The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1885-11-28
JACKS CIGARS.
How They Lost Him One Sweet.
heart and Won Him Another.

"Jack's coming home, Jacks coming
home, mother and Annie Houghton' s
plump, round face beamed with happi-
ness as she read the glad news to ner
mother from the letter she had just re-
ceived.
well, l declare,' was all the home
iy, kindly-faced matron could say as
she looked up from her knitting and
threw her hands up in that wholly in
describable manner so common to good
country folk when they can not lind
words to fit the emergency. In fact,
the old Lady was a bit frustrated as
she aftcrward said, BY the sudden news,
bu her face showed how good it was.
Well it might be. for she hadn't seen
her boy Jack since he graduated, "a
year ago last June as she had told
every neighbor in the village at least 4
dozen times. Her boy Jack had spent
the year before in grinding away at
medicine, cutting up dead folk and
SIGH up ter Boston, and then he had
taken a wcll-earned vacation in Europe.
Now he was coming home for Thanks
giving, and oh! how glad father and
mother were.
so Jacks coming home, is he;"
asked the young lady who had stopped
in the middle of a sonata, which she
was picking out at the piano when An
MES joyous proclamation was made.
This person emphasized Jacks namein
a semi-satirical manner, for she loved
dearly TO quiz her friend. and she knew
that nothing leased her more than to
poke fun at Chat brother of hers she
wa so proud Of. Many a night after
they had gone 10 bed in their pretty
room at Vassar-for you must know
they were room-Dates at school-she
had driven the flank and honest little
country girl almost to distraction by get
ting her to launch forth in Jacks
praise, and tnen %ridiculing him till
Annie got SO mad she wouldn't speak
to ''the hateful thing Then they
made it all up, but at last Gus Morton's
curiosity had been aroused, and she
was really rather glad she was going to
see this lord of all creation whose deeds
had been lauded to the skies, and whose
mi5deeds. boyish pranks, as they were,
had been condoned with all a sisters
wonderful powers of withdrawing.
There was one person in Squire
Houghton's house who really didn't
know whether to be pleased at the news
or not. She knew she ought to be, for
she had promised to marry Jack, but
Harry Turner had asked her to 90 to
ride with him Thanksgiving evening,
and he had such a fine horse and
sleigh! When Jack went away he told
her not to stay at home for his sake,
and Harry used to be so willing to 90
to prayer meeting with her and take
her to parties and sociables that she
really hadn't the heart to disobey Jack.
and she went. Now, Addie Houghton
was a very pretty girl--as they went in
the country. So Jack thought when
he fell madly in love with his cousin
that first summer when she came to
live with the squire after her mother
died. His vigorous courtship, pushed
with boyish eagerness, having the full
consent Of the 0 d people, who thought
a marriage into the fam ly would be the
best thing possible for the poor orphan.
soon ended in an engagement, which
was to last till Jack got settled in
practice somewhere.
So when Addic heard the news she
was surprised to find it didn't make
her very happy. Jacks letters of late
aboundGd in the sug~ar-eoated
adjectives he had rung the changes on
in the first days Of his absence at col
lege. And Harry Turner would be aw-
fully disappointed!
The day before Thanksgiving it
showed enough to make the sleighing
Squire Houghton killed the
calf and various other fatted ami
mails the original prod gal son was not
with. viz: the fatted turkey
and tho fatted duck and the fatted
Mother Houghton was up to
Ter arms all day in fat and dough and
nincsmeat 10 Morton looked on in
Interested and bewildered ignorance,
Annie helped her mother and di-