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Show THE GIRL WHO KISSED ALL OF THEM. M If was of a Sunday afternoon. Place, the H big waiting room of tho Short Lino station. HH First, half a dozen young persons came in some boys, but mostly girls. Then another group H with liko fair preponderance; and again another ' H cluster, with tho boys in tho minority. Evident- H ly onp young man and one young woman wore H going away. It lookod liko a nowly-wed affair. They stood around thero in tho central open H space of tho big depot, very happy, very vivacl- fl ous, very true to tho nature Qf tho human youth M and past all description attractive and boauti- M H Prosontly tho Man in Gray callod their train, H and thoro was a stir beyond common in tho H clan. Ono of tho girls who wore not going away fl pounced on the girl who was going away, and M kissed her. Then another girl won a sisterly M kiss. Tho men gathered the suit cases, but there H was something impelling in these kisses, and H tho first thing that kissoo know sho was going H right along tho lino of waiting, loving, mourn- H ing girls, kissing each. And then sho ran across H a boy. But tho spur of youth, tho oxoitatlon of H impulse, tho wine of friendly association-rail H drovo her forward, and sho kissed him, and M passed on to the next succeeding girls. For it H had bocomo a ring by that tiino, and tho 3pirit H of frolic had possessed all of them. A littlo farther down tho lino sho came to H another boy, and kissod himthis time without I an instant's hesitation, and caught tho next girl I fairly. And if that boy didn't step out of tho M lino, pass behind her and tako his place among tho unkissod, I am a Turk I Sho kissod him I again being too far gono in tho grooting to draw back when sho realized how ho was repealing. H Bui in the shout of laughter that wolcomod tho H play sho hurried on to tho noxt girl, and tho M noxt and th6ro, suro as sumnTor, was that same H young man again. Ho knew tho value of mo- H montum,.and leaned toward her as she came H from her last caress on girlish lips, and almost H 'fiftnquered. H But shq flashed a look of keen detection, H flaslicd a sm'ilo' of rOgifish recognition, spatted at H diim .to the accompaniment Qf a general peal of flH laughter, and kissed tho othdr girls. WM t Well, they can't beat that. Youth and health H and lifelong friendliness, tho moment's impulse M '(hat excuses the instant's broach of convention H and the dnstant retreat at even an innocent H ,pgl to- take dies one step farther. H u The ginHgn't any the worso for having Kissed H ih.ojib.oydi.tvAnd the boys -don't think a whit less H jOf her. And they, all love her better because of H -tho red- b)ood in her veins, the warm heart in H -hortbody; and the quick littlo sense that tells her HH where to draw the line. |