The Sunday Oregonian., August 30, 1908, Magazine Section, Image 58

THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN,: PORTLAND, AUGUST 30, 1908. '
FIUFFY RUFFLES.
TPvADDLES TAKES A CHANCE. .. .
The man who gives up trying if at first he don't succeed
Is not a good American of persevering breed f, ,
And though poor Traddles always had the meanest kind of luck
In asking for Miss Fluffy's hand he'd try again with pluck. .
One day to Amacossett Lake that lovely Berkshire pool
Where tired city people flock because they know it's cool,
Miss Fluffy bent her dainty steps, Aunt Mary by her side, '
AL:U TAAez in the rpar was fullv OCCUDied. ' ' .
The thing that occupied him was a concentrated mind,,
And that was why he let them lead and walked himself behind
"I've brought them over in my car, and now the thing to do
y Will be to take them on the lake in one birch bark canoe.
.' ' I've always tried to ask her hand when all things promised well
Perhaps the law of contraries will help me in this shell.
' When we have reached the middle I can jolly well propose
And if she only answers Yes, why that will end my woes.'
Now when Aunt Mary saw the "shell" and saw the water, too,
She said, "For me to take a bath to-day would never do,
- But fluffy swims just like an eel and so I would propose
That" .- Traddles 'nodded. "I am on. This time it
surely goes." : - tt
"Of all the water sports I know canoing is the best,
Said Fluffy, with alluring smile, and full of youthful zest.
Said Joseph, "If one thing I know canoing i s its name, .
There's not a chance of tipping:" "If we did you'd find me
A r V
She nestled back in cushions and her escort took the oar, .j
Tve got a thing 1 wisn jo say wnen we nave iei i uic jmiuiw -zA
Tr,rWlo, h naddled off. Miss Fluffy said, 'That's good.
I always like to hear you. talk." Said he,! "I wish .-you
aoii a '
The sentence-was not finished, for just then the boat upset;
h.A : o TtAi'olltpicT ho anrl ;he were SIDDinS SODDingWer. ,: ....
Said Traddles as they both struck out, " 'T was crankier thar i
a . 1'.' . ''' J;". " A
thought,.
But I don't care
'A -chance to tell you something that concerns both you
and me." s
"Go on," said Fluffy, "Isn'i-this romantic as can be ?
Just then poor Joseph gave a cry. "Oh, dear, I guess its
pramn
And, In a moment.hehad sunk beneath the water's damp.
r On coming to the surface plucky Fluffy seizedTiis chin.
And, bravely swimming toward the shore, she bore poor
Joseph in., . . ,
A little brandy brought him to. but when he tried to speak,
''Dont say a word I" dear Fluffy cried, "You're really far
too weak."
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