Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-02
From the New Haven Register
LOVE IN A SHOWER.

CT dop't think I care about the nut
ting picnic" said the rector's daughter.
mot care about it % said Horatia
Dale, Why, l thought you always went
every year"
$50 [ have always done, but [ don't
think / shall go this year,
All! [ see-jealous!" cried Horatia.
SO an nosr' cried Fanny Forester,
. aud 10 one shall dare say such thing
of mel
Nevertheless, it is true" said Miss
Dale, ''you are not going to the nutting
party because Harvey Carroll has Oriana
Van Velsor 70 accompany him. Now,
deny it if you dare! WHAT goose you
are, to go piniug after man that doesn't
care for yout'
81 don't pine, said Fanny.
To break your heart because Harvey
Carroll prefers the gaudy city tulip to
our little wild rose of the woods!"
= don't break my hearth persisted
Fanny.
Come, cheer up" said Horatia,
laughing. Miss Van Veisor returns to
town tomorrow. The ward schools be-
gin next week, and she must take her
place as second assistant schoOlma'am in
Peake Street. And even If she should
take Harvey Carroll's recreant heart with
her, why, there's this consolation
there's as good fish IN the sea as ever
Dame out of II.
hate vulgar proverbs. said the
rector's daughter.
You hate Oriana Van Velsor, you
mean, 2" said Miss Dale, shrewdly.
Horatia, cried Fanny, I" if you say
another hateful word, I'll"
Come now, Fanny" said Horatia.
putting her arms around the waist of
the soobing girl, I'm only trying to
raise your dormant spirit. Don't let
this conceited city girl think she's
breaking your heart; and don't let Har-
vey Carroll suppose ne is the only man
IL the world Hush! there they come
up the garden parh!''
s. Not here, cried Fanny.
Yes, here. Why shouldn't Miss ORR
ana vaunt her conquest here as well as
eisewhere?"
Ct won't see them, cried Fanny.
But you must. commanded Miss
Dale. do you want her to think you're
blighted blossom? Brush those big
drops off your eyelashes at once and
come INTO the parlor.'
And Fanny Forester decided that it
was best to obey her friends counsel.
Miss Drama Van Vels0r was tall,
briliiantly-complexioned young lady who
called herself five and twenty, who wore
her hair banged, and generally wore
white lace veil drawn tightly over the
face, after the most approved style.
Harvey Carroll, the handsome village
lawyer, was well-nigh infatuated by her
metropolitan airs and graces, to the
grief of little Fannie Forester, who, up
to this time, had been his favorite com
panion.
To lose the rich guerdon of Harvey
CAROLS love bowed our little country
girls heart to the very ground, and made
her think vaguely that 1t could not be SO
very wrong to commit suicide after all.
For Fanny had no mother, and the rec
tor, honest man, lived IN world of
books and manuscripts, from which he
emerged reluctantly, three times a day,
to eat his distracted meals.
Miss Van Yelsor giggled, firted her
fan, as Fanny Forester greeted her ID a
low voice, scarcely even glancing at Har-
vey Carroll.
You're going to the cutting party,
tomorrow. of course, Miss Forester
said She Fanny was about to say no;
but she caught Horatio Dales warning
eye, and changed her answer to:
8 Yes; | suppose SO.
eve are going," said Miss Van Vel
cor" Mr.. Carroll and l. He has de-
picted the delights of nutting party in
such vivid colors that I really am quite
anxious to participate in one. l do
hope it won't rain. +"
ooh, 1t won't rain, !" said Mr.. Car
roll.
8 don't think it will rain, Z" SAID Fan
ny, feeling she ought to say something.
9 And" Harvey added, "if you are
not provided with an escort, I am sure
Miss Van Velsor will be very glad to have
you JOIN our party.
Delighted" chimed in Oriana.
g thank you, . interposed Miss Dale,
before Fanny could reply; ''but Fan
ny is to GO with my brother Lemuel.
Now Lemuel Dale was an old bach
elor, regarded as the common property
of all the girls In town.
eyes, said Fanny. clutching at the
straw of escape, 81 am to go with Lem
uel Dale" And Harvey CarrolPs con-