The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-04-28

giving a disagreeable sensation of sea
sickness or earthquake. We had anoth-
er Ease for a side table, covered with 4
plaid shawl of channels, for Nelly's
desk. my account ~books-yery mysteri-
Gus books they were-and a little rose
tree with two or three leaves-a forlorn
little thing that had the appearance of Il
blighted being, whose early hopes had
been nipped i'm the bud.
On the whole il did very well, and rs
Nelly said il might have been worse. |
had n great many p~erplexities IN my
household duties. Nelly IDEAS on house
keeping were, 10 say the least, vague,
and in any pressing emergency always
suggested ham, which is very well in
its way, but one likes q variety some
times.
Now, every one must have n little Bit
of romance, and | had mine. had not
reached the age Of twenty-one without
il, looming up out of the past. oh, SO
long ago to rue, before one troubles,
was a manly form with sunny hair and
honest ewes, that had looked right low
ingly on me in those lost hours, who
had indeed asked me once 10 share his
lot with him. | laughed it of then, and
afterward wished | had not, but then
il was too late. | had some very con
sumptive looking faded flowers and
some verses written TO me in "A bold
manly hand. | looked at them some
times aud made up my mind to cry over
them some day, when | had time, but !
never had time, so | didn't. dreamed
about them occasionally AT night. often
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daylight.
Everything was going pretty smooth
ly when n rainy day Nelly came home
looking flushed and weary with a head
ache. She sat down by the fire and put
her little damp feet on the fender.
"Oh Georgia." she said, Il am SO
tired in such q plaintive little tone il
almost made me cry; she was a year
younger than | was, and such . patient
child.
"Take off your things, dear, and lie
down." | said.
take some ginger-tea," suggested
mamma from her easy chair. Ginger
tea was mammals sovereign remedy for
every thing. Itook off Nelly's things
for her, took her up stairs and washed
her forehead, smoothed her pretty gold
en- hair and wondered at her beauty.
Nelly was SO pretty, while was plain
and brown-brown hair, brown eyes,
and brown face too. | was not in the
least envious of my sisters violet eyes
or delicately tinted skin, any than
| was of Charles budding m~oustache,
but / admired her immensely. So did
Charlie. He at nineteen was beginning
q. sl..l- l.. IU.-. w-L.4 $40. r-ls -, -
woman's looks. l went up stairs and
hung mp Nelly's cloak and folded her
little shabby gloves, somehow as if it
would be a long time before she would
need them again. l began to get tea
and Charlie came in. where's Nell,
Georgiei" was his first question.
"She's not well,n | said, "run up
stairs, boy, and see If she is asleep
and / began toasting mammals mullins,
when Charlie came back with q scared
face.
- | say, Georgia, here's ago." he ex-
claimed; "Nelly's awake and | don't
think she knows what she is saying;
she's taking quite wildly" | dropped
the toasting fork, and ran up to my sis
ter. She was sitting up with all her
pretty hair about her; she held out her
arms to me.
81 think | must nave said something
very foolish, DEAR" she said, throwing
her slender arms around me; al think
| frightened Charlie, but | feel so queer /;
| do feel very sick, Georgia" / got her
into bed and rave her some simple rem
edy, thinking she had caught cold, and
went down to give mamma and Charlie
their tea. Then / sent Charlie up to her
till / got poor amm comfortably set
tied for the night.
Mamma" said, "I'm afraid Nell
ly's very sick"
.Did she take the ginger-tea?n she
asked.
"No, MAMMAL | said, 81 am afraid
that would have done no good"
You don't know, George, as you
did not try you never do any thing /
say" said poor mamma, 81 think it is
very wrong when my own children
won't obey me; don't contradict me,
Georgina.r We never did contradict
mamma, il made her so nervous, so |
got her to bed as quickly as | could, and
FASTENED back 10 Nelly. She was sleep
ing heavily, and Charlie was sitting on
our side-table gazing on the brilliant
prospect of back yards and occasional
cats gliding along the moonlit fences.
| came and stood beside him. The tall
stone houses on the other side of the
block were well lighted. In M there
had been a dinner party; we could see
the servants at their late meal and in
the parlor through the lace curtains.
We could see the trailing dresses Of the
"How nice to be rich, Oh! Charlie"
/ said. He nodded and laid his dear
curly head on my shoulder.
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