The Comings of Cousin Ann

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to Buck Hill this morning and sell all kind

o near those people when they treat

to breathe when the wind blows-breathe that or stop breathing altogether. They might not like to breathe me in. I might be a little thick for them, but breathe me they must. I did not make myself kin to them. I just am kin to them. I don't know tha

ey have a house party on and when people go visiting they always forget their tooth brushes and hairpins. I don't exactly enjoy having Mildred Bucknor pretend I'm not around when I know I'm very much in evidence. She had tha

boost my basket on the trolley and actually took the can of buttermilk in his own aristocratic hands and swung it on to the platform. Well, he did, and he made his sister furious-and he bored a pretty girl with whom 100 he is sup

must not lo

hair is auburn, or not? I'd hardly refuse to sell to those persons who did not consider me their social equal and did not ask me to house parties or to dances when my feet are just itching to dance. I'd sell to any and everybody who came in the shop. Exactly! Well, n

u afraid that that Jeff Bucknor will

er miss jokes don't go around thinking other persons are running after them all the time. I know by the way he looks out of his eyes. It isn't only his eyes that look at you but there is something behind them that looks a

w. Those Bucknors of Buck Hill are a proud-stomached lot. They've been dusting m

ever spea

was never one to p

good as they are? Surely, and a great deal prettier. You are as much prettier tha

call on them if we needed anything, but we never did, as my mother and I always saved mourning from time to time. I guess they'd have been a little more back-and-forth friendly if it hadn't have been for

l this talking isn't selling toilet articles to house parties. By the way, I got a 'phone message from my motormen. They want six suppers this evening. That means I m

you do enough as it is.

ive the time for it. Besides, my time is really too valuable for digging just now. Did I tell you I had taken the contract to develop all the amateur photographic films for Baker & Bowles? I saw them about it the other day. They have an awful time getting it done right and they knew I had done a l

rs. Buck could say. "I don't believe ev

Judith Buck. She parked her little blue car directly across the

o now?" queried Judge Middleton. "I be

the sake of argument. "I betcher she's going

ough to wear blue. That blue that Miss Judith Buck wears is just my kind of blue to

ggested Colonel Cru

d! Anyhow, that kind of blue is

ain with her arms laden with bundles to be stowed i

Miss J

rselves?" s

treet and perched on the railing of the Rye House, while 105 she recoun

been visiting the Throckmortons and left there in a hurry. Old Aunt Minnie, over at Clayton, has just had her hundredth descendant. She had sixteen children of her own and all of them have had their share of children and grandc

lightedly. "Tell us so

what had become of Mr. Pete Barnes. I sold her

is cravat and pulled his whiskers in a way

iness?" asked M

to say which one. But all of them are coming on pretty well. I

on. "There ain't many pretty gals like her'd stop

was showing the whites of her eyes in that glance. My granddaughter, Betty, was telling me only last night that the only reason Judy Buck wasn't asked to join their dancing club was that the Bucknor gals got their backs up about asking her and kind of talked them down-calling Judy common and poor white trash and such like. Betty says t

ig enough to ask all the people I'd want to h

ainst the wall drop on all four legs and bringing his feet, which had been draped over the

asked Ma

ire the skating rink an' give Miss Judy Buck

House porch drew together in solemn conclave. Old tongues clicked an

ghborhood. We'll have the band up from Louisville and a cate

ask them to come to old Dick Buck's

kind of shy. Just let 'em all get to dancin' an' kinder warmed up an' then when we got 'em where they can't back out without bein' mighty rude we

one who will give the secret away. And we'll give that gal a rush that would turn her pre

women in on it e

idow Simco?" as

d now we men folks will take 109 it on us. What'll we cal

t an' the smart Alecks will try to get the laugh on us because they'll be a thinkin' we don't know what dayboo means an' w

ged for the following Friday night. A caterer in Louisville was next called up by telephone and supper ordered, "with all the fixin's" that the latest thing in debut parties demanded. The band was engaged and the invitations set up in type and printe

ted to Atten

ing Rink on

ld Men o

nd Refres

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