Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1854-03-04

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his mother; his mother looked at me
and looked at both of them; and then
we laughed and cried until we nearly
had regular Mysteries.
But who was,he "friend," That was
the question. We were all born Yam.
KEGS, and did our best at guessing,;;' !
but, it didn't help us. Well, at any rate
it was very nice all round. | hadn't to be
routed. No, nor John, nor his dear old
mother. And pussy purred round as il
she had as much reason to be glad as
any of US; and the canary trilled SC
sharp strain that we were obliged to
muffie his cage and his enthusiasm, with
Johns red silk pocket handkerchief. ;.
Mrs. Harris and l had not got our
feminine tongues still, the next day,
when John came back, in the middle oi
the afternoon, with another riddle, to
drive our womanly curiosity still more
distracted. He was requested to call
immedatcly-so q note he had just re.
ceiyed, read-at Mr.. 80. & Co.'S and
/" accept the head clerkship, at salary
of s14oO year, being highly recon-
mended by a person whose name his
employers decline giving.'7 Gn
That was q greater puzzle still. John
and his mother, had rich relations to be
sure; but though they had always been
interfering in their plans for making e
living, they had never been known to
gice them anything except-adutce,
or to call on them BY daylight, and it
wasn't at alllikely that the "leopard
would change his spots" at that late
day. No-it couldn't be Johns rich
relatives, who were always in such o
panic that their cousins, the Harisses,
lived in an questionable part of the
town, dined at one o'clock, and noticed
trades people and mechanics. w, s'ti
We were too sensible to believe in
fairies, and who the mischief was emp
tying the "horn of plenty" that way at
our feet was the question. a....
When we woke tho next morning, we
found in the back yard, a barrel ofap.
Piles, barrel Of flour, keg of butter,
and a bag of buckwheat flour; labelled,
"For Mr.. John Harris, - street."
John declared (after pinching himself
to see if he were really John, that he
t:fasteneds the gss inside the very ias'
thing before he put on his night cap.--;
Mrs. Harris said somebody must have
climbed over and unfastened it, and
jumped right up and down, for a bright
thought had Just struck me, aud | was
determined to hold on to it, for l didn't
have bright thought every day. .r
"What now?' said John, as l caper.
cd round. r
"oh, nothing" said |, " only it takes
woman after all to find out secret,
and to keep It too," ! added, swapping
my niger " Hltii. ...-.,... t..-..... ~
That day l thought. it would do me
good to ride about in an omnibus. !
tried several. 1t didn't make much DIFF
ference to mo whether they went up
street or down, or where they finally
stopped. l YVES looking more at the
passengers. y
By and by I saw the person wanted
Said l in a whisper, sitting down beside
him, "House Observation-Disclosures
butter-crackers and buckwheat; al
for giving you seat in an omnibus!"
Didn't | know that the fairy was The
old man with silver locksl Didn't he
bribe me to hold my tongue, by telling
me that he'd come and take tea with mi
so that he might get peep at John ant
his molherl Didn't he come and didn'
| | look as much astonished when he call
ed, as if it hadn't been all settled two
days previous? But howwas Ito know
that Mrs. Harris would turn out to be
an old love of his9 How was John te
know, when he felt such an irresistible
impulse to be kind to that old man, that
his hair had grown white loving his mo
ther9 How was the old man to know
why he loved J John so well, and thought
him one ofthe finest young men he hao
ever seen? How was l to know that
was to turn out to be what l always SC
mortally hated--a feminine match.ma
kerr r,