Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-08-07

screaming ont its joyous note. Moreover,
in this still weather, the Unusual visitor
not unfrequnetly brought some other ele-
ment of surprise with him. She acquired
n considerable experience of the different
forms of foul hooking and of the odd ma
npuvres of fish in such circumstances. On
one occasion the salmon caught himself on
the minnow by his dorsal fin, and for
over an hour contented himself with roll
ing about under water without once
showing himself, and with such strain
that she thought he must he the cham
pon fish of the lake when at last they did
get him into the boat he was found to be
II tritie under ten pounds. But, taken
altogether, this cultivation of literature.
varied by an occasional tluke y of a cap
ture, and these placid and dream.like
mornings and afternoons, were far from
being as satisfactory as the former and
wilder days when Ronald was in the boat,
even with all their discomforts of wind
and rain and snow.
BY this time she had acquired another
grievance.
out a Single word - she would say, as
they sat over their books or newspapers in
the evening. lit was my only chance.
You could easily have introduced your
self to him by speaking of the shoot
ing
"You know very we'll Carry" he would
answer-tryng to draw her into the fields
or common SENSE can say nOthlnS
about that till see how mothers health
is"
81 am sure she would say yes if she saw
what the place has done for you, papa !;
salmon fishing has proved better for you
than bromide of potassium. But that 8
him goy Why did you let him spend the
evening at the doctors land the next
morning he went about the whole time
with Ronald My only chance of .spurn-
ing a lord. too, Do they kneel In this
country, papa, when they make their
declaration or is that only in plays 7
Never mind; it would be all the same.
No, my lord the daughter of free re-
public can not wed relic of feudalism
farewell. my lord farewell | know that
you are heart-broken for life; but the
daughter of free republic must be true
to her manifest destiny"
"Oh, be quietW
"And then the girls at home, when got
back, they would all have come crowding
around: DO tell, now, did you get q
What do you imagine / went to Europe
for 2 And you rejected him = You bet
your pile on that. Why you should have
seen him writhe and squirm on the tlool
when ! spurned him ! spurned him,
tell you | did-the daughter of a free re
public
"Will You be quiet
"But it was really too bad, papa ~ sh,
protested. "There he was lounging arount
all the morning. And all heard him say
was when he was just going-whcn h'
was on the mail-car, Ronald he calleC
, out, have Won got Il match about You p
! and he had wooden pipe i'll his hand
And that : all know about the manners
| and conversation of the British nobility
, and what will they say of me at homeY
"When does Ronald go - he woul'
: ask; and this, at least, was one sure wa.
= of bringing her back to the paths of SAM
/ ty and soberness; for the nearer that thi
a departure came, the more concerned sh
= was about it, having some faint conscious
! ness that she herself had n share of tn
n responsibility.
8 And in another direction, moreover, sh,
< was becoming a little anxious No mes
n sage of any kind had arrived from tn
; Chicago CitizCn. Now she had written t
{ Miss Kerfoot before she left for Paris; he
): stay i'm the French capital had extended /
;, nearly three weeks; there was the spac
:, occupied in going and returning; so tina
s if Jack Huysen meant to do anything wit
the verses it was about time that the
q should appear, And the more she though
# of it. the more she set her heart on it, an
d hoped that Ronald's introduction to tn
v reading public would he tlatterng on,
# and one of which he could reasonably b
d proud. Her father had 1t in his power t
q secure his material advancement, an
that was well enough; but what