The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-06-21
book you review; all want is paper,
said the editor. And / did my best.

green cover, ana enutieu LcHOes Ol ln'
Heart, by HDora." 1 did not take the
trouble to read them, but just dipped il
: here and there without cutting the
d leaves, to get points for funny copy"
: found one couplet, for examination, in
+ which girl was made to rhyme with curl
whereupon I spelled girl, gurl, through
e out the article. called Dora" a gurl
drew an imaginary picture of her as q
d gushing young thing of fifty, with spec
t tacles. and an ink stained thumb, and
suggested that her proper occupation
e was the artistic cooking of a sheep;
E heart, rather than writing nonsense
about the echoes of her own. Inquired
how heart can have an echo, and insin
uated that the Curl of the Echoing
Heart must be a ventriloquist; with q
great deal more fippant stuffof the same
kind, winding up with an atfectedly
serious dlatribe against poetasters of both
sexes, and the publishers who print theil
effusions; disgraceful article which was
iexactly to the taste of the nil admirar
class, from which the readers Of the
Blank Review were principally recruited
1t was during this early period of my
career, and at the season when London
is dullest that I met my old college
friend Sinclair in the Strand and natu
rally asked what brought him to town in
the autumn.
Il have been ordering a dog cart in
Long Acre." he replied; "but why are
you not out for holiday?'
"I have now here particular to go 10
and no one to go with me. As has been
often said, London when empty has more
people in it than any other place when
full" said /. Besides if I went out
should be paying for my empty chamb
ers all the time as well as for my tempo
rary lodgings"
SAY, ay; but still breath of country
air does man world of good. And
you can afford it; you have made start
and expect the two ends meet. eh?'
"Yes; but I am waiting till they over
lap before indulge in luxuries.'
"Look here" said Sinclair, after pause,
al wish you would come back with me
to Aitcham this evening"
"You live at Aitcham, now?'
"Yes, 1 have taken furnished house
there till the end of September. Rather
a pretty place on the banks ofthe Thames;
lawn sloping to the edge of the river;
perch and pike, they say have never
caught any-boat house and all that. My
wife took fancy to the place, and it is
just the same to me as any other until
the hunting begins"
as it far?"
"Oh, no, near Pangbourne; we shall
run down in a couple of hours. 1t is
not any compliment to ask you, own,
for we are monstrous dull. But you
have as good as owned that you have
nothing to keep you in London, and il
would be very good natured if you
would come and take an oar
"Take an oar?"
ayes; 1 am rather tired of sculling
those two about every afternoon myself
Some of the girls in the neighborhood
have taken to rowing themselves, and
letting their husbands, brothers, etc.
steer, but my women folks don't seem to
see it."
"You speak in the plural"
"Yes, my wife, you know, must have
some one TO speak to-
"She has you"
"Poohl it is easy to see that you have
no experience. Why, We have been
married nearly two years, can't talk OF
furbelowsand my wife cant talk ofhunt'
ing. She wants another women to talk
to and so Miss Filmer is staying with us
And l want man to talk toand you will
be he, won't you? There is aquiet little
room opening out into the garden,where
you shall do any reading and writing
yon may want, undisturbed all the
morning Come"
He led me to my chambers. made me
pack my portmanteau, and had ME down
to the station and in railway carriage
almost before had quite made up my
mind whether / would go or not.
"You have not forgotten how TO row
have your he asked as we rushed
through the country.
'No, fancy not but Pm not in the
condition was when we rowed in our
first boat during the May races. What
time do you dine, by the way?'
ave never dine.'
NO"
"No. We breakfast and lunch and &C
on the water when the latter meal has
been digested, and come back to cold
spread when we have had enough mist
and moonlight. 1t is very romantic,
assure you"
"No doubt" said 1, thinking that
would have pressing engagement tc
tear me back to town very soon. @Dc
you know what nightmare is?"
"Not very well; saw picture of one
once in an old almanac, 1 think"
The clutch of the metropolis is never
shaken off while you remain in the rail
way carriage which started from it; nay
the turmoil of the streets still sings il
your ears for several minutes after yor
have left the station.
We had almost reached Sinclair's villi
before the sweet odors of grass and flow
ers got fair hold of my senses, or th'
strange stiffness of everything ceased Il
confuse me.
1t was delicious place; the house wa
white and wide and low, and covered
with jessamine and honeysuckle, ant
shaded on three sides by broad veranda
upon which the French windows of tn
sitting room opened. The stables AMI
: kitchen were out Of sight and smel
somewhere; the lawn was cool with trees
and the bright, swiftly flowing rive
shown at the bottom of it.
E, A lady sat in cane camp chair in tn
:. veranda, reading the paper; she hear
# our voices and rose and was introduce
d to Mrs Sinclair. My friend had made
Y good selection; she was handsome, vel
d dressed, courteous, hosp;table, withou
knowing it. By which, as ] cannot rea
o peoples hearts, of course mean that sh
v gave one the impression of not KNOWN
D. it. She rather patronized me as being
" benighted bachelor, after the manner
e matrons of twenty.
T 1t was about five o'clock in the aftel
l. noon, and she wanted to have dinner fc
d me in couple of hours, but, of cours