The Labor enquirer., 1883-01-06

monies in his ears, was in that delicious
state when he hardly knew if he were
man or rose. And Mabel was always
| light of heart and head as the small,
green grasshoppers jumping and trilling
in the new mown hay. But there was
something discordant somewhere be
tween the blue and green, for the sum
mer meadow stretched out dreary as a
deserted grave yard before Nelly's. eyes
while the doctors eyes followed hers
with sad yearning as hesat5a little apart
The hours sped and vanished, till the
farmers boy was ready with the wagon
to take them to the coming train. It
! was aIride of only three miles, but the
jogging, slow paced horse made it six in
the early evening, with the dropping
dew, the glancing fire flies, and, present.
| ly, as they came to a bit of woodland, a
full chorus ofkittydids.
Mabel screamed with delight, till the
white faced horse picked up his ears and
ran two steps in astonishment,
katy did Katy didn't? What did
Katy do? What didn't Katy do? Aren't
they cute? Inever heard them before,
did you, Nelly? 4 =,
"No, never! Do stop the horse a min
ute, driver, and let US listenn replied
Nelly,
"Katy did? What did Katy" repeat
ed Mabel. ~. r"
Il know" replied DR.. Farnsworth:
I"She did judge friend with false judg-
ment, and she didn't listen to his ex-
planation." 70 x a..
Mabel laughed. "Do tell US the story
if you know it, she said
'"|Yes, I know it," replied DR.. Farms
worth, with a tone of WEAKNESS in
his voice.,
katy had a lover; and she promised
to go with him to the grand concert by
starlight in the maple trees. All the day
he thought Of nothing else, but spent the
time polishing his wings, and eating
honey dew to make his voice clear.
However, on his way to her bower he
heard a pitiful moaning il, the grass,
and turning aside, found a little black
cricket, which had had it's leg stepped
on and broken by a rabbit flying past.
He could not leave the poor creature,
and by the time he had bound up the
broken leg with plantain leaves and
grass it was too late for the concert.
And never from that night to this
has Katy listened to his apology. Do
you not think she sh ould, Miss Natal?"
asked DR.. Farnsworth, suddenly turning
to Nelly.
fThe story is not true" replied Nelly,
hoarsely. There was no broken-legged
cricket, but a gay fire fy-and the false
lover danced with her.
'Never!" cried DR.. Farnsworth, earn
estly. 1t was surely wounded cricket;
or, to speak literally, a bricklayer,
crushed by a falling building"
"Wern't you walking on the, common
with Julia Beidler, in the moonlight?
My sister, Mary, saw you," answered
Nelly, unconciously dropping the slender
thread of parable, and betraying herself.
Never" repeated the doctor, vehe-
mently. Il was caring for the poor
bricklayer, who died at midnight. But
very likely, your sister might have seen
my twin brother, Gersham, with Julia
BeidIer. He generally is.'
At these few words, which seemed so
simple, and meant SO little to stranger,
something hard, and cold, and heavy,
instantly dropped out of Nelly's heart
and in it's place a singing, winged bird;
and, like Moses, she yelled her face to
hide it's shining. Was this, indeed, the
world that looked so gray and gloomy a
moment ago? Why this was paradise,
full of flowers, and birds, and sunshine;
spot where
From the boundless green below,
TO the fathomless blue above,
The creatures of God are happy
In the warmth of their summer love"
And the affection that had been devel-
oping 50 shyly, so slowly as though it
had the life of a century plant for its
perfecting, burst into sudden bloom,
like the flowers of an arctic summer.
But Mabel, too much bewildered to
know what to say, looked from one to