The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-10-07
AN lMPUDENT PUPPY.

Where Is Sue? inquired Mrs. Mel
lington, entering the room where her
two eldest daughters were employed, the
one in reading, the other with bit of
fancy work.
"I really don't know, mamma an
swered Ada, looking up from her work
81 have had scarcely glimpse of Sue
since we came to the country. She APP
pears to have taken to an outdoor life.
and is never in the house except at
night" -.
"I saw her about two hours ago ON
her way to the orchard, remarked Rose.
"She said she was going to feed the
pigs, aud would afterward take lesson
in milking"
81 wish 1 could find her." resumed
Mrs. Wellington 81 am sure that Col.
Hanley or his son will call this afternoon,
and it is proper that Sue should be pres
ent. She did not appear on their former
visit"
"She will shock the Colonel by her
hoydenish manners, and, as to his son,
hardly think he will particularly admire
her. He doesn't fancy female society,
I've heard, and prefers his dogs and
horses. And wasn't he little wild at
college, mamma ?"
"A little too fond of what is called fun
nothing more that 1 have ever heard.
He is clever young man, will be
wealthy, and is, next to his father, the
best match in the neighborhood, though,
as you say, he don't appear to care par
ticrlarly for ladies' society I fancy he
looked rather bored while talking to that
stately Miss Radstock, clever and hand
some as she is. And then he must know
that ali the girls are trying to secure
him, which naturally makes him shy of
them"
| These remarks were clearly intended
as hints to her daughters, for Mrs. Mil
lington was genuine match maker, and
had already married off two daughters
advantageously.
Finding that the remaining eldest
| daughter had failed to make the desired
impression ON either Col. Hanley or his
son, she had bethought herself of pro-
ducing Sue, hitherto, as the youngest
and prettiest, carefully kept in the back
ground.
But, meanwhile, where was Sue?
She had filled basket with apples for
the pigs, strolled around the orchard, ad-
mired the trees and the fruit, and climbed
a low plum tree, in order to gather an
especially fine. one for her father. In
this position her eye was caught by a
low line of green willows, bordering the
sloping meadows beyond the orchard.
"It looks as though stream. were
there, >she thought, "and I do so love
water. I dare say it is so lovely under
those willows. Come Rolla," calling
to little half grown terrier, "you and ]
will go on an exploring expedition
together"
Rolla, after coaxing, rather su1kily
obeyed. He was an ugly little, crooked
legged, hairy -muzzled pup, which Sue
had, ON her arrival at the farm, begged
of the farmer for pet Yet Rolla,
despite all the petting, did not take to
this pretty young mistress, but persisted
in evincing a decided preference for the
barn and kitchen, and low life in general.
She was not disappointed in her expecta.
ton. She found n clear, shallow stream
which ran rippling and murmurine
pleasantly beneath the willows, between
thicket of wild rose and blossoming elder
She seated herself on the grassy bank
took off first her hat and then her shoes
and stockings, and allowed the cool rip
Piles to dance about her white feet. Ther
she became interested in watching som,
insect life on the surface of the water
and when satisfied with this, resumed he
shoes and stockings and lay back on tn,
cool turf, dreamily reciting snatches o
poetry.
A stray sunbeam glinted ON her rip
pling brown hair, and the eyes tha
looked up through the waving foliag
were as deeply blue and clear as tn
summer sky overhead. Pity that ther
was no stray artist to gaze upon tn
, picture.
! Suddenly Sue awoke to the fact tina
, Rolla had disappeared. He had bee
, smelling about the bushes, and had nov
, stolen off on the track of some scent, pei
ceptible only to his own keen olfactories
Sue lifted up her voice, and called i
her sweet, clear, girlish tones:
"Rollal Rollap'
In answer there was presently rust
: ing amid the elder bushes, and fort
stepped not the culprit Rolla, but a ver
handsome young man, equipped with
gun and game-bag. r,
: Sue sprang up. Each stared for a
. instant at the other; then the gentleman
, gracefully lifting his hat, said: -
q "May inquire, Miss, what you wal
I with me?' ..
9 "want with you ?" responded she,
5 surprise.
= eyes; was crossing the field yonde
4 when L heard you call me-" he replies
2 with slightly demure expression abol
Z his mouth and eyes. =.
s 81 called you?" said Sue, indignan
g ly."
o " Yes; you called 'Rolla,' very di
tinctly and earnestly" replied he, bitir
the corner of his mustache, "and l.
q course, obeyed the summons, and am
E your service. My name is ROLAND,
n Rolla, as 1 am familiarly called"
y Sue surveyed him from head to foot
I, "Oh, said she, coolly, sit was mi
II foka on vour mart IT, waa NOT Won II