The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-10-20

cone ny Inc IISHI oHO after leIC, TO th(
great contentment of the good lady.
j If Nimrod's mother had known why ht
Il desired to stay out all the next night. she
would have cried e Oh, grieyous g In ter
lrifed earnest The big, bad boF was
icrazy to go to q certain fancy-dress party
Well,1 might as well own it: so were
Lydia and l; and the thing was how to
get her also for all night. With great
deal of coaxing and promising persuad.
led her mother to let her spend the night
With me and when she hoped that we
would think of kle saints, and have it in
our minds to make an improving season
of it, we incontinently turned conscience
into 9, " convenient scarecrow,". and said
we would. 0a3 al ~ ~ af't1 saJ1
| got Lydia up as lovely nun, her
sweet, shining eyes and Madonna face
exactly suiting the character. Nimrod
went off and hired go.gcn.s Louis-the-
Fourteenth costume, man. like, never try
ing it on; and OIL didn't we have TO
work over it to make it big enough! We
cut open everything, and introduced FIVE
cornered pieces in fashion and with a
passion perfectly reckless 1t required
many flights OF inspiration to cover all of
him, and genius and agility IN :equal
parts to carry them out; for he bobbed
abound like a teetotum declaring that we
stuck pins and needles all up and down
his spine. We did. And we sewed him
up tight in his costume.
| What it looked like when finished /
am sure l cannot describe. If we could
only have disposed OF the calves of his
legs as sacriticial offerings, and kept the
rest of him with his back against the
wall, he might have passed muster. as
most of the, engagements were behind
but the great triangular pieces which we
were Obliged to put into the backs of bis
long stockings made the seams wriggle
all around his legs like a corkscrew, and
as well educatei Engllshman would
observe, they looked so "jolly funny" that
we screamed with laughter. ''''
8"Thee had better settle down into
quietness," said Louis the Fourteenth
''If thee glook once at nv legs. at the
party. will straightway dance a sailor,
hornpipe." ''.' ' 1898 7t8a
Fancy Louis-the Fourteenth with those
redlculous legs, and dancing hornpipe
But how l did enjoy the intense, III,
lspeakable delight of those. two youno
i Quakeis at the, ball! How wicked and
pleasant it was to give them this forbid
den glimpse into fairyland! Lydia ever
went through the figures of a quadrillt
with little rapturous teaching Of he,
partner, handsome young brigand
while Nimrod, with his patched up back
IagainsU the door, and those absurd Len.
drawing corks down among the chairs OF
the musicians, made one of the iddlers
tumble of his seat with laughter at his
comments on the scene in the "thee" and
"thou" language M
do not think that we were ever found
out In this adventure; and we never did
SO any more; for soon after, Nimrod
whom have called a big boy, but who
was IN reality twenty-one years of age
with moustache that couldaonly be seen
with strong side-l;ght, got married!
am certain that Nimrods parents
were pleased to have him married SC
young and he was in no wise 10Th, fol
Ruth Gumble was a sweet prim little
maiden, who demurely knotted and
knitted for her kith and kinsfalk, ano
looked bewitchingly pretty under bonnets
of the most bojled-dow coal-scuttle. y
! pattern. But, obi she had verg squ01,
lchin and the ravishipg little dlmple il
lit could not hide the fact, from ont
learned as | in physiognomy, that MIN
rods six feet four, which bowed and fel
at her beck now, would bow and fal
at her peck when the twain becam,
lone qsaI i1ah Eillt90 9l'343 9s3
f. Of course, / was burdened witt. th,
4 weight Of my concern to attend this. we'd
ding and with this end in view I tol6
Samuel, If he should be moved to speat
ION the most important occasions, it would
tsarely be 'blessed on my waiting mind.
This piece of solemn hattery wen
straight - his mark, and I got the invi
tation and thanked him, with face o
sober decorum, feelingall the time like
Topsy: syeI a+;,-g $. 9,..-.
i ooh, isn't dreful wicked.
Ching-a-ring-fing ring licLed" i
But that light minded Lydia. who hat
arm locked in mine, while was praisins
Ter fathers preaching gift, rushed int
i the hall, her cheeks and throat puffed
out with bottled-up Laughter; and wher
! l joined her she bad the cruelty to saw
|"Oh, Fanny, chat fgment of the brain.
I thy waiting mind overcame me utterly
Thee is deceitful above all things and
desperately wicked; yet thee facinates
me" and she took my face between her
two small hands ana kissed me.
Lydia answered sternly, and giving
her good pinch. "If you want to see
desperate wickedness combined with dis
tracing beauty, look in the glass; then
put onyour sugar-scoup bonnet and come
out with me, forI wish to buy some tea
spoons for the bride"
The inconsistent, unsym pathetic sun
shone gloriously bi1gh5 Oh the wedding