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“Poor Dick!” said Mrs. Cozzens,
looking at. the canary.
“That bird wants exercise and fresh
air," said John. "That’s all he wants.”
"No, he doesn’t want exercise and
fresh air," said Mrs. Cozzens. "lie
isn't feeling well; that's all.”
"All rlidit, then," said John. “Have
It your own way."
And as for John, he threw his right
leg over his left knee with consider
able force and hid his face in his news
paper as though, for him, the subject
was ended and the incident was
closed.
“Poor Dick!” said Mrs. Cozzens.
"Poor Dick!"
"O, make less noise!” cried John.
“Can’t you see that I’m trying to
read ?”
"Read! Yes!” cried Mrs. Cozzens,
"and here this poor little bird is shed
ding his feathers right and left, and
well you know that it isn't moulting
season! And there you sit! Reading
the paper! You ought to bo ashamed
of yourself, John Cozzens, and you
know right well you had!”
"I tell you lie wants exercise and
a little fresh air!" cried Mr. Cozzens.
"I tell you he doesn't!" cried Mrs.
Cozzens.
"Does, too!"
“Doesn't, neither!”
"1 tell you he does!”
“1 tell you he doesn't! It's all you’re
good for; to let the poor little pet
out of his cage and make him Uy
around the room, grinning like a fool
and running after him with a bit of
lettuce ou one shoulder and a pinch
of bird seed on the other. Making
him pant again and scarring him half
to death!"
“Well." grumbled John, shuffling
his feet, "that's the W'ay to tame
them.”
Oh, that s the way to tamo them, [
is It?”
“Yes! That’s the way to tame them,
Is it!”
"Tame them!” cried Mrs. Cozzens.
“So he’s wild, is he? Mercy sakes!
Suppose he bit ills way out of hi9
cage some night and came and pecked
us to death!”
"Don't be a fool!” urged John.
"Don’t you be a fool!” cried Mrs.
Cozzens.
No!” said John, "it's you that's thq
fool!”
“Oh, no, it isn’t!” cried Mrs. Cez
zons. "it's you that's the fool!” And
having settled this mooted question
she cried in a spirited voice: “You
gV’t your things on now and go to the
bird store and get something to cure
him!”
“Huh!" snorted John behind his pa
per, and he shuffled his feet as shuf
fle the feet of an army.
"Well,” cried Mrs. Cozzens, "what
are you huh-ing about?”
"Huh!” snorted John again. "I’d
like to see myself!”
“You put your hat and coat on,”
cried Mrs. Cozzens, "and out you go
this very minute!”
“No, sir!” cried John. “No, sir! And
if any one thinks that I'm going to he
a messenger boy for a canary bird—
well, they're mistaken, that's all I
say!”
“O, that’s all you say, is it?" cried
Mrs. Cozzens.
“Yes," said John. “That's all 1 say.”
"Well, anyhow,” said Mrs. Cozzens,
“I'm going out to get. him something, j
He hasn't lifted his little head or
chirped for the last two hours and,
rain or no rain. I’m going out.”
She went out, too, and when she re
turned she heard Dick chirping the
moment she entered the hall.
"The little pet,” she cried, "ha
knows my step.”
mu as ior jonn, .ionn never spoae.
"Pretty little Dick!” cried Mrs. Coz
zens. advancing along the hall. "I've
got something for him!”
And as for Jo^n, John assumed a
serious cast of countenance and
looked around for his hat. And as
for Dick, I wish to say that the mo
ment Mrs. Cozzens entered the room
Richard jumped up in the corner of
his cage that was nearest to her, and
fixing his eye on his mistress, he re
lieved himself of such a series of in
dignant and outraged crips that Mrs.
Cozzens viewed him with mingled
pride and alarm.
"Why, what's the matter with
Dick?” she ciied.
“How do I know?" grumbled John.
“I'm not a bird doctor, am I? Isn't he
spry enough to suit you now?”
"Spry enough!” cried Mrs. Cozzens. I
“Why, he's all wet!”
"Well, a little rain won’t hurt him,”
grumbled John, but all the same he
carefull} folded the newspaper and
slowly arose from his chair.
"What have you been doing to
him?” cried Mrs. Cozzens. “What have
you been doing to that poor innocent
little bird?"
