The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-07-11


ed, looking at him in sstonishment.
" Doing oh, nothing, just been set
| ting things to right little"
Well, from your looks it must have
been right troublesome business"
What, my eye? Psbaw that moth
ing, you ought to just see him
Him what him p
"Why, Tom Brown. I've Just finished
teaching him who it is he's running op-
position to''
"But thought you intended going
around to fix up matters with Miss
Emms tonight ?'
Well, haven't L? You don't GER
tainly think thrashing a sneak, like Tom
Brown, would put man in such good
humorP"
Well, no; should imagine it would
put him in q very disagreesble humOr.
But you only mentioned Brown"
Yes, but you knew 1 was going to
see her, so you might have inferred"
"Did you wish me to infer that she
had given you a black eye, and nearly
torn your clothes off?'
"Confound you, mol But beg yeur
pardon, should have explained"
"Well, do, for the love of mercy !"
"You know, as l told yOu," said
he, settling himself on the table
among my briefs and documents,
tonight, but before I went, I
thought perhaps it would be sdvis-
able to drop her little note, telling her
that perhaps had been to hasty in my
cOnclusions-for l do think I was too
hasty-don't you ?"
"I think you were fool for ever COM
mencing there; you've been too hasty
ever since you began"
Oh you think so, of course I think
if you ever were in love, it was with
those musty old law books"
(Which have never gone back on me,
never eaten any bOn-bons, and will
never put me in thenotion of committing
suicide"
"And which will always keep you
from enjoying that greatest of all earthly
happiness; and be the cause of your
dying contentediy in a state of single
blessedness."
YOU'RE off the track again" I re-
piled, smiling in settled bachelors
selfsatisied way"
''WeIl, as I said before, think 1 was
premature. 1 didn't construe her re-
marks as I should have done. You see
a girl doesn't like to admit that she has
been won SO easily. 1t was just
the most delicate way in which she
could encourage me. I see through
it all now, and I love and respect
her hundred times more than if she
had answered yes at first. Bless her
dear little sOuli I believe she does love
me after"
"Oh stuff Can't you tell me what
you've been doing without all that
nonsense ?'
ooh, yes about the note, Well l said
I had been mistaken, and would like to
calIto explain matters and right myself
in her estimation at the same time l sent
five pounds of French candy as q peace
Offering"
"Well, and what answer did you get ?''
Why Just the sweetest little note in
the world came back-here it is-read
it 7" he exclaimed, handing me a softly
tinted, delicately perfumed little epistle,
which contained simply the following
words: Why, certainly, ] am still
your friend, Emma FitznoOdle." 1
handed it back to Barry, who pressed it
to his lips and then carefully slowed it
away in his inner vest pocket on the left
band side.
Well" said, "you went, did you 7''
" Went well l should rather think 1
did. I'd have gone through fire and water
to get there. 1 went and hadn't been there
more than a half hour. just as I had
gotten things fixed up better than they
ever we're befOre-quarrelling you know
is a sign of love: you see it shows yOu
are jeaL. US of each other Don't you
think so 2"
"I don't know. suppose So" 1 re-
piled drily.
"And as said we were getting on splen>
didly, and, my boy, she was just on the
eve of telling me a secret just think of
it, a secret. You know I must be get
ting along pretty well at that rate. She
said, Mr.. Creswell, ] know you are a
good friend of mine, and 1 am going TO
tell you something, something which,
perhaps She had got that far, when
that piebald, pigeOn-tOed, pumpkin
souled Tom Brown, who had the internal
impudence to walk right up to her and
say, Good evening, Emma plain
Emma, without the sign of handle to
her name,' and then turning round he
offered to shake hands with me. No
doubt lie had watched me when on my
way there, and just dropped in to spell
'I arose, bade Miss Emma good morn
ing, and then turned round, scOwled at
Brown and said
"Mr. Brown, are you going down
town."
He said he was not. / then told
him that had particular business with
him. He replied that he would be COM
PEELED to defer it until next morning. l
then marched out without bidding him
good morning, and waited about square
off until he finished loving that angel,
7 xu,,rra av,EafaIu
with him, and dare say she had to hint
him away. After 1 had waited about
three hours, he came whistling along in
capital humor, thinking perhaps of
how nicely he had dropped in on me. l
stepped up to him, and said, ''Look here,
you contemplate sneak, you thought
you could tamper with me, did you 2"
He backed off and said. " Mr.. Creswell
YOU do not seem to comprehend my posi-
! ton at -" But before he finished l
planted a sumner On his proboscis, and
| he returned the compliment with one in
nv eve: then we embraced each other,
and / was doing the thing handsomely
/ for him, when a mutual friend came
along and parted US.
80 now you have the whole thing
and / wouldn't take a fifty dollar bill
for it " said he, laughing in bigh glee:
"Pd dislike very much to buy it OF
you at that rate,'' I replied.
"Ill bet Brown doesn't show his ugly
face there sOon sgsin."
" You won't venture out soon your
self with that handsome eye-will your
'' Well, Dow," said Barry, not needing
my last remark, We must arrange the
other matter"
81 Arrange the other matter What
other matter F"
" Why, the duel of c0ursei Brown
will challenge me tomorrow morning,
and I want you to act as my second,
said he with q much earnestness as If II
was the most natural and matter-Ot-