Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1858-10-02

shed, saw Uncle RalLh and Mark Davenpor
talking with Mr.. Afford al the door.
Not to make mystery Of simple matter
the blacksmith had come to borrow of Mr.
Mr.. Afford the money necessary TO make VI
the amount owing by Mark to the Kinlocl
estate.
The young man had shown great readiness
to accompany his uncle praiseworthy, Ger
tainly; but am inclined to think be baC
somehow got an intimation that the girls hat
preceded him.
! Fortunately tho farmer was able to lenC
the sum wanted, and as he had an errand il
town, he took Mr. Hardwick with him in bis
wagon.
Mark was left nothing loatb. to walk home
with the girls. Do not think he was wanting
in affection for his cousin Lizzy, if he wished
that she were. just for an hour, a hundred
miles away. They took path that led over
the plain to the river intending to cross upon
q foot bridge, q short distance above the vii
lage. But though Mark was obliged to be-
silent on the matter he had most ut heart
Mildred was not unaware of his feelings. A
tore, a look, grasp OF the hand serves for
au index, quite as well as the most fervent
speech. The river makes a beautiful bend
near the foot bridge, and its bank is covered
with young growth of white pines. They
sat down on billock, under the trees, whose
spicy perfume filed the air, and looked down
the stream toward the village. How fair it
lay in the soft air of that June day The wa.
ter was deep aud blue, with reflected hea-
ven. The mills that cluster about the dam,
mile below, were partially concealed by
! young elms, silver poplars, and water naples.
| Gardens slOped on either bank to the waters
edge. Neat, white houses CLEANED through
the trees and shrubbsry around the bases of
the bills that hem in the valley; and the tai,
slender spre of the meeting house showed
fairly against its debsely. wooded back ground
Verify, If were painter should desire no
lovelier scene for my canvas than that on
which Mark and NJ !l1red looked. Lizzy
walked away, and began hunting checkerber.
rieS with an unusual ardor. She did under.
stand +; she would not be Mademoiselle de
Trop any longer. Kind soul SO unlike
young women in general, who won't step aside
gracefully, when they should Farther can
vorch, that she neither hemmed, nor made
eyes. nor yet repeated the wel.worn proverb.
"Two's company, but three's none" No.
she gathered berries and sang snutches Of
songs as though she were quite aloue.
Now those of my readers who have the
good fortune still to lnger 10 teens are ex.
pecting that | shall treat them TO a report Of
this delightful tete a tete. But it must not be
told. The older people would skip it, or say.
"Pshaww And besides, il it were set down
faithfully, you would be sadly disappointed
the eleverest men, even, are quiet sure 10 ap.
pear silly Ito other peopl-) when in love- The
speeches of the Romeo's and Claude Mel.
notes. with which you have been SO enchant-
ed, would be commonplace enough, if trans
lated into the actual prose in which they
were. delivered. When Shakespeare wooed
Anna Hathaway, It might have been different
but consider you will wait some time before
you find lover like him. No, when your
time comes. it will be soon enough. You will
see your hero in his velvet cloak and plumed
hat, with the splendor of scenery and the n-
toxication Of the music. ] don't choose to
show him TO you in morning dress at rehearsal
nnder daubed canvass and dangling MACH.
merry.
However full Of poetry and passion Marks
declaration was for Mildred, to him it was
tame aud hesitating enough. 1t seemed to
him that be could not force into the cold for
! mula OF words the emotion that agitated him.
But with quckenng breath he poured out
his love, his hopes, and his fears,--the old
burden She trembled, her eyeids fell /; but
al length reused by his pleading tones, she
looked up. Their eyes met one look was
enough; il was a reciprocal electric fash.
With srdden energy he clasped her in his
/ arms aud it WAS very pretty tableau they
made! But in the quick movement his heed
less foot chanced to touch n stone, which
rolled down the bank and fell into the stream
with splosh The charm was broken.
What's that ?" cried Lizzy from distance
forgetting her discretion. "Did q pickeral
jump?'
No" replied Mark, '-the pickere know
me Of old, and don't come about for fear that
| have hook and ine in my pocket. 1t WAS
only stone rolling into the river"
you come here a moment" contiGued the
unthougtfui LizEy; "here's a beautiful sassa.
fras saplng. aud can't pull it up by the
roots alone"
"Seud for the dentist, them
"Go and help her." said Mildred, softly.
"Well." said Mark, with look of enforced
resignation,-"if must"
The sapling grew on the steep bank, per.
haps fifty yards from where he had been sit.
ting. lie did not use sufficient care To brace
himself, as he pulled with all his might, aud
in moment, he knew not how, he rolled down
into the river. The girls first scrermed. and
then, as he came out of the water, shaking
himself like Newfoundland dog, they laugh.
ed Immediately. The affair did not seem
very funny to Mark, and he Joined in the
luubu Win no pTtdI HthTtiuebS. i ne SHOCK
had effectually dispelled all the romance Of
the hour.
"l'm so sorry " said Lizzy, still laughing
at his grotesque and dripping figure.
"You must hurry and get dry clothes on,
Mark" said Mildred. Squire Clamps is
the nearest house across the bridge"
Hang Squire Clamp! his clothes would
poison me. I'd us lief go to a quarantine
hospital to be dressed"
Don't !" said Lizzy.
But he kept on in the same mercurial strain
-"Clamp lives on poison, like Rsppaecini's
daughter, in Hawthorne's story only it
makes him ugly instead OF fsir, as that pretty
witch was. His wife never had any trouble
with spiders as long as she lived; be had
only TO blow into nest. and the creatures
would tumble out, and give up their veno-
nous ghosts. No vermin but himself are to
be seen 10 his peigLborhood the rats even
found they couldn't stand It, and had to emf
CRATE"
"1he breath that killed spiders must have
been little too powerful at times, for Mrs.
Clamp. one would think" said Mildred.
1T was" said Mark. "She died one day,
after Clamp had cheated widow out OF her