The Red Cloud chief., 1880-10-07
LITERARY "REMINISCENCES.

7ol. JdbtS 'N0tttS.
IA LITERARY Renaissance.
WAS graduated from college with
honors; and then, to the horror of
bachelor uncle-the only relative
% had the right TO express an opin-
i ayowed my determination to
rry Avice Clyde, a very youthful,
|k-and-white love.
Marry" snorted Uncle Phil, laying
yn his cherished m~eerschaum in sur
Sc. lis the boy crazyP And how
you intend tc support yourself? if |
v ask. just at the time when you
kht TO come and tell me your choice
profession you walk in and say.
ncle, am going to marry" Twad-
regret to say that he also used a
bng expression not usually heard in
lie society. My composurc was IN
ken.
Professions will wait" | said, cool
Ats just as easy TO makeu up oncs
ID after marriage as before; and the
is, I've made a choice of litera-
b."
10 surveyed me from head TO foot
a stare of utter disgust.
And would YOU be good enough 20
me what you intend TO live on while
are waiting for your valuable works
e published? or are they already in
s.? Perhaps You contemplate writ
an encyclopsdia"'
bore up under the latter irony with
1T dignity.
L shall live. sir, with your permits
!, on The money left from defraying
expenses OF my education" | said,
studied politeness. That is if
4 anything beyond what my own ex-
pms will bring me-"
Seven hundred dollars" he said.
IL, lighting his m-eerschaum again,
paving more careful attention Ia
process than to ME. Enough To
you. in your loves paradise. about
months, at starvation rates"
was somewhat startled, but my
animity did not give way.
Then have your permission 10
upon you for the sum when 1 need
Good morning. sir"
vice and | were married the same
It'll, and began housekeeping IN
e rooms. No one was responsible
her actions but a portly aunt, with
e unmarried daughters, who was
TO dispose of her, and. having
e her charming i'll clouds of tuiie
lace, delivered her into my charge
a SIGH of thankfulness.
e were full enough of romance to
ruse with the regulation wedding
hey, and only went TO the country
3 few days, where | lay on the
$ and read poetry to her. and she
red rapt little prophecies In regard
ur domestic life. Avice never used
: long sentences; even sentiment
ia moi inspire her with the blank
ke in which newspaper heroines in
se, but her little disjointed cooings
Q very charming.
he next morning after we wen'
TO town, when we had gone
ugh our rooms for the fiftieth time
discussed their furnishings, Ayice
on a biz apron, and said, Will
limo importance, that she mus
h about dinner" while | settled my
at nv desk with a compact bundle
lean. white paper, a box OF pens
some pink blotting paper Lake
{ college graduates, L had a very
est idea of my WI talents; anI
not the slightest misgiving that
d earn my bread by my pen.
vice came and looked over my
klder as | sat writing my name ant
ING preliminary iloErishes, rs /;
rdsman fences and thrusts before
mining the more serious business o
ling his adversary through TIT
I think / shall write an epic, Avice,
d. drawing her down beside mt
n hand, while with the other
q a lion rampant on paper. "lo'
We need something Original aoo..
fall of Troy-a modern idea OF 1t
nave been content with Homer 81
hat nobody seems 10 dream o
ho the subject a new treatment
Shall o write it in Latin aSke'
. bar eyes and tone full of w 10
uperior wisdom -,
m NO. think not" / said, witt
;-nditrerence There ought TO b.
tain patriotism in cliuging to one
ftonoue. One ought never TO d
Iuch of a cosmopolite as to forsak'
No. I should think not Now, aoou
er-but no, / wont you
resd enough of celebrated men
. hotbering them about the steal
mullins never to disturb you IN
dear" o~
she ffuttered away to her dinner
beran to write my prologue an
ration to the muse, with certali
no. that | ought 10 be hand in glow
Shakespeare and Milton, when IN.
cIassed me with celebrities.
q first twenty lines wrote them
8. Smiles, illusions n CLASSIC y.
stions flooded my mind as olIus ~
EcLs The room was peopled VIII
|eted Troians and wariike ureeAs
&c .nd muses. until / began L
mite natronizing toward dead ITO
IF was not so hard to write a
after ALI Dinner time came, an
r. Ayice with flushed cheeks anu
IN cav here that we had no serv
ave q small maid clad in a coseutn'
Eosed of many cast-off garments me MS
csme in to wash dishes and DO IN
and ends of work. Avlee anu =,
o M theories. We talked IN I'm IN
o our courtship, of simplicity OF me s1
zinc to our own needs, anu =,
~ emo Nonsense INDUCED in by 10
Ii castle-builders- no-
- shall | describe that alnnG 4,
y ! w sI1 devotion and favored d. o;
q n VIII burned to a crisp; The po.a
s Du, D sodden as if they had e1 as;Uf'
ver SaVs' deluge, but in q aaln .
csh' decorated with roseouaS y
wn .pps slhi Ieaaiher-like and indigest q
SEC, rscalIing unpleasantly .aie sbs i
rocked mariners chewing