The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-05-15
JUST AS SHE TOLD 1T.

What tine is ftp My-gra ciOus, wen
have half an hoar to wait, and I do
hate sitting round in a hotel with moth
ing to do.
Amt New Orleans an aw 'Ully funny
place. 1t can hold candle to Chi !
CaWgO. Some one told us TO visit the
French quarter; but, my goodness, it S
awfully shabby; and rs for the French I
Market, you get up at an uuearthly
hour in the morning, and the coffee
they have S iit TO poison you. | think
it's your duty to sec everything that's
10 be seen; so ! said to the chamber
maid, the other day. Where are your
handsome dwelling hOUsesP'
''Ah. out Prytania and St. Charles,
mum, there's Elegant fine mansions"
she said.
So we went, and would YOU believe
it?-they re all made OF rood Did you
everP Yes, this is a dread ullv queer
place. ! used to have sort of romantic
notions about tho South thought it
must be Just pcr-r feet. | thought,
don't you know, YOU wore white dresses
all winter and sat on piazzas in ham
mOcks, and that the Southern men were
were all dark, and tall, and very fiery;
and the darkics were 50 funny, and
sang. and played on baniOs; but. IRA
cious! they behave Just like every one
else; and as for white dresses, I've
never come so near freezing TO death in
all my life
Fred would say that's because l new
er read anything, nor listen to what
any ones saying. But that amt it at
all.
You'd Just die if you knew Fred.
He's the funniest bow Awfullv nice.
don't you know, only he will prose SO
about literature and culture. Oh! he's
too funny. Why, when he likes one
book by an author, he must rush right
of and read all the rest of EN-. He
read David Cop field did you ever read
David Cop'hcld? Well. I did, and |
declare | thought I'd be old and gray
before | got through; But I'd promised
Fred I d read it. Well then he read all
of Dickuns. Same way with Thack
ray. lie began Vanity Fair and Just
went crazy about Thack GRAY. Ever
read Vanity Fair? Amt it simply aw-
fulP ] Just struck. l told Fred / lust
wouldn't read it if ne never spoke to me
again.
Then that Becky Sharp, too. A girl
ut our school wrote a composition about
Becky Sharp. What did she say about
her? Mercy me. ! didn't listen 30 it.
Al l know is, it was about Becky
Sharp
Fred amt bit like me. Now when
| like one book by an author, l never
read another, because | think I'd be
sure not to like it half SO well, and then
I'd get TO hate the whole lot like
poison.
But YOU mustn't think Fred amt
nice. He's real hand ONE and fascinat-
ing; has biz brown eyes and the cutest
mustachc; only he tri be superior, and
it. SO fatguinr. Now what's the use
of being superior? Why can't YOU Just
bc happy and sensihle2
I've known Fred for per-r.fect ages
Why, he used to walk to school with
me, and carry my books. But that was
last year, for I've been out ever so
long.
We used to quarrel Ike cats. One
day he said to me; Marie Cassidy, do
You ever intend to DC anything but a
frivolous bUltcr1v2''
Frivolous fddlcstick's endr' said l..
and | spoke very severely, too. IF
you want superiority, Just visit mommer
seven evenings a week.
Mommcr's superior enough, gracious
knows. The way She goes in for gen
Cral Information is simply awful"
well, said he, IF you are coutent
TO remain"
Fred Delbort'' I said, lam a
griffin or n Cyclops?'
why. Of course not he said, open
ing those big eyes of his.
''Well, then, / amt n Cyclops, that S
settled, and pepper has lots of money
Just dead loads of it-so what do ]
want with superiority? I'm sorry YOU
find me 50 unattractive. There's De
Laucy Nithcrnwton, he SAYS my eyes
are like bits of heaven on earth, and
Fred got SO mad he regularly stamped.
Don't quote 10 me the inanc remarks
of an idiot he shouted.
Anyhow, | said. "hc likes me lust
rs l am, and he isn't always trrading
on my poor little pug"
II hate pugS," said Fred. "Thcy
always look as if they re making faces 9
Well, somehow or other We made up
again, ana l made him kiss Gigi, be.
cause he'd said such horrii things
about the poor little pet. Gigi's Just
killing-you ought TO See him.
Fred and 1 were sort of engaged
Not quite, though, because pepper said
Fred was young, and I was Young, anC
he didn want TO give up his little cir
Just yet awhile. That made me cry
and feel real badly, because I've never
been anything but the bother of hi:
life.
But Fred and I had serious row
once.
You sec, there was a girl staying Will
Mrs. Calvin, in our block; Panels
Stonehenge was her name, and she
came from somewhere East Some
people said she was so elegant and
charming, and talked about her class,
outline, but, OH my, She was so tai
and thin, and her nose was miles to,
long. | don't care what ANYBODY saws
il lCnS long.
She was dreadfuuy profound ant
heightened, and Fred began to fly
around her little. / didn't let on
cared a bit, because / wasn't going tC
set him up, but l Just iiirted awfully
with De Lancy.
Il was at Mrs. Jenifer's ball and D.
Lancv and / were sitting on the stairs
when l saw Fred and the classi,
Pamela skipping off to the conservatory
Amt men too heartless? was sure h,
must have something important to sa,
10 her, so l told DE Lancy / wanted {,
stroll about and look at the flowers
and. of course, he agreed. for he wa
nasbed-regularly mashed. l passct
as close to Fred and Pamela rs Icould
Tbev were talking in a low, carnes
+one and I heard something about ''
scbeme Of cosmic philosophy.