The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-08-03

where" said Thrall, .finging his hat
across the room, and singing some ridic-
Qlous words of his own to an air from
"Somnambula. :" ses ssf glfst sass
"Do be quiet q moment, Thrall," I
interrupted but he never needed me,
but went on until the very last note was
reached, and they politely requested
me to proceed. r . = ss'sf'sss''s' :
Lawrence didn't say a girl ? he said
q young woman, and that may mean
any thing in pullbacks from sixteen to
sixty. Anyhow. as Smith says, she'll
be a nuisance. Why don't she sculp,o
paint, or draw. or engrave, or some
thing OF that sort, all undisturbed in
the privacy of her own dear little studio?
Or, better yet, why don't she marry
somebody p'ta2S< set ga4ea 9: ;5's.
"Ma1y her yourself, Dickson, and
prove benefactor to mankind in gen.
eral and your fellow-clerks in particu-
lar suggested Smith. =, - -:
lt "Oh! I say!". drawled Gerard
life's too short to be wasted talking
about a woman. Let's go round and
get some beer'' Che called it A be-ah"),
and drink death to all interlopers.''
VI y
am Dickson. the young man who
was kindly advised to marry the girl
book-keeper, q proposal from which /
tshrank, having horror of women who
usurped, as thought, the positions and
privileges of the sterner sex - t'
However,, will admit had fair
share of curiosity about the newcomer,
and SO no doubt had my companions,
always excepting julie Gerard, who was
too selfish and indolent to, feel the
slightest interest in any thing or any
body. And the next morning, when a
young woman pushed open the swing
door, walked quickly up to me, I being
nearest the door, and said to me in a
low, shy voice like low, shy voices),
Will you please show me where my
desk isl am conscious Iregarded her
with q look more keen than polite. aeg
+ The blood rose to her cheek, and she
returned my look, not boldly, but un-
aCertainly,' said /, and escorted her
to her seat, catching a fearful grimace
i from Thrall as passed.
The girl (for she was a girl, about 18,
should think was, in my opinion
an opinion shared by, all my fellow
clel Ks, as found before the day was
over-not at all pretty, not even good
booking. 70
1 She was ta1sand thin;a had large
sunken gray eyes, a. wide brow, left
bare by the plain arrangement of her
hair, which was all drawn away from
| it and carelessly twined in heavy coil
at the back of her. head, rather ugly
nose and rather pretty mouth.
4 She blushed nicely, the delicate GRIM
son just tingeing her pale cheeks and
touching her chin; and she had beauti-
full hands, with long taper ingers--I
noticed them when she began to write
and her name, as afterward discover
ed, was Stella Starsun. -
i Miss Starsun proved so quiet, and
mouse-like that after few days we al
most forgot her presence, and chaffed,
laughed, and sung, when the cat was
away, almost as much as ever. =.
One thing we all noticed-Miss Star
sun never went out at lunch-time. She
nibbled away at something for about
FIVE minutes, drank glass of water,
and then taking book from her sachel,
read or studied until time for work
! again. a'41.s sac. s.'@@'
. "Fellows," said Smith, one day, af-
ter she had gone, GIVE found out what
Miss Starsun lunches on.'' VI aasG lee
Pickles, - said ThraH. . 70 a.
Candy, /" drawled Gerard.
1.-two crackers,''s said Smith
ssneither more nor less. I've watched
, her for q week through little peep
hole I've made in my screen, and that's
all, pom honor!'' .stf ..s4,'
|, "Poor thing!" said /; that dry
fare.''s @fs7'sfSs te's st.ss{a.s tsssa :
q" Not 50 bad, - drawled julie. s.Some
,, unfortunate people haven't two crack.
, ers." Hes.d : = VI ssds f.rasgs.,!!.
"Good heavens! what tortoise you
, are, Gerard" said Thrall.;a sept ID.
) Ya-as,n said julie. as..,e.s.es. )
; Tke next day I noticed on Miss Star.
) suns desk a pretty basket of strawber:
} ries, wreathed with bright green leaves
: She looked at it in evident wonder fol
q moment when sne entered, aad ther
set it aside; but / was glad to see tina
at lunch-time she ate the Strawberries
with her crackers, taking what the god
apparently had sent her, in her usus
, quiet manner, without question.
ii After that, every day throughout thu
: summer, some fruit Offering was III
upon Miss Starsun's desk placed ther'
, Iby order Of old Lawrence, we all decid
: ed, whose poor. relation we had lon{
ago made up our minds the girl mus
be. s gssssess ls.,Ress. .ssz, a 81 ass
! Gradually we became quite interested
+ in the interloper- was so patient
, so thoroughly womanly and modest il