Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1885-04-02
Miss ScallaI,er.

with an old gentleman, who registered
the pair as IS. Scamper and gran'
daughter, New York City They
We're doubtless poor folks on a holl
day. They had no servants with them
The old man wore a suit of rather rusty
black, and his trunk, an antique Ieath
ern convenlcncy, bore the letters S. s.
in brass headed nails. The young
w0man's trunk-she had but onc-waS
large enough. and Of modern make but
it was apparently not well filled, since
she had shown but three dresses all the
three weeks she had remained. One
Of these, Of rich mlterial, she wore OF
evenings; the other two, Of some wash
able material. wrr Worn alternately in
day time. She had 10 jewelry beyond
Il plain gold brooch. One of the eligi-
! bic young men there sad the >.amp-
cr has one Sunday go-to moelln and
two work day suits for which his
neighbor should have kicked him, bur
didn't. The eligible Young man was
looking for Az, eligible mate in the per
scn Of Miss Bolsover, the great heircss,
whom the society paper had said was
coming to the Ra?paqHah though, as
she hadn't come, the Browns young
man Of the society paper labored un-
der Il dclusion The matchmaking
lowagcrs did not fear this modest, pref
ty, anG well ll-cuIturca young woman for
the giluci youth, who were also lying
in wait Tor Miss Bolsover, much more
glllel, did not danglc in her ,rair,--
Indeed, she had no train Her bust
ryss WAS to look after her poor old
grandfather, who was not III s. od
health, and with whom the waters
seemed to agree Ddymus Dodd, who
h,l scrape1 an acquaintance with old
>carnper, As tie fellows ilreyrrentIr
called him, seeme.( t, be her ain'ror.
but Didvluus WAS nobody. he Wa
wei! made, tail, hands ,,nc, and Of good
address; but he was only AN upper
clerk in Il Philadelphia insurance coul-
pany. To be sure, he would BE- super
in,cndent after January, vice Higgins,
retired and superannuated, and would
then draw a salary of five thousand a
year. Bat no Que knew that, and the
possible COOL fortune to poor Mis-
$ aupcr: and had they known, five
thousand year was 70 great matter
50 the field was left to Miss Scaml /
and eelccz4c.
Didy.nus ONLY began paving atten-
ton, to Miss Scamper out Of courtesy
and because no one else did; but the
more he saw Of her the more he liked |
her; and it ended in his being badly
hit. As he and she were the only i'm
pecuniouS people at the old and old
fashioned resort-the other visitor,
counting Their dollars we'll up in the
hundred thousands-thc matter at
tractcl attention, amt by way Of get
ting both out of the WAY Of murriaee-
able sons and daughters, schemine
mothers lent the affair all the auipi
encouragement possible And this pass
ed into a more active nature from two
little incidents that occurred about l. Il
DAYS before the end Of the two months
vacation OF D.dylnus.
There was Mrs. De Nyse at tho .
Sprin.s, who was we'll known as an
amateur vocalist of merit and whose {.
vo;cs tbouah . little reedv N tho nm
nor nofes b,l loon tr,;nnl ca wou ..
- r,Lo bo. r.ortb hoor;na a.,
eveu;pg wien few wore IN tho nar
lore hor friends heeorght her to f,vo,
then ord 60 on and slo ax,rassol bo
r.~,l;ro,s h,t tbora b.,,nona3 ~ ho =,
ooooon,,;st Miss &. ',,,.r 1o,l,a1
mn ,nl oo;et]v sil "pcrh.ns 90,
1.,.~ ~, ~, '.. ,, ~
~ ~ " '' wy " 40.