The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-08-13
VOL. III.
From, Real Life.
BY ANNIE LAURIE BuRK.

By ANNIE LAURIE BURK.
"Capitola Wan6eld. BY Jovelno
homeIy name, Are you lending me
your ears, Rose? Here is the picture
it brings before'me: large, sweet, gray
eyes, a rosebud mouth, asensible face
and
b" A faultless disposition, of course,
William. Don't go TO dreaming,
please, You haven't time. There is
a whole field to be plowed to-day and
you know one cannot work and
dream"
"Plague the fieldW William NUT
tered, as he arose from the chair where
he had carelesly thrown himself after
coming in from his work. He caught
up his sisters letter and, glancing at
her in a provoking manner, touched
the daintily penned pages with his
lips as he placed it in his pocket and
with gay laugh ran from the room.
Rose Burton put aside her work,
with a frown, went to the window and
threw open the blind angrily, What
should she meet but Williams merry
brown eyes as held up the bit OF stolen
property! Then came a brilliant
snatch of song that caused Rose to
turn aside and place, her hands over
her ears.
"And for bonnie Capitola
I'd lay me down and die"
What was it-a nightingale or a
COW, loose from the pasture, gently
{: lowing? Alas Twas only William
vainly endeavoring to recall to mind
that sweet, ever fresh, old air "Annie
Laurie"
Rose Burton was eight and twenty
and avery quick, energetic girl who
ii hsheundertook,t make dress from
a pairof pants, would certainly ac-
complish it, ere she ceased from hei
efforts. William was seven years hei
Junior and as contrary in disposition
as one could well be. 1t followed, as q
matter OF course, that domestic felici
ty was not always unalloyed. There
were only the three children and, the
mother being dead, it devolved upor
Rose to assume her position which she
did,to the best of her ability. The
consequence was the two boys adore(
her.
And now William had gotten some
/. nonsense into his head. Only a shor
year ago he was mere boy. Now
It could be! it should not bel Sh'
was not wiling just then for sweet
girlish, angelic sister-in-law to breal
Upon the calm Of their domestic peace
!. Love was the last thought in Rose
mind, not the frsts only, and indeed
= the ruling one. There were severa
young men who would have givei
their heads for her. They were saveC
that unnecessary performance, how
everS for she gave them no encourage
niehtt whatever.
So time, ever rapid, passed on an,
William was now his own man.
On this particular evening ne ha
come in from his work, flushed and ia
tigned and, if anything, more provok
ing than ever, to- Rose, who was equal
sly flushed over the bread. He fir
sished washing his hands and hung IL
!, the towel, careful to place it precisel
upon The point Of the nail or-he we
knew the Now, William, do look
< Z that would follow. aaa .i tot
\ " r. tllllS ! shall run down to Crane
I mas this evening, Rose" he said. a
\ heeIeared is'throats MlI
~ "Wellp she almost snapped, turr
ing the bread out ofthe pan.
TRathera sudden notion, isn't it,
|, s@Well4-RotjIst precisely; Eve bee
II scsatsmplating it alyeais'' he said d,
murely,placing his hands in his pocl
cts. "Grandmay" a sweet, old lady {
whose house he had boarded when &,
a. M Nsat