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

lake tu6lA Ou" yourself yNu-OLl
Baileyi" he shouted back "You
haven't been rowing have - and
he s rutIed on to jJln a party of la
dies, including Bessy. Bessy turned
on hearing the loud talking, and
somehow got detached from her
friends.
why are you pleased with me to-
day, Miss Jervoice ?" as they saun-
tered on t g ther, side by side,
through the shrubbery.
! Would. you very much like TO
know"
81 shouldn't have asked, unless"
Guess, then"
Because I've been making myself
disagreeable ?"
don't think you have been ma
king yourself disagreeable.
"Wen, then, because I haven't
been making myself useful?
''That is not the way to put it; but
you are burnings
Because I've got new cloth, s?'
"Nonsensel You know what I
mean, or you wouldn't have answer
ed as you did as first. Good gra-
ciousI hope it is not going to
rain"
''Ten me Why" he persisted
ooh, don't tease2'
"An tight"
AS soon as he did not want to
know, she, wOman-ike, wanted to
tell him. So, in a minute or two,
she began again.
"Tt is great mistake to make
ones self too cheap. There are some
people who gain respect by being
good-natured, and some people who
lose it.
"Ah, [ seel" he replied: 81 won't
be good-natured any more.
"Oh, you are so silly Don't you
know there is "a medium in every
thing? But, really, it as going to
rain: I felt a big drop. My new
blue costume will be ruined"
"WeH, we can go into the house.
Here it IS"
The shrubbery walk was so thick
| ly hedged that they had rot seen
where they were going; and at a sud
den turn, there, sure enough, was
the villa close at hand.
"I suppose we might stand under
the veranda?" suggested Bessy and,
doubling up her skirts, she ran for
it; FIR the rain came down with a
dash,-came down with a slant, too,
dr,von by the wind, SO that The YER
and gave them little shelter.
81 wonder if any of the window"
(they were French windows, opening
to the ground) ''are open?" said her
companion trying them.
ooh, We mustn't go inl' snid
Bessy.
, "Very well"
'But the splashing is spelling my
dres-j don't you see? and my bUots
viii be wet through - pleaded the iu-
consistent one.
''Then go in" said poor James
Wymper, opening a window, "and I
will run round and make it all right
with the people in charge"
In ten minutes he reiuined her,
saying that it was all right.
, "What a pretty roomi" she said,
looking at herself in the pier-glass.
Did you ever know a girl to enter q
strange room without going straight
up to the glassP)
''Hum-m, yes" he replied; but
the fellow who built it was an ass.
Why, you have to twist your neck
! to get a view of the river from these
, things with contemptuous kick
towards the French windows. "If ]
had it, I'd knock that veranda into a
cooked hat, break out a big bow in
: the middle, and then it would be
+, something like
ooh, you'd work wonders l dare
sayl" she said, rather Grossly; "only
! it would be as well to do something
towards getting house of your own,
before you think about improving
other peoples
3 'It looutd be nice to have a house
of ones own" he said; particular
S ly'-
!, "WeD, go on"
l "Particularly if it had a bow win
dow"
4 James Wymperl"
"And a pretty meadow for picnics
$ but I suppose it would not DO tc
1 give people leave to picnic on ones
e | grOunds?'
I ''Why not?"
4 would that not be being good
3 natured?"
81 did not mean that sort of good
nature"
g eff 1 had a fine house and groundi
S like this, l might be good-nalureC
then?"
: Its no use arguing with you,
S' she replied sharply. ais it ever go
ing to,leave off? Our picnic viii b.
|. quite spoiled"
y ''Never mind; well have anothe
X soon. I dare say Sam will send m'
y some more money"
70 care you not ashamed of yourself
9 james Wymper, to take money hk
Is a beggar?" she said, with flashing
9 eyes.
II "Oh, don't take it like beggarl
= eyes, you do"
q "N9, l don't"
"a man who takes money that b
:. does not earn, takes it like begga
IL -therel"
n ''Who told you 1 take money I d
x not earn?''
d ''Of course you cannot earn it "
e. why of course?"
X "What a plague you arel What d
you do to earn it?''
T Nothing, now"
=" ''What have you ever dOneP'
le ''Lots Of things"
a. DO you mean to say that thi
.d uersOu Won call Sam really ora