Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-21
A MIDSUM INNER NIGHT DREAM.


RECORD MON.
1t was on a sultry day in the month Of
August was sitting in the reading-reom
adjoining the concert hall of the watering
place of Reinerz, and was turning over the
leaves of divers journals without finding
anything to rouse any interest. Some blue
bottle flies were buzzing at the window,
and District Attorney Hersford, opposite
me, was doing the same.
"Unbearable heat, that Berlin papers
old, of yesterday Even in the File
geade Bloetter nothing really piquant
ConfoundedIy stupid place this" such his
impatient mutterings.
And from the window-panes echoed the
monotonous "buzz-z-z-z'' Of the flies.
ooh, if l had but known how dull it is
here / might have done something better
with my precious leave of absence p he
continued to growl
4" But you must concede the charm of the
surrounding country" spoke up a mild
voice from the farther corner of the room,
and for moment the highly sandy -colored
head of hair of the speaker, District Judge
Won Holtfeuer, popped up from behind one
of the leather-covered arm-chairs there.
Let me alone with your charms of
country" replied the District Attorney !;
"your country | can neither eat, nor drink,
nor talk to, and, with this blessed temper
AZURE of 1902 Fahrenheit, | can't even go
and look at it, but must stay in the room,
for fear of shriveling outside like a bit of
dried apple"
You are the incarnation of crassest
prose-" rejoined the Judge; but these
heavenly hours of the early morn, here in
the woods, and these evenings equally di-
vinel Is there anything more beautiful
in the world? And now, commencing
with tomorrow might've shall enjoy sweet
luna in her full"
Yes, yes that's all very fine for one
who, like you, is making poetry" said the
District Attorney as a parting shot, and
then turned to me- "What is your opin-
ion in thism matter, dear Baron? Am ! not
right in calling Reinerz an abom.nably
dull watering place? You know, to share
each others troubles is like halving them"
I merely laughed, and said that would
gladly help him bear the load, and invited
him to have game Of chess. While we
were arranging the chessmen, the Judge
inquired if we intended going to the dance
tonight.
Not l." promptly interposed the Dis
trict Attorney. Thirty ladies and only
ten gentlemen That's truly edifying
proportion for dancing party. Who there
begins to sacrifice himself will end nquick
consumption. This place seems to be the
free rendezvous of all the women from
your surrounding charming country"
"The pretty and interesting ones ex-
cepted' i added.
Yes; you are right" strongly assented
the District Attorney.
"Then, won't 90 the ball, either" de-
cided the Judge.
That's right. You had better compose
a sonnet or two on to-morrow's moon in
full-orbed glory"
Which sonnet | will dedicate to your
For want of the still undiscovered
ideal You must know, dear Baron, that
Holtfeuer is on the eternal lookout for his
ideal On est Ia femme? is his watchword,
to which question Reinerz has made no
reply as yet"
"Well, | must confess that ] side with
the Judge. Pleasant lady acquaintance
are certainly needed to make the stay in
the country at all agreeable"
Thanks, dear Baron; exactly my opin-
ion !" exclaimed the Judge delighted but
the District Attorney added:
That's very WELL provided your lady
acquaintance is not of the humdrum sort.
Last year, at Wiesbaden, by thunder there
were couple of women that | call women.
But here for PHYS sake, this kind of fam
ily chit-chat they indulge in-of that |
have enough at home. Show me single
woman here from whose very eyes even did
not speak the most ridiculous common
placeness. What is the use, then, in max
ing their acquaintance at all j. white
moves first, dear Baron"
We commenced our game, and the
Judges head dropped again behind the
back of his armchair.
But after while he emerged from his
corner, took his stand by the side of the DIS
trict Attorney and began to criticise his play,
till the two gentlemen were having Jolly
little row. Then, and not till then, were
they in their proper element; for no mat
ter what conversation they ever engaged
in, it always developed the peculiarly TO
lead to the assertion of their widely differ
ing views. They never were of like opin-
ion they always wrangIed, vet were they
inseparable friends. Their discussion,
however, had greatly protraeted our game.
II was about o'clock in the afternoon
when the play was at last decided in favor
of my two bellicose opponents. The
Judge was taking my seat, while went to
interview the nymph of the spring in the
woods, to imbibe, in duty bound, my dose
of the abominabIy-tasting waters.
The grand promenade was rather de-
serted. Some of the visitors, more con-
scientious than myself, had already called
at the regulation hour for the prescribed
allowance of nectar; Others, owing to the
excessive heat of the day, were playing
truant altogether. | strolled along in the
more shady paths of the woods, till, on
little elevation, | reached a spot which ]
had on former rambles discovered beau
tifnl spot, but rarely frequented by the
visitors. The spacious stump of tree
offered there Il comfortable seat, and
spring emerging from the rocks dispensed
refreshing GOODNESS, double grateful on
day like this. Deep stiffness round about,
intensified by the chirp of the cricksts in
the grass and the occasional note of
songster in the branches Of the stately
trees. took up book, recommended
10 me as interesting reading; but
NV eyes wandered from its pages
S,rtb into the world of green, following
,he fiuttering butterflies and the busy, buzz
ling bees, till lost from my sight in the
haze Of the woods. The solitude of the
forest always puts me in kind of reyerie.
I am pretty sure they were hardly dear,