SHORT
STORY.
PIGGY GOES BUNTING."
"BY MARAVEND KENNEDY
"THE STORY OPENS.
THOMPSON...
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH., SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1918.
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for her as was her Bernard dog, which to her he sometimes re- sembled big, tawny, kindly eyed, This spreading mouth always smil- ing open over his long white teeth. His welcoming smile was partly suspended as he viewed Peggy'a censorions countenance. "Steve," she said, "you must etop hanging around Peggy I you wanted to unparry her it would be all rights but just hanging [pround don't de vou much good and it keeps others away. E' give her a little place of her own when she marries. You see, she wouldn't leave Ed's mother with CRAIG RYRIE, No. 4, the her sick so long; and tutor she Peak to let; fine situation; 8 can't portion out El. He's the that I'm hore And she could 'DOA" No. 113: The Peak, till "Ei?" reposted Peggy No;id to look out for Ed. And now rooms; tennis and croquet lawns.
To let, furnished" KIRKEN?" ate and moisture and sunshins have her pick of some mighty 30th September. Immediate pos that just has to ho there, before fina men if you'd stop fooling BOSSID the ouder things can even start to around her. O comigo, with Krow," Hur eyes grow dreamy a big, good-looking follow like from awfully sorry for Latty, your always squatting in the to know there someone kitchen or on the porch, there fiat him ever." won't be any-one else care; they won't think they stand ony choice. Aul it isn't fair to Letly. Nor tonian who wants a good wife. let's the mothering sort who makes a ral home for a man,"
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with teguler crap; baby, and Peggy Trowbridge wants to get house and muse and books rid of Letty, who iria heen in this family for twenty-soven" pmrs." Lefty, is deal "and, Ed. Trow Hridge says, "has have had a
beau." Poggy decides to find man to marry her, and pays a visit to her mother. She explains that sho, a young House wife, wania to be head of her own; and-and"
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giving a thought to the act.
Still Steve's weathore:l' face be
houses Letty is that meant mig. She reached for ti piece of cake Peggy wants to learn,
lying on tias floor, and tuined, it Paroless from hand to hand, THE STORY PROCEEDS. * "1 believo ay little girl's right, Bus a ingrance pusied from the broken cumb to her hostrils, she said “and it's in you t' les.
thence for asleep netory came oue of puzzled amazement. 'moat anything you want the. And welosed door in her bria Now, stop it Steve-under- You're like the Pattons-they're wis unlockest and deftly opened, stand; You musn't keep some- always reaching out for ame revealing its precious secret with one else from getting a goud wife. thing beyond thema-and gettin' no effort on her park Her For some trillug logging and it too. My-in of the family is only virtue was to look in with | Kissing-"
"No-no!! satisfied with things that come Fering eyes bafore the door ela--
Thened of the. chay. But, dear, you can't marry-ed, and wraprehend and quickly, monont
was greater than Still off Lotty. You talk to Ed again, grasp the elusive telisidan.. But Stove's dietiste for spree. "I Ed's-
the possession of thit, virano is not hug kiss her! I not hug kim "A darling after a thing's largely es-ential in spelling sucno woonany ever. done," laughed Leggy. .""No m': VARY. To through talking. I'm going Ber dreaminese lift her. hunting for Lotty's man. They sat upright, chin lifted breath overlap her lips puted say lack is the making of oppor: 5 sharply quickengd..
tunities instead of waiting for them to knock at the door. No body's looked for a husband lor! her before."
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"Where did this piece of cake. come from?" she asked.
That?" Sirs Patton boat over to look at it. "Guess it must have “Nobody was crazy enough," fallen out of this cast of Still said her mother, "and you have "Steve's I'm memling. Eo's always got your work cut out for some eatin' 'em. Swedish cakes o' seine time I'm thinking, "and even if kind, I don't know, where he gets Letty would marry at all, which 'em. Might as well ask the gate L'am not sure, ale wouldn't také post him, for all the answer a no-count felliw, no onesho la goi."
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didn't care for; and these that Peggy Sat as though electrified,
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Peggy'sdisciplining band drop,
Lover a swift "Oh, you poor,
poor Stave,"
The Swede shamblod wwkward- from left foot to right, from right to left, his face taking on. dull brick hus, his eyes raised Bashfully like a timid girl's. Slowly, very slowly be ques- tione:
Eggoot to ng kiss- comaus?".
