The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-08-22

&Yes, to pleaoe you and 70 pleas
myself. Cousin l0nny wears ribbons
bloc As Der o0n eye, and am sure ~
cannot say ley are not pretty IL
are Just stubborns Meg"
She sat for moment as il turned 70
stone. Then she blazed out:
"Jennyi' JENNY I am tired OF
JENNY She has turned your head
with her oiting Ways lie . butterfly.
and her yellow hair and her finery.
Give your blue ribbon 70 her. and take
her to the fair-for III not wear il"
"And you'll not 60 70 the fair,
eitherP' said Aiatt. In tones OF suppress
cd passion. "Is that what you mean"
5pll not 60 with you" she answer
cd, growing cool herself as she grew
angry. yet it's likely enough that !
may GO There ara plenty Of lads who
would be glad to take me with no rib
oons at all.r
With a strong effort the young man
out the curb upon his tongue. but his
face darkened. /" You'll 20 with me or
no one, Meg" be said. . This Is all
nonsense-and we to be married next
Michaelmas! But come" and he put
out his hand to raise her from the stone;
"it grows dark"
Meg, still angry but willing to be
pacitied il she must, allowed him 20 a.
sist her, and stood beside her stalwarf
lover with burning cheeks and down
cast eyes. She rather liked, on the
whole, his tacit refusal TO defend him
self and his masterful way Of telling
4 her II was +" all nonsense" But Just a.
I this moment, as Ill luck would have il, >
small brown-psper parcel dropped
from the folds of her shawl. Matt
stopped to pick 'it up. IL burst open
and 4 yard or two Of scarlet ribbon mp
| Piled over his fingers.
4 Now our poor Meg, not 70 be outdone
By the fair Jenny, had bought this rib
bon herself that very evening. meaning
! to wear it TO the fair next week. But i
so happened that when Matt went TO
1 Mother Msrley,s shop to buy his own
blue love. .pken, he had found DGl VIII
/, Lis there the only man in Rysdyk whose
lrivaiship be had ever feared And Dan
7 was buy lag ribbon precisely ike this.
Mother Marley had wrapped it in this
very piece Of paper, Matt was sure, and
be had seen Dan pat u IN his POCKET
and walk or with il.
And now, here It Was, His gift was
lspurned, then, and his rival 2 accepted !
and all Meg's talk about Jenny was
mere subterfuge 81 excuse for quar-
rel. '7
Il WIS easy to see now why she had
been so irritable of late, and so prone 10
take ofleuse. But . man could not
stand every thing, and il Meg preferred
Dsn Willis to him, why 50 be il.
4 Yet II she would not wear his love
\ token she certainly should not wear
Dams. He hardly meant 70 do H.; he
was sorry the next minute. But what
ne did, Us the tide OF passion swept him
OF his feet for an instant, was 10 wind
the two ribbons into q knot and throw
them vehemently into the sea
"Therei" he cried, s'thst's settled
once for ALL
"And something else = settled too
Matt Erickson,' retorted Meg, IN
white heat sThere'll be no marriage
for us next Michaelmas, no marriage
then or ever. You would strike ms
some day. for anght know, II ! should
choose 10 wear a red knot rather than
blue. III nc. run the risk. III have
nothing more to say to you while n.
stars shine,- and darting round the cliff
she was half way down TO the beach be
n fore he ever thought Of stopping her.
The next day Erickson, magnanimous
xreat-hearted fellow that be was, afte
all, having gotten over his quarrel iron
Meg's standpoint, At occurred 70 hin
.. that he might have drawn uncalled-fc
inferences. Dan Willis might have
dozen sweethearts who al liked red rib
bons for aught he knew And how Ink
I q fool he had behaved, losing his tempe
: like q hot-headed boy and throwinl
: Meg's poor little trinkets over the Cliff
No wonder she was afraid TO trust him
MDre thanrone husband in Rysdyk Va
! An The habit Of beating his wife on
: alight provocstion As the hne Of nj
], bon; and it was not strange THAI : high
! spirited girl Ike Meg should decline Z
\ run the risk after she h>d once sen an
AZ A Tor Jenny, she had come in b,
4 tween him and Meg. He could see
y nov. But she was going home the da
! after, the .fair, and be would see Me
Z that very night and tell her 50. For }
Y did not dream that all was indeed owe
= bexwoen them. He could hardly va
i FOR the hour 70 leave the mine
4 He changed his soiled clothes, ate b
Z. supper hurriedly, and WIS soon on b
I, I, wayto Meg, stopping - he went 70 bu
\ another ribbon --red, this time, N
:. broader and richer and handsoner ths
~ The one he bad robbed her Of. N .
y |, NJ Then he went on through the crool