The Newtown bee., 1879-04-01
GERTY CARNEGlE'S SONG.

Ten miRutCs to ten--if l hurry l shall catch the tcu-hftcon train. and may man age to be back to dinner at two, mamma n
 So saying, Gerty Carnegie, with deft fingers, rolls up a piece of manuscript music, and then runs up stairs to equip | herself for the expedition to town.
 Gcrty is in deep mourning. Only five months ago she lost her brave noble sailor father, a captain ofan ocean steam CT, that was lost, with all souls on board, among the icebergs
 He has left his widow and only child wholly unproyided for, and they-have to depend upon their own excrtions for the means of subsistence.
 So Gerty, who s a brave girl as well aS a pretty one, has thrown herself with l+r whole youthful energy, into the task of teaching music, and the other day has even attempted composition; it is a song set to .Tcnnyson's ''Flow down, cold rivulct, to the sea" a very ambitious undertaking; but what is there too high for the ambition of youth?
 This precious work of art, neatly cop jed. she is now on the point of taking up to one of the music publishers in London she is living with her mother at Vim bledon-and her heart beats high as she gives herself up to the architecture of airy editices, furnished with fame, sue cess and prosperity.
 She hurries to the Putney station. and jumps into an cmpty-looking second class carriage, and takes her seat with her back to the locomotive.
 There's no one with her in the carriage, so Gcrty begins to sing her song, partly out of the fulness of her glad young heart, partly with the purpose of exercising her voice a little, for she hopes to be per mittcd to sing it to Mr. Doosy; she has clear and sympathetic mczz0-S0pro1e0, and, pleased with her own performance, repeats her song over and over again.
 Suddenly she is startled by cough be- hind hcr-a manly cough, and, oh, hor- TOT! as she quickly turns round, she be- holds in the far corner of the adjoining compartment man.
 Dreadful! Has she been giving an un- solicited concert to this abominable stranger who daros to sit there, and, with admiring impcrtinence, take off his hat to her? She feels inclined to cry with shame and modification.
 Luckily the train slackens speed at this moment, and, in her hurry to get rid of the man, Gerty is even willing to risk her life in an attempt at jumping out while the train is still in motion, but the refrac- tory window saves her, for, wrestle as she may, it refuses to slide down and permit her to open the door.
 "Thank heavenw she ejaculates, as she rapidly passes through the crowd of passengers, and hastens down toward the omnibus she descries at the entrance to the station.
 As Gerty hears her destination, she finds, to her dismay, that her roll of music, which she had fancied safe in her huff, has vanished.
 Tears rise to her eyes, and she desires the conductor to stop, for she must go back to the station and see-an infnitesi- maj chance-if she has lost it on the way from the platform to the omnibus.
 Of course she finds nothing-not a trace of the precious document, and, with dismay, she remembers that she has com mitted an imprudence to throw the rough copy into the fire.
 Poor Gerty! She asks one or two porters whether they have found any thing, but they only reply with a stare of indifference and half-contemptuous No, miss" and pass on; so there re- mains nothing for her but to return home.
 "Oh, mamma, l am the unluekiest girl in this hateful world,n and she sobs forth her pitiful tale.
 Well, my poor dear child, don't cry about it,n her mother says, soothingly; of course it is very provoking, but, after all, it only entails a second copying, and that l will do for you if you have not the heart for it. Where your rough copy?"
 " Burned, mamma"
 " But, Gerty, how silly. How could you destroy it so thoughtlessly?"
 "Oh, don't scold, mamma. Never mind, it's gone-and-I'l 'll--I'll- write-aaother," poor Gerty sobs, in great woe.
 Nonsense, you'll remember every note of it, and just write it out again, that's alb
 Never, mamma. It is bad omen; 4 All IL Y