Connecticut western news., 1874-09-18
GAWKY GARNETT'S LOVE.

In the minds eye-that's the eue. deal yes, all in my eye his ideal is. Ho ho ]"
 "Natty, Natty Barton, what are you laughing at ?"
 "A spooney document; the usual thing, you know, Uncle James man who says I'm the ideal of his dreams. A love, letter, and from my Gawky Gar
 Uncle James looked grave. "Na. talie," said he, "I wish you weren't such firt."
 Bat 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 a 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 his pockets, and tips his chair back against the wall. Oh, uncle, up- aW-w-n my word, it's too pre-. poster ousl"
 Natty," said Uncle James, "I'd recommend you to take somebody of your size. George Garnett is hardly worth spending your valuable time on. A poor lad, with drunken father, vixen for step-mother, and dirt and poverty fer the inspiring surroundings of his boyhood. You choose to fool away some of your precious hours vis- ltlng the country academy where he is one of the big boys, struggling fear fully to get the three r's 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 do, I'll be bound. Nat, If that boys mother had lived, and he'd had Q decent father, and ever known anything but dirt and beating In his childhood, I have sort of inn pression that he wouldn't be the man whom you'd be snubbing to-day. You ought to be ashamed of yourself"
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 Six years later Natty Barton, twenty three years old, a beautiful, brilliant, witty young lady, much admired, but still unmarried, and spoiled, said to Uncle James one day
 q" Adorable uncle, let us go to Putin Bay this summer"
 To Put-in-Bay they went, then new place, thoroughly unfashjonable, and consequently thoroughly enjoyable. Natty wore calico dress all day long If she wanted to, went to bed at ten o'clock, and learned to row boat equal to Grace Darling.
 About the same time a wise, gray haired, rich old lawyer said to the slim, dark-hal1d, brilliant, and poverty stricken young man he had just taken into his office as working partner
 We'll go to Put-in-Bay for a month. l have a 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 go," answered the young man, briskly.
 At the little hotel at Putin Bay one morning Natalie Barton looked up from her breakfast plate, and encountered @ pair of intensely brilliant black eyes fixed keenly upon her lovely face. The power of the brilliant eyes was so strange and strong that it made Natty look up. But she looked in- stantly 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, I don't know!" says Nat, gaz- ing intently into her plate. "I don't see anybody"
 "Oh, my what 8 whopl What @ humbug it is to be young ladyl If a young man looks at her she drops her eyes right of, 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 ex-