The Newtown bee., 1878-05-09
Little Esue Eyes.

We were bored to death, Ted and l, and it was at Oycrcomt. There was cir culating library, 10 which no one sub srribed, and which consequently did not ciFculate; there croquet-ground, with a total absence of hoops, balls and mal- lets; there were little boats possibly for rowing) with the bottoms out; and there was shop which sold worse cigars than are to be found even at BoulOgnc. Gentlemen, appeal to yCu Can say saorc? Still, being there for a week. and with no money to take Us elsewhere, there it was nc 'cssary to remain. trust I make this reasonably clear.
 It was cur nightly custom, and our one amusement, to walk up and down the only promenade of the place, lfor whom it Was made has not yet been discovered ; i Ned thinks for visitors smoking our selves scedy." Ted, who did not care | to give in to adverse fiGeumstancc5, used to try what singing would do toward enlivening us.
 He composed q little song, really beautiful in its simple truth and earnest fcrvor. Here it is:
 and now another day is done: | And When We sec to-morrowH sun, l Let's hope that too will soon be dune" 1 There was not girl in the place, ol we should have allowed her to make two conquo5ts thereby doing our best to in crease her girlisl vanity, and rendering lfcr genera irsuppOitablc at home Such was the state of affairs on the frs day; but toward noon, on the sec nt day, VIC saw rainbt " for on thinF and, for another, two girliSh figures I 0Sr walk, dressed both alike in lr,W. carmclitc dresses, brown carmClitc jack cts made loose to the figure, and largo brown sala'l-bowls for hats, nCatl, trimmed with brown ribbons.
 Anything mere hideouS its impo s l to imagine. When had the frightfu separations come, and why did the. haunt our only walk? We had wishe' for girls like the bad queens in the fair, tales; but-wc appealed to cath other had we wished for such as these? w. both politely replied WIG had not, ant
 at o Sraf fn Il C tance. "IlI tell you what" says Ted after a short IaGsa. I'm blcst if II yield up our walk to them. If they don like our being there, they can do th other thing, and go eff. But Overcoul 1 is not like London, and, if we give it u to them, we shall have nowhere to go besides, even tEcn we should meet q church" "
 Quito so. Always consideratc, Ted i> am not virtuous myself, but 1 admir- virtue in others, particularly ill Ted, an should think it wicked to put any diit cultie5 in his way, when he is really { sacrifice himself. So down we go 10 tl sea, under the Gelusion j. tt we Gf2 g in to astonish them, even as they had d. tonf5had lis, though. we flattered Ou selves, in d rather different manner.
 Not at all. They IooIcd-not at IL !, but at their hateful brown carmcliLc very much as if they didn't like then and dextorously gave the salad-bowl wh el were doing service for hats, pu which IF de them, if anything, ugli, than they were before. But thay toe no more notice of us than if we had beC R q couple of caterpillars.
 Very slowly we walk along, CTed pp ting on his Regent-street airs, thro,fI loss and less expressi )n into our ey, every time we pass them. They are, appear to be, utterly mcC nscicus of o1 < presence.
 Ibegan to think Ted's most urmea ing countcnance.
 So the moFhinS passes, until It seen that we are ftted not to see their face they. keep them so religiously turn, away. When suddenly the wind, whi' s had before been helping these girls, no s sides with Us, and blows one Of tho sal; bowls over the cliff into the sea. AI there Is the damsel all forlorn. Such pretty girl, such & bright, piquaHt lit face, such charming addition to Owe court, which, after all, i5 not go lad !. under certain conditions.
 Need I say that I rushed franiical cn to the beach and secured tl.e fright hat, while Ted stood staring he} less