The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-07-19
From Godey's Magazine.
MISCHIEF MAKING.
BY LILY LEE.

Now, Ellen, this is really too had
how should we, either of us, feel, were
we to receive such a sarcastic letter
Besides
Not another word, Carolinel Kate
won't care after little; and it will
teach her to be more prudent, too. |
thlnk she Is rather coquettish; it will
give her good lesson. / wish | could
see her when she reads it."
But, Ellen, we ought not to be 50
cruel; l should be heartily ashamed to
have her know had anything to do with
Well, well, no one will ever know
who did it; so now write away. I will
get cousin Edmund to copy it, so it will
so IN gentleman's handwriting"
IL VIII be Just to crafty you, then,
Ellen; but | am fearful"-
Now give that self-conceited fon .
hlt-good! Now for the puissant, mighty
Mr.. Allen, stroking his mustache as he
smiles upon the fair Kate"
Let me see; here is the most obse-
qmous Mr.. Browne paying his humble
deyolr at the feet of Miss Lester; it is
delightful" "
Ellen, if the gentlemen should ever
see tins, what would they think? How
would they feel to know they were so
ridiculcd?'
Il do not care straw; it will teach
them better than to bestow all their at
tentions and admiration on Kate Lester.
| hope they will see it,
Here goes the last one on the LIST
Now read it, and then we will commit il
to the flames; it will be safe from harm
them -
No, Caroline, not for the world; it is
too precious for such fate. But look
here comes Mr.. Edsall, whose likeness
we first drew"
Carlcatured, you would say; but
quick, put 1t out Of sight, for he is COM
ing here"
Ellen placed the sheet in her satcbel
and was taking her leave lust as Mr..
EdSall entered the drawing-room of Mr..
Bowen, whose only daughter, Miss Caro-
line, we have already introduced She
was beautiful girl of eighteen, who had
never Intentionally wronged any one bv
word or deed, but was too easily in
huenced by her gay, unthinking friend
Miss Ellen Jackson
In few days the mischief beoan IN
Work. Nate Lester came TO unbosom
her troubles to Caroline, knowing that
she would ind sympathy in her warm
heart. She read the letter; it was the
same she and Ellen had Jointly compos-
ed, and still not the same: there WAS
more malignity and sarcasm expressed.
And now, Caroline. can YOU imagine
where the letter originated? There can
be no doubt, from the writing. that it /
was gentleman; and how wounding
ana morutyng to be the unsuspecting
object of such hbelous remarks!"
Dear Kate, you take it too seriously: /
there was, IL dare say, no mischief in
tended. No one would wish to iniure
you; there Is nothing against YOU: but +
her heart sank within her as She remem- .
oered that she assisted in COMPOSING if
but there must have been malice in .
1t; no heart could have dictated these F.
cutting SarcaSms that was not imprerna-
ted with evil thoughts. And then the
paragraph concerning Mr. Allen-to
nave 1t appear as if | made improper
II Is too bad," and the injured
glrl wept IN very bitterness of heart, and
caroline telt deeply the injustice she had
done, and repented deeply: but it was of
no avail now. OH how she wished she
had not yielded to Ellen's influences.
Kate, dearest, do not ever show the
letter" WY
$ wish had not; but | mentioned It
to one friend WHEN | first received il.
ma she told another; and now | cannot
stop 1t; the contents have been borne
lpon the wings of the wind; and not one
Individual that was ridiculed and critj-
,ized but long before this has heard oft,
wish, indeed | do, that | had kept it to
myself, then mo one else would have been I,
surmlseS were afioat rs to the autben-
slclty OF the writers of the ANONYMOUS ;
,plstie, and as Caroline and Ellen were ,
distinguished for superior abilities as :
we'll as wit and talent, it was not unfre- f,
luently limited that they might be the ,
original emenators, but they ALWAYS re- ,
,elled the insinuation: and those who
NEW the kindness of Caroline's dispo- |
alton could never for moment harbor
ne belief that she had dipped her pen 50 |
ieeply IN the gall of bitterness as to :
Wound TIE feelings of her friend. !
| wish, Ellen, they would drop the |
subject of that aboninable letter: | am {
heartily wearied with parrying off the :