Show Bor borrowing borrowing rowin 9 ranny tice started borrowing the day he got home from his wedding trip and was too indolent to unpack the box ot of tools to get the hatchet to chop kindling wood so BO that this young wife could cook supper ile he went over next door and picked up the hatchet from that hint woodpile calling out that he be just wanted to use it for a minute presently oung mrs tice ran out with inith a cup in her hand and borrowed two teaspoonfuls teaspoon ot of baking powder from the some slime neighbor she had forgotten to order any when she bought supplies 6 up plies also she asked for a few matches as theirs come thus auspiciously inaugurating their career they neglected no opportunity to b be consistent As the years rolled on they borrowed at one time or another near ly everything in town irom from the min aisters black coat for tice to wear x ear to t an unexpected and inconvenient funeral to the rimmels Rim meis baby carriage the rimmels babies had grown too big for the carriage and as mrs tice said what was the use of a perfectly Y useless thing like that standing idle and cluttering up the rimmels woodshed NN hen she could utilize it the tices borrowed their neighbors garden rakes patterns scissors sliver silver forks and coffee grinders they were always just out of lard flour chocolate or yeast cakes when company came thrifty people got into the habit of retiring to the attic or the cellar it if they saw the ti es headed their way still in spite of 0 these drav drawbacks backs the tices cices did very well in their line since she was born and brought up in n this atmosphere lucy tice naturally accepted borr borrowing as a matter ot of course if she wanted anything she at once cast about to see who of her acquaintances had one and then promptly went und and borrowed it lucy was so pretty that usually she was forgiven it was only in the natural order of things then that she should reach our tor for sally pettys beau when her own supply of beaux ran low maybe there was a little spite behind it too for randolph witt when he had settled in their town had bad not served his term of paying court to lucy as had every other young man it was tacitly recognized that all the boys must have a spell 0 of desperately adoring lucy before they permanently best bestowed owed their affections on other girls there was nothing startling about ranny witt ile he was rather lank and pale and weak eyed but he be had devoted himself to sally petty ever since he came to town and that was sufficient reason for discipline also saly ly had rather prided herself on her conquest on quest which was sufficient reason ly returned nanny she told it nas as nil a mistake and she care for ii him m and sally was really an awfully r u n Y nice I 1 girl I 1 I 1 gb so ranny a being easily convinced trotted back quite resignedly to sally petty expecting to be received with open arms ile he got a terrible shock 1 I dont care for you sally announced n to him you yet can go eo right back and tell lucy tice that she can keep you with my compliments I 1 neier neer like borrowed articles that aro are lined after such a length of time 1 I 1 dont understand you stammered poor ronny ranny 1 I 1 dont suppose ou on do said eald sally petty but that has nothing to do with nith the case I 1 bid you good night because im very busy go on over to lucys bucys why dont you she flounced into the house and ranny walking bewilderedly out between the snowball bushes in full bloom heard lucys bucys light laughter across the way ay sho she was sitting on her ber porch with the man she liked best girls pronounced ranny as he bitterly bitt eily struck off toward the drug store to drown his sorrows ju in sarsa earsa parilla girls are a blamed nu nuisance I 1 sance no matter which side ot of the street they live on tor ner liar laking aoah lucy began it one evening when sally and ranny witt were seated decorously on sallys front porch across the way lucy fluttered down to her own gate in a fluffy white gown and called across prettily sally she cried wont you let mo me have mr witt just a minute I 1 cant get the lamp put together somehow of course ranny hastened to the aid of 0 beauty in distress and sally flattered by the implication that lu lucy c y recognized her pio pi f arty rights in him le let t him go willingly when he came back bach alter after an hour and a half he found it rather dilT cult to explain to irate sally no it taken him so long to fix the lamp but somehow ho he coulden couldn I 1 get away without being rude the next time he be called on sally he be found lucy also on the steps and he never quite knew how bow it happened that when she went home he be went with her the next day everybody in town knew that lucy tice had taken ranny nanny witt wilt away anay from sally petty and the town divided into two camps quit speaking to lucy and luey lucy paraded her captive on the main ile he seemed a billing enough elou gh captive cart lve too but theu then ranny never could be accused of being strong minded ile he danced attendance on lucy everywhere and sally went around looking like bottled dynamite when this had gone on two mouths months the young man whom lucy really liked best atall cargo came bjick ind she drow t |