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Show SORRY HE 3AW HER FIRST. Game of Hlda-and-Saok at a House Party and Ita Sad Ending. It was not so very long ago that a jolly party of young men and women from the capital went on a week-and visit to Miss Daih, whoso father has a country houso not a day's Journey away, says the Washington Post It was not the sort of houso party you read about In "smnrt" novels. Tboy didn't play bridge nor hunt; they romped llko a lot of children. Mr. and Mrs. Dash woro away ono evening and If tho houso had not been very solidly built It would havo been torn down. Nobody over heard such rollicking rol-licking laughter, such mad scamper-lngs scamper-lngs as went on. Somebody suggest od hldo and seek. Thp young pooplo hid In tho nttack and the cellnr and In every possible, placo between A normally sedate young man was the seeker. Ho galloped ahem' madly shouting nnd searching. Ho opened every door ho saw and In ono room his keen oyes espied somebody trying to hldo In a bed. Ho pounced forward and seized tho flguro. "Oet out of that!' ho cried. "I've got you. You can't hldo from me." Wild shrieks and tho noise of combat com-bat rent tho nlr. Furious levecttve and stnmmercd expostulation brought tho rest of tho party In no time at all. Tho usually scdato young man had found the cook and nothing ho could say had any weight with her. Sh camo of fighting slock. She blacked his cyo nnd well, that's why the Dash country houso Is now minus a cook. |