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CONCERT AT CANTON.
Letly.
,, oper. This was the kind ofly whispered, and started the "There's someone for her. donkios she had found Eesty zakis roadster and shot down persisted Poggy.
iting from the oven one day the stretching white rond." Dermother smiled fondly; noth, when she had come home unex- (To be Continued next Saturday), ing bespoke Foggy sown marries pectedly. And Letty bad whip- happiness more fully than her ped them hastily under her apro bonest belief that everyone should and into the putry. And hey marry, And that she should had hot been served on the Trow. desito to burden herself with un-bridge table then or later, though necessary responsibilitica rovented she had suffod the same peculiar a new Peggy, more beautiful tlinn, fragrance in the kitchen since." even she, in her doting tenderness The mention of Still Steve had imagined. But there was aroused Mra Patton to her own flab, the Shameen, on July 31, Letty. And there would always be troubles. Letty standing like capable anil; Thore's alirays something tand varied experience. Possessed domineering mother between Peggy and maturity. Peggy had rights comprehended her stun bling block; and pathetically for she must know the hopelessne
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of finding an acceptable husband told, and he gets worse and worse; In the coures of the program 33/4, WELLINGTON STREET. STOCK. Try Our Delicious for Letty. She stifled 'n sigh.”. seems like. The only way,t be many charming numbers from
"How's baby Ed?" she asked sure fo'll do a thing is to tell him grand opera will be sung. harvoice unconsciously com- not to. Pa says he isn't goin' to This polished artiste was train- passionate.
that any more; that Steve has t' "Olima," with starry radiance, get used t' takin' orders straighted at the Paris Conservatoire and I just wish you could or be'll discharge füm. But he the Institute of Masic in New have seen him in his bath this won't of course. Steve's been hore York. She received tnition also front such well known tutors ha morning be "She stopped for eighteen years.”
Henschel, Giroudet and Madame and frowned. Oh my, keep Her daughtersprang up excited-Marchesi. Having taken advan forgetting? And only just comly, her eyes shining liko suntage of such instruction she ing over I vowed I wouldn't reflecting mirrors.
successful repeat one thing he did."
"Opportunity knocking at the career both in America and Eog- "But why?", asked her mother, door. It's been squatting on my land, in which countries she has staring at her always amazing steps for the whole year, and I been associated with leading daughter with bewildered eyes. haven't sense enough to see it! singers. In the summer of 1911
Peggy explained:
Letty and Steve E'll get em up, she appeared at Covent Garden, Me Curites, the funny little They'll marry and he happyLondon, and before that she had man that visited the minister and we'll be happy!"
aseason at the Metropolitan, New After a few moments' menial York. She first entered-grand last veok, says he never visits at a house where, there's a baby or fumbling with this amazing pro-opera eight years ago at the Tiroli
commencor
a pet dog; that in a house where position Mrs Patton lot the coat Theatre, San Francisco, While
a baby is, it's babybaby-baby' she was mending fall to the floor. studying at the Institute of Music, from, the time he goes till he
"Letty-Steva! Why-why this artiste was appointed solo leaves; and if there's a dog, it's
soprano to the Congregational .... And it is,
Church in Amerios. Subsequently dog-dog-dog". mo. I was mad as a wet hen was moving down the driveway Whitney to assume the prima But Peggy's active young body she was engaged by Mr. F. 0 when he said it, but oh dear I soon found out it was baby aa through borne on the wind. donna's role in the "Chocolate She cranked the waiting roadster Soldier," and, later she appeared baby baby with me too-just Her mother came ponting after under his management at the that one tune pounded out all her. day long."
Lyric "Peggy! Stop it! You've gone But, Peggy, I'm not a strangolean crazy over this notion of
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concert platform, aa
ex I like to hear bout baby." getting Letty a husband, She well as on the stage, she is well "I know, ma, but the way to wouldn't look at Still Steve known and has appeared before stop is to stop. If I mean to You'll only insult her an mako Euglish audiences of the highest grow, I've got to sow my mind trouble for nothin. Peg-gy-14
order. She has Bung with Sir
with more'n one crop, I've got Peggy's enrolling laugh floated Henry Wood's orchestra atpi toʻgo about developing my mind back.
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