New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-01-21


fields,
And then for snowballing, hurrah!,
From the German, in Good Cheer.
A SWEET APOLOGY.
II wish you wouldn't fdget so, Har-
ry. How do you expect we can get
these pictures arranged when you Jog
gle the table in that outrageous man
ner?'
"VTell, I'm sure, Nell,'' answered
the accused, deprecatingly, ''it's rather
rough on a fellow to be compelled to
sit the best part of an evening handing
the paste-pot and sorting fancy cards.
| thought you had outgrown that sort
of a thing when you put away your
school-books.
That shows all you know" was the
contemptuous rejoinder. GAS if these
albums were not all tn rage, and Alice,
SO good and thoughtful, bringing all
the newest and loveliest cards from
Paris. Why, my dear boy Qhis in a
tt umphant to q, my book will be a
long way the most beautiful one in
town"
Eyes, l know" muttered the young
man, with reprehensible lack of in
terest. "But you promised to let me
row you across Silver Lake this even
ing. The moonlight nights are nearly
gone and we haven't settled anything
yet, Nellie
Cant you talk before Alice? m sure
we needn't mind her."
Here I, being the Alice referred to,
hastily rose and offered to resign my
position as ''paster-in-chief.
mo, no" Nell exclaimed.
I'm going to get some more PASTE"
l answered
"Why don't you use mucilage?''
queried Mr.. Harry, in conciliatory tone,
res gning himself to the inevitable.
Because we haven't any, and they
are out OF it at the stationer's, so we
thought little homemade material
would do as well.''
''Oh, no, it won't" calculated Harry,
with alacrity. II wouldn't do any more
just now. It would be far better to
wait and finish your work with the
proper stuff: Come (this very plead
ingly), a little row will do you good,
and Miss Alice will perhaps join u.s.,
continued our hero, with suspicious
lack of warmth.
Gracefully declining the invitation,
watched the young lovers slowly
threading Mller's lane.
About an hour had elapsed and 1 was
comfortably doing my hair preparato-
ry to seeking my downy couch, when
Nell rushed in my room with blazing
color, and t1inging herself in chair,
exclaimed, Harry and have had such
a row.
'lndeed," replied, unmoved by a
statement whose recurrence could be
est mated as happening about once eve
ry twenty-four hours.
Yes said Nell, somewhat crushed
by my lack Of sympathy, '.and, Alice,
it was all about miserable box of bon
bons which Fred. Clarke, that clever
young lawyer, brought me from the
city. Harry said he wished l would
get over my childish love of sweets,
that it was ruinous to the digestion, to
say nothing of my lovely teeth. l told
him he only made my health an excuse,
that the truth OF the matter was jeal-
ousy. jealousy about poor Fred, and
he needn't think because he had just
taken his doctors diploma that he
could commence practice with me as
first patient. Well, you can readily un-
deE"tanss, dear, how one word led to
another, bHt wien Harry wound up in
his conceitcd way by declaring medi-
cine to be noble profession and law a
1espicable one, ! tell you l couldn't
stand it, and I informed his highness
that would never speak to him again
unless he made me an apology, and
what do you think? The wretch laughed
and walked off saying: oh, certainly,
Miss Nicolls, I'll make sweet apollo
gy,'' and with burst of tears sweet
Nell, who after all was little more than
a child, relasped into despair on a
macrame tidy, thereby reducing the
red ribbons to irrede mable dampness.
l with my five years seniority hardly
knew what consolation would prove
most efficacious in soothing indignant
seventeen.
1t was useless to indicate that it was
mere boy and girl spat about a stick
of candy, or that it was quite proper
for the incipient physician to object to
an undue indulgence in sweets, or to
hint at the Aattery which is always con-
Veyed by the demon of jealousy.
All these suggestions were received
with scorn from the indisputable fact
that Harry had made himself disagree
able ''from the first objecting to the
harmless amusement of making an
album - giving vent to sarcasms re-
garding the pictures, the paste and va
rious other things co nected with the
artistic employment.
"Nell, Nell!" yelled the musical
Tommy, as my cousins brother was
called. Here package for you. ;"
We were most comfortably disposed
on an old shawl, with books and work,
in the grove, just to the left OF the old
! fashioned farmhouse.
No reference had been made to the
last night, but my Nell had lost that
buoyan y o spirits which rendered us
all her willing subjects. Full of curl
osity we awaited the coming of the
dreadful boy, who burst uponus breath.
less but grinning, bearing aloft heavy
parcel about the size of large cocoa
nut.
He dropped it into her lap and
gasped: with Harry Blessings com.
!, pliments. The colored man brought
it, and he said there was no answer,
{ Hurry up; let's see what it is. I'll open
it. III cut the string. Here's aknife, :
volunteered the yoluble and obligine
Tommy.
The removal of sundry rolls of thick
brown paper disclosed to our gaze {
round glass jar, securely sealed, fillee
with some thick, golden fluid.
'.What can it beP" we exclaimed
simultaneously.
..What a lovely color" added Nell
There's no label on it. l wonde1
what" she paused and turned tn,
pretty Jar slowly. round and round.
"Why, you two gooses, = politely re
marked Tom. why it's honey, strained