The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-11
TUE TN4IGRETTE.
A PROPOSAL MADE UNDER VERY DIsCoUR-
AGING CIRCUMSTANCES.

ats not leavin' auId ireland Tn cryin' about,
It's not lcavin my own native land,
But it's ieavn the arms OF my Pollywog,
With never n kiss OF her hama
And so singing, Miss Jenny Van Kort-
land, New York belle and beauty, sat her
self down upon a rock, and began trimming
her companions light summer hat very ar
tistcal'y with oak leaves, poking an absurd
twig in here and there TO render the effect,
as she expressed it, mere ''distingue."
''Was Pollyweg man or a woman?' asked |
the young gentleman whom you may call /
Tom Willing if you want to, and who lay !,
at tie girls feet watching her, and phil |
osophically chewing grass. ''Goose! Pol !
lywog was woman of course ; and her
lover was obliged to leave the country with
out bidding her goodbye, 1 suppose and ne
was awfully i'll love with her, 50 he was,
which is more than you will ever be with
anybody-flirt - "Ah-'' and Tom began
on another blade of grass. ''Yes. Now
sit up and let me put your hat on. Sec how
delightful it looks. Sit up, sir Don't lie
there like meditative sheep" Tom, thus
admonishsd, lifted himselfto n sitting posi-
ton. ''You don't mean to say yeu' re going
to make fellow wear that thing he said,
gazing at tie hat, which now bore strong
resemblance to a sort of diminutive oak
tree. Certainly, and You ought to feel
. very much obliged to Miss Van Kortland
/ for dressing it up SO prettily Instead Of
laughing at her IN that ungrateful way"
! ooh, l do excessively SO. Let me see it
moment" =" and he held out his hand. ''No,
I'm going to put it on your head myself,
/ and then you must not touch it." "PleaSe
lei me look at it first. III only admire it,
''You can admire it in the glass when you
get home. Now hold your head still.
There, that looks charming - cit feels
like the deuce,'' observed Ten, rather rue
fully. "Don't swear "Deuce isn't
swearing, is it ~ Certainly. Now let's
go up through the woods and find out
wheie the rest of the party is. 1t must be
almost time to go home - and in spite of
the young gentleman's assertions that it
was only two o'clock, and that he was pos
tive he could never climb up that hill un-
less he rested there another hour, Miss
Jenny drew he. light shawl about her shoul-
ders, and taking TOMS cane in one hand,
a combination of articles which would
never occur to any one but young wo-
NAM began to make her way through the
woods up the iucline.. Dut though the
worthy daughter OF the Van Kortlands was
of an ambitious and adventurous DISPOSE
tion, she had not succeeded in climbing
many feet above the level of the creek
near which they had been sitting before
she came to a large rock, upon whose top
she fancicd it would be well to rest awhile
say five minutes-and in clutching rath-
er frantically after hemlocl bough, with
which to assist herself to tempting seat
near by, the vinaigrette dropped from her
hand, and rolling slowly and gracefully out
wasd, settled itself, in the most contentcd
manner possible, on the very verge of the
rock. Good gracious 20 exclaimed the
. young lady. "Thcre go my saltsl'' ''There
: go what ?'' said her escort, who was some
what behind, and had not noticed the little
accident. MY salts-my yinaigrettc Oh,
don't you see them--I mean it-Iight out
there on the edge of The rock-more to the
left-there ~ and Miss Jenny pointed i'm
ploringly out towards where the article
specified nestled under the shade OF pro
tecting fern. ''Ah yes, | recognize the
piece of furniture said Tom presently.
!, ''Nery touching situation is it not - at
would be a much more touching one
(''ahs n, a poor pun" interrupted her lis
tener) if you would go out and get it foI
me. Why don't you be gallant and go -
II intend to, though shall probable break
: my neck Good Bye ''Fare thee well,
and if forever, then forever fare thee well -
ard Tom began to crawl out toward the
rock "But wait moment, Mr.. Willing
? please stop-you don't think there is
really any danger, doiyou 90 '"Drop teaE
: on his bier" quoth Tom, who was by
this time pretty far out, and was stretch
ing his hand cautiously toward the vinai-
grcttc. Presently the hand went down
? over the bottle, and the next moment the
owner Of the hand, distressing to relate,
also went down--avcr the rock An i'm
mediately following splash certified to all
above that Nr. Thomas Willing. of 2t-
Walnut street, Philadelphia, but at pres
ent visiting ia a picturesque town near
New York, had descended into the stream
Jenny was up in an instant; she could net
help slight scream escaping her rs she
saw the sudden disappearance of her com
ranion. What if ne should be seriously
injured by the fall? I? What if be should
drownr She ran to the edge of the rock,
farther up toward the left, where it was
not dangerous and looked over At a short
distance from the shore, with one hand
holding something high above the water,
and the other Diligently engaged i'm sup
porting himself, appeared the drenched
figure of the preserver of the yinaigrette,
his countenance considerably enlivened
by his plunge. Somewhat lower down
the stream hoated tlic fantastic chapeau,