The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1873-05-24
LIZzIES FORTUNE

liouJnntn linCkctl hnrW now W
read and wuto, after a fashion How
he came by those accomplishments
no one Was quito sure. itwasa mys.
tory even TO himself. Besides this
he knew MI about q chip mot be-
cause he had stuffed navigation in
any college whatever but because,
beginning as cabbm boy, he had
slowly fought Lis way mp to The hon.
onble post Of captain captain aud
owner he was proud 70 say, "ol
the Betsy IIackct.'
Betsy was his wiie'R name, aud
| bis wife had been a plump, good
|uaturcd sailors daughter, who wore
I hoop p.rina, IN her littIo brown cars,
and was rather too fond OF scarlet
/ ribbons and Umc-bcad necklaces to
boamodd Of gcututy. When thcy
were married shc fcIJ quite .outau,
/ with hcrliHIa front room IN a river
ward street. and, indeed, was moro
than satisfied with the gloric5 which
two g,uun yau'v nocie parrots aud
"A bunch of white coral, tD say n0tn-
ing Of u lire parrot IN pewter cage,
ana 4 tea Tray straight from China
with Chinese ndy in out.otdool
costume upon it, lent the establish
mont. But that was when Bouia'
min lIacllgt was "bofore the mast !
and she had Ieft him long ago, and
Captain IIacllet's daughter had
other notions.
They lived in another part Of the
city now, and in their parIor were
ornaments that put the parrots {,
the blush, and Botsy's daughter
called herself Elizabeth, and had nc
notion of being less fashionable than
her ncighbors and people saiC
Captain llacket was immensely rich
would leave his daughter an hcires'
Of the first magnitude when he left
the world at all.
Pretty, and an hcire's, she hn'
plenty whocallcd themselves friends
of course. Sho was n belle in th,
circle to which her wealth had IN
troduccd her, and, perhaps, hcI
head was little turned by the Hat
tory she received. A good girl n
heart, she was yet easily blinded b,
show and glitter, aud very apt L
Judge people by their coats and tn,
Iiouses in which they dwelt, and
indeed, had dropped more than on
good soul who, IN the humber day
Of her life, had not been held 81
lightly.
Moreover, sLo had grown to b
not quite so well pleased whom, fol
lowing in her fathers wake ON hi
return from any voyage, fhe fa'
? that handsome muburnt matc .
his, Tom lladaway.
She had known Tom almost a
her life. and once she had been yer
fond OF him. She liked him still
: and knew that he was manly an
! handsome and well educated. Sh
y knew. too, that wherever ho wei
!. / his first thought was 10 find HUn
dainty gilt Tor her on his homc-cou
; ing.
d Wonderfully carved ians, andiyor
bracelets, and curious c4r-ringa, m
y mysterious wotk.boxos, aud biz,
% OF rarc plumagc, aud shells of del
cate tiuta and beautiful shapes, ha
9 Tom Hadaway bestowed on he
d And there had been a time who
.y sbe had believed that her father
wish might come TO pass, and To
7 lIadaway become her husband b
l! with the elegant house in the ias
ionablc square hal arisen 9th
p ilcaa.
So. during one n her fathol
!, Ion ngcst voynsva. shc Permitted NJ
ton Melton, E4l., nnJ lad, by "
1evress, become her beau IDEAL
manly reriection, to slip an ougag
ment ring on her slender finger, q
gave him permission to task papa
IN tho most approved fashion.
Consequently, when Capt. Ilac
Y, ct arrived, grand news awaited b
I'd news that male him puckor
ot. hce. and wrinkle bis broWs, a
growl Indignantly.
al "Why didn't yon ask M first
said the captain. "That pup
~ ~ Lord love youl what 10 you won
sec in a fellow Ike thatl They al
a. men according TO NY reckoning
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