Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-03-23
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was trimmed with some scarlet pop
pies, and lovely creamy muslin, and
sent hoTie.
was very observant and attentive,
and soon learned that Nellie had refused
to go with some of her friends to u
fashionable watering-place where, as
she said, 'you dress, and 60 to dinner;
dress, and walk out; dress, and sit on
the piazza; dress and 60 to the hop"
No, she preferred to 60 to the truly
country, have no one to bother her, and
stay out-of-doors from morning till
night. =,
''.You'll get tired OF that, Miss Nell" :"
said a young lady, who came to see her
the day we left. You'll get tired OF
that, and you'll wish you had gone with
us.
"Well, have your address, and !
can find my way to the station. laughed
Nellie. "Would you have me in case
repented, and wanted to Gomez"
Yes, indeed, and if you promise to
come as soon as you want to, it will moi
be very long before we see you"
I'm give you time to unpack before
you send the carriage for me-"
Then she put me on, bade her friends
good-by, and we were of.
think the young lady must have got
tired waiting for her, because we did
not grow weary of it at all. Nellie's
little brother was with us, but he soon
found more boys, who took up his en-
tire attention, and he seldom went with
lis in our walks among the hills and
valleys.
We had lovely time. Nellie told
Mrs. Grant, in whose hall hung when
Mt leisure, when she wished there
was more there to interest her,
she would like to have the days
forty-eight hours long, SO that she
might have more room to put the en-.
joyment she found in everything about
her.
can not tell how long we had been
there, when, coming in from walk nc
afternoon, we found a broad -brimmed
black banded panama hat hanging Oh
my own particular peg. l was so angry
at the intrusion that I fell down three
times while Nellie was tryins to hang
me, and Mt last was put in another
p ace by sheer force.
The interloper was afterward worr
by gentleman, who called Mrs. Grant
auntie, and whom Nellie addressed as
DR.. Wentworth.
thought him very fine young man.
but Nellie did not appear i articularly
impressed, and several times thou hi
he would like to have joined us wher
we went out in the morning, but sht
gave him no encouragement TO do SO.
One day, however, we got into diff
Guilty. We were sauntering along
through some charmin = woodland; Mel
lie swun me from one hand, while the
other held her sachel containing hel
novel. sketch-book and worsted work
We were enjoyin ourselves very much
when wh-r-r! buzz! and the whole oil
seemed full OF wings! Something flew
against Nellie with sudden force, ant
the next thing knew / was lying OF
the ground, ard she was in full retrea
in the opposite direction AT! .a
| do not know how she felt. but i wa
scared. Would she never come back
Was / to lie there always till sun, wine
and rain had done their worstp J(-
had almost despaired of ever seeing
any one again, when big dog rushed
up and seized me, and with few
bounds laid me-yes, would you believ,
itp-right at Nellie's feet. / was s,
glad. And there was DIR. Wentworth
with game-bag and gun ready TO picl
me up.
came up just in time TO hear hin
tell how he was frightened the same wa,
once when he was small boy, befor,
he knew the ways OF partridges.
"They are shy enough, usually" HI
said, "but when there is brood of lii
lilo -,
just now. they are only too ready to fl,
in your face"
After that we used to encounter hin
often, and he and Nellie came to b
very good friends. till one day ! wa
electrified by hearing him say some
thing which sounded exactly like tn
booxs 1 heard people reading and talk
ing about.
was so agitated that every popp
trembled.
Il can not read the stories myself,
thou hit ], "but is 1t possible that al
TO witness genuine love AFFAIR.""
Such seemed TO be the indications
but as time pass d on found / did nc
have all the opportunities for observs
tion that might have wished, for Di
Wentworth very often declared that
was in the way, and would quietly II
move. and set me quite aside, where
could not see what was going on. nc
yet quite get the full import of the
c nversation. But once heard so
rustic J used to hear in tse wheat fiel,
long before was hat.
We were all very happy together Il
some time. even grew to tolerate III
broad -br;mmed. black -banded Panam,
we were thrown aside together so oftel
But, after a time, there came seriol
change. i never knew what It W,
about. or how It happened, and prob
bly, ! never shall, so long as thereis oil
straw OF my anal omy left upon anothe
My wearer aud the doctor stopps
going out together. met very seldoI
and when they did see each other II