Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-05-28

did care enough for me to come forward now
and offer to pay these dreadful debts, l be-
lieve | would fall in love with him out OF
sheer gratitude. | would marry ciod, to
see your name clear of debt"
The father and daughter had come out
for a short walk at evening, and neither of
them noticed that rs Annis said these words
a gentleman who had been walking behind
them, passed them slowly, with lingering
glance into the girls beautiful face.
Some days passed and then very queer
letter came TO Annis Prime 1t read
''DRAR Miss i hav watcht VA often
when WI didmt no it. hurd wat yu sed
too yure fother abowt marriun emmy wun
hoo kood pa hiz diets. kan doc it, and if
yule have NEE, will ime a clod, but i've got
the mummy. Ware wred roze in yIire
hare, when yu go out to wauk the nextyme,
if you aksep and the jent that gives yu Il
bokay will be me. CLoD."
Annis spelled this strange opistle with
some difficulty, for il was miserably written
aside from the spelling. Then she showed
it to her father, and laughed ill she cried
''lIe spells rose with u and red with
an "a But think | shall 'aksep, papa,
if you don't object, just for the sake of the
'bokav.' You'll be with me, you know"
Accordingly, the merry girl, when she
went TO walk that night, wore a red rose
coquettishly below one ear, where its GRIM
son and velvet beauty brought out the
golden tint of her matchless hair ravishing-
ly.
Her father was with her. They had not
been walking long before they noticed ap-
preaching them the strangest specimen of
humanity either had ever beheld.
He was tall and awkward in his move
ments, his hair hung long and straight upon
his shoulders. He wore very broad-brim-
med slouch hat of soft felt, a swallow-tail
coat, and plaid unmen;ionables, with patent
leather boots, narrow of toes and high of
heels. In one hand he carried bouquet,
which he held at arms length, rs if it were
something explosive.
''Here he really is, papa" said Ann;s,
with smothered laugh. '1Now be sure
you are civil to him."
She accepted the bouquet which the
stranger proffeIed her smilingly, and her
father politely invited him to 30 home with
them, which he did. ....
Annis noticed, with some surprise, that
her bouquet was made up in exquisite taste
But that she attributed to the florist of
whom the ''clod'' had probably purchased
it.
But what surprised her most was to find.
when the evening was over, and the strange
guest had departed, how much she had
really enjoyed it. In spite of his oddities
and awkwardnesS, the ''clod'' had contrived
to be interesting.
HE has fine eyes and good features, pa
pa, =" she said, ''and if he would cut his hair
and dress with some regard to taste he
would please me better than any of those
Others whom You would have liked me to
marry. and whom am sure would every
ohe have instantly withdrawn their suits
and they known the condition of your
affairs. wonder if he is really 50 rich as
he SAYS
''Have no anxiety about the money, said
Godfrey Prime, to his daughter, after few
DAYS. ''The fellow has come most uneX-
pectedly into an immense fortune. lie could
pay my debts and set me up in business
again, if he chose, without missing the
money. And he stands ready Ia do it if
you marry him.
Il am ready" said Annis, gaily. "'My
heart warns to him already
The marriage took place soon.
The merchant was reinstated la hls mISi-
ness, and in grander and more fiourishing
manner than before.
The splended residence which he and his
daughter had inhabited before his bank
ruptcy was repurchased and refurnished in
the most magnificent manner.
Only one thing troubled Annis Her
''clod' still remained .'clod, " DO what
she would. All her efforts though she had
made him cut his hair and baniSh his rain
bow suit-could not make him any different
from what he was at first.
But he was devoted TO her: and, because
of his riches, everybody courted him. His
very awkwardneSs became the fashion. and
his most ungrammatical speeches were
passed from tongue to tongue as profound
wit.
Besides all this, he had "a good heart, So
much genuine kindness of disposition, be-
ing always ready to succor the unfortunate.
and lac loved her 50 well that Annis could
not help loving him in return
Dear Clod," she said to him one day,
disparingly when, in spite of all her instruc-
tions, he would flame out in a fancy neck
tie, and persist in saying ''hain't' for ''have
not''-''dear Clod, you are too stupid for
belief; but somehow, | can't help loving
you, in spite of that.
The ''clodn smiled and kissed her most
tenderly.
Il have been stupid, " he said, ''and you
have been more patient than / deserve. But
from this hour you shall see a change in
me"
Annss laughed indulgently. She had re-
signed herself to see him always a ''clod."
But, to her amazement, that evening when
her parlors were filled with the elite and
fashionable of the city, herhusband presented
himself attired in exquisite taste, and so
altered in every other respect that only the
eyes of love could have traced in this ele-
giant gentleman any Of the characteristics Of
the ''clod.
Everybody stared, and Annis, understand
ing that he had been playing a part, was
grieved and offended.
'.How could you, sir:' she asked him re-
proachfully. II don't know how | can
ever forgive you,''
Her husband laughed in her face roguisl-
ly.
'T'd do it again for the same reward
and if you don't forgive me I'll go back and
be clod the rest of my days"
The threat was sufficient.
Words of wisdom.
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