Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-12-05
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ie'uCu AOse, SAc IuFneQ me an the lette
fair out O. the house" ~ --S.s~ :. :
"Broken!" echoed Fred. s.Faded !
Then light suddenly dawned upon hin
Did you get playing on the road, sir
Answer me-" he added, shaking the un
happy messenger violently. ,..-...q. ..-.
~ only" commenced Briggs, fear
fully; and then he began to blubber, an,
applied the sleeve of lis smock to his eve
In a most woebegone manner.
''For goodness sake, run home befor
I'm angry with you," said our hero; an.
Briggs ebeyed, thinking it very strang
affair altogether.
Fred ran in, thinking, perhaps, he ha,
sezt the wrong emblems, and looked
again at his Language OF Flowers
NO they were quite right.
Just then his eyes caught an item, a.
follows: white rose 0aded)--I loy,
you once;' and he groaned. Then h,
turned TO another page, and had anothe,
shock on seeing these words: "Strav
(orokcn) Thus do break my letters /,
That was truly the last straw which
broke the ca1nel's back. Fred leaned
back in his chair, and almost cried wifi
vexation, to think of the sorrow his care
less messenger had caused
The shades Of evening began to fall
still he sat there thinking how he could
heal this fresh wound. :
Meanwhile, unhappy Nellie sat CRYING
in her dreary parlor. All, me!
LEAF FOUR.
At last our hero came to resolution
He would go and see Nellie and explain
the whole Of the wretched blunder.
He was soon striding away over the
fields in futter of hope and excitement.
The sun was just sinking in dazzling
mass OF gold as he reached his destina-
ton.
He tapped gently on the door, but OBJ
tanned no answer, so he softly lifted the
latch and stepped gently inside.
Nellie was sitting by the window, her
face buried in her hands--si sitting still as
death.
Fred advanced noiselessly and touched
her on the arm.
She sprang hastily up, and, seeing who
it was-criEnson with anger and wounded
pride--shc ordered him to leave the
house; but the effort was too much for
her, and she sank upon her chair again,
sobbing as though her poor, innocent lit
tie heart would break.
In an instant the little schoolmaster
was on his knees by her side, and in less
than two minutes had poured the whole
his DRY Of the mistake into Nelie's will
ing ear.
In another five minutes they were bet
ter friends than ever.
The schoolboys were surprised next
daY when our hero, in addition to half
holiday, gave them penny apiece all
around
But they did not know what we do,
did they?
* t x *
Briggs has been forgiven. He often
carries messages from Mr.. Frederick
Woodman to Miss Nellie Morris, but they
are invariably in plain black and white.
The little schoolmaster has had enough
for little while Of the language of flow
eis.
THE FATE OF THE INFORMER.
|.
It was in the year 1923, when tie Rib
bonner were growing in strength in Ire
land, and secret meetings we've held al
most nightly. On certain clustering
evening in November there came into
the police barracks in the County Fer
managh a tall man wearing a long friezc
coat, and closely muf1led about the face.
He made inquiries for the Captain of the
police, and was conducted to the latter's
private room. A moment or two later
one of the loungers in the barracks, who
was not Of the police, withdrew unnoticed
and stole noiselessly through the yari-
Gus passages leading to the Captain ;.
quarters. Kneeling down and scarcely
drawing his breath lest he should attract
sttcntion, he applied his ear to the key
hole of the door, and remained in that
position for nearly an hour. At the end
Of that time he arose. and, cautiously re-
tracing his steps through the barracks, he
let himself out unperceived, and set forth
at rapid gait across the fields toward
the neighboring village.
At an early hour the following morn
ing a. young man and girl were on thei,
way to the Fair at Enniskillen when they
were overtaken by horseman who came
tearing down the road at a break-neck
pace. Addressing the couple, he said:
"A.then, the top Of the morning to We
both, Hugh and Mary. Yees lookin
finely, like the handsome brother aAc
sister ye are. But I'm after ridin' cigh
teen miles to overtake yep
"To overtake US, Pierce McGoveran
and what did you hurry yourself ior?"
"Didn't you hear the news, Hugh2"
EMO, sorra word. What news?"
McGeveran did notreply Immediately
but, reckoning to the other, they boil
dismounted and walked apart out of ear
shot of Hugh's sister.
ss'Arrah, then, it's myself that's sorry Il
tell you, but there is no time to be lost
And he whispered few words i'll thu
others ear. .
YOU'RE not in arrest, Pierce; sure
lis jokin' ye are2'..
",rhat l maynt have luck or grace
Hugh, Tut it's Gods truth I'm tellin
you" ..:,..,
$50 the villyan has betrayed us?"
Faith, he has so; and more, betoken
he got his ten golden guineas into hi
hand for the information.
"'And who told you?"
+ "Jemmy the Pilgrim, from Sligo: III
was in the police barracks last night tel:
lin stories to the peelers, when Moor
came in and asked for Captain Davis
The Sargint at first didn't want to LEI
him up; but, when Noon whispered hi
business, he let him up at once. Jemm.
soon found an excuse to go out, and wha
does he do but go up to the Captain
door and listen, and then he heard tn
thief OF the world tellin' how we me
every night in hay-rick. And then tn
Captain gev him ten guineas, and sal.
that he must swear to all he told him be
fore a magistrate. He stopped in tn
barracks last night, for he, told the Cap
| tain that if it was known that he turne'
informer his life wasn't worth thranee,
if the boys caught him. Jenny, ate
he had heard all, came three miles acros
the fields to my fathers to tel me al
aboutit. rode over to- your house q
four o'clock this morning to stop 20
from goin' to the Fair, but they told m
you and Mary we're gone; so rode or
hoping to overtake you before you got t