The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-11-14

drawing small mourning ring from his
finger, and holding it up, asked If she rec
ognized that felic.l ts 9Iaa4 gss sz@ErTae-;
ST is my fathers gray hair, and you
sHis son, Arthur Willet, and your broth
err iatss3 81 z,.tfa9s 70, - S'siFs l523 3ss'
/ Mary Willet haywood fell upon the mem
dieant's breast, weeping tears of sweetest
Joy and thanksgiving. o..,,,,s,, ,,se.s.-y.
Doctor haywood turned from the room
and left sister and brother alone in that sa-
cred hour of re-union, saying TO himself:
sBe not forgetful to entertain strangers,
for thereby some have entertained angels,
unawares.'
81 A sEA-sHORE INCIDENT.
Now that sslife'' at the watering places is
over for the season, and the returned abb
sentees, after several weeks spent in setting
things to rights, are entertaining their init
mate friends with "reminiscences of their en-
joyments at Rockaway Newport, Nahant,
&C., we occasionally hear of a Summer in
cident worth repeating. A droll one occur
| red at marine resort, at the head of Long
Island Sound, to a couple Of the forty or
fifty boarders in the hotel. A newly arrived
gentleman and lady strolled away one day
in August to the long sand-beach far be-
yond the bath-house, to enjoy the grander
sweet of the wave as it rolled majestically to
the shore. The sublime solitude of the
scene appeared to be shared only by Old
Ocean and themselves. but they were lovers
just about to be married, and wanted no
other society than that of each other Af-
ter walking till they had become SO warm
that they looked wishfully to the tempting
water, with its clean, sandy bed; and longed
to lave in its cool, translucent depths, they
decided to try bath. They had no swim
ming rig with them, but, fortunately, that
was coy nook on either side a little rocky
promontory, which projected into the Sound
several rods beyond the main margin. The
gentleman modestly retired to the further
side of this natural screen, and the lady di-
vested herself Of her clothing without bit
of fear that he would incur her Diana like
Indignation: his honor being above suspi-
cion, and her own being sans psur ct sans
reproche. Soon she heard him plashing in
the water on the other side, and as there was
no harm in using their tongues, although
they must not use their eyes, she cried out
to him cheerily as she. rose like naiad from
the wave, and they had quite soeiable time
of it, in spite Of their separation. "Wasn't
it beautiful 20 eyes, it was 'sglorious.
But, unfortunately for them, small but
quick-witted and mischieyou boy-a sort of
marine Ike Partington-withou being seen
himself, saw it all. He mad been fishing up
on shelf of rock, at the extreme end Of
the promontory, and, not having very good
luck, had fallen into sleep, from which he
was awakened by their exclamations of de-
light. There are some youthful minds to
which the conception of roguish trick or
practical joke is as inevitable as lying. Un-
happily, this lad was one of them. From
the point where he lay he could, with only a
slight movement Of his body, see the gen
tleman on one side of the ledge and the lady
on the other; and not very far away from
each, their, respective heaps of garments.--
What a jolly good joke, he thought to him
self, it would be to 90 and hide their clothes,
or, still better, to change one pile for the
other. With him, to devise was to execute,
and he went fearlessly about it, yet, with
great caution, lest he be discovered and his
fun he spoiled. Watching his opportunity,
and taking advantage of their absorption in
what they were doing, the little rogue
managed by consumate ability to effect the
ominous exchange in the situation Of the
unsuspecting bathers' clothes, then stole
away from the scene. As he ran behind a
sand-hill his long shadow between her, and
the sinking sun attracted the lady's notice,
and in some trepidaticn she hastened to don
her apparel. Fancy her ''feelings" on find
ing, nos ses ,p p~n o.u.Ies' W. .no na', eoa
Vess, anu otne, aft,cles, ~ ectsnso, ol the
gentleman on the other slde OF the promon,
tory! HOW eouia II nave napPenea-anG' !
~nat was 10 DC uone was 'nat IearIai
iong snaaow some spirit OF tne sea OF snore,
"no' onenoeu at ner intrusion upon MS
sohtude, nao resorteo 70 TINS metnod o1
Punishlhg her .emeiity H were De'lef TO
imagine her situation than 70 attempt TO
discribe 1t.
IN .ne mean tme me gentleman, 700, re-
pal!ea 70 .ne snore 20 uress; sPeecnless as
tonisnmen' was oePlc'eu On MS countenance,
as tI ~ zen upon neaP OF women's clotmng'
NAT ~ .nuluel, no lnu.'efeG 70 hlmsen, !,
aoes tnls mean Is .he pace turned
arouno, OF am ora1y IN the greates9
PerPieA'y ne .oo. up one af.c'e VI. iemin.
lne apPalel aisol ano'ner 70 tne NUMBER oi
aooa1 lMl.y, ie'uns one Mlef anotnef droP
again upon .ne lucA whe,e ne $1,000, win
ma many nalI -auuipie eJaculation OF wonder.
inere was no uoupt N MS ininu as TO Wnom
the things belonged, put how did they get
tnere anu wne,e were n's own ciotness WIN
one arm akimbo ne pressed his other hand
upon ms s.l IorfreaI 70 c3ilec. :, ms ce~i!dered
senses, es s NIUE ~ tninKhg Una. .ne miscniev vons
Ell VINO was tne m au.nor oi ms semparrassment Z,
was was iaugnins AZ MN rom OH oenind the sand
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