Show FICTION AGGIE CORNER By Richard H. Wilkinson north woods told me this happened shortly after gold was discovered up near he wasn't much of a A sprung up and they r I named it after 3 Fiction J buildings were erected the settlers decided they ought to have a school and they sent down to Ottawa for Miss Agnes Sheldon volunteered and I was delegated to meet her at the station in Twin It was a six-day canoe the only practical means of summer look at Miss Agnes Sheldon when she stepped from that train and I smelled She wasn't but her features bore a mature She wore a severe black cotton laced I Introduced myself she looked at me as though I were some new kind of That made me mad at the I scouted around the town and borrowed some apparel for her to wear that waa suitable for offered them to her and she glared at me as though I'd called her a bad In no uncertain terms she assured me she was capable of choosing her own I was sort of My cin-science was clear and I felt that the In no uncertain terms Agnes Sheldon told him she was capable of choosing her own trip would teach her a much needed I endeavor to prevail upon her to rub some mosquito lotion on her skin before we She she going to smear herself up like a mosquitoes were pretty bad that Before noon of the first day Miss Sheldon was bitten so badly it hurt me to look at I offered her the lotion again and she refused I could see then that she was morning after the first night I crawled out of my tent at dawn and found that Miss Sheldon was up ahead of She was down at the bathing her By the looks of her she'd slept in remainder of that trip was something to write home With each passing mile Miss Sheldon got more uncomfortable and more And though 1 pitied got pretty stubborn I decided not to offer her the lotion again until she asked for I was sure that sooner or later she'd break down and admit But she had a pretty tough time in the Little Falls rapids because the river was high that We shipped a lot of water and Miss Sheldon got drenched through to the That night It rained and she slept in wet The next day she broke her and because of near sightedness was always tripping over reached Leland shortly after noon of the sixth day and there was quite a delegation down to meet Jim was beaming B welcome and ready to make a But at sight of Miss Sheldon the beam died on his I here's Miss Agnes our new school She aims to bring a bit of civilization Into our and I reckon she's done if Miss Sheldon me she despised me after that But I'm danged if 1 could help This was my first experience with a female and I tell you I was Any who'd let mosquitoes bite the tar out of her like deserved to be told what was thought of Leland's wife fetched her up to their cabin and put her to She stayed there for almost two sunburn and wet clothes had danged near ruined after I'd cooled off I felt kind of apologetic and decided the best thing I could was to get out of town for a But I sir I stuck there and faced my medic m v There's nothing like being married to a wife who's got a mind of her own they |