Summary
A sun-bleached barn, a fiddle sighing in the heat, and the air thick with molasses and jealousy—Bobby, straw-hatted knight of the loam, struts like a bantam rooster round his dew-bright sweetheart, only to watch the dusty road belch forth a chrome-tongued confectioner whose suitcase glints like a mirage of citrine promises. The stranger’s coat pockets exhale peppermints and modernity; his smile is a cash register kaching. The girl’s gaze, once tethered to furrow and fence, drifts toward cellophane sparkle, and the heartbeat of the pasture quickens into a comic gallop of sabotaged lemonade stands, runaway hogs wearing ribbon, and moonlit hayloft espionage. In the flicker of nitrate dreams innocence itself is weighed—sweet corn against sourball—until the final reel tips its straw boater to love, but only after every last humbug has melted on the tongue of consequence.
Synopsis
Bobby is a rural lover courting a country maid, and a candy salesman arrives who rivals Bobby in his girl's affections.
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