Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-20
THAT LITTLE VIXEN;
Or, the fluctuations Of a Disap-
pointed Lover.

to fall head over heels i'm love, but 20 go
and make downright donkey OF my
self! Tes repeat it; make a donkey
of myselfi Donkey means tour-legged
uuadruped, except when applied 10 the
human species, and then II stands for
Frank Nevitte, Esd, baTriSter 81 law"
"Why, Frank, what on eaTth's got
into your What have yen dOne% eX-
claimed the prettiest of startled feminine
trebles and little individual i'm crino-
line pushed back cluster Of the most
enchanting yellow eurls in the world,
and looked up at her Six-fOOt brother
who, with his hands in his pockets,
was tearing up and down the room
with that utterly distracted expression
of countenanee chiefly patronlzed by
actors when they clap their hands to
their foreheads and rush through the
side scenes, exelaiming, "Periidious
girl! I.ost-lost to me fOrev-e-r-r!"
The question, and little Winnie's
frightened face, had the effect Of bring
ing Master Frank To q stand-Still; and,
turning round fiereely-nnt to say ferO-
ciOuSly-ire burst out with:
Ozone? Rather ask me what l have
not done. Oh, Fate, Fate! you miSera-
Die, draggle-tailed hussy! If IOnly had
hold Of you for one blessed five minutes,
i'll wouldn't teach you what it was 10
drive a nice young man TO desperation
with the thermometer so absurdly high
that it goes completely out OF sight IN
the shaded Winnie's, | feel that I'm
not long for this world. do L look
pale?'
pale: Well, upon nature cOnSidera-
ton, should say you must decidedly
did rot. But, really, Frank, don't
understand the meaning Of all this
fuss. What in the world has happen
ed:"
"Why, everything's happened! The
whole world is humbug! Happiness
is q popular delusiOn! Eyerything'S
going wrong and I'm glad of it; and l
don't care if they do something TO me
for saving il. They had better mind
how they aggravate desperate men! L
feel a good deal like reused tigreSs,
Just now, and amt going to stand no
nonsense from anyone-hanged If L
do
Now, Frank, don't be absurd"
We'll. Pm not absurd. How dare you
inSinuate such thing, Miss Neyitte?"
We'll, then, don't make such fuss.
Can't YOU tell me in seven or eight
words what all this row is abOut%
Seven or eight words" said Frank,
reflectively. Concise and TO the point
that. Well, I'll try. Now, then-Ivc
went and put my foot in it-there"
"Well, that is nothing new. You al
ways do manage to put 1t in, somehow,
whenever an aperture offers for the un-
SeTtiOn Of that extremity"
Don't be aggravating, young wO-
I oil do n itFN
fool OF mySelfm
"Well and that is nothing now, eth
er, though there was no necessity for
the trouble, my dear BROTHER said
Winnie, pleasantly.
light there's sisterly sympathy for
YOU" exclaimed Frank, appealing to
society in general, with look of the
deepest disgust. "Its enough To make
a fellow go and kick himself to death,
such treatment; and hereby VOW and
declare and Most sOlemnly swear | will
do it, if Fate don't mind what she's at,
and not keep on making me a mark for
the finger of scorn to poke at like this"
"Why, Frank, YOU seem 10 have q
particular spite against Fate, this morn
ing. What has that scocrtric lady
done TO you tOput you in such pas
SiOn?"
"Done to me? Why, she's been pro-
yOking me so that L feel diabOllcal
enough to punch the heads of the
whole world, if had them here, with
out the first feeling Of remOrse! Done
TO me, indeed? She ought TO be bow
strung, the heartleSs jadew
"Well," said Winnie, cOmpOSedly,
sorting box full of those vicious little
skeins of Berlin wool that some ladies
delight in. az dare say that is all very
true, but still it would be more gratify-
ing TO my feelings if you would enter
more fully into the particulars. That
YOU have made fool of yourself, and
nut your foot in it, is neither new nor
Strange; so there il not the slightest ne
ceSsity for YOU to act a. lift was. Have
some consideration for the carpet, II
YOU have none for my feelings; and sit
down, instead OF ranting up and down
there, and grOaming like locomotive
with the toOthache. Now, begin ut the
beginning. Tell me what awful mystery
of iniquity this all is"
"Weil, us easy enough told" snap
ped Frank, fiinging himselfinto a chair;
!'it's nil owing to that little vixen, An
ME Linn an aggravating little monkey
ought to get her I-I.t'I"
"For shame, Francis Nevitte! How
dare YOU sit up there, and talk about
INV particular friend in that abominable
fashiOn!= What has Annie done to
you?" .
well, YOU know well enough what
she does to me. \ provoking little
mink, always laughing and going, on
ridiciously, as ifa fellows hearts best
affections and that sort of thing particu-
Nv funny. I've set, my affection on her
ever since had any toset, and look AT
theresult. As n fellOw-sinnera and natural
lied citizen, ask you again to just look
at the result??"
"Well. am looking at it, and what
then?"
sWhat, then! Can't you see with
half an eye-what, then? She laughs
at me; she won't listen to reason at any
price; she keeps on flirting with that
bescented, bedandied, becurling-
tongued, brainleSS, mineing fop and
frog-eating foreigner, st. LO de Fernie.
There's q nice name to talk about!
Women are fools, and don't know
what's good for them, or little black,
hairy dandy like that DE Fernie
wouldn't be made lion of, while a
SeDslOAe, WnOie-SOuieu' Balltailt ISiton,
manly and good-lOoking-"
Like Frank Nevitte, in q word.
What has Fate and Annie Linn to do
with one another, you absurd fellow"
Don't become abusive, Miss Nevitte,
ifyou please. They have plenty to do
with one another; one would think
they were in partnership, and had con-
spired-as said befOre-to make ME a
mark for the finger of scorn TO poke fun
at. No longer ago than this morning
got into Broadway stage, thinking
I'd drop into Whit DashwoOd's studio,
and help him to finish that sublime
dozen of sherry his landlady (who is
seven and forty and in love with HIM
sent him. The notion of some chaps
getting all crinolinedom to fall at their
feet In alteration, and other chaps, who
only want one, not even getting her, Is
abominable. Society l. out of joint