The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-02-07

The young fellows to whom | listened
whose talk could not help overhearing
were going later in the evening to a ball
They were to see the sweetest and most
innocent of maidens. They were to clasr
them in the delicious dance. They
were to chat and laugh and plan. What
do | know? They were to breathe vows
perhaps they were to whisper the
words suppose you understand
What | say is that, for all that. they
dwell in different worlds, and the soft
palpitating little baggage in the conser.
vatory who says that she will be the
wife of that Spanish-looking young
brigand with the captivating dark eyes
and who dances so divinely, does not
know in the least who it is to whom she
gives herself. No, my young friend
they do not know us; and there are
huge parts of our lives that we hustle
out of their sight. have heard hus-
bands and fathers chattering. when they
knew that none Of the family could
OvCrhear. Fortunate deafness: for there
are true and loving hearts that would
be miserably wrung and broken if they
could hear what we hear. There is 10
fairy tale, no enchantment in the books.
more surprising and striking than that
OF oar daily life. And when | say So to
Hero, she answers, But suppose that
my Lcander does seem to he beast
do you know that it is the prince under
that hairy skin that admire?"
| do not deny it. Those gentle hearts
make 4 kind of celestial allowance.
They suspect the truth, perhaps. and
they instantly repel its force by some
sweet theory. Have you never watched
Il mother in the car when her most un-
mannerly and headstrong boy is snarlng
and roaring and making himself a pest &.
Tommy is sleepy says that crafty
parent. Does Tommy's poor little
stomach ache? Where does Tommy
lecl bad: Is ne NrIy urr,,, ..,-, h,
long Journey" 1t is not the long
Tourney. nor the stomach-achc, because
Tommy romps in the same way in the
nursery ut home and upon all occasions.
But the mothers instinct shields him.
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