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VOL. XXVIL—NO. 28.
k PLANTATION COMEDY
BY JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS.
Copyright, 1894, by the Author.
VIII.
General Herndon and his daughter saw
Burrell and Susy, but it is safe to say that
These young people saw no one hut them
selves. They wore in great trouble. Susy
was looking serious, and Burrell was ex
cited.
It is a. blessing that Cupid is blind and
lacking in wit, otherwise the fat rascal
would have discovered long ago what a
comic creature he is. He would have dis
appeared . from the public eye, and the
world would have been deprived of more
than half its amusement.
“What could ’a' put it in your head that
I didn't want to speak to you awhile ago?”
asked Burrell Winslett. The magnitude
and serious import of the puzzle had
laused his honest face to pucker.
“Os course, it makes no difference to
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I’LL BRUSH IT OF!'.”
replied Miss Susy Beaslev, “but it
doesn’t look right. If I had been sitting
at the spring with a young man, why that
would have been different; but I was sit
ting there alone, reading, and you came
right by. 1 could have put my hand on
y u. but. mot a word did you say—not a
word.’’
‘ I wish I may die if I saw you, Susy.”
“Why, of course not.” said the young
Jady. "I know I’m small, but I’m no£ half
mall -v- ’ fc i. ' der Ve-jiee why Ethel
1 rfty was deafening, here tl> be
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