Show HOW NELL AND I MADE UP k Nell and I are chums We never quarreled but once in our lives and then it was all her fault Im I'm very patient and can stand most anything from Nell but when she got angry and told me Id I'd be beautiful ful if it were not for my looks and very interesting if my brain was wasas wasas as large as my tongue I just boiled over I unbridled my tongue and told her some things that made her eyes snap like fire and her face so red that I have since wondered if there was not something of a ablaze ablaze j blaze inside I cant can't remember all I said but I ended by telling her that I could forgive her as I considered whom it came from and that nobody need expect much from a girl whose hair was so red she didn't 1 dare to go near a haystack for fear of setting it on fire Then I walked F away with as much self possession as Socrates had when he took the cup of hemlock henlock After I had gone one I grew more angry and walked faster and faster r until I was nearly on the run and I really believe if home had been 1 half a mile farther away I should have been going as rapidly as an ordinary race horse on trial heat Nell and I never spoke for a month we wouldn't even meet each other It was no easy matter though to keep from passing on the street or coming face to face somewhere We managed it beautifully If I happened to catch a glimpse of her red hair I turned the next corner or went into o a shop until she had passed by if she saw me she went around a block and sometimes I amused myself by standing at atour atour our gate as she had to pass our house to reach home horne and making her j walk two blocks farther After about a month there was a painful mistake which brought us face to face and softened our hearts a little bit I was as going up uptown i town and chancing to look some distance ahead I saw Nell staring straight at me I whirled about and strode strode around the block I suppose suppose suppose sup sup- pose she did too for just as I had got about half way around with my head bent forward and my eyes fixed on the ground I knocked against something It was Nell We looked at each other for a moment then I saw something interesting on the top of the mountains and she began studying the style of architecture of a building near by With our heads still in the air we swept past like two small hurricanes I went home tired of such things A fine state of affairs Two young ladies couldn't treat each other respectfully on the street It was her fault though and she ought to come and apologize I knew she I hate quarrels they make one unhappy Ever since Nell and I fell out I had been havin having a little insurrection in my mind ft i as severe as ever Brutus had I thought all things over and finally concluded that a reconciliation would be expedient and that I being larger should concede I took off my best clothing dressing very plainly for I want z t tN N Nell ell to think I had come to show my new hat and went forth to seek peace in the spirit of peace I walked past Nells Nell's home twice and not nota a thing was stirring only I fancied she stood behind the curtains sneering I went around two or three squares and passed her house housew I w again but there wasn't a person in sight and I didn't have courage to togo togo g go in so I went home I sat down by the front window and began bega r reading the Bible I I had just finished If If thine enemy smite thee on en one cheek turn the other when I looked out the window and saw Nell sauntering by our gate I went to the door but she had passed by I began rum aging in the library while putting away my Bible and the first thing I found was a novel Nell had lent me two months 4 before With the book under my arm I went out to wait until she l came back for I felt sure she would To pass time away I began digging in the garden and hadn't been at work many minutes when along came my quarrelsome friend I stepped to the gate and held out the book b I have finished the story Nellie and like it very much And then I hurried on Say Nell I dont don't like this quarreling it makes too much walking Lets Let's be friends N Nell ell was willing and we talked it all over settling all troubles happily When she went home she carried a little bunch of pansies Weve We've never quarrelled since its it's too much trouble Nell says Im I'm the wittiest girl she ever saw Baw and Nells Nell's hair isn't red now now its its it's auburn D. D f |