The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-09-13
~ LITTLE SWEETHEART,

| tHo lulOCbilt lTunkucSS OF Hcf years
of madenhood.
| Indeed yeu may, | cried, STOPPING
to lin her TO my knee.
| No, she said, drawing back if am
your sweetheart | mustn't sit OH your
lap, but beside you. You may kiss
me-, though, all the same, and call me
May, but | will call you Harry.
Mamma says you are not our really,
truly uncle, but we call you so be-
cause we loye You.
That ia so, Il answered; but II you
are not TO love me when you are my
sweetheart, shall back out.
Oh, but ! will You see Agnes has
Tom Irving to love her, and Jancy
has Tracy Hill. | WINGED here, rs !
had tried very hard 10 fill Tracy
Hills place. 1t makes me dreadful
lonesome, continued May. but then |
thought Of you, aud perhaps you
would bring me flowers and tell me
added 10 their beauty by wearing
them, and sugar plums. and say that
my lips were sweeter than sugar
almonds, and take me to walk ana to
ride, and always be lovely to me
But, | asked gravely, what are you
TO give ne2
Oh, will work you pair Of slip
pers when | am big enough, and III
kiss some of the sugar plums and let
you eat them, and I'll wear the flow-
ere, aud II there Is any song you like
very much, | will practice il and learn
| IL, If the accompaniment is not too
hard.
All right. It's bargain. You
are my little sweetheart and your
devoted adorer from this day, cried.
But II seems to me. May, that for a
lady OF your age you are pretty well
posted OIL the sweetheart question.
Well, you see, uncle-no you're
not my uncle any more.
Dear Harry, l suggested.
Dear Harry, you see there is the
sitting. room and there is the parlor,
and II Tom Trying comes while
Agnes is in the parlor sho says:
Run up stairs, May, that's good
girl; and when get TO the sitting
room see Tracy Hill kissing Janey,
and he lnutters: There's the pest OF
child again; and | run into the
kitchen, aud Molly has Jonn Mccoy
there, and can't help seeing them
all, she said piteously.
Exactly. And / think you area
very sensioie ohild 10 start yonr own
nlr'aiohs. WIN you allow me 10
nrive you 70 ahe rolht tnls afternoon,
Hiss MARIAN l added, win my very
ccs. socie'y DOW
ihank You, GEAR Harry, she saiu,
WIN tenure gravity III go WIN
p'ehs"re. ,
90 we commenced our nir'a''om'
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