Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-09-06


writer and his works.
/ say to his great surprise. for the
doctor was really a shy, reserved man,
and not at all given to talking poetry
to pretty women; but this woman was
so pretty.
AS he went on, waxing eloquent, it
suddenly struck him that needle
woman would not be familiar with
these poems, and he paused, to have
her, to his greater surprise, take up
the subject. and deliver a criticism far
better and cleyerer thin his own.
From Browning and that more re-
splendent genius, his wife, to Tenny-
son, Dickens, Thackeray, and at last
George Eliot, of whom the seamstress
spoke with a deeper CRIMSON on her
cheeks and a brighter light in her glo-
rious brown eyes. "Silas Mariner. :"
she said, is the loveliest-' But by
this time the doctor had become so in
terested in watching the play of the
prettily-curved lips and the bewitching
dimples that came and went with every
smile, he ceased to hear what the en-
thuslastic speaker rdS saving: and
when she, looking him straight in the
face, asked, Don't You agree With
me, doctor?' he was obliged to STAN
mer, 81 beg thousand pardons, but
what aCds your last remark ~
1t is 1 who should beg pardon"
said the pretty seamstress, with a
charming little grimace. How
thoughtless | have been. OF course
you have patients waiting for you.
How could | go on so?" The doctor
wished she'd 60 on forever. but
pray don't stay another minute; only
tell me what to do if baby is taken
sick again, and if find can't manage
him, III send for you Immediately. |
hope, however to be able to get along
without you"
The doctor hoped she wouldn't-in-
ternally, of course--and then he said,
:" assure you, madam, | have still an
hour at your service Oh, wicked
DR.. Stone! and old Mrs Aspen groan-
ing with rheumatism and expecting
you by appointment this blessed mo-
ment, Il shall be only too happy to
stay mean. | think it necessary
should remain. These childish COM
plants are, as perhaps you are not
aware, often very dangerous. And
again, oh, wicked DR.. stone, for YOU
know you are quite sure nothing Sc
rious is the matter with baby! Pre-
scribe for yourself. doctor 1t is you
who have caught dangerous"
malady. In spite of your sneers and
SCOTS all your life long at the tender
passion-in spite of your emphatic
declaration not more than an hour ago
you hare fallen in love, and she isn't
sweet sixteen, and she iS--a seam
stress.
"a princess" he repeated to him
self again, and then he said, aloud,
Il will, at least, remain until the
baby's grandmamma arrives
"Oh, if that is all that detains you,
go at once" said the fair one with the
golden locks, a mischievous smile
dancing over her lovely lips and i'll her
big brown eyes. "She is here
Here" repeated the doctor.
Where -
"Why, didn't nurse tell you? I'm
baby's grandmamma, and dotingly
fond of my grandson, too" Then out
burst the merriest little laugh, that
was hushed in a moment for fear of
waking the sleeping child, for the doe
tors face was comical study. A
dozen different expressions were min
gled there, as he remembered that the
girl-wife, Mrs. Phillips, had once
spoken to him of her sweet mamma
Il widow, and a widow for the second
time. iut who could have dreamed
of such widow, such a mamma, such
a grandmamma Scarcely knowing
what he did, he bowed himself from
the room, forgetting all about the d.
rections he was to leave, and FASTENED
into the street.
Good heavens. how preposter-
ous" he exclaimed, as soon as he re-
covered his senses land how beauti-
fulr'
And just six months from that day
Payne was shouting at the top of his
voice in the doctors Office; "lIa. ha,
ha. BE groomsman OF course ]
will, old fellow, But when | think of
the young girl who never loved anoth-
CT, transformed into double widow
ha' ha ha.-and grandmother in the
bargain-ho, no, ho"'
of YOU don't shut your mouth.
Payne" said the doctor, seriously,
you II have IA terrible cold on your
lungs, and won't answer for the con
sequences. '-Horper's Weekly.
"Heap Fool! Freeze, Keeping Warm."
The Indians have a contemptuous
saving: