Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1885-02-26
A SWEET APOLOGY.

81 wish you wouldn't fdget so,
Harry. How do You expect we can
get the pictures arranged when you
joggle the table in that outrageous
mannerP"
"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
the contcmptuous rejoinder. "As if
these albums were not all the rage,
and Alice, so good and thoughtfuL,
bringing all the newest and lovcliest
cards from Paris. Why, my dear boy
(this in triumphant tonc,) my book
will be a long way the most beautiful
one in town"
YES. know muttered the young
man, with Il reprchensible lack Of in
tcrcst. "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 tall; before AliccP 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-chief." "
'I\n no Nall pNrlnimnI
Tm going get some more paste, -
lanswcrcd.
"Why don't you use mucilagePn
qucried Harry, in conciliatory tone,
rcsigning 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 rs wGll.'
"Oh, no, it won't" calculated
Harry, with alacrty. Il 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
plcadinglO. Il little row will do you
good aud Miss Alice will perhaps join
us" continued our hero, with suspI-
cious lack of warmth.
Gracefully declining the invitation,
watched the young lovers slowly
trcading Millcr's lane.
"About an hour had elapsed, and |
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 linging herself on chair, ex-
claimed, Harry and have had such
a row.
"lndeed, | replied, unmovcd by a
statement whose recurrence could be
estimated as happening about once
every twcnty-four hours.
Yes said Nell, somewhat crushed
by my lack Of sympathy, "and, Allie,
ii was all about miserable box of
bonbons which Fred. Clarke, that
clever young lawyer, brought me from
the city. Harry said he wished |
would get over my childish love of
sweets, that it was ruinous to the di-
gcstion, to say nothing of my lovely
teeth. told him he only made my
lite an excuse, that the truth of the
matter was jealousy. Jealousy about
poor Fred, and he needn't think be-
cause he Lad Just taken his doctors
diploma that he could commence prac-
ticc 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 cOnceitcd way
by declaring medicine to be n noble
profession and law dcspicablo one,
tell you couldn't stand it, and in
formed His Highncss that | would
never speak to him again unless he
made me IN apology, and what do you
think? The wretch laughed and
walked off. saying: oh, certainly,
Miss Ncolls, I'll make sweet apol-
ogy, and with n burst of tears sweet
Nell, who after all was little more
than child, relapsed into despair on
n macrame tidy, thereby reducing the
red ribbons to irrcdeemablc dampness.
/, with my five years seniority, hardly
knew what consolation would prove
most cilicacious in soothing indignant
seventeen.
1t was useless to indicate that it was
mere boy and girl spat about stick
of candy, or that it was quite proper
for an incipient physician to object to
an undue indulgence in sweets, or to
hint at the ilattery 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'
greeablc "from the first, objecting tc
the harmless amusement of "making
an album giving vent to sarcasms
regarding the pictures, the paste and
various other things connected will
the artistic employment.
"Nell! Nellr' yelled the musical
Tommy, as my cousins brother was
called. "Hcre's package for you.
We were most comfortably disposed
on an old shawl, with books and work
in the grove, just to the left OF the old
fashioned farmhouse.
No reference had been made to the
last r'~", n my Nell had lost that
buoyuL, oi spirits which rendered u
all her willing subjects, Full of curl
osity we awaited the coming of th,
dreadful boy, who burst upon III
breathless but grinning, bearing alof
heavy parcel about the size of a larg'
cocoanut.
He dropped it into her lap ant
! gaspod: with Harry Blessings's com
/ pliments. The colored man brough
It, and he said there was no answer
Hurry up; let's see what it is. III
open it. I'll cut the string. Here's
knife" volunteered the voluble anc
. obliging Tommy,
5 The removal of sundry rolls of TN
thick brown paper disclosed to on
/ gaze II round glass jar, securely sealed
, filled with some thick, golden fluid.
"Wliat can 1t be we exclaimed sim
> ultaneously.
"What a lovely COLOR" added Nell