St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1878-11-16
"There actually was nobody else


about. There, now, don't be angry.
I'll go up to the house and put on
that bewitcning white affair that
came from New York last week,
and be ready to drive over TO the
station with you, ut what time
About ). Lawrence is comMg
OH the 2:lU."
And I had come on the l2:l0.
This accounted for the failure 10
meet me. I kept snug in my re-
treat until they were both we'll Oh
their way homeward, wondering
little how many young ladies' III
my circle of friends would have SO
| recklessly sacrificed new dress TO
pick up begsgars brat out Of the
mud.
When I, in my turn, reached the
house, John was on the porch wait
ing for Nannies reappearance. He
gave me most cordial welcome,
ordering a luncheon, called Nannie.
his mother, and man to go after
my trunk, all i'll one breath, and
seemed really rejoiced to see me.
Presently slender girl, with 6
truly "bewitching" white dress
trimmed with dashes Of scarlet rib
bon, and smoothly braided black
hair, tied with scarlet bows, came
| demurely into the room, and was
introduced. Never, however, in
that first hour, could the widest
! imagination have pictured Mamie
Stillman wading into duck pond.
But the half shy, half digniied com
pany manner soon wore away, and
Mamie and I were fast friends be-
fore dinner. She sang for RE i'll a
voice as deliciorsly fresh as bird S
carol; she took me to see her pets,
the new horse that was her last
birthday gift from papa" the ugly
little Scotch terrier with the beauti-
) full brown eyes, the rabbits, Guinea
E hen, and the superannuated old
1 pony, who had preceded the new
/ horse.
In week was MS much. in love
t rs ever John could have desired
. Mamie was the most bewitchins
z maiden I had ever met, childlik.
J, and yet womanly, frank, bright unc
: full of girlish freaks and boyish mis-
:, chief, and yet well educated, will
: really wonderful musical gifts ane
full Of noble thoughts. She was /;
t perfect idol in the village, he
friends and neighbors thinking n,
, party complete without her, whil
!, the poor fairly worshippcd her.
t John allowed her an almost un
d limited supply of pocket money
II and she WIS lavish Ill all charity
4 from blankets for old women an,
It tobacco for old men, to candies 70
K children and rides on her horse 70
d urchins. And she had way q
e comforting favors that never wound
d ed the pride of the most sensitive
We rode together every morning
we walked in the cool evenin
$ hours, we spent much time at til
/ piano, and discussed our favorlt
It authors, and one day, when | aske
i, Mamie to be my wife, she sal
II. coolly:
ID why, of course, I thought til;
Of was all understood, long ago!"
st Twas rather amazed ut such ma
st ter of fact wooing, but delighted {
of the result. How could I expect an
I'd soft, blushing speeches. l suppo'
I ranked just where John and Ne
r lies grandmother did in her atfc
al tions.
,e But one morning when Mi
Stiilman was nippiny her geraniun
IN in the sitting room, and John wi
reading the morning newspaper
X Mamie burst in, her beautiful fi
~ all aglow, her eyes bright with u
ny light, crying:
re. oh, grandma. Walt has co"
ar fbome. saw him froiL my miEdo
;er riding up the road"
he SIZE was going then, Just as Dol
Ia, exclaimed:
mt ..Confound Walt"
"Who is Waltz" I naturally
Ill -quired.
Nv "Walter Bruce, the son OF one
20 your neighbors. He has been Ii