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Show Roan Mare Told Secret I I Ml II.MII , I. I ! I , I W - . I. ! I .1 1 -. . Tho wlso old farmer and bis good wife wiro discussing tho caso of their -ldost son. Tho eldest son bad been absenting himself from the family circle on Wednesday and Sunday t-inlngn with suspicious rrgulsrlty now these many weol.s. Not only that, but on thoso evenings he donned the ury finest of hla clothes. Father remembered re-membered that In tho courting ell-quilto ell-quilto of bis youth Wednesday evening even-ing calls wero considered by tho girl's parents to mean business: also that ats)liiK to Sundsy night supper was equivalent to publishing tho bans. Mother looked troubled. Sho confessed con-fessed sho would llko to know who tho girl was "I do hopo sho knows something about housekeeping and Isn't a girl who Is ala)s guddlng about," sho said wistfully, with an anxlops look on her usually placid brow. "Why don't you ask him?' said father, with a twlnklo In his oye. "Ask hlml How would you have liked to be asked horo you woro going go-ing whoa you " Mother btusked and father looked contrite. "Then ask tho roan mare," he suggested. sug-gested. "What that roan maro doci uot know about tho business Isn't worth knot Ins; You have Hiram hitch her up to-morrow and give nor her htad, and she'll soon show you )oul futuro daughtoMnIa, Mother adopted father's auggentlon the next day, and auro enough, th roaa maro trotted off iu a ay so pur poseful It was almost human She turned wither to the right nor to ith left until she had como to tho end ol hir accustomod route Then she luiltfd, and turned to look round Into the buggy Inquiringly, The pucker disappeared from mother's moth-er's brow, and sho beamed upon ths roan mar i! as If It bad been all het doing, for this was tho one girl out of tbn wbolo township whom ahe would haio selected herself If sho had been consulted Now York I'ress. |
