Litchfield enquirer., 1877-09-27

his things was looked over, it was found he left everythin' to Joe except one partic'lar ugly figger, as turned his eyes with a squint an couldn't be done nothin' with, an him he'd left to old maid rela- ton as had spite agin him: 'sfor." says the will, sshe'd ought to have him, for he's the only chap ever see yet as could match her-let alone stand her, an it's tune she was takin' a partner, if she's go- in to. They did say as it was nearly the party y'sdeath, for, though they'd quarrel led reglar for twenty five years an hated each other deadly, she'd always believed as she'd come into his belongin's if she outlived him, thinkin' as he wouldn't make no will. sa ~
 Well. havin' had company for so long. 1t was nat raj as Joe should feel lonely like after this, an now an then get trihe downhearted. He didn find traveIin all alone as pleasant as it had been, so when he was maxim anything at all in g place. he d stay in 1t as long as he could. an kind of try to persuade hisself as it was kind of hnsnA- Co him, an he had things to hold him to it. He had good many feel ins in secret as might have been laughed
 at if people had knowed em. He knew
 we'll enough as he wasn the kind of chap to have home of his own-men as has homes has wives. an who d have wanted to marry hSns, bless you-he wash t the build as young women take to. He weren't nothing to look at. ua he couldn't chaff; nor yet lark, nor yet be ready
 with his tongue. Tn general, young wo-
 men was apt to make game of him when
 their sweethearts brought em into the col lection, an there was times when a pretty,
 lightheartad one would put him out so as he scarcely knew the Royal Fam ly by name, an mixed up the Empress of the French an Lucreecher Borgiar in the de- scription. 7
 ! So he lived on lonesome enough, for two or three year, an then somethin hap pened. He went up to London to stay while the races was goin on, an one day,
 when the collection was pretty full, there
 comed in swell party with girl on his arm. The swell, as was 8 tall, fne-lookin chap, was in high sperits, .an had just come in for the lark of the thing. Joe sees plain, for he were makin his jokes free an easy about everythin an laughin fit to Kill hlsseif every now an then. But the girl were different; she were little rosy thing, with round. shinin eyes, an soft,
 little tim1d way with her. She laughed too, but only shy an low, an more because she was happy an because the swell laugh ed. She wash the kind of young woman as the swell ought to have been a-goin with. She was dressed in her best, an was as pretty as pictur but her clothes was all cheap, an Joe could see as she be-. longed to the workin class, an was out for holiday. She held close to the gentle man arm, an seemed half frightened, an yet so glad an excited that she would have minded you of six-year-old child. It were the first time she q ever been into a ax.works, an things locked wonderful to her. When they come to Lady Jane Grey she was quite took with her, an begun to ask questions in the innocentest way.
 She one of the nobility, sir, ism she ? she says to her companion. Did you ev- CT see her ? lsn she beautiful, sir?
 He laughs delighted, an squeezes her hand a bit with his arm. . 4H.
 , No, Polly. he says. I never saw her until to day. She didn't keep her head on her shoulders long enough. It was cut of some time ago, my dear. An. then he whispers: An 1t wash nearly as pret- ty head as yours, Polly, either.
 The little girl blushes like a rose, an tries to laugh too; but Joe knew as she d took the words more to her innocent heart than was good for her.
 2, LOT me she says. What a shame it was to cut her head of, ,-an her so sweet an quiet
 Yes, Polly. says the young gentleman, a-iaughin more. Very quiet. Wax-works are. as rule. A nice time a proprietor would have, if they were not, with such a lot of queer customers, Bloody Mary, for instance. and Henry the Eighth, and Mana Sahib. and John Knox, and Lucretia Borgia. though you don know much of their amiable characteristics. my dear.
 : They went on in that way through the whole room, m,-him jokin an maxim light. m her enioyin herself an admirin every. thin she set eyes on, an Joe a. watchin her. He couldn't help it Somethln queer seemed to have took hold of him the min. ute he first sees her. He kept a-wishin as the collection was ten times as big. so as it would take longer for her to go through. He couldn bear the thought of seein the last of her. an when they comes to the Russian party, as stands near the door, dressed for the winter sea- son,-his nose bein protected with fur. af- ter the fashion of the country,-his heart were in his mouth. an when she passed outsinto the crowd, he seemed to swallow it with gulp. as took it into the heels of his boots.
 q Tor he says, all of tremble Tn his lnsides. r shan { never See her again. never! ra .,-t afd . : He hadn t no spirit in him all that day, nor the next either. It was as if some thin, altogether out of common hrd hap pened, an he couldn never be the same man again. He were miserable, an down an nervous, an there wasn fgger in the collection as didn { seem to know it. He took to standin at the door whenever he could, a-lookin at the people a. passin by An yet he scarcely knowed what for. If he'd seen the face he wanted to. he would n dared to say word, nor yet to move a step, an still he was a-hungerin day an night for glimpse of what couldn be no good to him. s.... ,..e.e. $. ..a...-.-.. : We'll. if ynn II believe mo. nun. instead of gettin easier as time went on, he got uneasier. He was as lonesome again as he had been, an he took his tea asettin with the Royal Fam ly reg lar,-he could n have swallowed it by hisself. After shuttin up. he'd go out wanderin in the streets melancholy and wistful like, an one night he stops short all at once, a-feel. in hisself turn pale in consequences of it comin to him sudden what ailed him. [; I've fell in love, says he, fearful an re spec fnl. --that i. .--an. there no help for me. ; m not the man as should have done it, for can look for nothin to come out of it.
 | He give hisself up to it, because he did D see no way out of it. Nobody wasn troubled but hisself, an so it didn't mat ter, He got pale an thin. an didn sleep well Q nights, but there wash no one to bother themselves about him,-there weren t even a soul as he could left the collection to. if he q a died. .l.s ss ss It went pretty hard with him to leave London, an when he did leave it, he couldn't stay away: an I'm blessed if he didnt come back in less than six months; for. says he to hisself: s,. : E Here place as is somethin more than the others, at least, though it is in sor- rowfnl way. an d rather as the collection wOnid earn ma bare Twin. in g side-street iin London. than make money away from 1t. l might see her again; an LOT bless