Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-10-29
and his spirit began to wax low.

! ii"'N Soop III my h"y E'S''O y
this-trust n woman" he thought.
The idea of not being cared fol
was not cheerful. That night he
strolled carolessly by the shop, bu
on the opposite side of the way
Nothing was to be seen OF jennie
He walked on in brown study, theI
crossed over, and went deliberately
by the shop, with only one eye. how
ever, turned in its direction, but moi
sign of Jennie. He went back to
the barracks in detected frame ol
mind.
"It's an awful pity-such Il nice
girl; and there's the cottage all ready
for her to step INTO, and me ready to
retire from the service and a good
trade at my back. It's too bad all
along of that Captain McGee, too
And the fruit in tie garden (of the
cottage) all ripe and no one to pick
it." ....
The very ncXtmorning John w care
walked deliberately into the shop and
asked for penny newspaper, and
had the felicity of being served by
Mrs. Evans.
"Quite a stranger, Mr.. Wcarc," she
said, but that was the only remark
she made, and for the life Of him he
could not screw up his courage to ask
for her sister.
That night John Weare was miser,
able.
"She can't care Il rush for me-" he
thought, and marched all over the
town, and nearly to Greenwich and
back, in his excitement.
The next day was u lucky one for
John. He came across Bibbs. Bibbs
was Mrs. Evans eldest boy. No one
knew what his real name WAS, or why
he was called Bibbs; but he was
never called anything else.
''Bibbs," said John Wearc, "come
and have some fruit, and he carried
him off in triumph to the cottage,
and stuffed him with gooseberrics till
he couldn't move, and with black
currants till his mouth was rs black
rs crow. Then he carried him in
side and stood him on the table, and
sat down before him.
HIow old are you, Bibbs:'
'IIc thought it better to begin the
the conversation with a question.
give and half Is that your
sword up there:"
"lcs. Whogavc you those bronze
shoes, Bibbs:"
How he knew Jennie had given
them to him, but he SO wanted to
hear her name.
"Auntie. She's going away soon"
he added ''Lct me look at your
sword now"
"Whcrc's she going to-" he asked,
in CONSERVATION.
"Dcvonshirc. Do let me try on
Your sword
"Why is she going::" he asked,
with a sick feeling at his heart.
"She'S i'll, | think; and she's always
crying now; one day she was crying
over her silver thing You gave her,
and kissing it like anything.'
The "silvcr thing" was little
heart Of about the size Of Il shilling,
which he had bought at Charlton
Fair last October, and timidly re-
qucstcd her to accept.
John Ncare jumped up and showed
Bibbs his sword, and carried him on
his back all over the place, and en-
treated hlm to have more black cur
rants IL his delight. But Bibbs de
ciincd.
"Aunt Jennie is going to BRING me
some from Ethan tonight" he said.
SO Jennie was going to Ethan,
WAS she?
John Wcare took BibbS home, and
Oh the way presented him with Il
white woolly lamb that moved on
wheels and squeaked, and a monkey
that went up stick on being gently
pushed,
"Crying over her silver thing"
SAID John Wcare. OH 90 and hang
about the Ethan road till | see her
and beg her pardon"
And he went, and Jennie met HIM
and pouted, and declared she hadn't
once thought Of him, and then broke
down and cried. And John begged
her pardon, and declared that he had
been heartless brute; and then Jcn,
ME contradicted him and said it was
all her fault, and then told him how
Mrs. Dunlap, the Coloncl's wife, had
one day walked in and told her, in
the kindest possible manner, that she
was spelling her sisters business, foI
the ladies who had been interested III
her welfare kept away because OF
Jennie'S flirting propensities, which
filled up the shop with idle officers
who were always in the way; and
how she had been so ashamed and
wretchcd, and SO cut up ut the deser-
ton Of John Wcare, that she had de
termincd to 90 back to Dcvonshirc
"But you wont now" he said, as
they leaned over the stile leading to
the Ethan fields.
"l QUILL get ready at once, and 1--we II
be married as soon rs possible, before
the fruit in the garden is spoilt?:"
1t took u long time to talk her into
it (about three quarters OF IN hour),
but then she was very happy at heart,
and chattered like young magpIc,
and told John how she had snubbad
Captain McGee, and had thrown i'll
his flowers out of the window.
''And it really was all through that
dear Bibbs that you waylaid me to-
night?" she asked
"Certainly"
"Why, but for him might never
have seen you again
"Perhaps not"
'I'II give Bibbs a regular hug when
get homc,' she thought. And she
did; and the day before she was mar
ried she bought him rocking-h orsc,
which he delights III to this day.
Clandestine marriages.
OF ninety-ninc cases in hundred.
the girl who consents to be privately
married gives herself cause for life
long regret. Even though her par
cntS overlook her cscnpade. and re.