Just Woman's Way.
She was a good girl, and when the boy told her of the lore that ha had experienced for six consecutive weeks she felt sorry that '.t was so. He was younger than she. Most bb r >ys fall in We wifcn women who are afc least ibree yeara older than they are. She was the boy's first iove. She could tell by the way he acted fchafc he had never made lova to a woman before.
" I am co sorry," she said, " that you feel aa you do. I should regret it siill moro if I thought that I had ever said anything or acted in a way to encourage you." " You- haven't,:' replied the boy. "Still, fa that any reason why a man should not hope ? " " But you are so young," sighed the girl. " You're nob a- man. You won't be for several years yet. Of course you must know that ib cannot bs. Don't think about ifc any more. You've been- very foolish. One of these days you will thank me for speaking to you a& I have."'
The boy went away and- became a man. Hia cheeks lost their roundness, and strange lines came into that youthful face. Success seemed to go before "aim, Tha town got iafco the habit*
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Df calling him a "losing something or other " — it docsn'b matter what.
Me and the girl raci ufcar many years, and she said that F-li'j vms very glad to see him. She didn't think o£ Lim as a boy.- She had married, and a youngster was toddling by her side.
"Do you remember the olden d&ys?" she asked, as they were walking by the shore and watched ths chl'd, who wts playing ever tbe clear white sand.
"I do. What a fool I was! Do you know you said I should some day thank you for Bpesking to me ns you cUd ? Woll. now I admit I W3S aa idiot then — and, leally, I muaj chaiik you "
" That's enough, s'r ! " said tL<> wo* ran her eyes ablasa as &!ie spoke. "1 hp-.-i co wss'i f o bs insulted any fiirhsr. i b'ci *ou good-tnoru-ing." * And she weot ar^ay before the ib«ii conld gefa chance to tha.uk her tor the ce^bible in which she had t ilLed io him in the ~,ear-i gx,ne by.
Just Woman's Way.
Otago Witness, Issue 2298, 17 March 1898, Page 52
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