Show the old settler 0 my dear san Jua ners 1 it t was none of my business and neither my curiosity nor my relish for such things would have impelled me to stick ray my nose into it but bat when people let their feelings fizz up and run all over like a bottle of old torn from which the cork has shot out you hear a lot of things which they might have a wish to withdraw after they get through fizzing fizzling fiz zing the old woman seemed to be the stepmother the grandaunt grand aunt or just simply the godmother god mother of the younger woman and I 1 could tell they had been going round and round with it even before they seated themselves opposite me at that restaurant table sixty dollars for a fur coat snarled the godmother closing her heavy jaw lika a jail door and you still claim to be sane Is it sane to want to be warm and comfortable demanded the I 1 girl you know the weather is bitter cold I 1 need that coat comfortable barked the godmother in one fierce yelp do I 1 look dumb en enough ugh to swallow such stuff without gagging I 1 a right to be comfortable for table countered the girl I 1 do wish you had sense enough to be comfortable snapped th the om woman vo maff si stefy at af dollars for a fur coat and not so much as six cents for sox or something else to cover your bare ankles and knees comfort call it by some other name oh its hose that youre concerned about well 2 hose puttees put tees leggings high boots overalls chapa anything to balance the inconsistency of smothering one extremity and freezing the other but just think how id look why 2 looke here youve been basing your howl on the ground of comfort now youre going to make claims on the ground of looks mighty m i g h t y slippery ground f for or you yoli to base claims on the old lady gulped the last of her coffee snatched up her ticket and dived into her handbag for change now come on suse she ordered lets get out of here and lhnn you really get ready to talk camf comfort ort ill listen but for looks no not you ALBERT R LYMAN |