The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-04
A GIRLS FANCY.
By EDWARD ]. suRrYnER.

the valley in the Catskills where we find
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 a delightful place, but if
1t were not for the visitors with whom
the 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 fsher-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, a city
clergymen who spent some of his vaca-
tons 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 intelli-
gence and earnest application have done
the rest; so that when we meet him as
Mr.. Peters fisherman, he not only in
tends, with q true American sang11ine-
ness, to rise, but is far better equipped
tor the battle he has enlisted in than
many even who start on q 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
that 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 Fate as she comes down the
hlll-path with her cousin, George Lar
ton, and their mutual friend, Harry FL
lis; Ill fact, we are very much inclined to
agree with George when he thinks of
her to-day as much more of Grace: but
II she is not Fate herself she is GER
talnly notable instrument of their will.
They are all three stopping with large
party at Montrose, the nearest apology
for town, and this full four miles away.
Miss Larton, however, ''goes in" for
walking as the proper thing in tho 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 in sturdy good
health, shall be the whole of her per-
sonal description; and for her ''stats 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, hut
wlthal, very fascinating, as Cousin
George can testify. She is given 10
whlms, and just now the fancy that
strikes her is to have row on the clear
little lake that is so invitingly laid out
below, so that the one duty of her obedi-
emit companions is to find the WAYS and
means; not altogether all 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 up
and takes the party, Miss Eta in 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
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
tho lake, lands them, and somehow inn
presses on them the conviction that he
is not the sort Of person to fee, she takes
her cousin aside, and persuades him
q little against his will to try and make q
return 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-looking
enough and mice" enough not to seem
o1lt of place in frock-coat; ana py
careful use of his own and brothers best
clothes, he is able to appear at the hotel
quite correctly attired for 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 I wouldn't miss
such a chance as this. And then, sud
denly rejecting that it would be best tn
this Irish fsher-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
80 row over the lake, he hardly thinks OF
her as more to him than beautiful pic
ture. If for a 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 ia
modify this, he adds, land of seeing
you"
A quick flush of pleasure comes to her
face at this first sign Of admiration from
hlm, and all her habitual coquettery
comes to albeit the curious folly that has
taken such hold on her.
''No," said Jimmie, 'I enioyed nv
row too much the other day not to come
to this hop. Do you know that I have
lived by that lake all my life, and never
knew how beautiful il was before last
Friday?"
Then this is really your home? We
were wondering whether you belonged
here, or were only a visitor"
At this palpable attempt to pump hin,
he was silent for q moment; but think
ing it best to seem candid, he answered:
eyes, I was born and raised here. "
Then, smilingly, I'm only country
boy, you know. You may be sure,
though, not too much of an one to thank
You for your kindness to me-"
Little as he yet understands the full ex-
tent of his influence over her, and think
ing that she only takes some such inter.
est in him as Mr.. More has, he vet feels
that he must not shock this rich Young
lady with the full truth about himself
that he is only poor workman's son:
and, to avoid more inquiries, at once asks
for the dance inst commencing. When
the couple follow this up by another,
and still another. the Larton party begin
to talk; but all look on it as a Irritation
IN which Eta is amusing herself at this
country boys expense; and Mrs. Larton,
an easy-going woman, not especially re-
luctant to see Ftta-who is only, a s+oy,