The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12
The Bud OfPFetpise Racket.
NOW TIE SWEET GIRL GRADUATE WAS
PUT ON IT BY THE HORSE
REPORTER.
Chicago Tribune:

REPORTER.
Chicago Tribune:
ais this the placer" ,
A prepossessing young lady stood
in the doorway of the editorial rooms
and was gazing around the apartment
in a friendly but somewhat mystiiled
manner. -.
at depends on what you want
replied the horse reporter. off you
are on wild and fruitless search for
a piece of plum-colored satin to
match dress, or a new kind OF car
pet-sweeper that will never by any
possibility keep in working order
three consecutive days, you are JOY
ously sailing away on the wrong tack;
but if you would like an editor"
"That's it," said the young lady,
81 want to see an editor; | guess its
the literary editor | thought it
would be nice to meet the literary
editor and talk to him about authors
and poets and everything like that
Don't you think Elaine is lovely? 1t
always seems to me"
"Now you're talking" exclaimed
the horse reporter, enthusiastically
olive Or six years ago, when Elaine
beat the three-year-old record,I pick
ed her out for a pretty smooth article
and told the boys then that she was
liable to beat 2;20 if her oil hind LEG
didn't give way"
81 don't men nasty, horrid ole
horse" said the young lady; 81 wa'
referring to Tennyson's heroine.
81 am going to graduate mex
month, SIR she continued, Sand Nv,
got to read an essay. Isn't it funny?'
- "Perfectly sidesplitting," respond
ed the personal friend Of St. Julien
"And l thought" continued thu
young lady, "that perhaps the literar.
editor would give me some advic
about the subject ofmy essay and tn
general manner in which it should b
treated"
"The Bud Of Promise racket is
pretty good one" said the horse re
porter.
"The what ?"
"The Bud of Promise racket. 1t
a daisy scheme for girl graduates"
"Could you tell me-" asked tn
young lady in hesitating manne
"about this --"
''Racket:" suggested the horse re
porter.
"About this racket ?"
ooh, certainly. You want to stal
the essay with few remarks abou
spring being the most beautiful SEE
son of the year--the time when tn
tender blades of grass, kissed by tn
dews of heaven and warmed by tn
kindly rays Of the sun, peep forth,
first timidly, and then in all the royi
splendor of their vivid colors, from II
bosom OF the earth that was such
little while ago wrapped. in a mant
of snowy whiteness and fast bound
the chilly arms Of hoary-headed oil
winter. Then say that as the gla
sunshine leaps through the bits
foliage that begin to come out an
cast their grateful shade upon i
earth they fall upon the buds that al
lading the fruit trees; and soon c
every branch the buds ripen and bur
forth in Il wealth Of floral lovelnes
Then compare the maiden, just stel
ping forth from the precincts of ii
school and gazing with wistful, eagt
eyes out into the world with the lit
bud upon the tree, and say that sh
too, by the aid OF the sunlight whic
comes from education, will soon de
velop into a woman, that priceless
gift Of God to man, and ever ca
about her the holy light Of low
That ought to fetch EN-"
at sounds nice, doesn't it ~ sal
the young lady.
"You bet it does, sis"
"Thank You very much, sir" sal
the young lady, starting for the doc
"Don't forget to tie your essa
with a blue ribbon,' said the hors
reporter.
"No, sir, | won't"
"And tell your papa to buy a bor
quet to fire at YOU"
ayes, sir. Good-by."
"Bon soir. Come around when yo
fall in love and will put You up t
great scheme for making Charlie
declare his intentions several month
earlier than would otherwise be tn
case"