Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-04-02

This little creetur, | warrant you never
has been to school,.
'.Oh, yes. sir. Ny whole life has been
school. The old house where used
to live contains many books. If you
want them You may go there and gel
them. shall never go after them. ]
could never read them again.
''Well, blast my buttons if | don't
mosy up that way. | amt much of a
scholar, but | reckon / can worry
through with a lot Of them
CHAPTER III.
My mother welcomed Munette. and
when | related the sad story of how
found her, the sympathetic woman
| took the child in her arms and kissed
he-. A few days afterwards, when ]
| returned home after short absence,
she flashed upon me in a gay red dress.
| She was more of child than | had
ever seen more so than had thought
it possible for her to become. NV
mother was delighted to see her limo.
cent pranks, and |, for the first time
| kissed the child.
''You have kissed me at last,n she
said. rs it because | look better in
| this dresspn
ut is because you look more like q
child. Before, you reminded me sc
much of a woman.
.'Do not women like to be kissedpn
| laughed and my mother, shaking
| her head can see her gray hairs now
said: ..Ah. Ambrose, our Young
| girl has very old head.
We sent Munette to school. The
teacher, man who had the reputation
of being profound, met me one day and
| said:
Look here. Munette is the most re.
| markablc ch Id | ever saw. She has
read SO many books and makes me
| such wise observations that | am con.
stantly surprised. TO tell you the truth,
cannot advance her. Not that | am
not intellectually able -ahem- but ei
because | do not think that at her
age it would be safe. Therefore /
would advise you to take her from
| school. / know the effect that too
much learning has on youth. | know
how narrowly escaped"
When l spoke to Munette, she said.
That school is a very dull place. 1t is
a constant hum of arithmetic. | don't
like to cipher, as the children call it.
Fractions make my head ache and mis-
cellaneous examples make me sick. Let
me study at home.'
| took her from school, She was a
| devoted student, but was never SO abb
sorbed that she was obliyious to the
little attentions which woman of nv
mothers age prizes so highly. Munette
grew rapidly and was pleased to see
that she was daily becoming more
graceful.
CHAPTER III.
The war came on. How natural it
is, in writing story, to say 1.-The war
came on;' but this is not story, and
nothing can be more natural than
truth although it is said to be stranger
than fiction. Therefore, when | say
that the war came on, intend that the
declaration should have its full mean
ing. left home full of pride. was a
captain. My mother prayed; but Mu-
nette did not seem to be affected.
Good bye" she said. WAR is one OF
the incidents of civilization, as well as
feature of barbarity. | know that
you will do your duty, and that yoii
will not forget the little girl whom you
once saw sobbing under the hand of a
lying man. When you return, shall
be old enough to kiss YOU"
| looked at her in establishment.
Merriment sparkled in her eyes. "You
don't like to kiss children, it seems"
'.Munette, you are strange. once
said that | did not kiss you because you
looked like a woman.
''Oh, yes, that is true. l thought
that you did not want to kiss me be-
cause ! was So small. There now, cap.
tain, don't swell up like toad"
| turned away. She called me, when
l was about hundred yards away and
said: when you pass the big gate,
look on the right hand post.
l did so and found the words, 81 love
YOU Under this | wrote, ..Anl | love
YOU
| did not receive but one letter from
Munette, and that might just as well
have been written by q professor oil
| geology, for its four pages were de-
| voted to a description of lot of peb-
bles she had found in cave.
returned home ragged and i'll. Mu-
netts was delighted to see me. She was
so peculiar, though that could not tell
whether or not she still loved me. II
seemed that she did not, for whenever
l attempted to remind her of it, she
| changed the subject. Like all true
| lovers, l felt that without her my life
would be blank. l spoke to my
mother concerning my trouble.
"She Is very strange girl, but j al
| ways found her frank except when
asked her II she lbved YOU, and she re.
piled that the hawks had carried of
three of the dominicker hens chick
| ens.''
One day, in passing the big gate,
wrote on the post the following:
| ..Will you marry meP"
| Two days afterwards / visited the
| place and found the word "yes.
| Without further communication, ex-
cept to appoint the title by post" we
were married. did not find her dis.
position to be peculiar, only in the in.
tensity of her love for me. 'Why did
you treat me sop'' one day asked her.
1.-The dominicker has great deal Of
trouble with her chickens. she replied.
Shortly afterwards, when she thought
that | was not looking, she threw back
her head and laughed x Aftansau
| 1rareter.