The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-09-13
UNA'SLOVER.

UNA'S LOVER.
A regular Amazon" exclaimed
Junius Haven, struggling his shout.
ders, ;'On the very top of load OF
hay, with straw hat pulled down
over his eyes and pitchfork in hi.
hand y
"NOw. Junius," cried our Mary
Haven, "yCu are talking arrant non
sense"
"A man must believe his senses, :"
said Haven. Il asked for Miss Joce-
Ign, and the ancien, beldame who was
Smelling peas by the kitchen window
pointed one skinny farefinger across
the fields. and answered. there she is.
a gettin' in the hay. They all stirs
round lively in these parts when
there's shower comm up. Guess
You'll fluid her, if YOU goes across
lots"
And you :" questioned Mary.
Mr. Haven smiled ironically.
II" said he; "you must bear in
mind that | was looking for a Young
lady, not fer farm boys assistant !;
SO turned around and came home
again"
But there must he some mistake!'
cried eu: impetuous Mary. my
Ellice Jocelyn is a princess among
women, tall and slender and graceful,
who plays the harp and writes de-
lcious little trapscen,iental essays,
and"
There was neither harp nor writ
ing desk on the top of that load Of
hay." said Haven, very decidedly.
and pray, Mary, don't he offended,
but / am rather disenchanted with
your rustic bellies, after nv afternoons
experience. Reach me a cigar, please,
and don't let any one disturb me for
q while, there's darling"
Mary Haven obeyed Was not Ju-
MUS, newly arrived from Europe, a
very shah and sultan among men, to
he waited on and humored in his
every caprice?
But while she found the cigar case,
handed the newspaper and regulated
the exact fall Of the curtain-folds
which should be most agreeable to
her brothers optical partialities, she
puzzled her brain as to how and why
and wherefore the little plan of hers
for an instant attachment between
Junius and Ellice Jocelyn had thus
came to an untimely standstiIl.
IFS the strangest thing in the
world" said Mary Haven to herself.
Il think Ill 60 over and see what it
means.
low and long, with gabled fronts
and bay windows, the Jocelyn farm
house stretched itself out under the
unlbrageous walnut trees, with Ellice's
hammock swinging in the porch and
Ellice herself posed like nymph, all
Enauve muslin and fieecy folds of
Shetland shawl.
Yes. she was very pretty, this fair
haired blonde. with the complexion
of shell-pink, the china blue eyes, the
dimp!es on cheek and chin, and the
white muslin dress-and she came for.
ward, cool and composed, to meet
Miss Haven, as if the June sun were
sot blazing overhead, and the Their
nometer did not stand at ninety in
the shade.
so glad to see you" said Miss
Jcoelyn, with the princess air that
seemed to sit so naturally on her.
"EIlice." said Mary, plunging into
her subject, "where' have you been
all the morning!"
Where have l been?'
Believe me, I'm not asking from
mere curiosity pleaded Mary. 81
have reason. You will answer me
! know"
Why shouldn't L 2" said the serene
one lifting her golden brows. "Let
me see-I was in the glen sketching
the beautiful messy boulders by the
spring, until the shower came up, and
then l sat down in my own room and
wrote q few letters
Then it couldn't have been you
after ALL" bluntly said Mary.
What couldn't have been me 2"
The girl with the pitchfork on
top of the load of hay"
And then. laughing her own blunder,
Mary Haven related the morning
adventure of her brother.
1T must have been Una," said
Jocelyn, with slight shadow of an
noyance upon her smooth brow.
Una, the little sister who has just
returned from boarding-schoolY'
Miss Jocelyn shook her head.
..There Is no end tn that child,s