The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-03-01
A SLEIGH-BELLE.

A SLElGH-BELAEs
Harold Browns sleigh dashed merrily
zap to Harold Browns door, and at that
moment (she was the soul of punctuality)
out came Harold Browns only sister-a
little woman wrapped in shawls, and
worsted things, from head to foot.
"Come along, sis" he shouts, and
then, without waiting for her to "come
aloug," he jumps from the sleigh, reaches
the top of the stoop in three strides-he's
a tall, broad-shouldered, dark-skinned,
blue-eyed young fellow-catches her UP
An his arms as though she were only
bundle, and in the twinkling of an eye
she is snugly slowed away among the
buffalo-robes. ..
Crack goes the whip. &C lang, Ned p
cries Harold Ned" losses his head
and paws the ground an instant to set the
sleigh-bells ringing properly, and off
tthey go.
F'Are you warm ?" asks Harold of the
tbundle at his side. .
'tAlmost smothered," answers the bun
die in an indistinct voice, with a slight
lisp. ........
"That's right, my darling" says the
brother, who adores his pretty young
:sister-the only one left him Of four 8" I
should tear my hair in wild despair if
you caught cold. Mind you don't, for if
you but sneeze once, be it the tiniest
sneeze that ever was, home you 60"
"Never fear, Har," rejoins the ODE
dent small woman. CT promise, upon
my word and honor, not to sneeze. I'll
choke first. All ! here we are, she
continues, as they turn into Fifth ave-
nue. and take their place at the end Of
line of sleighs, big and little, the largest
of which stands unoccupied before he
handsome and brilliantly lighted house
OF Albert Lee, merchant and millionaire.
"Yes, and here are all the rest, says
Harold, adding, with slight infection
of scorn, " excepting the Lee people. OF
course it's the Princess Alberta who is
keeping us all waiting forgetting, in
the most man-like manner, that he had
only that moment arrived himself. "She
never was ready when she was little
girl, and suppose she hasn't reformed
in that particular, now she's big one.
"Big y repeats the voice from the
muflers "why, she isn't bit larger
than [ am"
"Well, she's a year older, anyhow,
and ought to know better" replies Har-
old; "but I haven't the slightest doubt
she's stopping to firt with some one, or
two, or half dozen OF her numerous
admirers, utterly regardless of the fact
that THAT is, you-to say nothing of
forty or fifty others, more or less intimate
efrinds, are freezing outside Dan Van
Rensselaer, is buttoning on her gloves. or
Will West is fastening the straps of her
~overshoes, or some confounded nonsense
or other. Cora, it's my opinion that Girl
hlrted III her cradle, made faces at her
Old loves, and smiled on the new. AL
beEta land she won't let any one soften
1t to Berta, he went on, apparently
warming with his subject" what ride
@ulous name for such mite for mite she
is, and mite she will continue to he for
all her scornful looks and naughty wavs ;,
Oh, Harold" exclaimed the yelled
voice, with as much Indignation as is pos
slbie under the circumstances. " How
UNJUST you are She's not naughty
she s not scornful-she's Lovely She
came TO me herself yesterday afternoon
-and happen to know all the others
nao written lnvitations-and begged we
would join her sleighing party. Its to
oe read old-fashioned affair she said
and want my real old-fashioned friends
to come -0A'N''
dates Harold. ~
And as for her name, she had moth
ing to say about that, as you, if you have
one gram OF common-sense. must he
aWare-no more than you did about
yours. And she'd rather be called
Bertle,' a great deal only her pana
insists insists upon Alberta, and conseounntiv
axe good daughter, she insists mon
- ALBERTA too He wanted a boy when
slle was born, to be called albert =
'Ol1"Os MS own name, you know: and
when girl came instead, he said No oirI
should interfere with his plans and ha
named her Alberta, which is almost +ho
same thing. And it's lust "a we'll be ia
Tor he never had another child orr, ~ -,
boy" 0-l'A'' eill or
Pity the boy hadn't come > orumb1os
Harold. 6honloAes
, S'For shame, brotherl" exelaims tbo
Little woman, partly unfolding the veil
that hides her dimpled chin and r reu
mouth, that she may speak with greats sdey
effect. Chow can you wish that there
was great stupid young man instead of
that dear, sweet girl? for she is a dear
sweet girl, though you, I can't for the Ifa
OF me see why-neither can Fred-choose
eGo be angry with her."
81 didn't wish for "a great stunia
young man in her place." explains
Harold, with short laugh. ''That he
would necessarily have been erraat and