The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1855-04-26


! at once, she began to take an interest il
the conversation and replied:
ooh yes, We have green things there,
but if | am not mistaken | have seen
greencr ones already since | came to the
city," .....
"No dew tell !" said the unsuspi-
cious dandy, initiating Lucy's tone of
voice; how's aoheat now 7"
Well, wheat's poor" said Lucy,
with much interest.
I" La. is it now, what pity! what's
the matter with u"
Why they say it all runs to beard this
year, and when that is the case there is
little or no Aead, and if there is, it hasn't
anything in it,"
A few laughed heartily who had not
laughed before, and Herbert Ferguson,
laying down his book, fixed his eyes on
the Vermont Cousin, as if he expected
some real amusement.
The young fop fdgeted, turned red,
tapped his little boot with his cane, and
laughed silly laugh. as if he did not
know just what to make of the girl, and
then said,
"Now l suppose you mean to grace
the theatre and opera with your pre-
lsence, don't you ~ --r-r-s-
No, Lucy said, she thought not.
9, La! now, why not; but perhaps
your ma doesn't approve of your going
to such wicked places"
My parents did say they thought
had better not have my mind distracted
by such amusements, especially while
was at school,"
"Well, it is bad for the mind ]
found it so, and my pa bad to prohibit
my going to such places at all" F"
Here came perfect shrek of de-
light from Mr.. Fiiz- -Henry's admirers.
All! answered Lucy, 81 should
have thought you were perfectly safe
from any danger of tint kind; did you
ever attend managcre ?"
"No, my pa won't let me 60 there,
either, he keeps me very close"
"We had a very fine one through our
place this fall, aud l was perfectly de-
lighted with it,"
'No, do tell now what did you see ~
asked the dandy.
why l saw baboon dressed up
like man, a regular fop, you know, and
really" said she, screwing up her eyes,
and looking at Mr.. Meredith Fitz-Henry
from head to foot, +" really, the likeness
was so perfect that should hardly have
been able to tell which was which it
was really perfect, dress, cane, eyc-glass
and all; but never imagined that one
of the first exhibitions I should see on
my arrival in New York city would be
that of man endeavoring to see how
much he could look aud act like o.
baboon."
The room now fairly rang with shouts
and screams of laughter, and as soon as
he could be heard, Herbert Ferguson,
who had enjoyed the whole thing, called
out,
"Now Fitz-Henry, you had better
beat retreat as soon as possible, for
you are only getting deeper and deeper
INTO trouble" And the discom6tted
young coxcomb, who had just begun to
perceive that he was caught in his own
rap, muttered something about " an
,ther engagement" and sneaked off,
Ill that could be seen Of his face being
If the deepest crimson. From that time
he Vermont cousin was quite safe from
nis attacks indeed, he seemed so
thoroughly uneasy in her presence, that
{ she ever came on tho same side Of the
-oom, which she sometimes did on pur-
bose to tease him, he always found some
Excuse for changing his seat.
Helen Acton and Lucy Holmes began
chool together the next term, at one of
he first schools in the city, and it was
lot long before those who had Lucys|
'ducation under their care, became con-
'inced that in the Vermont young lady
hey had no ordinary mind to deal with.
She came really to acquire knowledge,
vhie most of the girls in the classes
nth her, looked upon their school life
IS a'sOrt Of ordeal through which il was
Necessary TO pass, before they could conel