Mower County transcript., 1871-08-17

a thought OH Such Cnlt as yOu-tnOuSn
you might thank your stars if he should
in spite rf forty wigs" And Miss Sophy
ch,,cklcd softly behind her teaurn.
eff he wouldn't waste q thought on
me, why in the world DO you try to make
my mouth water? I'm sure don't want
to lead him into any such extravaganza"
Felicia placed her four leavcd clover over
the front door that very night, and sat
down to await the movements Of Fate,
which we know are always steal.hy and
unexpected. just now, certainly, Fate
seemed in no hurry. A week passed with.
out bringing any one in under the spell OF
the clover leaf Felicia had begun to de-
spair, when a pt ruined note from Dr. Gray
arrived saving:
"DEAK MISS FsL1ctA-Have you made the &C;
quaintance Of DR.. Arnold yet ?-Poor man; And
how fares it with the four leaved clover? am
witch may add MY own and to request the
pleasu OF your company at Shell Beach any fine
Gay this week. slould be most happy to call tor
yOu but duty beCkOns in another direction. Yet
! snail try to give myself half holiday should you
"Hopefull, yours,
"a. L. GRAY"
"Oh, should so like to got" cried Fe-
iici:. "Eut how to get therep l can't
walk that distance, and all the farm horses
are at work, suppose. Dear me! where's
grandmother that she can't make a coach
aud -e!x out of squash vines aud the squash
bugs?"
"Where do you want to go?" asked her
godlnother, in the shape Of Aunt Sophy.
For Felicia had not read the note to her
aunt it was too precious for profanc ears
or eyes; aud, moreover, she Was afraid of
Aunt Sophy's opinion of the young man
of the period. She would be sure to say,
"ln my day young men didn't write to
their sisters friends unless they had some
thing particular to say for themselves; and
young men didn't send their love in that
off hand manner, as If it wasn't Of the
slightest consequence" So Felicia an
sWered,
Mrs. Ames, friend Of mine and
mammals, wishes me to spend the first
tine day with her at Shell Beach,
"P,rhaps Dr. Arnold will happen along
and take you in. He drives from Dan to
Brcrsheba on his visits, and wouldn't
think anything of doing body good
turn," said her aunt.
I'D rather stay at home," sulkcd Fe-
licia
"You're very silly girl"
ones who like to have their own way.
VIVA
ingiy;.
well, perhaps Jones will harness old
jolly and drive you over, if you're set
upon it, and are early enough. And
there's the stage-go over in the stage,
and I'll send Jones and jolly 10 fetch you
home Thai II be the handiest."
"Oh, thank you; you are the best of
aunts after all, if you have gone wild over
that old DIR. Arnold. l dare say you can't
help it; he's Oewitched you"
"Just wait till he bewitches you"
So the next fine day found Felicia on the
road to Shell Beach, where Mrs. Gray and
Mrs. Ames were waiting to welcome her,
and where, towards noon, they were join
ed by Dr. Gray. They sat Oh the veran-
dah and watched the bathers, and rode on
the beach. Felicia, mounted on DR.. Gray's
roam, of which, to tell the truth, she was
nightly afraid, was only cOmfOrted by the
delight of being cared Tor by the doctor,
who made her forget danger by the glance
Of his eye.
"And have you not met DR.. Arnold yet ?
And has the fated fairy prince not entered
beneath the four-leaved clover?" he laugh
ed How do you know what will happen
while you're away"
"When the fairy prince comes may I be
there to see! No, haven't met the tire
some old doctor yet, though aunty suy-
gested that if he happened along I might
ridt over here with him!
But he didn't happen along?"
"No, thank goodnessl took the stage
over. Mr.. Joues is coming to take me
home"
"Mr. Jones? All! l don't remember
hearing you mention him b. fore. A par
sicu]ar friend of yours? Lawyer, doctor,
merchant, thief? He's thief, if he comes
with intent to steal my little friend, Fe-
]icia," said Dr.. Gray, with ill-concealed Gu
riosity.
"Jealous, eh Thought Felicia, delight
edly-" 1T least this savors of it," Then,
"Mr Jones and are on very good terms
that is, as good as the circumstances de-
manl," laughing.
"1ndccd! May 1 ask if he is resident
at Farmtit ld?"
"Oh yes"
"Then, of course, he can have no
hope"
He doesn't seem to be despairing,
however,
"Hoping against hope, perhaps
heard of MIR. Jones VINO is teaching
drawing in the West Parish-not wear.
ing wig, but whose locks are silvered
with the frosts of many winters, to put it
POLITICALLY; perhaps this is your friend {? y
Con the contrary, Dir. Jones, my friend,
as you choose to call him, is not over
thirty, with hair of your color, and a
golden mustache."
"Dktrust not that man, although he be your
brother,
! Whose hair is one color and his mustache an
other.'
"Ee still! wont have Mr. Jones Sian
dered. H., has figure like Titan; he
has big blue eyes. Don't you like blue
eye+?"
"No; they remind me of crockery"
"rhey remind me of sapphires and tur
Quoises However, he has an aquiline
nose"
Aud a bad temper, of course. Ir
short, don't fancy anything l hear of thi'
Mr. Jones'"
"That doesn't signify" said Felicia, EN-
boldened by success, $50 long as my Aun
Sophy does"
"Oh! Then he is her admirer-"
"He is one of her farm hands, if 20,
please"
"Cruel girl! shan't forgive you in
hurry. Jones is great burden off my
mind. What possessed your"
cone likes to make believe to have
lover once in awhile, you know"
"Waat's the use Of making believe
when the reality is staring you i'll th'
fac:!?"
"Oh, make believe lovers aren't s<
troublesome rs real ONES"
"l suppose not" with a sigh. "The,
don't ask you to live in the backwood
with them
II hope not" Why was he Away
harping upon living in the country?
IL suppose now, that no one coule
persuade you to such sacrifice?"
II hope no one will try" she answered
loftily, greatly wondering if he had any
such in ention.
"Well," he said, after pause, "whe,
I marry I hope my wife Will love IA
ture."
"I should rather she would love NC, if
were YOU" a1chly. I" But wasn't it joke
My drawing master used to say to me
You are de most great big lover Of ,it
natule, Miss Felisite, she do have; you dc
show of it in de every touch!
"He was a tlatterer," said DR.. Gray.
II thank you. Nobody Can bring such
all accusation against you.
No one spoke for full minute.
II thiuk we had better go back to your
mother" said Felicia then, somewhat
cresttallen. "It must be almost time fol
Mir. Jones to come for me-"
"Oh, not so bad as that, l hope.
should give myself the pleasure OF taking
you houic, tut I have an engagement"
"What T. pty!' said Felicia, quite for
q tting herself. "Whcrc are you going y