Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1878-05-30

10 French language is when one wan
to express a very delicate shade :
ID meaning!) But that was her artles
ness.
L. ssDear me, Sam she observed q
the tea-table, ''what have you &C
1t such long face for?" Johnson
attentions had made me little PEI
d sive.
"Something must be long to MAX
4 up for the prevailing shortness,
said. 4
Johnson was not much taller tha
Mary Jane 7 made a note of tha
sarcasm afterwards. My impromptlls
are toosoften lost
"Don't be impertinent, sir. LooH
into that spoon. Your face is exact
ly like the reflection you see there
ism t it, Mr.. Johnson ?" i
lie grinned. 1t was then | OF |
tsersed for the first time the singul |
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breadth of his visage. His grin .seet-
, ed to extend across the room.
"IfMr. Johnson will hold the spoon
horizontally he may admire his own
image" l remarked, playfully.
| Johnson grinned again. He was
one of those insanely good-humored
men whom it is quite impossible to
annoy.
''Sam, you are outrageous" said
Mary Jane. ''Mr. johnson and |
are going to practice our duet. You
stop here and talk to Pa,''
Mr.. Bowles had to be aroused from
the doze into which he usually drop
/ ped after tea. 1t was in that habit
that my penetration had detected his.
conviction that Mary Jane was an
artless creature.
+ PA woke mp and asked me what
! were my views on tramwavs. His
composition was fine crusty con-
scrfatism, and he dislkcd innOva:
tions. Mis- port wine was fine and
crusly too, but that is by the way.
was listening to the duet over ;
, ',',' ''' ''' '''''N''"'' l'eai
OF what the old gentleman said. and
g, I
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bo"lcS' I"l" me nc siouio propose
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l'h'e from l"lS party
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ho'2hI yo" were sweet 'li"' way
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mere my ofll'lo"S' hy-oy''
Gong TO propose wleh lie look her
lome from lwlg 5! by all The pow "
rs he should not take her nome from :,
Iwig's! i
1t had been agreed that should .
'scort Mary Jane TO the halls OF
lwIg' 1t was u line night apparent I
y, but | took my upbrella. 1t was
l new one, surlnounted by an alllga- e