The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-08-25

just come in market" She made no
move.
"Why, Julia, take them. They won't
hurt you. They are ripe"
"No, l mustn't" she persisted, keep
ing her eyes cast down.
Why not?" he pleaded. "You don't
think I'd bring em up here if l thought
they would hurt you, do your" She
moved uneasily, but said nothing.
"Julia," he began in a broken voice,
don't you believe me when l tell you
they are ripe?" She did not answer.
"Can it be possible" he continued, in
voice of pain, " that you believe that
would try to make you sck?"
1.-The company are waiting, and L
must 60 back to them" she said, speak
ing in a constrained tone, and reaching
out to the landle of the parlor door.
You won't take them?" He was very
white, and his voice trembled with sup
pressed passion.
ono"
"Then I'll 90 home and eat every one
of 'em before | touch my bed, if they kill
me deader than Collar" and with this
ferociOus threat he bounded out of the
house. Whether he did as he promised
is not known, but as he was around on
the streets the next day it is more than
likely that wiser thoughts prevailed.
That afternoon he started for her
house, to see if the dreadful thing was
true that that jeweler, whom he desig-
mated by the prefix of "pole legs" had
really supplanted him. AS he neared
tho hpi1ca ha Nr;t hot ba
jeweler was there, playing croquet with
Julia. The sight maddened him. For
moment he looked at them, with clenched
hands, then he hurried away, with
CLEAN in his eye that denoted storm.
In quarter of an hour he was again APP
preaching the place. He had both hands
in the pockets of his sack, as if he was
holding on to something valuable. The
dapper young jeweler was still engaged
in the game with the fair Young Julia,
and their laughing remarks grated dis
tastefully upon his ear. He marched
straight into the yard. Julia looked up
and saw him, and frown covered her
face. He saw it and understood its i'm
port at once. His own face grew black
with wrath. He turned to her.
Julia, have you given me up for this
fellow" he savagely inquired.
"What do you mean by such language
as that?" she angrily demanded.
While the party thus indelicately indi-
Gated stared at the newcomer as if he
very much doubted his own existence.
" Just what say" retorted the dis
carded one.
Well, the quicker you leave this yard
the better you'll please me-" was the
spiteful rejoinder from the fair one.
Then it's true, it's true" he howled
in voice of anguish. "She has left me
for old pole legs. comp This with a
sudden reversal of tone, as the name
brought up realization of the hated
| presence. You are the one that's done
it, are you?" Turning in rage upon
his rival. You are the sCoun0rel that
left me to buy her things for a whole
month, to get her sweetened up for y0u,
and then you come in an take her to
yourself. Where were you on the
! Fourth?" he screamed, with biting sar-
casm. "Why didn't you show yourself
when there was money to spend, an
| things to show her that cost cash down?
| Where were you when the ice cream and
cake was around. Oh, you old gimlet
eye" he added, suddenly removing one
hand from the recesses of pocket and
hurting raw egg full in the face of his
rival, which breaking in the contact COM
| pletely transformed the entire expression
of the ieweler. " Where were you,
say?" he yelled, dancing around and
drawing forth another egg. At the ad-
vent of this awful article Miss Julia
/ sCampered into the house, and the af-
| frighted and almost blinded rival struck
out wildly for escape; but the foe was
after him, and not ten feet had been
| cleared when the second egg caught him
between the shoulders and sprinkled its
! glowing colors over his back The I'M
fortunate man ran with all his might,
seeking for escape, but batfied in the
search. He flew over the vegetables,
and darted around the trees, but the
avenger kept close to him, plastering
him with omelettes, and plying him with
questions like this:
"Where were you on the Fourth?n
Egg.
"Where were you when there was
money 10 pc spent!
Egg.
Kept away, did you, till the Fourth
was over, the costliest day in the year,"
Egg.
Knew cream was up that day, did
you?"
Egg.
And the eggs flew with all the ven
geance an unrequited affection could i'm
part to them. And the unhappy Julia,
standing in trance of horror at the
window, saw her favored one peited in
the back, in the side, on the head and
against the legs; saw him tear through
the shrubbery like winged omelette;
saw the golden liquid stream from his
hair, his chin, his coat tails and his fin
ger tips; saw him shed scrambled eggs,
chromos and circus posters at every
jump; saw him finally bound over the
back fence and sweep across the back
lots like a simeon of biliousness, and
then she gave scream and tainted