The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-28
NUMBER AZ.

''Your share"
"Sam says it was half; Sans gen
orally right.
"Where is Chicago?"
"WeH, now, that is good You
don't know where Chicago is, and
you re clever I know"
'Of course, when you've been
there"
That's true" he replied, after re-
fection.
did you really get your living
there?" she asked.
"Yes, L did"
''Then go back. o Jamesl do-do
go back. I can't bear to sec you as
you are-dependent and looked
down on. Oh, do go back, and work
like mani I suppose it is because
we women are so dependent, that we
prize and honor independence. For
me there is nothing so contemplate
as strong man who is idle and con
tented. Go back to Chicago. I
shall be sorry TO lose you, because
because 1 like you very much, and
you have been very kind to me; but,
don't you know, cannot you imagine,
how happy, how glorious it must be
to strive and conquer-to stand
erect before the world, owing moth
ing but to God and your own honest
labor?"
''I can, I dol" he cried, starting
up. at is glorious. Do you know,
can you imagine, what it is to have
people despising you as a fool-an
incapable-and yet to feel here" he
struck his massive forehead as he
spoke) "tlat you were wronged, that
you had not fair play? To feel
knowledge, invention, power, glow
ing, burning in your brain; to see the
ideas thus born forming themselves
under your hands, and to KNOW that
they were right and sound; to make
| those who came to scoff, stay to
praise? For this, he added in low
er voice, 81 humbly thank Almighty
God, and good Sam ThackeRs"
Now, when Bessy Jervoice had had
her say, as above recorded, and
piqued by surprises and excitement,
and perhaps by something else, had
said more than Well-regulated young
lady ought to say, she naturally sat
down and cried; but, wonderstruck
| by the response she had evUkcd-a
response which grew more astonish-
ing, more fervid, as it proceeded
she slowly raised her eyes; and there.
before her, stood James Wymper
she had never seen be!Ore. Not a
poor James Wymper in any sense OF
/ the term.
Forgive me,'' he said, taking her
trembling hand, ''for having played
q part It was Sam Thacker's do
ing" Said Sam, you go back a rich
man amongst those cusses (Sam is
a regular Yankee,) and they II just
crawl over you, and suck your yitals
on sham poor andstupid, and you'll
soon see who's who. All, Bessy, how
kind you were to me at firstl Am
wrong in thinking, In hoping, that
what was not 50 kind lItely was
meant for my good"
| "Ohi but how unfair-how'
''Scold me presently, but hear my
story. ran away from Manchester,
because 1 felt dimly that could i'm
prove and invent things if had a
chance; but l was awkward with my
hands. could not draw, I could
not plan. I was not ready with my
tongue. l could not explain; I gol
impatient when people did not IN
derstand me, and all went badly, un
til fell in with Sam. Sam is the
bandiest fellow IN the world; and az
for talking, he c3uld coax a possum
out of his hole; but at first he hadn't
one idea Of his own. Well, We
worked together, and as we went on
I got handy and Sam inventive; and
to make long story short, we cold
two patents for fifty thousand dol
lars each, and we have four more
which viii bring In about two thou
sand a year IN English money as
royalties. I'm going to pay my
share in this picnic out of that mon
ey; and it is quite true that Sam sent
me the cash, because all my remit
I tances come through him.
Il think" stammered aston
ished Bessy, chat we must not STOP
here any longer"
"Just few minutes"
''They will think it so odd "
GAS you please. VIII you have
the fowers?" Aud he took bOque
from a vase on the table.
'sPut them back directly. How
can you? Taking what does not be
long to youl o Jamesl''
II bought the estate last week,
replied poor James Wymper quietly
and I suppose thefowers go with it.
"Mr. Wymper, are you mad, o
am 1 dreaming?" gasped Bessy.
II bought the place as soon as
heard you we're coming here
That's why went to LOndOn-ant
Cget some clothes"
s'PIease take me back to mamma;
, and Bessy began to cry again.
"Hhen you have answered me on
question. 1 hardly dare to ask il
} but yet
, But yeti The stupid fellowl Il wa
evident that he had not yet patente
, a machine for divining a girl
thoughts. He hem'd, and stammel
ed, and bcat about the bush, as b
2 did IN his pre-Sam-Thacker day
+ and at last got it out. What was il
Bessy left that room, as San
, would say, inside an elbow" wit
an accepted lovers kiss tingling be
lips, and glorifying her heart.
II yer mind what had become {
D the pic-nickers; never mind the al
fnniehmnnt Of Mr A,1nr,sIr1r RniIo