Little Falls transcript., 1885-04-24
A SWEET APOLOGY.

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Harry. How do you expect we ca,
get the pictures arranged when 20,
1oggh the table in that outrageou
mannerp" .l.. 49, .sr>-t7
Well I'm sure, Nell" answered
the accused, deprecatingly, "it's
rather rough on a fellow to be com
PEELED to sit the best part of an even
Ing handing the paste pot and sorting
FANCY cards. thought you had out
grown that sort OF thing when you put
away your school books"
"That shows all you know,' was
tho contemptuous rejoinder. "As il
these albums We're not all the rage,
and Alice, SO good and thoughtful,
bringing all the newest and loveliesi
cards from Paris. Why, my dear boy
[this in triumphant tone,) my book
will be long way the most beautiful
one in town."
Eyes, 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 Alicep I'm
sure we needn't mind her."
Here /, being the Alice referred to.
hastily rose and offered to resign my
position as paster-in-c Chief
"No, no. Nell exclaimed.
"l'm going oget some more paste, :"
lanswered.
"Why don't you use mucilagep"
qucried Harry, in conciliatory tone,
resigning 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 we'll"
''Oh, no, it WON'T" calculated
barry, with alacrity. II wouldn't do
any more just now. 1t would be far
better to wait and finish your work
with the proper stuff. Come (this very
pleadingly). little row will do you
good and Miss Alice will perhaps join
u.s. continued our hero, with suspl-
oious lack Of warmth.
Gracefully declining the invitation,
I watched the young lovers slowly
treading Miller's lane.
''About an hour had elapsed, and I
was comfortably doing my hair pre-
paratory to seeking my downy couch.
when Nell rushed in my room with
blazing eyes and heightened color,
and tlinging herself on chair, ex-
claimed, ''Harry and have had such
arow,"
'Indeed,' I replied, unmoved by a
statement whose recurrence could be
estimated as happening about once
every twenty-four hours.
YES said Nell, somewhat crushed
by my lack Of sympathy, 'and, Allie,
1t was all about a miserable box of
bonbons which Fred. Clarke. that
clever young lawyer, brought me from
the city. Harry said he wished I
would get over my childish love of
sweets, that it was ruinous to the di-
gestion, to say nothing OF. my lovely
teeth. told him he only made; my
life an excuse, that the truth of the
matter was jealousy, Jealousy about
poor Fred, and he needn't think be-
cause he bad just taken his doctor 3
diploma that he could commence prac-
tice with me as his first patient. Well
you can readily understand, dear, how
one word led to another, but when
Harry wound up in his conceited way
by declaring medicine to be a noble
profession and law a despicable one, I
tell you cou]dn't stand it. and I in
formed His Highness that I would
never speak to him again unless he
made me an apology, and what do you
thinkp The wretch laughed and
walked off,, saying: Oh, certainly,
Miss Nicolls, III make sweet apol~
ogy," and with burst OF tears sweet
Nell, who after all was little more
chan child, relapsed into despair on
a macrame tidy, thereby reducing the
red ribbons to irredeemable dampness.
+. with my five years seniority; hardly
knew what consolation would prove
most ef1icacious in soothing Indignant
seventeen. tI "3. <' -.
1t was useless to indicate that it was
q mere boy and girl spat about q stick
of candy, or thai it was quite proper
for an incipient physician to object to
an undue indulgence in sweets, or to
hint at the flattery which is always
conveyed by the demon of jealousy.
All these suggestions were received
with scorn, from the indisputable fact
that Harry had made himself disa-
greeab]e s'from the first" objecting to
5 the harmless amusement of. 'smaking
an album, giving vent to sarcasms
regarding the pictures, the paste and
various other things connected with
u the artistic employment.
a .'NeH! Nell?' yelled the musical
Tommy, as nv cousins brother was