THE OMAHA' SUNDAY BEE, 'AUGUST 30, VJOS.
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FLUFFY PvUFFLES.
TrVADDLES TAKES A CHANCE.
The man who gives up trying if at first he don't succeed
Is not a good American of persevering breed j
And though poor Traddles always had the meanest kind of lus
In asking for Miss Fluffy's hand he'd try again with pluck.
One day to Amacossett Lake, that lovely Berkshire pool,
Where tired city people flock because they know it's cool,
Miss Fluffy bent her dainty steps, Aunt Mary by her side,
While Joseoh Traddles in the.rear was fully occupied.
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The thing that occupied him was a concentrated mind,
And that was why he Jet them lead and walked himself behind
"I've brought them over in my car. and now the thing to do
Will be to take them on the lake in one birch bark canoe.
I've always tried to ask her hand when all things promised well
Perhaps the law of contraries wiJl help me in this shell.
When we have reached the middle I can jolly well propose
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Now when Aunt Mary saw the "shell" and saw the water, too.
She said, "For me to take a bath to'day would never do,
But Fluffy swims just like an eel and so I would propose
That" ""Traddles nodded. "I am on. This time it
surely goes."
"Of all the water sports 1 know canoing is the best,"
Said Fluffy, with alluring smile, and fu II of youthful zest.
Said Joseph, "If one thing I know canoing is its name,
There's not a chance of tipping." "If we did you'd find me
Bamev
She nestled back in cushions and her escort took the oar.
"I've goi a thing I wish to say when we have left the shore,
Said Traddles as he paddled off. Miss Fluffy said, 'That's good.
I always like to hear you talk." Said he, "I wish you
would"
The sentence-was not finished, for just then the boat upset,
And in a rwinkhng he and she were sipping sopping wer.
Said Traddles as they both struck out, " 'Twas crankier than I
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"A. chance to tell you something that concerns both you
and me."
"Goon" said Fluffy, "Isn't his romantic as can be?"
Just then poor Joseph gave a cry. "Oh, dear, I guess It's
cramp"
And, in a moment.hejiad sunk beneath the water's damp.
On coming to the surface plucky Fluffy seizedliis chin.
And, bravely swimming toward the shore, she bore poor
Joseph in.
A little brandy brought him to, but when he tried to speak, v
''Dont.say a wordl" dear Fluffy cried. "You're really far
too weak."
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