The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-10-02
DR TRIMS ROMANCE.
From the New. Orleans Times Democrat

it as an impertine !. Mrs. Talbot
laid her baby across her lap face down
I and jolted il gently st; the same time
pattipg persuasively It's exceeding limp
back. Positiyeiy an imp a ttinence,'
{ she went On SIT s as much as 20 shy,
You are 80 expert in this sort Of thing
and have married of # your own CHI dren5
SO well d pray he'll me out with mine
Really, mamma, i'll an insult. Ishould
write Aunt Trim rim 8 very sharp letter il
were s. your place. &
Mrs. Fargo did not 4reply She sat
tapping her gold pectacles lightly.
against the. q pen page Of the letter she:
had been sreading, while hersb blue eyes
wand ered abstracte eddy over the vide
" feldssot blooming cotton that stretched;
Il away beyond the gard fence.
The impu tation her dan ghter limited at
4 50 resent fully did not disturb her in
the least. i she had maneuve1ed q
little to secure adyantage ous settle.
ments for her children, and abe would
I not have denied that she had, her
maneuyers had been 90, successful that
\ she had nothing to regret. Certainly
Z Ella Table had no REASON to complain;
She5had aSlsind, indnlgent husband, q
beautiful home and q baby which,
though still too yonng to excite much
4: enthusia SIN on the part sof d novice in
infants, was pronounced ~ its grand
mother q remarkably fine child.
Her other daughter and her two sons
were equal well proyid ed for and Mrs.
Fargo NIGH reason abl have considered
herself entitled u rest from her her
M 1abors.
The mail. however, had Just brought
her q plaintive entreaty from her sister,
Mrs. Trim, that she would lend her aid
il marrying of her son Albert . bachelor
$sof 35, who seemed bent upons remaining
single. He was o home opatllic physi.
clan in good practice, and well enough
inTapp earance; indeed some Of his more
enthusiastic lady patients maintained
that he was decidedly hand some and Of
very kind and anniable dispo sition,.
one Of the women here seem to please
hin, 4 wrote his nj ther, sIIt has oc-
curred ONE that one from the country
might snit him !. Do look for q sensible
8woman 81 suitable age, and domestic
habits; ana possessing other desirable
agalitteat Ei',l. q which yon are g
was probably the other aualifi- ],
cations clause that gave 30 much Of
tense to El LID, iii having been charged
that for the sake Of advantage covered
by this ambiguous euphemism abe
had Tilted q younger and poorer guitor,
to accept the wealthy but elderly Mr.
.Talhot s5
really believe Amelia Pnllyn would
do, nsaid Mrs. Fargo at last, looking at
her daugh liter as Scalmly as she had COM
templated the otton fields. :E57
Mammal yon are actually thinking
Why not I see nothing unreaaon-
I able in thinking about the; hap Of
Amy own nephew and the comfort Of my
sister. you will let me have the cara
riage this aftern Don, Ella, TIL drive over
Y and see Amelia Y,
ANNA ,I protest T. exclaimed Ella,
Shaking the baby mp SO violently as to
\ elicit q sqneal Of remonstrance Be
sides, Amelia would e thank him. You
know she is determined never to marry.
again. B
Nlonsense l!s returned Mrs. Fargo.
with her good natnred laug (. You S,i'
think, because she refused John, she
is immoYably fixed in her resolve Don't;
holt the child 90, Ella, He is quite red
in the face
Mrs abbot promptly reversed the
baby, who now beg an to protest sd
yiolently against His moi Tiers treatment.
y that she called the nurse TO, remove
him. Fl
Ohm being her own husband, the al!
fusion was not reenbl e. IT was true.
that the episode had occurred before
she made M. bots acquain lance,
but few women have the nagnanimity
/ to forgive the superior discrimination
of an antecedent rival s;
I'm sure John has reason to cons
gratulats himself atS all events, she.
Eaidsa little sharply Amelia's drawl
and her melanc holy combined would,
drive man wild; Besides, IL is said.
4 she has conaump tion, 4
Gohsnm ption,, 3 repaateda frs. Fargo,
n iangh again y She looks like ii,
Il and Eassfor her melancholJ you don't
Asuppose that ID inchrab Bile, do Won ~ 3s
q don't thinl ihert Trim Is the man