"What do you suppose I’ve been do
ing to him?” cried the indignant Mr.
Cozzens.
“John Cozzens, 1 demand to know!
Did you put that birdcage out in the
rain to get all wet?"
"No, I didn't!"
"Well, then, how did he get wet?”
"He flew outside."
"Grrr! Clew outside? Grrr! Sup
pose he'd have flown away!”
“Didn’t I have a string around his
leg?” demanded John, picking up his
hat, but keeping a respectful eye on
Mrs. Cozzens. "And didn't I pull him
in when—"
And as John made his escape into
the storm without, to escape the
storm within, lie exclaimed to himself
in gloomy wonder: "Such a fuss to
make! All over a little bird!”
Letting
Them Alone
Things were as dull as they usual
ly are at the small resort hotel where
a few early comers have preceded the
regular season. Therefore the arrival
of the ridiculously young looking cou
ple was a cause for the awakening of
inti rest and speculation on the part of
the small rocking-chair brigade.
It was given out as authentic by a
charier member of the brigade that
tho young couple were bride und
groom, who had come to that quiet
little spot In tho Wisconsin woods to
pass their honeymoon.
By a sort of tacit understanding no
one tried to Inflict his or her com
pany or friendship upon the youthful
couple. For the first few days no one
even stared at them, except very cir
cumspectly.
But then a practical joker appeared
on the scene. Immediately the young
things were pointed out to his obser
vation.
"Does no one know them yet?” he
Inquired. “Strikes me that you are
unsociable.”
The romantic spinster dropped her
drawn work disapprovingly. “Dear
me! Dow can you be so lacking in
sentiment?” she asked. “Why, they
don't even see us. There doesn't ex
ist any one else In the world for them
just now—the dears!” And the spin
ster sighed.
The practical joker laughed, “well,
I think they look kind of lonesome,”
he said. "Didn’t any one show them
the Twin Springs and the .Indian
Trail? Oh, I say! I think that is a
snobbish way to treat newcomers. I
must stir things up.”
“Don't look, don’t look,” murmured
the spinster, excitedly. “Here they
come now.” She hurriedly dropped
her eyes on her drawn work.
The young couple came slowly down
the veranda, looked timidly at the ro
mantic spinster and the practical jo
ker, and then sauntered away to the
lawn, where they started to play a
game of croquet. The practical joker
walked nonchalantly over to the cro
quet field. Soon peals of laughter
came to the ears of the spinster
where she sat on the porch with a
number of others. I^ater on when
dinner was well under way the bride
and groom entered demurely.
An air of excitement and expectancy
pervaded the dining room and no one
seemed to have started eating. There
was a murmur of subdued laughter as
the young couple reached their chairs
“They Look Kind of Lonesome.”
and found them tied together
with huge bows of white ribbon and
decorated with green boughs and
white blossoms. The laughter broke
out in a storm when a peal of bells
came from somewhere near the cou
ple. Across from them the practical
joker was working his arm back and
forth suspiciously. Then the bride
caught her foot in the string and the
cowbells and sleighbells were discov
ered attached underneath her chair.
The bride laughed and blushed as
a bride is expected to do and the
groom grinned as idiotically as the oc
casion demanded. Hut the romantic
spinster at the other end of the table
had a shocked, hurt expression on her
face.
Somehow, after all his trouble, the
practical joker seemed to be the only
one who would venture to intrude into
Arcadia.
“Well, who told you they were bride
and groom, anyway?” demanded the
practical joker later, after he had lis
tened with apparently good grace to
the reproving lecture of the romantic
spinster and the echoes of her words
from the others.
“Any one with any sense would
have known it,” said the spinster
sharply. “And only a person of no
sentiment would have forced his so
ciety upon them and made the poor
dears so uncomfortable.”
“Yes,” drawled the practical joker.
“Then what am I, anyhow? The fact
Is that they've been married five
years—eloped when she was 1G and
he 20. They think it's a great joke
that you people think they’re just mar
ried. They helped me to fix up the
dining room scene. They asked me to
extend their apologies to you all for
fooling you, for they are going home
to the children to morrow.”
Without a wrord', In solemn dignity,
the romantic spinster rose and left
the porch, forgetting her beloved
drawn-work, which later blew into the
river.—Chicago Daily News.
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