Show the old settler my dr dear san Jua ners they had no pea ilea I 1 was spying on them in fact they were too much occupied with each other to I 1 care it was the very first time I 1 he had met her and I 1 had a feverish curiosity to see how they would act it was love on first sight I 1 simply forgot everything else and raised the window blind very carefully 1 in arder to get a plain view of them I 1 hear what they were saying and maybe I 1 have understood if I 1 had heard but when they came out there in full view of each other face to face they stopped in a kind of ecstasy and then I 1 never saw anything like it before nor since he walked right up to her and put his arms around her neck at first she seemed rather astonished and embarrassed barr assed but in a few seconds she put her arms around him I 1 expected he would give her a kiss hiss but instead he put his cheek against her face and then I 1 wanted d most of all to know what they were saying they sat down there side by side each one laving his fingers in n the clean coarse sand and saying n the words I 1 could know only as I 1 saw their lips moving he slumped down a little below her on the bank and looked up ador bigly at her face asking and answering a string of interesting inte esting guestt questions ns then a cloud of some kind cast I 1 ts shadow over their bright little I 1 world and I 1 knew their words were being spoken in a different tone suddenly she snatched a handful of that coarse sand and th threw r ew it straight in his face surprised and startled he looked at her questioningly while he rubbed the sand out of his mouth and an eye sand then gathering up some sand he threw it at her she dodged but quick as scat she fired tw more shots of sand in his face regarding her with astonishment and disappointment he rose up slowly and with a silent frown turned away leaving here to sit there on the sand gazing after him till he went out of sight coming around on to the other side of the house he sat down on a little ax and leaning forward with his face in his hands was thoughtful there a long time I 1 assed the next scenes in the drama but the next day I 1 saw them sitting there on the sand again and romeo was looking up at her as before with love in his eyes asking and answering questions oblivious to everything else in the world and she was digging her fingers and her toes in the sand as the real juliett is wont i to do i 1 des she love you I 1 asked when lie he came smiling back to the house I 1 i yes she does he affirmed i with spirit and she said she W throw sand in my eyes i any more yet it would be hard to guess I 1 what these sand throwing j aties of hers might u do in the next fifteen years for fo r romeo is just i turned three and juliett is a little younger ALBERT R LYMAN |