Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-08-13

like blooming rose with her hap.
py flushing face and shining dark
eyes, and Dick SO prond of her sit.
ting beside him.
1t was a happy ride, only it seem
ell impossible when Dick, taking
out his watch, said it was supper
time.
"And | am hungry as a hunter,
Daisy. This fresh, pure air is a
capital tonic for an inhabitant of
the city. How would you like to
live in the countryT
Daisy laughed
"How wicked you are to tempt
me with such a question! You
know it has always been the one
dream of my life to have u home in
the country. and when when we
get rich, Dick, we'll have it, won't
wer
She flushed in her sweet comics.
sion, and Dick smiled in her eyes
as he refined in the pony at the
roadside.
IL am going to get ont here,
Daisy, and ask the good people of
this place to bestow . bowl of milk
on us benightcd travellers. Shall |
tie the horse or will you hold herr
Daisy preferred to hold her, and
Dick went in the low rustic gate,
that Daisy thought the very love
liest she had ever seen. She watch.
ed Dick up the gravel walk to the
house. Such n beautiful little Goth
ic cottage as it was, with bay win
dows, where ruffled curtains fut.
tered in the soft spring wind, where
everything around was in such spot.
less order and savored so of home.
1t was so sweet, 30 resttnl TO sit
there in the Pickering shade cast
by tree, and when at length Dick
made his appearance she had quite
forgotten that it was milk they
wanted. There was curious gray.
| ity on his face rs he came up.
81 find the people here unusually
hospilable, Daisy. We are invited
in to rest aud refresh ourselves.
Come"
Leaning on her lovers arm, Daisy
entered the lovely little hall, with
its pink and gray Brussels carpet,
it's hat.rack and mirror, its stairs
carpeted en- suite with the parlor,
that opened on one side-a long
room into which Dick ushered her
with an elaborate bow.
"And now, Miss Drummond, tell
me what | shall order for you'll"
Then, at her look of establishment
aud almost startled surprise, he
suddenly caught her in his arms.
"Daisy, darling, this is the home
| have been making for us; it il
mine-ours, dear, ready and wait
ing for the hour when you shall be
crowned queen over your kingdom
Now, you know, dear, why ! have
been so careful of my money.
wanted nest for my bird!'
And Daisy sank down in a lovely
little maroon cushioned chair ant
cried for JOY.
Then they went over the delight
full little "nest," where everything
was in the most perfect taste and
as Dick said, only waiting, as wa
the pleasant-taced girl in the kitch
en-, for the mistress to come.
"And for my special bridal gin
{ Daisy-my special present to yo'
for YOUR own exclusive use--this.'
And he led her back to the pom.
and chaise, the raptnrOus tears 81
binding her eyes she could scarcel.
see.
, "Oh, Dick! Dick! am not worth.
r SO much.'
He kissed her as he took bis sea
. beside her.
II am the best Judge of that, m
b.. darling. Here take the reins; Bes
b. ia yours on one condition: that m
wife drives me to our dear littl
i home in month";
r And Miss Josie Gypsul actuall
has the audacity to call Occasiona
I " on Mrs. Dick and is prOfnse
n her admiration Of Daisy's husband
@ while Daisy's mother and brotht
>. insist that they always 30 hOnOre
q Dick Kenneth-such perseverinI
prudent, prosperous man az he
f. WAYS was, such a model husbau
y and provider as he is.