Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-15
A SWEET APOLOGY.

these pictures arranged when you Jog.
gle the table in that outrageous man
ner?"
well, I'm sure. Nell" answered
the accused, deprecatingly, ''it's rather
rough on fellow 10 be compelled to
sit the best part of IN evening handing
the paste-pot and sorting fancy cards.
thought you had outgrown that sort
of thing when YOU put away your
school-books.
.contemptuous reioinder. LAS if these
albums were not all tn rage, and Alice,
so good and thoughtful. bringing all
the newest and loyeliest cards from
Paris. Why, my dear boy (this in q
Triumphant tore, my book will be a
long way the most beautiful one in
town"
"Yes. know" muttered the young
man, with reprehensible lack of in
tercst. "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 talk before Alice? 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. A."
mo, nc" Nell exclaimed
I'm going to get some more PASTE"
/ answered
'Why don't you use mucilageP"
queried Mr.. Harry, in conciliatory tone,
resgning himself to the inevitable.
Because we haven't any, and they
are out of it at the stationer's, so we
thought a little homemade material
would do as well"
''Oh, no, it won't" calculated Harry,
with alacrity. II 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 plead
ingly), little row will do you good.
and Miss Alice will perhaps join us,
continued our hero, with a suspicious
lack of warmth.
Gracefully declining the invitation,
watched the young lovers slowly
threading Miller's lane.
About an hour had elapsed and / was
comfortably doing my hair preparato-
~ to seeking my downy couch, when
Nell rushed in my room with blazing
color, and flinging herself in a chair,
exclaimed, Harry and have had such
Il row."
Indeed l replied, unmoved by
statement whose recurrence could be
est mated as happening about once eve
~ twcnty-four hours.
YES" said Nell, somewhat crushed
~ my lack Of sympathy, land, Alice,
il was all about a miserable box of bon
bons which Fred. Clarke, that clever
young lawyer, brought me from the
city. Harry said he wished i would
that it was ruinous TO the digestion, to
say nothing of my lovely teeth. i told
him he only made my health an excuse,
that the truth of the matter was jeal-
ousy. Jealousy about poor Fred, and
he needn't think because he had Just
taken his doctors diploma that he
could commence practice with me as
first patient. Well, you can readily UNI
derstand. dear, how one word led to
another. but when Harry wound up in
his conceited way by declaring medi-
enc to be noble profession and law
dcspicable one, tell you | couldn't
stand it, and / informed his highness
that would never speak to him again
unless he made me an apology, and
what do you thinkp The wretch laughed
and walked off saying: oh, certainly,
Miss Nicolls, I'll make a sweet apollo
gy,'" and with burst of tears sweet
Nell, who after all was little more than
achild, relasped into despair on
macrame tidy, thereby reducing the
81 Il. % 10, ii do
lwith my five years seniority hardly
knew what consolation would prove
most efficaciot,s in soothing indignant
seventeen.
II was useless to indicate that it was
mere boy and girl spat about n stick
of candy, or that it was quite proper
for the incipient physician to object to
an undue indulgence in sweets, or TO
hint at the fattery which is always con-
veyed by the demon of jealousy.
All these suggestions were received
with scorn from the indisputable fact
that Harry had made himself disagree
able from the first" Directing to the
harmless amusement OF "making an
altum," giving vent 10 sarcasms re-
garding the pictures, the paste and va
rious other things connected with the
artistic employment.
Nell, Nell!' yelled the musical
Tommy, as my cousins brother was
called. Here q 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 night, but my Nell had lost that
buoyancy of spirits which rendered us
all her willing subjects. Full Of Curl
osity we awaited the coming Of the
dreadful boy, who burst upon us breath
less but grinning, bearing aloft heavy
parcel about the size of large cocoa
nut.
He dropped it into her lap and
gasped: with Harry Blessings COM
pliments. The colored man brought
Il, and he said there was no answer.
Hurry up; let's see what 1t is. I'll open
it. I'll cut the string. Here's aknife,"
volunteered the voluble and obliging
Tommy.
The removal of sundry rolls Of thick
brown paper disclosed to our gaze
round glass Jar. securely sealed, filled
with some thick, golden fluid.
"What can 1t bep" we exclaimed
simultaneously.
"What a lovely color" added Nell.
There's no label on it. / wonder
what" shc paused and turned the
pretty jar slowly round and round.
"Why. you two gooses," politely re-
marked Tom. "Why, it's honey, strained