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The Prairie Child
Sunday the Twelth
Arthur Stringer
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       _ I have been examining Gershom with a more interested eye. And when he changed color, under that inspection, I apologized for making him blush. And as that only added to his embarrassment, I artlessly asked him what a blush really was. That, of course, was throwing the rabbit straight back into the brier-patch, as far as Gershom was concerned. For he promptly and meticulously informed me that a blush was a miniature epilepsy, a vasomotor impulse leading to the dilation or constriction of the facial blood-vessels, some psychologists even claiming the blush to be a vestigial survival of the prehistoric flight-effort of the heart, coming from the era of marriage by capture, when to be openly admired meant imminent danger.
       "That isn't a bit pretty," I told Gershom. "It's as horrid as what my husband said about handshaking originating in man's desire to be dead sure his gentleman friend didn't have a knife up his sleeve, for use before the greeting was over. It would have been so much nicer, Gershom, if you could have told me that the first blush was born on the same day as the first kiss."
       "Kissing," that youth solemnly informed me, "was quite unknown to primitive man. It evolved, in fact, out of the entirely self-protective practice of smelling, to determine the health of a prospective mate, though this in turn evolved into the ceremonial habit of the rubbing together of noses, which is still the form of affectionate salutation largely prevalent among the natives of the South Sea Islands."
       "What a perfectly horrible origin for such a heavenly pastime," I just as solemnly announced to Gershom, who studied me with a stern and guarded eye, and having partaken of his eleventh flap-jack, escaped to the stable and the matutinal task of harnessing Calamity Kate. _
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Thursday the Fifteenth
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Wednesday the Second
Thursday the Tenth
Tuesday the 5th
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Sunday the Ninth
Saturday the Twenty-Ninth
Tuesday the Eighth
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Wednesday the Twenty-Seventh
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Thursday the 11th
Friday the Twelfth
Tuesday the Sixteenth
Wednesday the Thirty-First
Monday the Nineteenth
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Sunday the Twenty-Ninth
Wednesday the Eighth
Wednesday the Fifteenth
Friday the Seventeenth
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Thursday the Thirty-First
Saturday the Second
Tuesday the Fifth
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Two Hours Later
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