The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-06-23


indulging in an engagement too?
Not really p
Very really indeed. John Nor
man is the happy man this time.
Two Johns. you observe, by way
Of making the confusion greater.
So they sit in the dining-room
every evening. while Lizzie and
her John occupy the parior.'
, And where do the rest Of you
! sit p
! Echo answers. We sit wherever
We may. Mother takes her mend
ing, basket upstairs, and has 4
studenl-lamp on the round table
il; the upper entry. Papa shuts
! himself up in that dreadful little
j close den Of his, or goes TO the
! Office. | observe that be has Gusi-
! ness there Of evenings much Of
! tener than form erl ly--becauSe there
is no comfortable place for him at
home, no doubt. Jim makes a
| point of being out. AS for Amy
and me, we sis on the back stairs,
or in the butler's pantry, or any
other odd corner which nobody
else wants Polly laughed, but
there ere tears in ber brown
eyes, and a very mutiDous lcok
about the pretty mouth, which
John Norman, while in process Of
'sampling the family to borrow
Polly's own phrase, had once
likened to beautiful Evelyn
Hopes, of true 'geranium red
AS if all this wasn't enough
she went on presently with a half
giggle, half sob, here is q letter
come to-day from Fanny Allen
our cousin, you know-aud she is
engaged too; and she proposes to
make US visit, and her young
man means to drop along for
sooth, while she is here. Now
where are they TO sit? l can't
imagine, unless they take the air
chamber of the furnace. The
front steps are quite too cold at
this time of the year. Or | might
have the trunk room cleared ont
for them l hadn't thought fthat
BEFORE
Polly, you are ridiculous. Your
consin will manage that for her
self-see if she doesn't. They
will take walks, or something.'
oh, if they only would ! If
the whole lot of them would take
walks and keep on walking, and
never walk this way, how com
Portable it would be! Sue, you
are abominably tolerant about
such matters. That miserable
| cupid! l wish | could hold his
wings in the candle and burn them
off. He never flies in but to do
mischief somewhere. How peace
full and happy we all were to-
gether before this sort Of thing
began =
Take care ; he will hear you,
and he is a revengeful creature.
believe him to be the original
'iittIe pitcher with long ears,
laughed Susan.
Il don't care if be does hear me-
asserted Polly, defantly.
Has cupid ears ? Certain it is
that matters grew worse rather
than better for Polly from that
day forward. Fanny Allen came,
and in due time her lover, &C.
cording to programme, and with
the latter a cousin, Mr.. Othniel
O!iphant, a successful merchant,
lust home from China for brief
visit. His return was not purely
for business purposes. Mr.. OIL
phant was on the lookout for
wife; and with the prompt decl-
sion of a mercantile man, he elect
ed Polly Patten fer that position
on two days acquaintance. A
firm believer in the faith that
faint heart never won fair lady,
and nothing venture, nothing
have be offered himself at the
end Of the week, and quite undls-
couraged by Polly's dismayed
no. sat rasolutely down and
traced his parallels, resolved to
gain by siege what he had failed
to win at a coup by assault. This
complication set the seal to Pol
ly's discontents.
For just imagine what a state
of things it makes she told her
confdante Sue. There they sit
the three sets of ninnies-one in
tho narlor ona in the dining