The Best American Humorous Short Stories

e two richly dressed matrons who had been so utterly and unnecessarily oblivious to the presence of each other now suspended hostilities for the moment by mutual and unspoken consent,

d very much to be compelled to hate each other, for each had reckoned up his vis-à-vis as a rathe

other a splendidly preserved brunette wife, both of whom have won social prominence by years of hard fighting and aloofn

smiled cheerfully as the we

t the pretty daughter of the brunette matron. The pretty daughter also smiled, but her smile was demurely directed at the trees outside, clad as they were in

ee out of the corner of the eye, w

e swirl of water that rushed and eddied, dark and muddy, close up under the rotten

itely surly look required of them. The blonde son's eyes still sought the brunette daughter, but it was furtively done and quite unsuccessfully, for the daughter was now doing a little glaring on her ow