The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-08-26

Left alone. Captain Atherton
asked Minnie il she sang and played.
"Yous betl" was her answer.
At which the elegant captain
again grew nervous. but asked her
to give him some music.
"Well. what'll you haye?' says
Minnie, Sup In a Balloon Boys or
Over The Garden WALTZ"
ell don't care for that style of
music. falterea the poor captain.
ooh, well, that's all the style l
KNOWN says Minnie. ''May be 1
could pound out a jig or two now, if
you'd prefer ill.,
| I'll believe I don't care for it!''
saidthe captain.
'All1ightl" says Minnie. 81 won
der. where my old dad is? Guess
I'd better go and poke the old
animal up! It'll soon be grub timel
Ia ia, capp
And out she went, leaving Cap
tain Atherton in "a perfect perspir-
alton, wondering how he ever could
endure such a wife, and why he had
not known before that Mr.. Lyons
daughter had nothing but her beauty
to recommend her.
perhaps, though, 1 judge too
hastily. I'll waita day or so, and
see," he concluded.
When Minnie came in again, her
father was with her, and she be-
haved very well. Also during din
ner.
But after dinner she invited the
captain to ride out with her, in her
pony carriage.
And then she called him "cap,"
and she drove so recklessly as to
alarm him, and when he feebly
offered to take the lines. she said /:
Mot much, you don't! This
young covey can run her own She
bangl 1 can ride or drive the
widest horse in the country, take
him over fences, bitches, or what
not" ..-...
81 do not consider it lady-like to
be too bold with hsrses." said the
captain, coldly.
ia, now don't your" says Min
ME. "Well, dare say girls are
faster now than they were when you
were youngI'
The captain WINGED, but before
he had time to say that a fast girl
was his abomination, he turned pale
with horror, as Minaio pulled case
of cigarettes from her pocket, saying
with an air which would have put
Jack into fits, had he seen It,
"Have one, cap! A smoke is so
nice when one is riding! Mop as
as he made gesture of disgust.
"Ah, well, I'll just take one N.Y.
self. Got match? All, thanks!"
as he produced one.
She struck it on the sole of her
shoe, actually lighting the thing, and
took two or three whiffs, Ceiling
Jack afterwards that they made her
awfully sick). Then she looked
round at the captain, and seeing he
looked pale, she tossed away the
cigarette, saying:
81 see it makes you sick, so LII
wait till I get homc.''
| And then she began to talk slang
to her pony, until, by the time they
had reached home, the fastidious
captain had decided that he could
not endure another day of such fe-
male terror, much less lifetime.
The very next morning he took
his leave. And when asked by Mr..
Lyon of his hasty departure, he
said -
81 find that your daughter would
not suit me at all for a wife. And
in fact, she has such peculiar dis
position that don't think any man
would wish to live with her long"
Mr.. Lyon came near kicking him
out of the house after that remark.
But Minnie entreated him not to
care, saying she didn't, not in the
least. And when Jack stepped up
and said he knew a man willing and
anxious to marry hef, Mr.. Lyon
listened while he offered himself.
and was so eager to show the
captain that the goods he had slight
ed were valuable elsewhere, that he
consented on the spot to their mar.
rage.
/ And thus it fell out, that after all
Captain Atherton's visit was of the
greatest service to Minnie and Jack,
who often laughed over the entire
success of their plan for getting rid
| Of