The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-06-09
MisteIEaneOns Selections.
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ductor.
"Have you got everything?" asked
a voice, and a girls face appeared al
the car window face with laugh
ings eyes and pretty wind-blown
hair.
"Take care, Lofty" said the Older
lady within; "don't put your face toe
close. heard once of a woman's
chin being carried clean off by jVst
such a piece Of carelessness."
eyes," chimed in another voice
manly and deep-chested, with boy,
ish squeak just discernible in it
"clean of, dimple and ALI And the
doctor, he made another chin out OF
guttapercha; but that dimple was
such a dead failure that"
"Oh, mercy~ screamed his aunt;
"the hornets nest! 1 knew some,
thing was missing. My hornets
nest, Henry, it, in the wagon. Run,
run and fetch it, that's a dear boy
I can't go without i"
Henry ran, while the group of
girls on the platform exchanged
smiles and winks, and, "a secret
laughter tickling all their SOULS vol
unteered advice of various sorts to
their departing relative.
"Are you sure that's the only
thing left, Aunt SueP' suggested
Dora. 81 don't see the biggest book
anywhere"
aHere it is" replied Aunt Sue,
heaying up substantial quarto. 81
think l have everything. Let me
see," counting on her fingers ::
g 'Figuier,' Earthly Paradise" UNI
brella, shawl, lunch-basket, moss"
big box, little box~ cried Fan
ny. "Where is that lovely bag? O,
Aunt Sue, whatever else you lose,
don't lose thatp'
81 have it safe," said her aunt,
grimly; "but as for it's loveliness-
well, you know my opinion of it,
girls, if you did give it to me. 1t is
extremely pretty, but a most absurd
gimcrack for a sensible woman to
carry about" raising from her lap
as she spoke choice little article in
crimson Russia, gilt-clasped and fur
and exhibiting it to her
nieces.
"Oh, Aunty~ clamored an indig-
nant chorus; chow base, how horrid
Of youl So pretty, so strong, so
convenient
Sand with a muff, toop' cried Lot
~; "a muff to keep your ungrateful
Did hands warm. 1 really wonder at
you, Aunt Sue"
"Muff, indeedr' shifted her aunt,
nndauntedly; "a blue silk aperturel
as i'll ever put my fingers in such a
thing at that! No, girls, depend up
On it, at my age grimcracks-Mercy,
the cars are going! Where is Har-
~? Why don't he Gomez"
In fact, the train began to move,
though so slowly that it was easy
for person to keep pace with its
motion. The nieces ran along, ex-
changing last words with their aunt
.saucy, merry words; for Aunt Sue
was laughed at and teased, and be-
loved by the gay bevy, quite as if
she too had been a girl like them
selves.
At the last second a figure came
Ieaping along the platform, and a
large cry sphere was thrust through
a window-the wrong one, as it hap
into the face of an old
gentleman, who shrank back aghast.
"Hornets~ he calculated, "Ugh,
ugh! take it away! What do you
mean, young manp'
81 beg your pardon" said Henry,
splitting with laughter. 81 made a
mistake, Here, aunty, here's your
pretty commodity" This time the
object popped through the right
pane, anu lduu6u III aunt sue zap.
The cars moved out of reach.
"Good-bye, goodbye" resounded
from behind Sue waved her
handkerchief, and then, quite re-
gardless of the glare of offense di-
rected at her spine, proceeded to tie
her treasure to the netting above,
and to make herself generally com
Portable.
"There's the change at the river"
she thought, "and then 1 can settle
down for to-day" And she pro-
ceeded to look on and mark certain
pages in "Figuier," to point a pencil,
and otherwise prepare for a course
of chronological research as soon as
circumstances permitted. By the
time the old gentleman behind had
recovered breath and power Of re-
monstrance.
"Isuppose you are aware, madam, "