Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-02-07


the sanctum.
Mother, l kiss your little ink-stained
fingers he says. But all the same |
must have Browneyes: | want her arm.
NY grape-gatherer is waiting fer the
wherewithal 70 gather the grapes
rs til mean are they ~ asks Mrs.
Glenmoreland, rs Jessie puts the man
uscript on the desk again. and places
paper-weight upon ii. And then She
smiles at her SON, who, after tenderly
\ rutiling the rultled hair still more.
kisses the brow beneath it.
Il don't think they are, modestly
answers Jessie.
Thanks, dear" And the pen Was
dipped into the ink again,
And now, Browneyes, Your arm !"
cries DenyS, striking melodramatic
attitude.
I'm afraid you can't have it just
yet, Mr. Denys. have promised your
father my nose for an hour or 80,
says Browneyes, dropping. i cunning
little courtesy.
Bv Jove is the governor ut work
again? Ten to enc he never finishes it.
LII look i'll ON him for moment or
two; he'll turn me out ut the end Of
that time. By-hv. mamma
:" ! really don't know what we would
do without her" says Mrs. Glcnmore-
land, musingly, letting the pen fall and
blottiug the sheet before her rs the
young people vanish.
Meaning Gwendolen, BrowneyeS,
jessie or whatever her name /? In
quires the elderly lady (who, blythe
bye is an aunt of the authors, on Il Wis
Iit 70 her niece for the first time in
| fifteen wears.
I "known as Jessie to her sponsors in
baptism" explains Mrs Glenmoreland,
7" but Denys has always called her
Browneyes and | have habit of Civ
ing her the name of my heroine for
the time being; it helps to keep my
story in my thoughts. Dear, dear, how
many names the little girl has answer
ed To since She came here four years
ago And she has never objected hut
\ To two Phantom Of yellow Hill, and
/ Hag of Murder Greek. And | don't
much wonder II her not liking them"
Neither do l, says the aunt, with Il
grim smile. but you have never told
me anything ahouther Who is She?
Haven't? Wen as can't take up
the thread of my poem-that horrd
Denys!-l'll take up the cat'--liiting q
pretty white and black kitten from the
tloor-"and narrate for your especial
benefit. You know when Gerald and
was married we were very unpracu-
cal"
| should think 30" interrupts the
elderly lady, with decisive nod. Cone
Il scnbher of sixteen, the other a seulp-
tor OF nineteen"
But dear mamma, with whom we
/ lived, her niece goes on, "made life
easy for us until nll.e years ago, when
she died. Then for five years all was
experiment and confusion. AT first we
tried boarding; but the people with
whom we boarded objected to our
hreakfasting ut odd moments between
and II, and thought ii unreasonable
that we should expect little suppers at
midnight And, besides, they also com
/ planned that Danys-then only -, but
/ already developing the artistlc-used
their best saucers, plates and things, to
mix paints on; and when the dear boy
| borrowed the marble slab of the parlor
table Tor the same mcrltOrious purpose.
thsy became SO violent we were obliged
to leave. Then we tried furnished
rooms; made coffee over the gas i'll the
morning, and dined Mt the restaurant
in the evening. But we were soon
Obliged to give up this mode Of life, the
! principal reason being thar the bill of
! fare proved such n temptatlOn--and to-
our shame be it said-having the most
uncertain of incomes-that when our
| ventures were successful we weakly
succombed to the tempter, and ate birds
on toast, and broiled chicken, and ON
elettesouille, and terranln, and I'LL sorts
of expensive good things, as long as our
money lasted, and III consequence were
restricted to bread and cheese and dried
beef i'll the privacy of our own apart
ments for week or more after. AT last
after having dined sumptuously one
day, with Il few invited guests, off me-
dalton and threc-columned story, and
then being obliged to live two weeks on
one short column, we concluded to try
boarding once more, renting 4 room III
the same time in the Raphael building,
Nltit 0Gluld tOulh lllIIS lllo Ildy diih
plaster about to his hearts content, and
Denys, who wouldn't 50 to school, and
would paint, might be out Of the way of
the landlady's china. But, my dear
aunt, the other fellows were III that stu
do from morn tillnight; indeed, several
Of the most impecunious spent their
nights there, and there was very little
work done, and such bills for beer
"rhcn fortunately-that is, not fortu-
nately, but providentially mo, | don't
mean that either, but won't spend time
seeking for the proper expression
Gerald's uncle died and left him this
house Lets 90 to housekeeping, said
|, and we went. Heaven save the mark
| never could make change; neither
could Gerald; and as for Denys, he and
the arithmetic are and always have been
perfect strangers. The result Of this
ignorance could not fail To be but an
expensive one. Everybody cheated us.
The servant girls wore my best dresses
TO wakes and parties, and one VI them
| once had two Of her friends concealed