Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28


by jealousness and naggcd her. | says to
myself "She don't love you hard enough,
Charles S. Scattergood, for you to leave
her Wait. Be patient with her. She's
so pretty Let her have her ways out
! and you keep still You just wait. Don't
| you bother Annie"
I'd like to tell you what she looked like
| them days if ] knew how. She wasn't
like the other girls She had lots OF pluck.
| She had aqueer little way with her-a sort
of mannish way. She wasn't mannish, not
! a bit. don't like that kind. 1t was only
/ sort of trick of hers, like children's
tricks when they plavat being something.
! 1t kind of tickled her to play at it,
Thought. She cut her hair short, but 1t
was curly hair, OF yellow color, very
! light and it wrinkled all over her head
like a little girl's-she couldn't look like a
fellow to save her. Some OF 'em can. |
don't like that sort. Annie never could
She wore a little linen collar sometimes,
choking up her pretty throat with still
necktie, but her throat was 80 soft it made
you laugh to see it. Then she had a no
ton one time OF running her hands into
her sack pockets and she'd put her arm
overa sofa-that way. But you'd have
| laughed-it was so round; she couldn't
square off at the elbow to save her. She
had dimple tool liked that. And she
had the biggest ewes you ever see; blue
eyes. She was always laughing, Annie
was. And when saw her put on those
little ways, those mans ways, | tell you of,
| didn't scold her Mebbe I'd oughv to !;
but | couldn't, Tor it amused me- | used
to think of when played house up coun-
try when | was little shaver with some
other young one and if she was girl
young-one maybe she'd say well take
turns I'lL play husband tnls time as if
Annie was up to some such gene: There
wasn't much man in my girl No
Nor she wasn't that way so mach to me,
I II understand
with other folks She was different with
me. That was what liked about 1t
She'd treat them other men as il she was
another fellow. But she kept company
with me- She kept company with me
like she was a girl.
Now the time | speak of was this time
1t was in winter, come January, two years
ago. 1t had been very cold winter, If
you remember. 1t wasn't Il liueman'
winter, you better believe. 1t come hard
on Us; But it com. toughest on the
trouble men. I'll tell you about thai
when get TO it. We'd had great deal Of
snow, and blow. Tnere'd been n power
of seet. They'd kept me pretty busy.
Maybe 1t was along OF beng buster than
usual and of not seeing her quite 50 regu
: lar that Annie and him made mp so lar
= | thought so afterwards. Girls like beiu
remembered Of Lord knows | never tor
= got her-used to wish could. But there
l one thing I've noticed about girls. The.
/ want To be told thing,-they' chat way
, There's another thing: seems as II the
minds was insulated on the subject U
business they don't make connections OF
it. Seems us if they thought man coulC
earn his bread and butter maxim love. |
, it come this way, SOS | was on duty aut
!, he was off, he'd run over there. Then HI
boarded pretty nigh her. She lived il
} East Boston | lived in Russell street
myself, with my married sister. She's
t widder lady, and my board helped he
along He had chances against me o
e running in by spells. Come to think q
a it afterwards | guess he made the most o
: 'em.
a Now this time tell you of was goin
" to take her to the thedWre: She was yer
Z fond of the thedytre, and I'd said we'd G
; first evening could fix it. SO it was L
l. be of a Wednesday or Saturday, and
| couldn't let her know-her being in Eas
Boston, was to do the best could, he
l being ready to go one of them two night
> quite agreeable and me to call for hel
i So, of n Wednesday, | couldn't go, for IN
chief he sent me out tracing trouble unde
Charles River bridge for wire was dow
z from the ice that bothered us consdera
: bly, and was TO work late and drenche
o though-and il was taruation cold-an
when | got home to Russell street an
IL got my supper and into dry close, and d,
) cent to show myself To her it was goiu
l. on to nine O'Clock, 50 had to put 1t off. 5
v it come Saturday night and got read
re early, for it was "A mild night and plea
ant, and was in hurry, aud | hurrle
n over to East Boston, and felt happy, tn
" way man does when he's going to h
IF girl, for hadn't seen her since Monday
l. and it seemed to me as ii it was a GOO
z while
n So when got there to her fathers hous
!, for her father lisa stone cutter III Digge
II and Downses marbleyard, and he does
t. steady business aud brought her up mo-
:. partikkeler, and sent her through II
e grammar school and talked about tn
It high, aud I've nothln against him only fl
a marrying of a step-mOther that Ami
1t didu't like, don't knows | ever blame
h her for she had the neurology done up
o flannel bandages of gray color Ike
re make you wish she wasn't there-when
q got to her fathers house this night lie
y you, to take my girl 10 the thedytre- ma an
IS she wouldn't 90 with me.
II "rm obliged to you," she says, "but
r amt going. don't feel like it"
H. "ButFve got the tickets" says |, fC
- she'd never spoke like that to me befor
y "Its the play you said-ifs the Pearl of II
20 Necktie Factory. For she had shine
3 see the Pearl of the Necktie Factory
il11 it had run "A hundred nights; she'd take
II about it a sight and so I'd got the ticket
y | give a dollar for them two tickets.
e. "Why, what's the matter, Annie ?? sa
a
~ ails you, dear?"
m She was setting on the sofa in h
~ fathers setting room for her step-moth
~ was scoldlng of the baby in the fro
,e chamber, aud we was by ourselves.
a. So she turned her pretty head and loo
J, ed at me and then she looks away. Seen
rs if she did and didn't. Seems as if 81
would and wouldn't. Seems as if 81
ar should and shouldn't-the way u womf
ar does.
n, "You didn't come Wednesday" so al
So II couldn't come on Wednesday," sa
as to her, ~ done my best. You'd Dug
ey to know it. was clearing trouble und
az Charles River bridge. | done the best
~ could"
well, )" she says, 81 1oent o. Wednesda
Irl I've seen the play. I've seen the Pearl
)u the Necktie Factory and don't know
nd care to see it again" she says" You cou
n have come if you'd tried hard, she say
r. "A smart fellow like you are (She did ca
ID me smart fellow, don't you zee p he ca
"a do "A thing if he of N ~