Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-08-31

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The very next morning John Weare
walked deliberately into the shop and asked
for a penny newspaper and had the felicity
of being served by Mrs. Evans.
"Quite a stranger, Mr.. Weare," 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 miserable.
"She can't care a 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 day 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 never was called anything
else.
"Bibbs,'' said John Weare, " come AMI
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 a crow. Then he carried him inside
| and stood him on the table and sat down
before him.
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He thought it better to begin the CONVEX
sation with a question.
"Five and a half. Is that your sword up
there?"
eyes. Who give you those bronze shoes,
Bibbs %
Now he knew that Jennie had given them
to him, but he so wanted to hear her name
"Auntie. She's going away soon," he
added. ssLet me look at your sword now"
"Where is she going to ?" he asked, III
CONSERVATION.
"Devonshire. Do let me try on your
sword"
"Why is she goipg?' he asked, with a
sick feeling at his heart.
"She's ill, I think; and she's always cry
ing now. One clay she was crying over the
silver thing you gave her and kissing it like
anything
The "silver thing" was a little heart Of
about the size of shilling, which he had
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timidly requested her to accept.
John Weare jumped up and showed Bibbs
his sword and carried him on his back al
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more black currants, in his delight. But
Bibbs declined.
"Aunt Jennie's going to bring me some
from Ethan tonight"
So Jennie was going to Ethan, was she
John Weare took Bibbs home, and on his
way presented him with q white woolly
lamb that moved on wheels and squeakel
and a monkey that went up a stick on being
gently pushed,
"Crying over her silver thing!" sale
!, John Weare. "IM go and hang abou'
the Ethan road till I see her and beg he
, pardon"
, And he went and Jennie met him and
pouted and declared she hadn'tonce though
of him and then broke down and cried. Ant
, John begged her pardon and declared tina
he had been a heartless brute ; and thel
Jennie coutradicted him and said it was al
her fault, and told him how Mrs. Dunlop
the c~olonel's wife had one day walked in ant
told her in the kindest possible manner tina
e she was spelling her sisters business, TO
the ladies' who had been interested in he
+ welfare kept away IN account, of Jennie'
5 flirting p~ropensities, which filled mp the shol
S with idle officers who were always in tn
way and how she had been so ashamed
and wretched and so cut up at the desertio
q of John Weare, that she had determined t
: go back to Devonshire.
"But you won't now 2" he said, as the,
leaned over the stiie leading to the Ethan
fields. "You'l get ready at once and We'