to keep still and cay say euthin to nobody but me when a gale gals mother dont know how to carry her through a little spat with her lover no one else need try I 1 forbid rou you to eay say one word to any livin soul but im her father prot protested protes estel tej uncle pete his pipe around until the tobacco fell out and just the reason you f ck but im her fa eatherl fat heri therl protested uncle perry should keep quiet what was wa joe doin down in the back bac lot Dig diggin gla post holes for a board fence feuce near oar our line right clus aclus to IV lu kad on our side aide of the line fence theres a row of raspberry bushes aint there yes ma and by tomorrow to morrow I 1 can pick pich a quart or more of berrian tor for aupper ill take a dish tomorrow to morrow afternoon and you wont go within half a mile of tho the spot spott exclaimed aunt jane as an she vigorously trotted her foot you jest leave them raspberries to me or you get no supper tall it seems to u VIS a va V C 14 VS 6 it POL 74 f a each wa was dying to make up me that the older a man grows the less sense he has in bis his head next day as ascertained by aunt jane from an upper window joe kid der dug post holes by the raspberry patch aunt jane observed that he be was not making the alt fly to any appalling extent but he worked like a man whose whoso thoughts were elsewhere and he be took a rest every few minutes to glance at the old red bouse house at 3 in the afternoon a ehe ke went down stairs and said to the t he daughter who eat sat on the front piazza with a book upside down in her band hand adte I 1 want you to go down along the pasture fence to the be crook and gather raspberries for supper pa says there are heaps nt of them down there take that two quart tin basin I 1 bought the other day the girl started off her tier mother looking after her saw how bow little ambition she had bad and chuckled to herself come back walking on your heels miss lady or im m no prophet ind I 1 onaca if be tour four ot of us to supper instead ot of three to give miss kate due credit she he dij did not know that joe kidder was at vork there so she bad no part to play she wandered along in an aim ase way she ret bed the raspberry bushes and then she began gathering the luscious clous fruat she had been at work ten minutes when joe straightening up to rest bli his beck back detected her presence ills heart gave a jump and a sudden suddon weakness took him in the knees ills first idea was wait to rush to the fence and address her but he suddenly remembered that she had been aggressively independent and that he owed something to his dignity two minutes later she had dincov discovered cred him win her ifer first thought waa was to walk away but she did not propose to let joe kidder think she was afraid to face him therefore she began to hum a tune as the berries fell into the dash it ft was an awkward embarrassing situation Itu atlon for both each was dying to make up but just bow to begin proceedings wae was the puzzle A poor innocent rabbit solved the difficulty he was bidden under the raspberry bushes and when mies miss kate got too close to him he bolted the carusd tho girl to scream out joe aisted to ue tte fence what Is it 11 kate what Is to itt it she pointed tc to the rabbit loping j f rc oss the clover elover ald abd ZOO aft tz wo UP tinned united f III K knor but what it was a baele ann n I 1 bw one on this aide side yesterday erday nd and he fie mounted the rail ralls but as be reached tha top be paused dignity require something of him he going ahead too last fast I 1 don t think thre there are any snake snakes acre here reinfried ked kate with her back to him but I 1 sh 3 waited there und jve waited and by and by a happy inspiration came to him but I 1 might help vou pick raap rasp berries tor supper ye yee yes 1 an hour later aunt jane saw a happy pair of lovera lovers approaching her ba min 1 of berries borne aloft and ae as abo she looked froin them to uncle pete working tn in the garden ehe he eald said the idea of pa blin self up tip in a lovers quarrel hed havo have separated them forever when bo h finds joe over hero here and kitte emills and and that big diet 0 f rasp berries 1 wall it v a aoe thing tor for pa wheeler that hes but me to look after him |
