The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-11-21


that place for when he was sure 10 want
70 sell out just when prices are all
down, That Is what always said and
always shall say. And sol The fools
amt all dead YETI continued phmbe
Ann with 4 violent shake Of the head,
walking away into the house and pay
Ing no more attention 10 Eugene than II
he We're bit Of lichen. sure enough.
and she had been only talking 10 herself
AL the while. Eugene looked after her
with little wild wonder, and then at
cat-bird in the cherry tree over his head.
Brit the cat-bird had her eve on honey
bee that she proposed breakfasting up
on. and paid no more attention to Eu-
gene than Phnbc had done; and as
PhGbe Ann did not appear again, Eu-
gene turned back 10 his whiting and
whistling till the Westinghouse bell
rang for noon, and then went home TO
dinner
He found out about PERKINS, girls very
soon, however. Ii seemed that Perrin
was Phoebe AIMS brother, sea-captain
who lived in little house in Hayerill,
when he didn't live on the ocean. But
his wife died, and after trying for
year or 30 10 keep on with 4 housekeep-
or, he had given up trying and had sold
his house and was bringing his little
girls 10 live with their grandmother and
aunt at Plumridge, while he
started off I'd go around the world on
merchantmen. The little girls had
brown ewes and brown curls and pretty
pink cheeks, and they always smiled
when people spoke 10 them and said,
a.
Amy was 10 and Katy was 3 years old,
and they looked as much alike as two
birds on bough
But Eugene saw difference. s.katy
i mine, he said TO himself, when he
I first looked at her.
The other boys had each .his GIRL
and Eugene had been thinking for some
time that he ought TO have one; but be-
fore that morning he had never been
able to make up his mind Now his
mind did not need making up He knew
Katy was :. his = without thinking Of it
when he first saw her digging swcet-nag
root down by the brook the next day
after she came to Plumridge.
A few days before tnis time Lora
Shepard had birthday party, and ever
after he heard about il Eugene looked al
her with admiration in every kink Of his
Quaker-colored hair. just tofhink how
much party must cost ipples didn't
count. for of course every body always
has apples enough. But peanuts and
molasses-candy, and maybe bakers gin
gerbread.
II don't see how she viii get the
money! said he to himself, bringing
l..Ir
nails a tish-hook, a jack-knife with no
blades, dead mouse and piece Of an
old horseshoe in his pocket, and count
Ing them seven times over. Eugenc's
heart was as large a the meeting house.
although his pocket was 50 small, and
with only one wistful look at the two
cents, all the money he had in the world,
he ran off to Lora.
9 See here, Lora,' said he, rafting
them in his pocket. !" Here i my two
cents you may have toward your party
Two cents What il two cents
don't want your two cents" replied
Lora, throwing ont her elbows and up
her nose, I've got money enough,
should hope: YOU 20 away II
Eugene looked hurt and astoni~hed
But there was one comfort, h. could
keep his money. and by and BIZ he had
two more - put with these two cents
Plumridge was a small seaport, and
there was sometimes a chance at the
Ship-yard for a handy bov % get small
job, besides now and then turn among
the farmers in the outskirts Of the vii
lage. 80 little BY little Eugene got
money enough TO rattle in each pocket.
Aunt Pr1Idy." said he one evening,
coming in with hiS cap full Of eggs.
''why can't have party my own self?
say? live most half dollar saved up.
most % cents. you know, and why can't \
have pariyg'
- don't know hut you cam replied \
Airs. Mosscroft, sticking q darning
needle through quarter of an apple.
What would YOU want for atrcat?r
Eugene put the eggs carefully on the
table, and catching the cat in hi. arms
whirled around like a dancing dervish
for = minute Then he sat down on his
bench IN the corner Of the fireplace and
th0ught. = They always have molasses
candy To parties and wanuts. What
do YOU think. Aunt Prudy. would you
pick out the meats and put them Id the
candy, orwould you keep them separate,
which?-
'.Perhaps so,' replied AIrs. Moss
croft, who was just then counting the
string u apples already hanging % dry
against the wall.
"Then apples, Of course, \ continued
Eugene. .sAnd, Aunt Prudy, wishedI
could have some sweet-cake or ginger
cake or something. couldn't, could |.
Aunt ludy?''
May be-; wen See replied Mrs.
M0sscrOft.
When Mrs. NIosscroft said "Maybe;
we'll Srp N IA was Opnd a. a mole IN