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LLJKINS Dear: So yon
PI want to know how I spent
I the Glorious Fourth? Wag
i sane ana sea ate, comport
ing myself in a manner be
fitting a brand-new college
graduate, or did I run oS
and romp with Brother
Tom's kiddles, as usual,
forgetting all my recently
acquired dignity? Alas, my
dear! I must confess that
Fourth was far, far from sane and
instead of recoverng ' my sanity
-But there, my studies in prose
to should teach me better-than to
at the conclusion of my story
that! IH begin at the beginning
It was IndeDendence day. The sun
(was shining in newly awakened splen
nor, when the casual observer might
pare discerned a solitary female form
(gracefully scaling the stone wall be
tween the luxuriant back gardens of
the Hendersons and the ditto ditto of
the Bartletts Tom and his family are
staying with her mother, you know.
toast door.
i . This feat .accomplished, our heroine
that's me!) proceeded up the Bart
Hit lawn, collecting dewdrops on her
trailing cheesecloth draperies and, in
cidentally, getting her new white
hoes deplorably damp. Her slender
torn was draped also In a large
A wwinnn .flag, and her raven curls
were aurmounted by a fillet of silver
This Ooddess of Liberty effect
the result of a promise to "dress
mjT for the two adoring and adorable
phews, Bert and Bob. Arrived be
neath the window of the room usu
ally occupied by the nephews, the
Qoddees of Liberty proceeds to the
time-honored ceremony of saluting
them; this she does by setting off ten
packs of small firecrackers, followed
by a "sock dolager" of a big one. No
ioyful acclamations follow. Aunt
Peggy ia frankly puzzled; clearly, the
boys are oversleeping, and she bursts
Into song, rendering the "Star-span-rtod
Banner" with dramatic effect,
marred only by a breathless squeak
However, it seemed to be up to me to
do something, so I drew myself to my
commanding height of five feet four
inches and begged his pardon for dis
turning him, explaining that my little
nephews usually occupied that room,
and that they were expecting me over
to celebrate the Fourth with them -but
it all sounded like perfect noW
tense. Just then, to my mingled relief
and annoyance, Tom appeared at the
"window, too, with a fiendish grin, as
he sired up the situation and my cos
tume. "Been serenading you, has she,
Archier he asked affably, while 1
boiled with helpless rage. "You mustn't
mind it, old man; it's the day we cele
brate, jrou know, and our patriotism
till runs so high that even the girls
seek out peaceable English visitors
nd taunt them with our independence.
Quite the usual thing." Then, as
"Archie" and I preserved a " helpless
silence, Tom sobered down and intro
duced us in proper style, and as soon
an I heard the name I remembered
that Archie Vane was Tom's chum In
London, when he was over 'there set
ting up some machinery. He had Just
landed and Tom, running across him
in New fork the night before, had in
sisted on his coming home with him
to spend the Fourth all natural
enough when Tom explained it. So
there I'd been bearding the British Hon
in his den with militant American
noises on the anniversary of a day ig
nored by all good Englishmen; and
here was the British lion looking at
me with his Ingenuous blue eyes as if
he was trying to decide whether I'd
bite or not
1 warn you," Tom added, in his
tactful little way, "that Peggy Is a
rabidly patriotic person, so I wouldn't
advise you to start any discussions on
international issues. This . Columbia
getup is quite in character, so be
ware!" Alice and the boys came out
; on the porch just then and wanted me
'to stay to breakfast; but of course 1
declined with dignity and went "home
via the front gate, however, Instead oi
the garden wall. When I turned to
latch it that Englishman was still look
ing at me In a dazed sort of way.
The plot thickens. After breakfast
my beloved kiddies rushed over to beg
me to go with them on the usual fam
ily picnlo to the pine grove, and 1
hadn't the heart to disappoint them. :
wore my most sensible clothes, and 1
tried hard to be haughty and distant
to Mr. Vane; but he kept developing
such nice qualities that somehow 1
couldn't keep it up, especially as he ig
nored my crazy performance of the
morning so successfully. He was a
Gracefully 8callng the Stone Wall.
km the final "Land of the free." Still
BO Bob and Bert. Our heroine shies
pi bit of turf at the window, with a
command, "Wake up, lazybones!" and
as the window sash begins to creak
responsively she begins to carol
fShouting the Battle Cry of Freedom"
lit the top of her very healthy lungs,
br Aunt Peggy has no foolish dig
nity when it's a question of amusing
the kiddies. At last the window opens
wide and, looking up, she sees
: Polly, what do you think? Instead of
two little white nighties and -two
tousled curly heads, there was a man
strange young man, my dear;:
blonde, blue-eyed, immaculate in aj
beautiful duck suit and gazing at me!
with what seemed to be mild horror,;
mixed with amusement, as though I
were an escaped lunatic I felt llksj
one, I assure you, all the more so be
eause he was awfully good-looking andi
Pell groomed and correct; and 1)
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Tom Appeared at the WMow, Too.
positive genius when It came to chas
ing cows, fixing hammocks, unpacking
luncheon and all the regular picnlo
stunts. The boys adored him, and he
was simply angelio to the old folks;
and by the time we went home I
couldn't scare up a resentful feeling.
Yes, Polly, I know; you needn't re
mind me of all the hateful things I've
said about Englishmen and the times
I've vowed I couldnt, and wouldn't
care for one, not if he asked me on his
bended knees. Tea, and Pre demon
strated often that no one but an
American man was a fit companion for
an American girl. I've said heaps of
perfectly ferocious things, and I sup
pose I meant every one of them. But
that was before Archie Polly, dear,
do you know, he says it was all over
wth him from the first moment he saw
me and in that circus-parade rig!
Isnt it absurd and lovely? And, just
think, if s only a week since we met.
though we both agree that it seems
like years. And you should see my
ring a quaint, old, old one, that be
longed to his great-great-grandmother !
And his people livo in a lovely old
Elizabethan house, in a regular Cran
ford town; and his mother's a dear
little old-fashioned soul with side curls,
and idolizes him. Please don't remind
me of anything I ever said about effete
tradition, will you, Polly? Tm not
going to England yet awhile, though,
for Archie's here indefinitely, to learn
American business methods, in Tom's
line of work. I really have a little
spark of American pride, I guess, for I
am glad he's only a younger son, with
no title within reach, though I don't
suppose I'd mind that, or anything else.
Because, Polly dear, I'm not shouting
the battle cry of freedom nowadays.
Somehow it gets all mixed up with
"Rule Britannia." Do come up with
me soon and discuss the new Anglo
Saxon alliance with your bewildered)
but blissful PEGGY.
Patriotism.
"My father was wounded in fboi
Spanish-American war and my grand-'
father lost an arm at Gettysburg."
"How did you get that scar on your;
chhi?"
"Trying to tie a bunch of firecrack-!
rs to the tail of a bulldog."
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