The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1874-09-30
GAWKY GARNETT'S LOVE.


deal yes, all in my eye his ideal is
Ho how
"Natty, Natty Barton, what are you
laughing at"
"a spooney document; the usual
thing, you know, Uncle James; a man
who says I'm the ideal of his dreams.
A love-letter, and from my Gawky
Garnett"
Uncle James looked grave. "Na-
talie," said he, 81 wish you weren't
such Airt."
"But it's such fun, uncle DEAR"
"It's kind of fun you'll pay for
dearly one of these days, mark my
words. There never was bitter who
wasn't bitten at last"
"But only think of my dear Gawky,
uncle, and don't scold. He's as green
as country girls neck-tie! His foot
looks like bears foot, and he wears
flaming red cravat, and sits with his
paws in bis pockets, and tips his chair
back against the wall. Oh, uncle,
up-aw-w-n my word, it's too pre-pos-
ferrous %
"Natty," said Uncle James, "1d
recommend you to take somebody of
your size. George Garnett is hardly
worth spending your valuable time on.
A poor lad, with drunken father, a
vixen for a step-mother, and dirt and
poverty for the inspiring surroundings
of his boyhood. You choose to fool
away some of your precious hours WIS.,
iting the country academy where he is
one of the big boys, struggling fearful
ly to get the three RS through his
skull. He sees you, and is quite per-
suaded that you're an angel he doesn't
know you as we'll as l do, I'll be bound.
Nat, if that boys mother had lived,
and he'd had decent father, and ever
known anything but dirt and beating
in his childhood, l have sort of i'm
preston that he wouldn't be the man
whom you'd be squbbing to-day. You
ought to be ashamed Of yourself"
Six years later Natty Barton, twen-
ty.three years old, beautiful, bril-
liant, witty young lady, much ad-
mireJ, but still unmarried, and spoiled,
said to Uncle James one day:
"Adorable uncle. let us 60 to Put
in.Bay this summer"
To Putin Bay they went, then a
new place, thoroughly questionable,
and consequently thoroughly enjoya-
BILE. Natty wore a calico dress all
day long if she wanted to, went to bed
at ten o'clock, and learned 20 row a
boat equal to Grace Darling.
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About the same time wise, gray
haired, rich old lawyer said to the
slim, dark.haired. brilliant, and power
ty-stricken young man he had just
taken into his office as working part.
ner:
"We'll go to Put-in-Bay for a
month. | have lot of titles to hunt
up out there all over the islands. You
can do the work, and I'll get the
money. Start tomorrow"
"Thank you, sir. Shall be only too
glad to Co." answered the young man,
briskly.
At the little hotel at Putin Bay
one morning Natalize Barton looked
up from her breakfast plate, and en-
countered pair of intensely brilliant
black eyes fixed keenly upon her love-
ly face. The magnetic power of the
brilliant eyes was go strange and strong
that it made Natty look up. Bat she
looked instantly down into her plate
again, after the fashion of all modest
young ladies.
Rose, an irrepressible of twelve
years, nudged her arm.
"Nat! Nat who is that black eyed
man looking across this way?"
"Oh, don't knowl" says Nat, gaz-
ing intently into her plate. 81 don't
see anybody"
"Oh, my! what whop! What a
humbug it is to be young lady If a
young man looks at her she drops her
eyes right off, and pretends she doesn't
see living soul, and all the time she's
peeping at him sideways out of her
eyes as hard as she can, and can tell
exactly what he's got on. l wonder
what young ladies do that for? l
wonder if l will do it too when I'm a
young lady?"
A few days later Nat Barton
and half dozen other young ladies
were sitting in the warm July after
noon on the long, low veranda of what
in those days was the principal ho-
tel" at Put-in-Bay. Rose, the ire
pressible, came bouncing across the
veranda toward Natty.
"Oh! obi" says the irrepressible,
"what awful whoppers young ladies
will tell Nat, what did you tell me,
when l asked you who that black-eyed