Show si it an interrupted S Z J poetical recitation 11 A s S by JANE JAKE OSBORN st T ii 1 ft X arx wt S xai ftc a maclure ne newspaper syndicate I 1 service I 1 ALLY CARR felt like fl a naughty daughty S SALLY little girl having tier her own on way vilen sie si e told jolin jo in horner that lit lie might see her home that cold clear night in february As usual were several of the young men wilt who had expressed ane hope that they mahl walk valk the two tio bois blocks with her tint thit day bet between her house and the club house where those informal orinal neighborhood dances were held twice a boeh all NIn winter ter viere there were tom an I 1 KOI ken trick drik and rodney kodney she knew that IT if she accepted any one of them file I 1 he oth oil er two while in a measure disappointed would haie approved app they we birds of a feather each in the alon of the other a regular fellow but jolin john horner was it queer fish to put it mildly ue lie read too stud led too hard and loafed too toe little attle now kow lie he wits was working in a mig magazine azIne somewhere in the city ally and is was said that lie he had bold poetry and add was writing a novel when silly sally first danced with will coln that evening at the club alc was a little embarrassed because she felt fell that she was taller than lie slie she felt rell relieved eved mien slie she saw in a mirror at the end of the room that they were practically the same hel height glit still sully stilly wished that john were just a trifle taller tom Kendi lck find and I 1 atod od ney vi mere ere all six foot feet or more cut but when she sat talking with john after that first lance dance she forgot his stature ile he was telling her an amusing incident of his choit stay in algiers the summer before later they spoke of poetry and sally asked him it if she might some time see something that he had written ill incite it to you if lot me said john ile he asked if lie he might walk home homa with alli tier lier and she said lie might iu im glad gad said john because I 1 want to recite that poem to sou As a nutter matter of tact fact I 1 wrote to ion dut bill I 1 cant say it in here I 1 haie to be outdoors sally laughed and told toil him she hoped it a long poem because it was only two blocks aiom the alie club to tier her house and john said it biasi aa only eight lines long sally and john were nere among the first out of the clubhouse that sharp february eN evening ening deep ruts in the snow aud and a smooth glaze of ice over much of the road made motoring uncertain ind and almost all ul the dune ia clive to walk walk home sally was aware that kendrick lck walking with lt ladey dey sister and tom walking with kendicks cousin with rodney in tow were walking five abreast not far behind tier her she asked john to recite his poem but not too loud she warned some one may be listening john began it was really a rather nice bit of verse sally was too confused to hear much ol of the first lour four lines hud and the last four she never heard tit at least until several months later but she did catch enough ol of them to know that they expressed ardent devotion the lin hand nd of the poet holding bolding tier lier arm so firmly sent a strange thrill to sallys aung heart and then unexpectedly the bold bi became tighter painfully tight and sally bally felt suddenly that the slippery ground had been pulled palled out but front from under her it seemed us as it if the cold sra aboe turned a sudden half circle nud then she bhe landed but on something expectedly soft when she came to a full realization of just ahat had happened it was to hear a chorus of lough guffaws and raucous halias ha lias has roddey tom and kendrick lck were standing tier her and so were rod hod sister and kendricks cousin and sally realized as they looked down upon tier her that she aias nas sitting squat cly and firmly on john Ilo humors iners st stomach im sure I 1 dont see aDy anything thing to laugh at said sally but apparently john did at least as uon oon as lie he hid had scrambled to ins his feet lie he mana managed geI to join the in their laughter Ken bendzick Kendi dzick ick suggested that one of the he braie brae trio hall had better help john homo home to keep him from i slipping tapp I 1 ng while another had better walk on will silly sally she might sit on you again said daiil rodkey sally looked at john standing there beside the others he looked very almost insignificant then she remembered the four lines lie he had began to recite tears came into tier her eyes 1 I think we can manage sery ery well alone sally told the others su so they went on up the hill together walking ery gingerly arm in arm 1 I wont try to go on alth the verses john told tier her walking on ice fee and spouting poetry apparently dont go well together but I 1 think what I 1 heard was very beautiful sally said john stood still and held tier her to t him looking straight into her bet eyes that seemed like jewels in the taint faint starlight you know I 1 love sou 11 he e said but after what happened of course you can only despite me you viere very iery ery kind not dot to send me off before the others but I 1 dont want to send you off dit said sally john I 1 love sou |