The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-10
CAUGHT IN THE COILS.

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i "Mr. Edwards, for shame! Loose my
hand directly. What will the other pas
sengers say if they see you? How dare
you call me by my Christian name, too2''
Because / am miserable and half mad.
How can you torture me 500 What is it
to me what the passengers says"
IA great deal, il ought to be, Mr.. Ed
wards" was the halfmocking, half-seris
Gus reply. h" And as to me terturing yon,
I don't do anthing of the kind. You tor
ture and worry yourself, and make your
self silly child, crying for the moon. y
but Miss Norris, pray listen! You
know how love you!" - - ooo
mo, DON'T" was the laughing answer.
l"You know everybody tells me that, be.
cause TVeg got a merry little fresh-colored
fece--just as if could helpit! I don't
want people, to love me-only to like me.
1 don't want silly young men to be sigh,
ing, and looking poetry, and being dismal;
I'm tired Of it. If that's love, I don't want
any of it, ada ~ 5isag revaH saI
"But, indeed, Etta-""baA disoU 4s9u 3
"Indeed, Miss Norris if you please,
Mr.. Edwards Because am light hearted
and free, don't allow people to presume
upoH it. Now, you are the fourth gentle
imam who has told me,in these two months
We have been at sea, that ne loves me; and
| tell you just the same as I've told the
others, that it's all sugar candy nonsense,
and don't care for it a btu pa ldsf 81
/ who has dared to speak to you like
that?"3ad oda osndT vSgd lie 8Ea q
"Ha, ha, ha! What indignationl What
fun! Just as if I'm goingbt to tell you'll
What would it be then--a duel? Only
think; one in the foretop, as the sailors
call it, and one in the maintop, with
pistols, shooting pop at one another. oh,
no better still!-you could have swords,
and cut and poke at one anothe>, and not
be able to reach, so that you could do no
mischief" lo gas1o-ass aJt al A...a1
"Mlss Norris, what can I do to prove
how dear you are to me?"
Let me see, she answered, assuming a
serious air. "9Ou might kill griffin, if
he was going to run away with me; or.
stop, you might jump after me the first
time tumble overheard. and poke the
sharks eye' out when they were coming
to eat me all up; or, no, Til tell you; ]
mean to learn to smoke tiny cigarettes; SO
.lif you will get me some very nice tobacco,
that won't make me sick and Ill, like
OrCther Dicks did, and then shall begin
to oh, look-look, Mr.. Edwards more
fun! They've caught another dolphin!
Come and see it die oil sorts of colorsH
Away tripped Eta Norris, light-hearted
and merry as school girl, along the deck,
leaving John Edwards, of the bengal
civil service, passenger in the Lord Give
East Indiaman, quiet and rugged of brow
on the quarterback, where the above con
versation had taken place. He had taken
a fancy to the bright fairy of a girl re.
turning to India, after ten years of Eng
lish education; but only found that he
was fixing his hopes upon light-hearted
child, without one serious thought for the
future. One moment, he felt jealous; the
next bitterly disappointed; and then a
fund of quiet common sense was drawn
upon, and he determined to cast aside the
/ signing swain, and in quiet,manly way,
to let the arrant little heart see that his
was indeed a sterling, honest love. If in
! the future she learned its value-well, if
on the contrary, he was still treated in a
light, giddy, and chill lish manner, he felt
that he would have had an escape from
one whose brightness was not that of the
true metal, but only the gay, attractive
simmer ofiso much tinsel. e"4 ot q
To decide with John Edwards, was to
act; and going forward, he was once more
| by Eta Norris's side, to find her ready
, enough to meet him without constraint
"Isn't it a beauty, Mr.. Edwards" she
exclaimed, her peachy little cheeks flush
ed with excitement. But it does seem
SO cruel TO catch them.", -n.
"And to eat them," SAID Edwards, dry
i
ly. Ialways feel that compunction over
+ the arrowy, gistening meckerel, and wish
it was the fiat, dull.hued turbot, or even