Show waw widow millie filled the stocking I 1 s by 7 wal 1 gaton 1 mila till I IN lived on a western firm and lm with the help of a honed mr 1 wona won a 91 m going inan man Cd MIM nobody eer tier beard hie big lad last came manssen to krow grow food good crop crops and maintain tb the appearance of thrift irive eori before tier her hubband butt hue Kind band wilton wilson ill amicy 7 bad tiled died aoi and tie bad been left alone to earn OB oe the work of the renall un jim macy wai was an attractive fount young woma ahme age would hare have been gues so ome where lo 10 tb the early thir henle lielL she was plump rood pod featured ind and fee gea brally liked la in the ty somehow ih she ewe to be called culled widow by ibe I 1 he neigh borgi who used the name ai as to 9 their kipel feelings feell ai as to distio rule I 1 her from other people bob b HAMMY and jl n walden were both ell eligible gible widowers wi duver and each owned a bor ati of good land adjoining widow land one on the north and acme on be the east earb each seemed 1 a trifle mile more ilion anxious to have hole go fight on 00 the widows and neither nag backward lo 10 the prof fer ter of advice or offer to help to do this properly required a call and neither was adein lo 10 callans on tile me ton tom moulton oulton ll was wn a 1 st timid both elor atlo 10 lo could blush belter better than he oe aoud talk in the lie presence of indies lie owned a food good rogeb and was one of the most thrifty farmers in tho the corn com lie ile was wits good I 1 ung king and very obliging he ile was ell liked but no 00 one believed that te to could ever e muster malle he the courage to prope carrl iee to by woman vernon ile afteu dipped slipped over to he the widow widows farci farm to see alke of conrite co urite tie Us gave save his farm adrice advice to mike sometimes be exchanged work with mike and on oil these occasion there crai was no an extra white cloth on the be bablo and the biscuit biscuits had aa to extra fla kInem tom liked the ite life the biscuits but lie be conid could cot tunk of a word to say when lie the conversation Lon visa as directed to him on the night before christman CIr Istman both blob and jim called and wid ow all millie ia lie pr weeded to entertain both h tn he the cirlor she manngen conversation and kept it trine going la in the general dire direction vilon while tiie fis vis igors fidgeted and ul mt each hoping that tie other wad trod aon leave millie was as sure that tom vas was in the lie kitchen she could hear bear the muted conversation of two iwo slow sPeLl ng men inen millie extended an imitation to 10 both her visitors to come over lie the nest dy dj and hare have chr dinner nith her tills this was the signal for both to leave after their departure millie smile went to the kit C it e n b but ut tom bid had gone and mike had retired but hinging oo 00 the kitchen wall just over the stove was a pair of ladles ellk bickings tic kings she looked at them tn in amazement they were not ben hen and how could they bare bale cotton gotten there going closer she observed a piece of nole cote paper protruding from one of them she lie pulled polled it out hastily and excitedly read widow millie le I 1 bare have hung bun these stockings up here for you I 1 ont you IOU to oil them and wear aca them tomorrow I 1 have hung hun up a pair for amil at of home I 1 will wl oil hero them and welt ekr them over here her tomorrow noon ti ej Dr eacher and nn bis big wife will be with me I 1 flied up u ivery everything thIng cle cite nt at lie cow cluI Mouse houe ibis afternoon I 1 can farra farm bette better it I 1 do not hare have to cook lou IOU w 01 a 0 cook took better etter isyou do oot not hare have I 1 tom farm this Is 1 in honest olter fr fw W it bould be bird to describe the thoughts thai that ruid through mil 1111 iles mind airest A fint ills he visa at indig nano bhe rented 11 II a As an imperil linver tl nence K D had bli his nerve the she aid said almos saud a dt addeo zen times at she emited smiled when die she thought ti at nerve no nattlie tile very cry ling lint flint lorn loin wae was silon sed not lot to have she ile liked TOM and if it he had eduse out nilly and proposed in the al t nay she he dil dd not 00 know stint die the would bave bare done she took op up the note again but she iti could only the laet last line fee see 1111 ie is na an bone it offer from tom 0 it alth its it tier and implicitly ile ts is honest she to 0 o hertel t she resol resolve veil first gald one a thing ts another hut but came rame back to that 1118 laet line the offer the ie line iron won when tom lie tile preacher and tits fits wife 1 arr arald ld widow millie flat the stor kinge filled and dinner was mil well under tny way tb rh minister wife fe finished IL it boh a aad hjal rt were ero ID in time for iha ID r ind and of oar MP they for their christ anis M dinner on 11 |