The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-28
A GIRLS FANCY.
BY EDWARD J. sHRIvSER.


ourselves lies In perfect stiffness; the
skiff that monopolizes the little lake
moving gently along without ripple to
make pretense of barring its progress
Brownfelds is delightful place, but if
it were not for the visitors with whom
Che Peters fill their house in the sum-
mer, lonely enough to be called wild.
With the Peters and their friends, and
with the groups of workmen that Mr..
Peters FORCES have gathered in the val
ley, we have little to do; but will turn
again to look at the fisher-boy, the sole
occupant of the skiff.
Jimmie Gordon is ambitious, and for
the son of an Irish workman-the fore
man at one of the shops-is well edu-
Gated and refined. Mr.. More, city
c1ergymen who spent some of his vaca-
tions at Brownfelds, was struck with his
quick native shrewdness, and, taking an
interest in him, loaned him books,
talked with him, helped him orally while
In the mountains, and afterward by cor
respondence; and Jimmie's own intelh-
gence and earnest application have done
the rest; so that when We meet him as
MIR. Peters fisherman, he not only in
tends, with q true American sanguine-
ness, to rise, but is far better equipped
for the battle he has enlisted in than
many even who start on a good deal
higher plane. Meanwhile he attends
strictly to business, and to-day, when we
find him on the lake, has finished his
fishing for the day, and is idly sculling
about, thinking of that better fortune
chat he has resolved shall be his in time,
and wondering in what shape the fates
will bring it TO him.
Miss Eta Larton does not in the least
look like a Fate as she comes down the
hill-path with her cousin, George Lar
ton, and their mutual friend Harry FL
lis; In fact, we are very much inclined to
agree with George when he thinks of
her to-day as much more of Grace; but
If she is not Fate herself she is GER
tainly notable instrument of their will
They are all three stopping with large
party at Montrose, the nearest apology
Tor town, and this full four miles away.
Miss Larton, however. ''goes in" for
walking rs the proper thing in the noun
tains, and rather against the will of her
escorts, has covered the whole four miles
On foot, and is still fresh and ready for
adventures when she enters the little
Brownsfields valley. Rather dark, of
medium height, and III sturdy good
health, shall he the whole of her per-
sonal description; and for her estate in
life" it will be enough to say that she is
the only daughter of the richest man in
Cleveland, and so of course spoiled, but
withal, very fascinating, as Cousin
George can testify. She is given to
whims, and just now the fancy that
strikes her is to have a row on the clear
little lake that is SO invitingly laid out
below, SO that the one duty of her obedi-
ent companions is to find the WAYS and
means; not altogether an easy task, see
ing that all the boats are carefully locked
up, except the one that Jimmie and his
fish use with not the best effects as to
cleanliness. Still, as it is the only one.
1t must be had, and Jimmie, in response
to Larton's request, Immediately rows mp
and takes the party, Miss Eta i'll the
stern and i'll full view of the handsome
boatman.
Is there such thing as love at first
sight? Surely; and before the trip
around the lake is finished, Eta is COM
pletely conquered by the blue eyes OF
this Irish tisher-lad. On his part he felt
the natural attraction toward lovely
girl that any man would; but never ex-
.pecting to see her again any more than
other chance visitors who have happened
60 row over the lake, he hardly thinks of
her as more to him than beautiful pic
ture. If for second anything further
had entered his mind, he would instantly
have dismissed it as an absurd crying
for the moon. But Eta is not used to
giving up her whims so easily. No
sooner had she discovered that she liked
his looks than she made up her mind to
see more of him: and when Jimmie,
after explaining all the surroundings of
the lake, lands them, and somehow I'M
presses on them the conviction that he
is not the sort of person to fee, she takes
her cousin aside, and persuades him
a little against his will to try and make
ret,Tn for his politeness by asking him
TO the hop at the Montrose hotel the
next week.
And now opens the new era in our
hero's life. He is quite good-loobing
enough and mice" enough not to seem
out of place in frock-coat; and by
careful use of his own and brothers best
clothes, he is able to appear Mt the hotel
quite correctly attired for a country hop,
and so far from finding Etta's infatua-
alton vanished as suddenly as it was
born, she seems worse than before
Going to meet him as he enters the
room, with an eager, bright smile, she
quickly exclaims
"Then you haven't failed us ?"
''Why, no; surely L wouldn't miss
such chance as this" And then, sud
denly rejecting that it would be best to
modify this, he adds, land Of seeing
you."
A quick flush of pleasure comes to her
flce at this first sign of admiration from
him, and all her habitual coquettery
.symes TO abet the curious folly that has
taken such hold on her.
"No," said Jimmie, 81 enjoyed my
row too much the other day not to come
81 this hop. Do you know that l have
kved by that lake oil my life, and never
knew how beautiful it was before last
Fridav?"
Then this is really your home? We
vere wondering whether you belonged
here. or were only visitor"
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