A Cold Storage Romance

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One would never give a simple little egg the credit of furnishing the material for a real romance. Nevertheless, stranger things have happened, and Samantha Higgins was thoroughly imbued with the romanticism characteristic of a blushing maid of seventeen summers. Hans May, the neighboring farmer, makes love and ventures a proposal to Samantha, but it was not according to Laura Jean Libby's idea of love's romantic courtship that the young lady of seventeen glimmering years had been digesting. So he got the mitten, but Hans, remembering the old adage, "If at first you don't succeed," etc., so at the first opportunity pops the question again with like results. Samantha has too much foolishness on her mind to suit Daddy Higgins and is frequently reminded of the fact. During the packing of the eggs, she conceives the idea of inscribing her autograph on one that is ready for the storage. In the meantime the undaunted Hans has enlisted the aid of Daddy Higgins in the pressing of his suit. Remembering what the knights in the novel did, she forced her admiring Hans to get on his knees to her. An elapse of ten years and the innocent little egg had found its way to an aspiring poet larder. By accident the poet finds the message and determines to investigate not knowing that for ten years past the writer of that message had been Mrs. Hans Hay. Hans was lazy and Samantha still dreaming of Laura Jean sets her food down hard and fires the stalwart defender of the home out and hustles the kids after him. Coincident with this move the poet arrives, following up his clue, confronts her with the egg and Samantha at once strikes the old romantic chord, just as Hans enters and proceeds to extinguish the poet. The natural consequence, a family tete-a-tete, and just to think it was all caused by an innocent little egg.