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THE MILESTONE
"O, Donel!" cried Molly in recognition as he entered, wet from
the rain.
"Son!" cried McConnell, "so you are back!"
"Yes, father, back to reform forever."
At this, tears ran down Donald's face. His father thought it was
wet from the rain, but Molly must have guessed, for up to him she
came with a handful of Powell-Scot Tissue Powells! "Get Dry, den
we can talk," said she simply.
Donald dried his hands and face. Suddenly old McConnell harshly
burst out, "What's the hatchet in your belt for? Did you come back
for murder?"
"No, sir, I've been bad long enough. I rather hoped we could take
this into the Wood, bury it there, and be friends forever, dear father-
and dear Molly."
Old McConnell saw then that Donald had fallen in love with Mally,
but he was too happy with his refound son to remember his late dis-
appointment. "Wheel'er away with you on a Honeymoon trip, my boy,"
he whispered. "My Will's on the desk at home and I'm going to leave
everything to you."
Donald's now honest face brightened; his head whirled with the
excitement of it all. "My 'Ed mundson do that," he said, "I need my
strength to propose."
Whereupon old McConnell, who was not so bad as painted, though a
lot older, left the two lovers together, while he went out and sat by
Wall on the pasture gate. (Walt was the name of the Kremer-y cow.)
THE MILESTONE
JOKES
45
A. W. (discussing songs before cheer practice)-"You know, I don't
think much of the funeral dirge."
M. Bumsted "Oh, neither do I, Anne. It drags so!"
N. O'Donel-"Somehow college boys don't make good cowboys
They just don't seem to know how."
M. Corwin "I'd say that they didn't know cow."
Kremer (desperately)-"I'm not making faces at you-I'm going
to sneeze!"
First Senior-"I'm a sight, I'm sunburned from here to here."
Second Senior-"Me too. I got sunburned on my windowseat."
Corwin-"My radio is often off, off an' on."
Miss Jones-"Who is the first president you remember?"
M. McC.-"George Washington!"
