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The possibility of rain had never occurred to us, as the only picture we had seen in our mind's eye had been country roads gleaming in the sunshine, but Gladys said scornfully that she would like to be shown the group of Camp Fire Girls who would let themselves be put off by rain. "Let's build a Rain Jinx," said Sahwah, who always has the most whimsical inspirations. "A what?" asked Gladys.
Was love always like that? If it was what He intended, why was it so often without reciprocation? He took to walking about the room, according to his old habit, and obediently Jinx followed him. It was four by his alarm clock when Edith knocked at his door. She was in a wrapper flung over her nightgown, and with her hair flying loose she looked childish and very small.
'And so did I, said Rosalie; the same old man gave one to me. 'Has He found you, Mr. Jinx? said Rosalie, in a lower voice. 'Who found me? what do you mean? said Jinx, with a laugh. 'Why, haven't you read the story about the picture? said the child. 'It says where it is underneath.
"Crawled right in, and we got back here in a jiffy; but you see it was no use when that jinx is on my trail, meanin' to loco everything I do. Now, I reckon if it'd been any other feller in the bunch, the critter'd just stood its ground, and I'd be vindicated. But me I'm hoodooed of late, and can't do a thing straight."
I got to talkin' an' forgot I was on my way home when I throwed in with yuh." "Aw, you can 'phone any time. There is street cars running back to town all the time I or you can catch a bus anywhere's along here. I got pinched once for drivin' through here without a tail-light; and twice I've had blowouts right along here. This town's a jinx for me and I want to slip it behind me."
First thing we know, you'll begin, 'Ladies and fellow constituents." Kit waited until the laugh had subsided, and Peggy had replaced the shell pins from her tumbled braids after a tussle with "the Jinx," who took all political allusions as personal affronts.
'Young 'un, said Jinx, 'I haven't forgot what you told me about that there picture. I like my picture a deal more than I did afore. Then Rosalie went up to the woman, who did not see her till she was close to the caravan steps. The woman was hard at work at her washing, with Skirrywinks sitting on her shoulder, and Spanco, the pigeon, on her head.
Others, however, had not been considerate of the fact that a "Jinx" was on his trail, and were given to making sarcastic remarks concerning him. And thus it was that Mister Numbskull spent his days, dodging his neighbors, sidestepping the highways and obscuring himself from the very individual he wanted so much to behold Opportunity.
He was satisfied now that from the moment he transferred the strap-hanger's bill-book to his own pocket he had been hoodooed. Only a jinx of the most malevolent type could have prompted his hurried exit from a train to dodge an imaginary "bull." Only the blackest of evil spirits could be responsible for this involuntary kidnaping! "Mate um wun! Mate um 'ippity stip!"
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