Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1880-10-13
COUNTRY COUSINS.
Examiner and Chronicle. ]

Examiner and Chronicle.
Miss Edith Everleigh flung her.
self petuiantly down ~ the nearest
chair and declared that she was
"mad7 just as mad as she could
live. u
Under ordinary circumstances
Miss Edith Everleigh, 30 far as out.
ward appearances went, was very
charming specimen Of young maid
enhood. But present circumstances,
in the light OF her nineteen years
experience, she regarded as alto
gether extraordinary, and therefore,
il taken to task tor her puckered
brow and pouting lips, would have
averred that they were quite JUST.
fable.
III do think it's too mean for any.
/ thing she went on, "when all of
my set are going to such nice places,
that I've got to poke of TO that
stupid old farm. forty miles from
nowhere. hate the country, and
farmers are a set of Doors and papa
is an old tyrant to make Inc 60 out
there among them"
Edith! Edithw exclaimed her
mother in :eproving voice, "why
will YOU be SO unreasonable You
know DR.. Halsey said emphatically
that YOU must have rest and quiet
this summer, neither of which is to
be obtained at the fashionable re.
sorts where you wish to go. Your
father esieems very highly these
cousins of his; they come of an ex-
cellent family, and are, | doubt not,
most estimablc people. Your preju-
dice against them is extremely child
ish; wait until you have seen
them before you denounce them as
Doors"
Miss Edith's only response was a
disdainful shrug of her shoulders.
Meanw lille, far away from this
tempestuous scene, with back
ground of looming hills and tower
ing trees and a canopy Of shaded
gold aud blue, amidst the hnsh and
Stiffness of midsummer rural even
. scene which also bears upon til,
further development OF our story.
Seated on the low, broad door
stone, June Thornton was bending
= her slapely little head over biz
sheet of paper that had stamped il
its upper lett hand corner "Ben
, iamin Everleigh's Dry and Fame!
Goods Emporium" with a certain
= street and number of the great me
tropolis affixed, and was traced in
business mans heavy scrawi.
Reading slowly in the wauinI
light she floundered through SOM
"reminiscences Of olden times ap
> preciated only by the writer ant
recipient of this missive, and then
c beginning new paragraph, con
timed:
"And we ought to renew 'auld az
quaiutance,' Cousin John. wan
our children to become a. faa
friends a. we ourselves were in tbOs
far Oh days. Pursuant to which
:, purpose, " agreeable to you, 10 cen
my eldest daughter out to you
place for long whit. She 10 rattle
worn With the festivities Of th
!. winter, and ! think 3 few weeks I
country air aud living will beDel
her, 20 well a. give her N opp0
@ tuuity to know tboee whco n
father holds In a6ectioeais remsu
bfauoe.s
$50 that u fathers esesiu. Be
in Everleigh, the famous egoey q b
y beyhood, 10 itr FeAeo&tvsly apst
Hal Thosutos, June's andieaB; leoul
Is ing @ tie ssep above hss. AS
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Of yeass ehas they haven't 49, -
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