TIIE OMAIIA SUNDAY, BEE, AUGUST 9, 190&
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TRADDLES TRIES AGAIN.
'Of all the men that I have met' said FlufFs maiden aunt.
Joe Traddles is ihc human'cst. ,He's awkward, that' I grant,
But if you gave him half a chance to show what he could do
I'm sure he'd risk both life and limb to prove his love for you.1
Said Fluffy Ruffles with a pout, "Of all the men I've struck
That poor Joe Traddles seems to have the very meanest luck
And if I were to marry him and be his faithful wife
111 luck would hit us every day throughout .our married life."
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''But still you'll give him one more chance? Now, won't you, Fluffy, dear?"
"I always, give him one more chance. That's why it seems so queer.
Some days I think I like him, then he doesn't come to call ,
And then he calk to see me and I like him not at all.
To'day he isn't coming, and to-day I'm fond of him.
"Why, who's that coming here on foot? You look. my. sight is dim
'It's he, ; I wonder -what he wants." "You wonder. How you talk.
Of course he's come to ask you out to take little-walk." ....
walked out through the fragrant fields and Traddles with his
Went whipping at the flowers as the easiest way to pick
He laid them low, then picked them up and handed them to "Her."
"Miss Fluffy, I would like to say" (her heart began to stir).
The words he wanted would not come, he fanned the summer air.
And cut the turf up with his stick (a form of silent swear).
Miss Huffy, have you ever thouzht" "Oh. yes said Fluffy, "oft
1 mean, Miss Fluffy, have -you thought of me?" Here Joseph coughed.
"I'm thinking of you now," said she. "Do you forget the rest?"
His mouth he opened, waved his stick and hit a hornets' nest.
The angry hornets came in proves, they came in swarms as well ;
1 hey also came in "zizzing" clouds, and on poor Joseph fell.
He tore his coat from ofT his back and covered Flurry's head,
Then, seizing her around the waist, across the fields he sped
His tongue was stung, he could not speak, and Fluffy was alarmed.
Yet, though quite dumb, he smiled with joy, for Fluffy was unharmed
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