Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1882-04-21
y. AII oN ACCOUNT or SAMMY.

Nil On ACCOUNT OF SAMMY.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wrayburn had
celebrated their silver wedding, and
Margaret Earle and her Aunt Esther,
with swhon she lived. had been hidden
to the feast. Mrs. Wrayburn's nephew,
Mr.. Richard Kennetson, gentleman of
some thirty years, handsome, well bred
and fairly educated, was also there.
This last-named gentleman was o stran-
ger in the city. His home was in New
England, but for the last six years he
had seen very little of it, having spent
the time since his graduation, for a civil
engineer, in travel and protracted So
journ in Europe. His father, at his
death, had left his mother, his sister and
himself large fortune, and Richard
Kennetson, on leaving college, had
found himself in the pleasant position of
man who is enabled to crafty his
tastes and inclinations to the full, and it
must be owned that Mr.. Richard Ken
nelson's inclinations, being those of a
gentleman the cdrte-blanche gratifica-
ton had produced very good and har-
monious result, and had made neither
an affected bore nor a biasc egotist of
this Neutrality-suspicious. nephew of Mrs.
John Wrayburn. There were great
many I,eoplejto whom she wanted to in
troduce him, for various reasons, but
envy, hatred and malice and all unchar-
itableness aside, she did really want
Margaret Earle to meet him. "She is
so superior to the other girls who will
be here" she said to her husband, "and
/ am sure she will enjoy talking with
him immensely" -
And SO it came to pass that they met,
and Margaret thought when the tall,
straight man with the brown mustache,
very dark eyes and graceful air was
.brnught iup to be introduced, that he
was Father the most distinguished-look-
ing person she hadseen in some time,
and she also concluded that he must
have thought she was rather the most
awkward girl he had seen in some time.
Richard Kennetson, after the last
guest had departed, had said: .sAunt
Deb, that was mighty nice little girl
YOU introduced me to- and had strolled
out on the yeranda, lighted a cigar,
smoked it to the end, and gone to bed
in his usual placid frame of mind.
He called once after that, and went
away in less than week, and that was
all; it was not likely they would ever
meet again. He had said he was moi
quite sure where he should go next
and had gone with a pleasant hand-shakt
'and genial good-by; and the girl re-
membered every word he had ever said
aItwas about this time that her sister
Mrs, Mabel Hoskins, wrote, entreatins
her to join them in their contemplated
visit to the sea-shore. They were al
going, Mr.. and Mrs. Hoskins, the thre,
children Clarence, Augustus and Sam
uel-and, the nurse, the latter personag,
being the especial attendant of Samuel
who.was an infant in long clothes.
Mabel Earle had married widowe
twenty years her senior, without chill
dren and very rich.7 Margaret was il
high favor with her brother-in-law, an,
now that such strong inducements wer
offered for q change of scene and a goo,
time generally she did not hesitate lon
in accepting. To see the ocean, whicl
she had never yet beheld, was deligh
which she could not easily let slip, an,
sd in consultation with Aunt Esther, tn
modest wardrobe was made ready, am
Margaret Joined the party at poin
about two hundred miles east Of he
own home.
Nearly two days after, about nine p
m, the train arrived at B., wher
they concluded to remain over night
So they took carriage up to one of "A
best hotels, and the inside of the vehicl
being pretty well filed with the famil
and. their -hand-b -baos and shawlstrans
fapa Hoskins mounted beside the drive
W'ln more naha.paSs ana shawi-straps
i9Was a long drive through intermina
pie streets, ana everybody was tired an
ha!f asleep, except Clarence and Angus
tusSwho were tired ana eantankerous
Arrived at the notei' ana three room
haHlng been obtained on the fourt
hoor, tne party; in TWO or three install
mems, were taken up IN the elevator
ana ~ last met IN one OF the rooms
MIS-. Aoskins hrst question on catchin
slgnt OF Lizzie, the nurse, wa
Wheres the babys :,
Azzle regarded her mistress, III
very personilication OF dismay, an
stammered out; "Good gracious! nun
why ham you got himE
mo- slirieked Mrs. Hoskins, turn
lng Whib
YNow don't be frightened" sa
~, & John Jon d9 brought tE I'M n,
rooms -.
The other two rooms We're immed
ateiy ransaeked oy three excited wor
en-, but Y Ohm hadn done anything
the sort ,,Whefe was JohnP He "
now the last, forlorn hope. lie mig
nave BABY with him. II ne hadn t-b
the three women refused 10 consider I
terrible alternative
he went down stars 10 see apo
something sald MRS, Hosklns' and
pen-2oy was pastiiy summoned 70 SCI
nun hitier -,
when Mr. hoskihs opened the do
oims n depaiameh';three Women Women shrieks x,