Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-09-16
!" Did you see him, Daisy? Heis quite

Did you see him, Daisy? He is quite
the handsomest man ever met"
For heavens sake, Adele, have done
with nonsense, and let us fly to Roxy,
md the squire's chaise before we get
into another ridiculous scrape,' ina
plored.
ssI shall do nothing of the kind, my
dear. People who keep great dogs to
frighten errant damsels out of their
senses should not be suffered to escape
paying the penalty of their indiscretion
heartless creature, land prepared my
self to sulk, when our old fairy again en-
tered the apartment, and said:
Mr.. Islington presents his compli-
ments to the young ladies, and begs. if
they are sufficiently recovered from their
fright, that they will allow him to offer
them some refreshment in company
with his friend and guest, Mr.. Stephen
son, with whom, he believes, they have
an acquaintance.
Great heavens 1.-THE very pair of
lions we were expected to encounter at
Newport, and from the honor of which
we ran away!" / gasped in consterna-
ton; but Adele only laughed and an
swered:
"Well, since they are such vandals
as to run us down with dogs, it may be
| as well to surrender gracefully"
And following her lead we were ush-
cred by the old fairy into charming
little dining-roOm, where we found Fred
Stephenson and Mr.. Islington waiting
beside daintily-spread table, and. bar
ring the embarrassment which speedily
wore off, sat down to partie carree
meal that would have convuls3d our
entire world with horror had it been
permitted to witness the jolity thereof.
When both the fun and the feeding
were well over, we bade the attendant
fairy adieu, and with parting look at
the falls, made our way leisurely to the
great gate that gave entrance to the en-
chanted grounds, only to find that our
cup of disaster was not yet full.
Roxy had grown impatient OF our long
absence, and, with the nosebag still
around her neck, had calmly turned her
back upon us, and was doubtless by this
| time far on her road home, leaving only
the halter. which she had ingeniously
slipped out of, as melancholy reminder
of tie unreliability of sll trusts reposed
| in four footed animals and a woman's
ability to tie knot.
Well we were certainly in for it. We
had contrived to be guilty of as gross
impropriety as two single young women
can well manage in one day, and there
fore we submitted with an easy grace to
be carried back to the squire's by Mr..
Islington's bays, with that gentleman as
charioteer, and bringing Fred Stephen
son along tor the sake of giving our host
company on the homeward drive.
1t is perhaps needless to say that Roxy
had arrived in good order, considerably
in advance of US, and that the squire was
not so greatly concerned as to our proba-
BILE fate as to forget to ask after the
halter which had providentially clung
to as to the only available voucher for
my entire sanity; but this might say,
since the matter will creep out sooner
or later, things are likely to fall out
quite as completely to the satisfaction
of our anxious mammas as if we had
gone opediently to Newport, and never
made acquaintance with the falls of
Sleepy Hollow through the medium of
Roxy and the one-horse chaise.