The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13

not cilccGlu1. hit l1Sill III SiIoiitt
carclcssly by the shop, but on the OPP
posite side of the way Nothing was
to be seen of Jennie He walked on
in brown study, then crossed over, and
went deliberately by the shop, with only
one eye, however, turned in its direction,
but not Il sign of Jennie. He went back
to the barracks in Il detected state Of
mind.
Its an awful pity; such nice girl;
and there's the cottage all ready for her
to step into, and me ready to retire from
the service and Il good trade at my back;
its too bad, all along of that Captain
McGce, too. And the fruit in the gar
den (of the cottage) all ripe and no one
to pick it.
The very next morning John Wcare
walked deliberately into the shop and
asked fora penny newspaper, and had
the felicity of being served by Mrs.
Evans
"Quitc astranger, Mr. Wcare," 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 mis-
cradle.
"She can't care rush for me-" he
thought, and marched all over the town,
and nearly to Greenwich and back in
his excitement.
The next day was a lucky one for
John. He came across Bibbs. Bibbs
Nj L. 81 NJ,
knew what his real name was, or why he
was called Bibbs; but he was never called
anything else.
"Bibbs," said John Weare, "come
and have some fruit" and he carried
him off in triumph to the cottage and
stuffed him with gooseberries till he
couldn't move, and with black currants
till his mouth was as black as Il crow
Then he carried him inside and stood
him on the table and sat down before
him.
"How old arc you, Bibbs?"
He thought it better to begin the con-
versation with question.
GIVE and Il half. Is that your sword
up there?
Yes. Who gave you those bronze
shoes, Bibbs?"
Now he knew Jennie had given them
to him, but he so wanted to hear her
name.
"Auntie Shes going away soon,
he addeu. LET me look at your sword
now"
Where's she going to?" he asked in
CONSERVATION.
"Devonshire. Dolet me try on that
sword"
"Why is she going?,' he asked with a
sick feeling at his heart.
"She1l 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 a little heart
of about the size of shilling, which
he had bought at Charlton fair last Oc-
tober and timidly requested her to ac-
cept.
John Weare jumped up and showed
Bibbs his sword, and carried him on his
back all over the place, and entreated
him to have more black currants in his
delight But Bibbs declined.
''Aunt Jennie's going to bring me
some from Ethan tonight" he said.
So Jennie was going to Ethan, was
she! John Weare took Bibbs home,
and on his way presented him with a
white woolly lamb that moved on
wheels and squeaked, and a monkey
that went upa stick in being gently
pushed.
Crying over her silver thing!" said
John Weare "Pll go 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 he had been
Il heartless brute; and then Jennie con-
tradictcd him, and said it was all her
fault, and told him how Mrs Dunlop,
the Colonies wife, had one day walked
in and told her, in the kindest possible
manner, that she was spelling her sisters
business, for the ladies who had been
interested in her welfare kept away be
cause of Jennie's flirting propensities,
which filed up the shop with idle Off
GERS, who were always in the way; and
how she had been so ashamed and
wretchcd, and SO cut up at the deser-
ton of John Weare, that she had de-
tcrmincd to go back to Devonshire.
"But you won't now?" he said, as
they leaned over the style leading to
the Ethan fields. you'll get ready
at once, and we'll be married as soon as
possible, before the fruit in the garden
is spoilt?"
1t took long time to talk her into
it (about thrce-quarters of an hour, but
then she was very happy at heart, and
chartered like 4 young magpie, and told
John how she had snubbed Captain
McGce, and had thrown all 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 l might never
have seen you again ?"
"Perhaps not"
"I'll give Bibbs Il regular hug when
! get home," she thought. And she
did; and the day before she was married
she bought him Il rocking-horse, which
he delights in to this day.--CdsselFs
Mcyaeine.
New BOYS SUITs-Boys of two,
three and four years of age are dressed
in kilt suits. Thssc for two-year-oIds
have the waist and skirt all iii one
piece. At four years, jackets of f;tnci-
full cut are added, to be worn over the