Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-10-04

body took him away I'd die, and one
nigit when he did not come down on
the boat ] went down to the shore and
sat there IN the sand and cried as II my
heart would break. Children do some
of the most extraordinary things
and she laughed again. "A girl has
to have just SO much candy and senti-
ment Till she gets a surfciL DO you
remember any of the girls of two sum-
mcrs ago?"
"Do lP Every one Of them. There
were the Sandisons. had the blue cot
tage, and the big Mallhus--don't you
Know! you used to call her the NAL
tese-and the beautiful Chapman, who
crushed all the young and old men at
the West end; and the blonde Farm
harm, who got up Me picnic on that
Fourth of July, and fell into the water
while we were grabbing and was pulled
out by the artist Ruggles, who made a
sketch OF her in her wet clothes-as
Ariadne. DO remcmberp Can for
get Florence Berger, who swan like
nautilus and was courted all through
the season by Jack Wintcrbottom, or
how they swan out to sea to have their
trystp What's become of them ALP"
Married and settled"
"What. in two ycarsP"
'Oh, yes. Kate .Folger Is n widow.
You remember hcrp She had such
voice. She's in Brazil. railroads or
something. 1t isn't near as jolly here
as it used to be in the old times. DO
you think SOP"
Hardly. The sky isn't as blue, Is
itP The sea isn't rs bright. | was
noticing that but l didn't know it had
attracted your attention."
"Yes. Sometimes | have an idiotic
notion that I'd like to go down quietly
and dig in the sand again"
'Don't--there are skeletons buried
there"
81 know it. People think they are
bits OF shell. but they are bones. How
did you find it out?"
81 watched the married women"
She started a little.
Tell me-" / said, "about-"
mo names,' she said, quickly. II
know what you mean" Then. with a
woman's quick revulsion. she straight
ened up aud half sang, half spoke the
lines OF coarse popular song, as il
bit of rough frivol were the best de-
fense.
"Oh. he's all right"
.DeadP"
Nonsense. Alive and hearty"
And handsome as everp'
80, yes. He was at our last reoep-
ton in Gramercy park. We had real
good hour. talking over old times"
''Did you. indeed?'
'fes. We got into the conservatory,
and he commenced in the same old
way, poor boy"
"How indscreet"
80, no; we laughed at it all. it, 5 such
fun 10 go over ones follies. You know
how he rattles on. What a jolly lark
our Two summers were, he said, when
we strolled on that bank and swore
eternal love. How the sunset skies
grew into passion flowers of tropical
brightness for us. and the west famed
with celestial cities. And how rich we
were in golden hopes, and how conf
dent in constancy! DO you remember,
Dora-do you remember that day on
the NipicO river-alone do YOU remem-
Der my idiotic verscs?' Yes l said.
i can repeat every syllable and l
did. Let me see. this is the way it
went:
A breath of balsam,
A bunch of clover,
A murmur OF song where the brook fell down.
The clouds rolled by
And the birds sailed over,
And looked up and you looked down.
A clasp Of fingers,
a little fiuttcr,
big drop tell on my hand like pain.
You smiled IN your tears
AT the words ] would utter,
And laughngly said IL WAS only the rain.
A break of gold in the vines that Chamber
You said the sweet words that made you
mine:
And the sun came out with fiagon of amber
And drenched the world with celestial wine.
80, it was too ridiculous, and we
both laughed there in the conservatory
like children again. You'll pardon me
for laughing ut it now, will you nolP
These things have their humorous
side"
II will. indeed" said; "but the sea
mist is too heavy here; 1t is trickling
down your face. Let us go back
Yes; my husband is waiting for
me-"
"Do you admire comic poetry3" l
asked, as she got up.
"Passionately."
Then let me quote the hackneyed
lines OF that great humorist. Tennyson,
SO that we can part with joke"
what linesp'
The tender grace OF a day that is dead
win never come back to me.
80 yes, it will" she said. Get
married and stop digging in the sand"
-Nym Crinkke. IN Ne.0 York World.