The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-06-12

| laughing and talking, and when they
put down their umbrellas saw some
thing that made me jump.
Fred has an umbrella with the funnl-
est head, an ebony skull with Rhine
| stone eyes that flash in the most life-like
way, and there that thing was winking
at me in tho gas-light across the street.
| was so mad | just cried-regularly
howled. To think that Fred would go
to see her first of ALL
Well, who should walk in bright and
early the next morning but Fred him
| self! He looked pale-with remorse, l
thought. But icebergs and polar bears
were nothing to me in the way of cold
ness
He began, Il wanted to see you first
thing, Marie"
"Indeed?" I interrupted. II feel
quite honored."
He turned very red, and then stared
at me. Then he said: what do you
mean? What are you talking about p
"Ohl of course you haven't TN idea, y
said; and as it went on from bad to
worse, until he just got UP and re-
marked; with the wost dreadful dignity:
"You seem I'd be accusing ME OF some
thing; but as You will not do ME the
justice to explain yourself, l will bid
you good-morning and good-by. Miss
Cassidy"
OF course I never meant him to get
ON his dignity, and when saw him go
ing l lad half d mind to run after linn
only was too proud. :.
Two or three days passed, but still
no sign nor symptom of Fred, Mommer
was getting ready to go to Chautauqua,
and the house was turned upside down,
and 1 was feeling distracted. At last l
just wrote him u few lines telling him
wished to explain something. l wait
ed all that day, and all the next, butno
answer came.
Then got desperate. l just decld-
ed life wasn't worth living, and I'd be
superior, and go in for sociology and
demonology, and all that sort OF thing.
SO [ told mommer [ was going to
Chautauaua with her, and she said she
was glad I had awakened at length to
sense of my own deficiencies; and we
started off,
1t amt any fun to travel with
mommer She always declares she's
suffocating, in the pullman, and she
thinks the trains running off the track
every few minutes, and drives the con-
ductors half crazy asking questions.
Then she's always dropping her eye
glasses and handbag and handkerchief.
l tell her it's like the French exercises.
"Ou est lie mouchoir de MA mere ?"
But that makes her hopping mad.
Chautauquas an awful bore, don't
you know a lot of old drones and mum
mics going about and pretending they
enjoy it so much. believe they really
hate it, only they think it looks nice to
be profound.
And then Palestine Park! Oh, my!
how those Eastern people can make
such guys of themselves, and dress in
bags chat haven't any hang, or fit, or
anything, I can't imagine. Mommer
would drag me about everywhere, to inn
prove my mind, she said. She has d
mania for measurements and calcula-
tons, and one day she was calculating
the dimensions of the Great Pyramid,
and I said, ''Lor-r-d, mommer! you
must have been evolved from
measuring worm" She didn't like it
one bit, but I think she ought to have
been glad [ knew how to apply my
knowledge.
/ was so broken-h hearted I took up
Hebrew, and it most blinded me. How
people could ever have talked in such
language!
Well, one day I was in the steamboat
on the lake, and was looking over my
account book. Pepper always makes
such point of my keeping accounts,
because he says it teaches me the value
of money, but no one ever knew the
value Of money better than [ do. had
Gigi with me, and it's awfully expen-
sive boarding with d dog and then the
servants are always So grasping! l de-:
clare they're just like those horrid
daughters Of the horse-leech that said;
Give! give!' though why the daugh-
tiers were a bit worse than the sons
never could see, only people are always
slandering women.
Somehow or other I never can get
my accounts exactly right. There were
four dollars I couldn't account for, SO
just put them down to charity" be-
cause "sundries" has such an unbusiness-
like look, though, to tell the truth,
I'd only given ten cents to an organ
grinder.
I was so hard at work I never noticed
that I'd been taken ever SO far past
where I ought to have got out, SO just
stepped at the next stopping place, and
waited for another boat to take me back.
It was quite pretty spot, with trees
and things, and sort of cave not far
off; and I sat and sat, and gazed at the
beauties of pature till was most starved.
All at once I heard noise behind ME;
and 1 looked around, and there was Fred
coming out of the cave!
I thought for a moment maybe re-
morse had driven him to retire from the
world and be hermit. Wouldn't that
have been romantic?
glanced at him very haughtily, but
he began right away: Miss Cassidy
oh, Marie don't let us make ourselves
miserable by keeping this up"
who's 1niserable?" [ inquired.
"Speak for yourself, Fred-I mean Mr.
Delbert."
A horrid, unfeeiing twinkle came in
to his eye, and he said, "Do you remem-
Der Miss Stonehenge?"
ooh, yes," said I, Jelly. "She' had
such long nose!"
"She has it still"
Don't jest on such subject, if you
please" said.
well, said Fred, 'sf admit that it is
a serious one. The point is that she
was married last week to Professor of
Sanskrit."
8" I suppose she's refused you,
said; land you've come to me to be con-
soled."
Then he said lot Of absurd things I
wont repeat: and I told him how I
thought he'd gone to see Pamela that
evening. It turned out that the poor
boy had come back sick with malarial
fever, and wasn't able to leave the
house; and Ned Parkinson had dropped
in and borrowed his umbrella.
'But that doesn't explain your not