The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-01-21
BETSEYS BONNET.

httcd has hat and pushed back hts thick
hair os ho stood on the hotel steps talk
ing to plain, country farmer in suit
OF homespun gray.
e." Wa'al, NO, not quite yet, John. /
want to got Betsey bonnet real
nice one just Ak good Yorker might
want, Cause Beteey's worked awful
harl, this spring. Times arc good too.
80 ] guess we'll zee if my Betsey shan't
look as good as anybody. S'pose you
don't want to 90 along with me, do
you4"
Let me SEQ o'clock yea, I'll 60.
Uncle Able ill look at the pretty
girla, though; you wont mind that.
Como on
80 they walked up tho street, the
fashionable attire of tho young lawyer
contrasting strongly with tho antigua.
ted cut oi the farmers garments, which
at home were wont to lie iu solemn
state IN the spare room all the week,
only 10 be worn on sunday with becom.
ing carciulncss There MAS little like.
ness in their fscfs--a triile too fair for
manly beauty, with its blonde nous.
| tae!e and setting of close brown curls
to tho hronzed and beaIdleas one, with
the few locks, spare and gray, beneath
the wcll brushed hat but the blue cyea
wero tho same IN both, aud like those
| that wero closed forever under tho sod
IN the apple orchard Of Uncle Abcls
farm, where his dead sister was laid
when Johnny VAS tiny child II
troubled john not whit % los seen
| with the plain countryman in spite Of
his peffgmei hair aad well gloved hand
hla heart Was "a true as steel 10 the good
friend Of his boyhood, and the inquir-
ing glance Of his companions gave him
no annoyance whatever.
They reached Madam Rozetta ae
last, and John louugel ia the doorway
and straightway engaged in the laa9-
able employment Of finding out the
prcttieat face Of the girls in attendance.
Josie N9liet, radiaAt with smiles and
| think little artificial bloom, came
forward with tho most bewitehing
e.unce - Wait on the farmer who
oto'2h@ so attractive person with ,
hlsn aud E.ucyiug that she would |
show her superior quality hy 20 doing |
made np hof a.E3 TO quiz Uncle Abel |
Numerically Poor Old man lie
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Iars too ci,c,n aud 80 ,,cc,,n;ng
t-ncle Abel confessed af,erwards |
that he felt quite conionnded at The
price, but he did not mean to let that
Frenchiiied girl know it. so he he only
said, Oh. that's the style, ell? 1t |
ain't lit like Betgey's old one.
though"
ooh, no sir the fashion hes chang.
ed entirely, Now the gvpsey is the
newest thjoo out and your wife would
set tho fashion. / don't doubt"
She looked up nj John Dare merrilv.
but could not interpret the look in his
ewes so. taxing it. for granted that il
was an exnregsion of admiration sbo
pursued the same strain
.r... e.. -, D..
..o.,r 20, "9s Ill ., NJ a. ehau 49,.
Z Yr ~ cor D ,on9', oYS 80 " ~ ~
" Wa'al. YES. | can toll better how il
will look then. Now il looks lust like
a dish"
aThAre Il Goes this way" and Josie
n;tcbed the liftle tbing over her rosy
face tied tho strinos - . Lio how knot
and swent dawn ,be Ionctb or Tho room