Kilo

t a sense of exultation. If he had been a victorious general, and Kilo a captured city of great importance, he would have had a similar feeling. Already he felt that, if he was not the cap

ture years. He nodded across the street to Billings, the grocer and general store man, as if he was an old acquaintance, and he watched Skinner, the butcher, sweeping the walk, with a pleasant smile, for he saw in him a future friend. He loved Kilo, and he was ready to like

and woman he meets is a complete individual, each standing alone, like letters on an alphabet block, and not easily to be confused, one with the other. But these letters of the small town's alphabet are often tangled into as long and complex words as those of the greatest city; it takes but twenty-six letters to spell all the passions. The letter A, that looked so distinctly sepa

n her presence at two o'clock, and four hours of conversation would carry them to the point of being well acquainted, as advised by Jarby's Encyclopedia. The next day he could enter the second stage of the directions, and call with a book, present it; call after dinner with a box of candy, present it; call after supper, and propose a walk, visit the ice cream parlor, and on t

's Encyclopedia at the chapter on "Courtship-How to Win the Affections." He was deep in it

a big place is inhabitants. What you ought to do now it to settle down for good, an' get married. There's some purty fine women in

m Wilkins did not know he had adv

said Eliph', "'most everybody'

yer's office? He's one that's in the marry class, just now. That's Colonel Guthrie. He lives out on the first farm beyond

asted his opportunity. This was what came of being slow! He should have completed his

t so good lookin' as the Colonel, but he's better fixed. It's Skinner owns our butcher-shop, an' it's Skinner

oking down the street to where the raw b

say. Sally Briggs is a pretty fine sort of woman, an' Pap Briggs has quite considerab

kers softly and coughed

to me I met a lady at a picnic up Clarence way that

Sally Ann Briggs. She's been

ded his he

buy a copy of Jarby's Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art when I saw her at that