The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-10-08
BONA FIDE CIRCULATION, = 23O
GaWky Garnett's Love.

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I'm the minds eye--that's the eye
deaf yes, 'all in rsy eye his deal Is.
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'NaIty Barton, what are you laugh
ing sE, my child ?p
"a spOoney document the usual
thing, you know, Uncle James; q man
who says am the ideal of his dreams.
A lOve-ietter, and froua my Gswky
Garnett :"
Uncle James looked grave. "Na-
telie," said he, 81 wish you weren't
sncn u fiIrt."
''But IT'S SUCH fun, dear Unele.u
'It's = kind of fun youth pay for
dearly one OF these days, mark my
words. There never was bitter who
wasn't bitten in the end"
"But only think of my dear Gawky,
Uncle, and don't scold. Has as green.
as cOuntry-gIrI's neck-tie-a hOrrid
thing! His foot looks like a bears
foot, and he wears flaming red era
vat aud sits with his paws IN his pOck-
cts, aud tips his chair back against the
wall. On, uncle, uU-S-w-n my word,
IT'S too pre-pOstsrous in laughed Nat
", with tnat queer yOung-ladyish af-
fection OF drawing out and emphasi-
zing certain syilEDIes of her words. 1
never heard anybody but young ladies
talk so, aud don't know what they do
1t for. runFrs
'Natty," said Uncle James, "rd
recommend you To take somebody OF
your size. George Garnett is hardly
worth spending your valuable time on.
A poor Iad, with drunken father, and
vixen for q step-mUther, and dIrt
and poverty for the inspiring sur
roundings OF his bOyhoOd. You cnoUse
To fool away some of your precious
hours visiIing the eodntry Academy
where he is one of the big boys, strug,
Cling fearfully to get the three'r's
through his =kull. He sees you, and
Is quite persuaded tnat you're an an-
gei +; he doesn't know. you as well
do, I'll be bound. Nat, IL that boys
mother had lived, aud he'd had de-
cent father, aud ever known Snything
Out DIRT, have - sort of impression
that he wouldn't be the man whom
you'd be snubOing to-day. You ought
10 be ashamed of yourself"
"DIrt and beating are not the most
favorable conditions for the develupe-
ment of human iutellect," said Natty,
with mock gravity.
"And his motber died when he was
q year old. de never had a mother,
you might as well say"
"Yes, cir, it's very bad" replied the
young lady, drawing out her face very
long. "But don't want to be a moth
er TO HIM, do / ?H
Who was G4wky Garnett? An
awkward ignorant boy, with an eager,
imaginative soul, anu fiery, uHdIsci-
plined heart. He had bsen a gaunt,
ragged little boy, with wild, BLACK
eyes, fine cut mouth, Though, and
an intense, hungry child face-hungry
for love- as well as bread and butter-
lacking and yearning for all that Is
good and pleasant in life. Even with |
the schooling of that dirty, foTlorni
cruel childhood of his, he never Gould |
learn the art, dear to the heart of boy |
hood of bearing pain and pleasure
with a stolid, wooden face. He never
could conceal his emotions as the oth-
er boys could. Ifanything hurt him
physically, he cried wDeu he was lit
tie, and grOaned when he grew older.
II anything pleased him, il seemed as
though every nerve in his body laugh
ed. His lips always quivered when
he was agItated, and though the older !
boys laughed at HIM for it, and he
tried desperately to control his fea-
lures, The troublesome lip would al
ways tell when anything gave the
child pain. So when this III starred,
passionate boy saw Natalie Barton the |
dreamy worship of the beautiful stir
red IN his soul, and Gawky Garnett
fell in love with Natty. Natty laugh
ed at him to his face. II stung the
boys passionate soul TO the qnlck, but
he SAID notning-nOt a word.