The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-05-07
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PUSSY.
There never was q more proper
person than Miss Martha Monckton.
She had never done anything to shock
the people in all her life, and
thought she never should; but man
proposes and the fates dispose; and lit
tie did Miss Monckton know what
she should come to, as. on a Friday
afternoon--Friday is an unlucky day
she sat at her window, working on
a crochet scrap bag, and watching the
movements of her opposite neighbOr, or
rather other opposite nelghbor's young
est daughter, Miss Letitia Quirk.
3 Miss Letitia, eighteen years old,
black-eyed. black-haired, rosy-cheeked,
ia forward looking GIRL Miss Martha
upper window. habited in pale. pink
muslin, with pink shell pin and earrings,
and pale blue bow in her hair. Be-
low, in his garden her excellent papa
pottered about, with large Panama
hat on his bald head, expanding all his
energy of mind and body on two dozen
tomatoes, a pair of pumpkins and other
products of his amateur farming opera
lions. In the dining-room window sat
the young lady's mamma, counting
napkins and cultivating large wrinkle
between the eyes because napkins num-
Der twenty-one. two and three had been
used at dinner instead OF napkins twen-
ty-four, five and six.
Behind her, in the open pantry, the
jams and jellies, the potted beef and
canned salmon, stood in rows. All that
was eatabie or drinkable, all that was
mace OF glass; silver, emma, or linen,
was eviuentiy weii-orderea IN tne man
SION. put .na1 piece OF punk ana white
r.' - 81 w;.h ~ h aaugnser Oh sne mousse
Me- won 'sI - -r--y'-
9 ..ns 1 ,:sn M 'no.'gn1 not;
....a, g nne ~ - .cl LL nc, ua' sne saia 20
I : .sa' % sn1 Iupoeu ner g,asses' put
!. , :, : s''ou'UH Do snanAeo ior
linen sne looked again. ana feit sure
MISS Leiitia was talking IN Pantomime,
win some use OF the niger alphabet, to
al unseen young man. 81
soar nsu sa, INC person was un-
M;ss NtS asy eoo1 sa : young woman' ou'
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Is W" Ino AisSl.g nor manu- I,
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49,.
An II MISS Monckton had but known!
riirtation rs bad enough but Letitia
Vuirk nad gone still farther. Had that
elderiy iadys glasses been stronger. or
nad she understood the nnger alphabet
netter sne would have known that at
tnat moment Lettia was arranging an
eioPement Tor that evening. On the
rooi OF ms parents residence. hidden
behind chimney. Humphrey Horton,
only son OF Dr. Giles Horton, the prin-
cipal physician OF Strawberrytown, was,
az snst instant saying with his thumb
ana fingers;
/" | will be at the cross roads with .
wagon at two o'clock tonight"
It was certainly time that Letitia's
parents left their cabbages and jam-pots
to themselves for awhile, and took
little heed Of their daughter.
However, as we said, Miss Monckton
did not guess the worst. She crotcheted
her scrap-ba until it was time to put
in n crimson row and then laid II IN