Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-06-19

Rosy. you might be generous, and di
vide around"
If YOU find any pretty old china il
those closets. save it for me. won
you?" sad Della, II should think
among so many. there Nigh: have beef
some family relies. Some Of then
must have had folks Imean TO rum
mage around when you get up there
Rosy"
Not very much" said Hal. He
down on visiting. Costs too much
and hinders so.' But Rosy needn'
ever be lonesome. Her old man is al
ways about he says. She can blow
the dinner-horn. and call him whom
ever she wants him."
Rosy was used to her cousins Joking
and took it all with good-humored in
difference. hardly supposing it had any
foundation beyond Halbert's invention
she was somewhat surprised. there.
fore, when her aunt preached the sub.
ject, in a serious way.
why. aunt" she cried. indignant.
ly, IL wouldn't have the man, if he
was made of gold"
But look at the land. Rosy; and the
stock; and the good, comfortable home;
and then the man is getting on in years,
and can't last always"
Would you recommend arsenic, OF
strychnine, to help matters forward?''
asked the exasperating girl.
Rosy, stop your nonsense" said
her aunt. sharply. ''it is your good l
have in view, and l don't mean YOU
shall let this chance slip, if can bring
the matter about"
"Since it il so desirable match,
will resign in Laura's or Della's favor.
1t will not make the slightest difference
with Stephen Hackett."
He is good. reliable man. pur-
sued Aunt Lura, land rich man-One
of the pillars of our church."
Rather one of the soundest sleepers
of it,"
- You ought to be ashamed to talk
so. FOrgoodness' sake, don't trifie away
such good settlement for life as this
would be-
Isn't there . law about perjury,
Aunt Lura?'
who's going aperture themselves"
she asked, sharply.
Wouldn't it be perjury to promise
to love and honor one for whom you
had no more love- or respect than for
an old mullen stalk" asked Rosy, in
hot scorn.
"S.me of your nOvel-reading nom
sense" remarked Aunt Lura, deeply
vexed with the incorrigible girl; and so
the talk ended for the time.
Rosy stood the running fire Of her
cousins very well. The event '.was nuts
to them" Laura went about humming
the old ballad:
d" What can a young lassie. what shall young
What can young lassie do wi an old
man.
Bad luck TO the penny that tempted my
nanny
To sell her poor Jenny for siller an lam I"
Give her the concluding verse;"
said reckless Hal. MAY be, she'll
think well of the advice" As Laura
had forgotten it, he took up the tune
himself:
- Ny old aunfie Katy upon me tak's pity,
III do my endesvor to follow her plan:
III cross hun. and wrack him, until heart
And then his old brass 1t will buy new
pam.
Rosy bore this raillery very well.
When alone she hummed over. however,
softly; the little song Of willie on the
dark blue sea-"
Surely, vanity. thy name is man"
Stephen could hardly have been more
surprised at his refusal, if it had been
his first experience of the kind. He
plead his cause with all the eloquence
he could summon; but 1.-THE maiden's
heart was STEEL" as they say in the nov
els. l am afraid at the last the good
man was little angry. He expressed
himself in words '.more striking than
classic" Indeed, he had set Of ex-
,eptional phrases which he sometimes
lsed to unruly oxen and badly-behaved
calves: and these phrases seemed lust