Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-11-01
Bobinette looked aghast.

your Fairy Prince :? BY his fine blue
eyes? Eh-was that it F? By his hand
some leg ? Was that what I said 20 be-
tween each question fourishing her
cruteh in q way to keep Bobinette wink
ing and backing. ''By the times he
squeezes your hand, and the way he
cOmbed his hair Was that it. Bobi-
nette ?''
ss1TO, no." answered BObinette, scar
/ ed, and bursting into sObs in the cor
ner, into which the old woman had
driven her. 'sBy his m-m-money, god
mother. I did-did-didu't knOw-W-w,
lg0dmother."
"Say fell in lo-lo-ve, love, godmoth-
er," mimicked the old woman.
"Why not, gO7mother ~ she an
i swered audaCiOUsIy.
'fWhy not - cried her godmosher,
shrllly. Would you like to know
what becomes of girls who fall in love
1 They live" sinking her voice, sat the
east side OF the town, BO5imetts and
in Harlem, and in the country. They
have ten children, and do all the FAM
ily sewing. They lose their color, and
get thin, and wear one bonnet three
winters running or they live in lodg-
| ings, and drink hay tea, and fight the
| landlady, and wear dyed silks"
/ Bobinette shuddered, but hearing her
| godmother's words the waltz beat OUT
side, began also to tap out the time
| with her slipper.
/ gOdmOther, shrewdly watching her.
''Ihe satin slippers are laid away to be
! looked at, and the ball dresses are cut
! up into toilet cushions %
/ Tum ii tum tum, tum, tum, tum,
/ tum That was the music which came
/ floating pleasantly into the musty little
/ cloak room Bobinettel looked longing
/ ly at the door.
'sNIy love, your arm, - said the fairy.
| Tum, tum, tum, beat the music, to
which magnificent princesses went
Whirling about with gorgeous princes,
| while BObinette walked up the room,
with her hCtle brown godmOther; her
heart aching a little for Prince Jack,
/ who followed her with reproachful eyes
but not aching so very hard because
she heard the young men say, as she
went by, "Oh what pretty girl -
just then her godmother pinohed her
arm.
"AIy dear, there is your Fairy
Prince"
'fWhere % asked Bobinette. eagerly,
for at first she could not see him; but
presently she spied a little old man,
lean, brown, and wrinkled, in snuf-col-
Ored clothes, sitting on a velvet sofa be-
tween two beautiful young ladies,
while two more stood before him with
fans and bouquets to divert him,
''-Fhat - exclaimed BObinette. ''Why
he looks like monkey, and he is old
enough to be my father"
"Stufp' said her gOdmother. ''He
owns blocks of houses, and the finest
horses in the city ~
Bobinette pOuted and turned her head
away.
every remarkable - thought the Fai-
ry Prince, who had been watching her
from his sofa. ST never saw woman |
do ths before. They all smile in my
eyes till I wink again." So he went
over to the fairy godmOther and made |
her bow, and the fairy made him a
great courtesy, and said, sWeetly, ttBob- ]
inette, my dear - And Bobinette was
obliged to face about but she was so |
Yexed that she would not say a word.
Then the Fairy Prince, who was near |
" talked to death, thought to himself, /
''This Bobinette is not only peculiar, |
she is admirable" And he said aloud |
"Charming Bobinette, viii you take /
my arm ?'' BObinette put up her lip, |
but the fairy whispered, tsIf You don't |
you shall go home tomorrow" Then /
Bobinette took the snuff-colored arm 1
and they walked sOlennly about; and |
BObinette was still more angry, and /
still silent and the Fairy Prince tho't |
that she grew moro charming every
moment. But the young ladies on the 1
sofa turned green with envy, and Prince /
Jack, una bic to endure the wretched |
sight, went home and wrote BObinette |
a little note in which he said /:
ssDEAR BoBuNErTE Don't marry that old /
ogre, at least till you have once more met !
in the conservatory your distracted JACK. /
"Hour, ten AN. Place conservatory.
That evening, when Bobinette opened |
her ribbon box, she found the note |
there.
f'Alas ~ said Bobinette. ''what is a
poor girl to do ? GOdmOther declares |
Prince Jack calls her Fairy Prince an
ogre. There is one thing quite certain, /
that can never meet him in the con-
servatOry.'
She said that over to herself till one /
minute of ten the next morning. Then /
she slipped slyly into the conservatory,
and oh astonishing sight, there was |
Prince Jack behind an orange tree.
Glow good of you to come he said /
softly.
81 think it was very bad" f" answered |
BObinette, with pert Toss, saying in |
her heart, ''Why, oh why, should a |
fairy prince without any money sport /
such a mustache and have such shOul- /
ders ?" While Jack thought, fOh /
happy ribbon that clasped round |
her waist, and oh ecstatic collar about /
her white throat, and how the hand in 4
his was soft as down"
CHOW foolish I" said Bobinette, Civ |
ing the hand pull of about One-Wren /
power, which made Prince Jack hold it
the tighter.
"Dear Bobinette,' he said, softly |
''you must know that I love you ~ "
BObinette looked very hard at a /
great red -gerauiun, and said nothing.
''I haven't houses and lands like your /
snuff -colored Ogre
eff you please, he is a friend OF god |
mothers" f." interposed Bobinette.
"Ogres in the old days owned castles 4
and lands, and gObbled up lovely maid |
ems" persisted Jack; "but they were
called by their right Names"
GtT4uf-b1Tt.-71 Hero 2ohinnftn 1Oef /
courage and hung her head.
''But what, BObinette ?" asked Prince /
Jack, very tenderly. I believe he had /
stolen an arm about her person in some |
way.
81 don't see how we could live" muir |
INJURED Bobinette, thinking of the hay
tea aud the dyed silks. "Godmother
says you could not keep me in slip
pers."
"a wandering prince must earn his
kingdom, y replied Jack, quickly,
strengthening himself and looking Bob
inette thought, oh so grand and noble
though how much Of it was shirt-frOnt
and shoulders I should not like to say ;
''and then, y insinuatingIy, ''if it comes
to a strait there would be your uncle
Jupi-"
dOh, dear mer' broke in Bobinette,
looking at him with frank, wide open
eyes-"there is nothing in that, you
know. My Uncle Jupiter is-Why no
body knows where Uncle Ju has been
these ten years. said that because
godmOther told me it was charm"
"a charm indeed - muttered Jack,
growing pale and something like a
frost came at once between him and
Bobinette. He did not drop her hand
but he suffered her to take it away.
"You see," said she, tears springing
to her eyes, t'that it is no use."
'sNo use" echoed the wandering
prince, forgetting the kingdom that he
proposed to earn but thinking, re-
gretfully, how like she was to dewy
pink blossom.
al think we had better go out" said
poor Bobinette.
Prince Jack bowed and held open the
glass doors.
"Poor disenehanted princeP' chuckled
the fairy gOdmother, who all the while
had been hidden behind a vHse.
Bobinette went out and sat down in a
and EL. l.1I.aa who hid