The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-04-05

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IT am surprised that you should ask me
such a question, she replied, approaching
the chair where sat and taking my hand.
''Wouldit not be ungrateful in me to de-
| sert you so soon, or to ever desert you? ?"
''Shes got more sense than aR old woman
right now" said the host, addressing his
| wife. sour twenty Weight ear-old daughter
that married last month amt a patchin to
this girl.ai
ivy, Jesperson, said his wife, in mild
censure, margaret amt twenty-eight years
DID,"
| ashes mighty nigh it,"
San beside that" continued the woman,
''she never had no chance"
ssDidn't go to school three months outen
nearly every year, Ell? What show does a
gal want, I'd like to know? This little
creetur, warrant you, never has been to
school"
ssOh, yes, sir. My whole life has been a
school. The old house where used to live
contains many books. If you want them
you may go there and get them. shall
never go after them, / could never read
them again."
'sWell, blame my buttons if 1 don't mosy
up that way. l amt much of scholar,
but / reckon 1 can worry through with a
lot of them.
My mother welcomed Munette, and when
related the sad story of how found her,
the sympathetic woman took the child in
her arms and kissed her. Afew days after
ward, when / returned home after short
absence, she flashed upon me in gay red
dress. She was more of child than had
ever seen her-more SO than / had thought
it possible for her to become My mother
was delighted to see her innocent pranks,
and /, for the first time, kissed the child
"You have kissed me at last" she said.
'sIs it because I look better in this dress ?''
SIT is because you look more like child.
Before, you reminded me so much OF wo-
man."
'sDo not women like to be kissed ?"
laughed, and my mother, shaking her
head-I can see her gray hair now said:
"Ah, Ambrose, our young gill has a very
old head"
We sent Munette to school. The teach
or, man who had the reputation of being
profound, met me one day and said:
"Munette is tho most remarkable child I
ever saw. She has read so many books and
makes me such wise observations that am
constantly surprised. To tell you the truth,
1 can not advance her. Not that am not
intellectually able-but- do
not think that at her age it would be SAFE
Therefore | advise you to take her from
school. l know the effect that too much
learning has on youth. know how mar
rowly escaped"
When spoke TO Munette she said:
"That school is very dull place. 1t is
constant hum of arithmetic / don't like
to cipher, as the children call it. Fractions
make my head ache and miscellaneous ex-
amples mako me sick. Let me study at
home"
I took her from school. She was de-
voted student, but was never so absorbed
that she was oblivious to the little atten-
tons which woman of my mothers age
prizes so highly.
Munette grew rapidly, and was pleased
to see that she Was daily becoming more
graceful.
writing a story to say, sThe war came on; ,
but this is not story, and nothing can be
more natural than truth--although it is
said to be stranger than fiction There
fore, when / say that the war came on,
intend that the declaration should have it's
full meaning. l left home full of pride.
was captain. My mother prayed, but Mum
et9e did not seem to be very much affected.
sGood bye, she said 'sWar is one of the
incidents of civilization, as well as a feature
of barbarity. know that you will do your
duty, and that you will not forget the little
girl whom you once saw sobbIng under the
hand of dying man. When you return 1
shall be old enough to kiss you"
looked at her in astonishment. Merri-
ment sparkled in her eyes. s'You don't
like to kiss children, it seems"
'sMunette, you are strange. once said
that did not kiss you because you looked
like woman"
''Oh. yes, that is true. I thought that
you did not want to kiss me because was
so small. There, now, captain, don't swell
up like toad"
I turned away. She called me when I
was about hundred yards away and said !:
'sWhen you pass the big gate, look on the
right hand post"
1 did SO and found the words, 81 love
you" Under this I wrote, s'And / love
you"
I did not receive but one letter from
Munette, and that might just as well have
been Aritten by professor of geology, for
its four pages were devoted to description
of a lot of pebbles she had found in cave.
returned home ragged and ill. Mum
cite was delighted to see me. She was SO
p0culldI, though, tHab L couiu noG Tell
whether or not she still loved me- 1t SEEM
ed that she did not, for whenever attempt
ed to remind her of it she changed the sub
ject. Like all lovers, I felt that without
her my life would be blank spoke to
to my mother concerning my trouble.
'sShe is very strange girl, but 1 always
found her frank, except when I asked her
if she loved you, and she replied that the
hawks had carried off three of the domin-
ECKER hens chickens"
One day in passing the gate I wrote on
the post the following:
will you marry me2"
Two daGs afterward / visited the place
and found the word, "Yes"
Without further communication, except
to appoint the time by 'post, we were
married. did not find her disposition to
be peculiar, only in the intensity of her
love for me- ssWhy did you treat me SO p
one day asked her.
s'The dominicker has great deal of
trouble with her chickens" she replied.
Shortly afterward, when she thought that
was not looking, she threw back her head
and laughed.
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