The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-11-25
SeIeeteb Story.
A LOVE STORY.
BI LOTTIE.

mer clothes, and favorite books
my mosquito netting, and fame,
work, feeling settled for the sum
mer, and nay scapcgrace nephew
Harry, head and ears in love witt
the daughter Of our landlady.
He was just twenty-one year
Of age, and had been terror t.
US ever since he came into boot
and trowscrs.
He was never out Of mischief
never free from bumps and bruise
OF all kinds, always in disgrace
at school, always in hot waite
at homo, unit! he was thirteel
years old. Then he grew manish
and nearly drove US wild, anE
poisoned himself tC death, will
vigorous efforts to learn to smoke
Just as he got well over that idea
! he established a habit Of falling il
love, and this habit he pursued
with an energy and go-aheadative
ness, which in any other branct
O.: business, would have made hi
! fortune.
He went to college, but colleges
| are the very hot beds Of sentimcn
and tomtoolery, and Harry learn
ed moro nonsense than Greek, il
my estimation.
| However, he kept his heae
above water, and VIC lived through
it, until this vacation Of which
am speaking.
Then | packed my trunks, tool
him away from Kitty Clinton,
black-eyeG divinity, who lived il
our street, and away We went t.
q cosy old place in New Hamp
shire, where there was plenty t.
eat, a trout brook, a hucklcberry
bill, and, as 1 fondly hoped, NJ
girls.
We had been there three days
when our landlady's daughter
Rubie, came homo from some
where, where she had certalnl,
acquired a charming array Of air
and graces, learned to "do" he
hair in the fastest fashion out
and dress herself in a manner real
ly very trim, and becoming.
AS q natural consequence, Hal
~ fell in love with her. | knc,
very we'll that he would, when h
invited her to 60 fishing with him
and l saw them wandering ava.
with tho basket betw cen them
but 1 was hardly prepared for tn
outbreak which followed.
ri have made up my mind a
last, Annie, and nobody in tn
world can change me. | am sc
ing to marry" was the first shock
"Harry Ester!''
eyes, I am. My mind is full,
made up. Uncle Tom says thcr
is nothing in this world like sci
Ting early in life. A man wit
q good wife has got the best an
surest kind of capital. Just loo
at Rubie. She is as smart as
round dozen of our city girls"
"NopscnSc !"
"Oh, of course, yoa will call
nonsense. l didn't expect else
but you may as we'll reconclI
Yourself to it, first as last, | sha
marry her. You had better writ
to mother about it,"
Such a case Of literal indiffe
ence, l never heard. [ had G:
pccted at least, o little show (
humanity, but here he was, wit
all the assurance in the worl
confessing to his unparalleled fol-
and actually asking me to VIII
to his mother. | did write.
said
"Margarct, l think the boy
mad, and l am going to divcst m
self of every atom Of responsibi
ty. He is bent upon marryir
this curly headed, rosy cheekt
country girl: and I dare say
might do worse. But whatov
happens, please bear in mind, th
I have no part in it,"
l expected an immediate ar
val of one half Of the family, b
nobody came, and [ had nothi'
left me to do but to watch wi
terrible misgivings, the progre
of the silicst of all love stories.
l hardly blamed him, when l coa
compose myself sufficiently
forget his youth and inexperlcne
for Rubie Blake was pretty 81
with nice lot Of fair curls,
J., her own, i complexion like t
heart of a delicate wnito rose, al
eyes as blue, and sunny, as t.
summer skies.
Then she was neat and light
foot, and light Of heart, and Ike
the whole housein a glow Of chez
fulness, and she was industrlor
and not at all too good to don
= long calico apron, and go out in
the kitchen and cook, wash dish,