Springtime on the menu           

It was a march day on Manhatan and Sara was crying over her menu.perhaps you think thatshe was sad because she was eating carefully  and didn't want to see ice cream on the menu,well.  you're rong.   Sara was sitting at her desk with  a typewriter in front of her.she worked at home -typing things for people. Her best job was workins for Schulenberg's restaurant.this stood next  to the house were she had a room. When she ate there one winter evening she noticed the writing on the menu card was realy difficult to understand. That night she typed out the menu and the next day she showed it to mr Schulenberg. 

He at wance gave her the job of typing out menus for his restaurant every day.For this work mr Schulenberg agreed to pay sara in food.

After that a waiter took threemeals every day to sarah's room together with the new menu of the day in pencil for sarah to type.Now it was an afternon in March-springtime but the  weather was still as cool as winter,and sarah felt sad. she looked outof her window at the factory opposite.but she didn't realy see it.She was remembering her holiday in the cuontry last summer.

Sarah stayed two weeks at Sunnnybrook farm.There she fell in love with old farmer franklin's son,Walter.He took her fvor long walks in the country,and one day they sat together under a tree and made a crown of dandelion flowers and put it on her head.

Those yellow flowers look realy beautiful in your brown hair,'said Walter.And sarah walked back to the farm house with the dandelion crown on her head and her hat in her hand.I'm going to marry you first ting next spring .'said Walter and his eyes shone.And then Sarah came back to the big city  and her work as a typist.Suddenly a knock on her room door made from shulenberg's with the new menu.

She put a white card in the typewriter and began.Her fingers danced across the typewriter keys.The soups were first.The meats came next. After that it was the wegetables -potatoes carrots,tomatoes,and then-Sarah was crying over The menu.

She was waiting for a letter from Walter and during the past two weeks no letter came .And now on the menu she was typing ,she read dandelions and something about an egg.She remembered Walter making that dandelion crown for her,and saying that he wanted to marry him in the spring,and now seeing those beautiful flowers as just something to eat on the menu in front of her-she felt terrible.

Atl last she stopped crying.For a while she toched the keys of the typwriter sadly,still thinking of her young farmer friend.But soon she was bussy typing card after card.At six o'clock the waiter from shulenberg's brought her dinner and took away the finished menus After dinner sarah took a book from the table sat down in a comfortable chair,and began to read just then there was a ring at the front door.The land lady opened it.Sarah put down her book and listened.Hearing a man's voice downstairs'she suddenly jumped up from her chair,opened her room door and ran out to the top of the stairs.

Then running up the stairs towards her,was Walter and soon she was in his arms.Why didn't you wrrite?She asked.

I wanted to surprise you so I went to your old adress,but they told me that you weren't living there.I didn't know where to find you.But I wrote to you with my new address.

I never got it.

So how did you find me?

The young farmer smiled .Well I went to the restaurant next door for dinner and looked at the menu.When I got to just below tomatoes ,I jumped out from my chair,and called for Mr schulenberg.He told me where you live.

I remember said Sarah softly.Dandelions came just below tomates.I knew that it was your typing.Because of the strange way that your typewriter types the Ws higer than the other letters.

But there isn't a letter W in "dandelion".Cried Sarah in surprise.The young man took a menu from his pocket and gave it to her .

At the top of there was a round grey mark from one of her tears.Sarah knew that it was the card she was typing when she began crying about the summer.And there just below tomatoes in place of dandelions ,she read.                               

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