Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-05-01

quarters, that father would not be there
to meet me, which was very impairment
in the young man q allow nobody to
make game Of poor papa's besetting sin
but Hysel0 and he lost. as he deserved.
Papa was at the station before US, and
we arrived just in time TO catch him in
the act of conveying a fumpy-loOking
miss out Of the waiting-room into the
train. 1t may have been all very well
for him to say by way of excuse for him
self, that call girls look just alike in
these days" and that this creature had
yellow braids and a blue veil just like
mine, which we're all he looked for; aud
that when he asked her where Charley
was and if she was ready to get into the
ears, and took her bandbox las if I would
ever be guilty of bandbox J! out of her
hand, she had never said a word (which
silence he ascribed to "gricf at parting
with Charley"). but had trotted dutifully
after him and her bandbox.
ale ought to have known you by the
style, even if you had both been done
up in mummy-cases just alike" muttered
Churley Indignantly. "Mr. Winthrop
is the greatest man in the United States
for tough law case, or even for melting
a jury but he is no more capable of ia
king care of such daughter than, ETC.,
etc., etc. :" all ofwhich made it necessary
for me to be awfully severe with the
youth, so l got through the parting better
than | had feared | should.
However, when the train was fairly
off, aud found myself seated directly
behind the creature in the yellow braids
and the bandbox, so that | could not
have forgotten my last grievance if | had
tried, | cried little Behind my blue veil.
Papa found me out for wonder, and
out Of me my opinion that | was mourn.
ing in secret over the fact that ! was the
unfortunate daughter Of an unnatural
father who didn't even know his only
child by sight, although there gere pco-
$ pie who thought she wasn't just ike ev.
erybody else (sniff, sniff, sniff. Ther
he pronounced Judgment on the case il
: his most wide-awake and impressive man
ner, and affirmed that it was not the nice
o looking (such taste y girl in front of me
or the "nice-looking boy" I'd left behinC
7 me 1.-THE idea y that had thrown me int
S his maudlin state, but that | was dear
e little tired-out girl who had had quite
too much gayety and dissipation during
: the last two or three days for such excl
table nerves. And then he told nae sto
ries of the good times he had when h
v was young, and nobody can be more en-
!; tertalning than my father if he will cnl
y keep present-minded, till | forgot m
e troubles and we "made up" beautifully
Q and l fell fast asleep on his shoulder anc
: only walked when We stopped at the juno
n ton where we were allowed time for re
n freshments.
The frumpy young woman had left th
train long before at some way station
t and papa had turned over the back of tn
l. seat so that we could be comfortable, an
is taken out the shawls from the strap t
e wrap around me as l slept, for IL wa
It getting late on a cold winters day.
e | was still half asleep, but hurried
rolled my wraps together, not strappin
C them, and followed father into the eating
|. room. The change Of air and a few sir
1t Of strong coffee woke me sufficiently to re
J call that this most confusing of all june
lie tons was the place where we were t
e change cars for home, and that possibl
e our traps which we had left to keep on
% seats for us, might already be on thei
l. way back to New Y ork or any other de-
lie tinatiou but the right one. Father rushe,
d frantically off into the midst of shriekin
Is whistles, jingling bells, shouting porter
l. and crashing luggage, but soon emerge
L. with the statement that all was right, an
1t finished his oysters complacently.
" Concluded next week..
4 A Ride on q Locomotive.