The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-01

Want to be wocked. want snlng
'Toddie, boy, one day.
And 1 had to rock him and sing, line
by line, after Bulge, some absurd little
doggerel about a basket, beginning:
"where is my little 5astih gomez"
Said Toddie, boy, one day.
When he was soothed, those children
beguiled me out to treacherous muddy
brookside, in earch of jacks-in-the-pul-
pit Toddie tumbled in, and SO did
Badge, and in pulling them out | WAS
most horribly spattered Hurrying
home, n carriage overlook lis with Indies
in it. Could it be ?-of course it was
Miss Mayton herself
"You seen to have been having n real
good time together" said she, as the
carriage passed. Remember, you are
all going to call on me tomorrow after
noon.
And so we did, Toddie bearing an ex-
piatory bouquet. The children raced off
to watch grasscutter, and | snt down
to delightful chat with Miss Mayton.
Men were scarce among the summer
boardcrs mt Hillcrest, and somehow the
piazza gradually filled with the Indies of
the house. Suddenly shrek arose
from the lawn Toddio had pinched his
fingers Gin the little wheels of the cutter
grass" and rushed mp to me, sobbing :
"Sing, 'Toddic, boy, one day"
NV blood seemed to freeze, but when
Bulge explained that she always wants
that song when he's hurt" all the ladies
urged me, and l wrathfully picked Tod
die up and hummed the detested air.
{ ,Nt Of Il
and successively required me to " sit i'll
wockin' chair" to "sing the words, y
and to /" sing louder" till at last, before
/ that audience and her, [ was obliged to
sing that dreadful doggerel, line for line,
as Bulge repeated it. My teeth were
set, my brow grew clammy. At last
[ heard some one whisper
/ "See how he loves him Poor man
he's in perfect agony over the little fell
low"
/ But the agony was prelude to a most
unexpected rapture. An apprehensively
accepted invitation to dinner, where Tod
die titled his soup over Miss Mayton's
dress, led to twilight tetc-d-tete, which
Bulge interrupted by informing the lady
"Uncle Harry 'spects you, Miss May
ton"
The little rascal had, that very morning
demanded to know whether L didn't
Glove" Miss Mayton, and accepted will
suspicion my assurance that " respect
ed her very highly. Now, before
could stop him, he continued:
"Only what he calls spect, I call
love"
There was an awkward pause-some
thing must be done.
"Miss Mayton," said 1, "Budge is
marplot, but truthful interpreter. T.
When [ loves anybody" observed
Bulge, II kisses them.
Miss Mayton gave a start. She dit
not speak she was not angry. Coul'
it be that? / acted on Budges sug
gestion, once, twice. She raised he
head and 1 saw that Alice Mayton ha,
surrendered at discretion. Then Budg
and Toddie came in for share of tn
kisses two OF three ladies appeared
and calmly said:
"Come, boys. Then I'll call with til
carriage at three tomorrow, Miss May
ton. Good evening""
1 shall not tell you what I thought Q
did during that interval, except that
,, bought my angelic nephews everythin
, they wanted, beginning with candy an
ending with goat and goat carriage
, Nor shall I say word about my rid
with Miss Mayton, except that it wa
suddenly interrupted by runaway got
and two boo-hooing boys; and that nigl
Bulge prayed:
+ "Dear Lord, bless Just lots that lovely
lovely lady that comforted me after th
goat was bad to me-"
! The next day was wet and those chi
+ dren led me terrible life Their onl
real comfort was Jonah, or rathe
T the whay-al," picture Of which Too
= die tenderly caressed, murmuring
+ "Dee old whay-al, 1 loves you.
o fnks twas veal mean in Dionah to 6,
! froed up when you hadn't nofin' else
a eat, poor old whay-al =
! Aud Toddie amused himself for som
Y time with big box for n whale and
: dead mouse for a Jonah, till mishap o
h CURED which he mournfully announce
@ by saying
"Djonah bwoke he tay-al -
The next morning, / got letter fro
= Helen, inclosing one to her from Ali'
:, Mayton, from which 1 learned that
G might attribute the sudden success of II
N suit to Miss Mayton's " seeing that mG
Y who could be so lovable with though
less and unreasonable children must |
!. perfectly adorable to the women
, ltv,d."
# [ have not time to tell you how Buds
:. revealed to stately Mrs. .Mayton the r
# lations subsisting between her :" lit
a girl and his "Uncle Harry" or he
4 that awful Toddie disclosed our secret
"a "a the ladies of Miss Mayton's acquain
q ance by solemnly declaiming son
"Lines to Alice he had heard me I
hearsing in the garden; OF how the san
Toddie swallowed "whole bottoo full
of paregoric, and was hurried to Il
NJ apothecary's with such wholesome I
t suits that he reported TO his brother:
Budgie, down to the village was
ii whay-al. didn't froe up Dionah but
,r froed up a whole floor full of NV
fngs"
+. Tom and Helen came home in d
time, and at lunch that day toasts We
drunk to Her" and to "the makers
n the match-Budge and Toddie !" Al
w Alice insists that when certain Gel
X X mony takes place they shall officiate
in groomsmen, nor have l. the slightt
1t doubt that she will carry her point.
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