The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-01-30
| lines of Sophonisba AIMS figure before

comic journal, and S~OpnOnlSOa Ann, rs
she now stood, was the very model L
wanted for one of them. The opportunity
was too good to be lost. | seized paper
and pencil.
Zone moment, my good grill" I cried.
Stay as you are; oblige me by not
moving"
OF course she did not stay "as she
was" but nearly enough so to enable
me to throw on paper the outline which
had caught my fancy.
"Thanks-that will do" [ said as
hlandly as [ could.
She simpered and actully forgot to
sniA1e.
LA, sir! whatever could you take
me like this for?" she cried at last. If
I'd only been in my afternoon frcck, at
least, and done my hair up a bit tidy
if you had told me; but la! now"
Don't name it," | said; I'D rather
not, IN fact, I wanted you just as you
are"
The next evening Mrs. Maudle came
up a smiling-yes, actually smiling!-
with a cheerful serenity, if not a little
excitement in her d]emeanor, as she
placed before me a Photographic. like
ness of Sophronisba Ann.
(Which Maudle and me, sir, couldn't
hear of your putin up with such a
sketch like, all of a hurry; and being
as our girl wasn't tidied up, as she'd a
wished, in course, so SOphronisba AIMS
been and had this took at Mr.. D~aubley's
round the corner, if you'll accept it;
and I'm sure a good hearted, well-dis.
posed guri is my girl, though [ say it,
and not took up with fOllies like some,
and that ste adv, almost too steady for
her station in life, as her father tells
her; and I'm sure both her father and
me-but there, sir, when you're a par
ent you'll know what a parents feelin's
are"
All this was said in one breath, with
ont any pause whatever. | sat Devil
dered, wondering if it would be unpar-
donably rude to reject the offer of a
hays portrait, and what | could say in
excuse
I'm afraid,'I began, you're very
kind-the fact isl think l didn't make
myself quite understood"
ooh, yes, sir, you did. Pray don't
name it. You was all a gentleman
should be; and Maudle and me are
proud"-here Mrs. Maudle, without
proceeding further, conveyed herself
down stairs in q tremulous condition
between tears and smiles that fairly
stunned me. What could the stupid
people think WANTED with their daugh-
ter's likeness? [ stuck it on the man
telpiece Git was not q very fiattering
photograph resolving to take no more
notice of the thing; but next time Miss
Maudle came up | observed she wore a
flaming red ribon in her hair and an as
sertive brooch in the front of her dress.
She stole furtive chances at the mantel-
piece, half shy, half slmpering. /
caught her eye by chance, when, over
coming her maidenly modesty, with a
preliminary s~nifie, she said, sweetly:
"Oh, if you please, sir, about walkin'
out on Sundays after chapel; for
mothers quite agreeable, bein' as
you're such a gentleman and"-
what do you mean ?" / said, sharply
enough, and quite forgetting the "ten-
der heartedness' of ~Sophonisba Ann in
the excess of my bewilderment; but, in
stead of answering me, that young per-
son flew to the window, crying: eff
there isn't that man a-crossing the street
again. OH whatever1l father do?
But Gin is at the door, and You'll pro-
tect poor father, / know" and she
rushed downstairs without further ex-
PLANTATION.
Another minute and rapid and it
nust be added, stumbling footsteps be-
ga ascending the stairs, accompanied
by the cries of Sophonisba Ann and the
fainter sobs of her mother in the rear,
and Mr.. Maudle entered, supported by
his son and closely followed by a rough
and-ready-looking person with a paper
in his hand.
Istared.
Mr.. Maudle waved his hand.
"I-I-My dear friend-sir -'scuse-
abrupt visits" he cried, in a hazy sort
of voice. "F-friends may-waiye
sheremony.n
Here Nh. Maudle swerved suddenly,
but Cincinnatus propped him up again.
"And IL believe I'm correct saving
q f-fricnd in needs q friend indeed"
(This very rapidly spoken.) Under
these shircumstance, I'm bound to
forego q parents feelings"-
Eyes, Maudle. that's it." cried Mrs.
NJ, from behind the apron she held 10
her ewes; Eve know what you'd say
what we'd both say, and feel likewise
and thank our stars ss sent you, sir,
to our aid, which I'm sure we can
repay, as it's lac 12s. 3D.
LEA It's. 9d., interrupted the rough
and-ready-looking person, with a
hoarss cough.
Eyes, take my child, and bless youln
cried Maudlc, extending his arms like
the "heavy father" in a play "and tell
thish-minion Of the law. that-that