Iron County register., 1888-12-27

Caddy likes modern fashions This
matter of grammar has given me an
idea Come, let US be boldi' said Joe
to himself. And the next day he sad
died his horse and rode over to Pink
ham.for the first time in weeks.
Caddy met him with "a certain shy
ness and shifting of color, instead of
the sisterly frankness which she had
shown him of late. This great i'm
provement Gas Joe regarded it) was
the result of q letter which she had
just received from her. father In spite
of Cap'n Sanders absorption in gram
mar, Cap'n Laban's assertion that Joe
was making up to Lyddy Stone re-
turned and rankled in his mind. He
had always been fond of Joe, it had
been one of his dearest hopes that
Caddy would marry him, and he had
once fancied that Caddy's happiness
depended upon this. He would not
venture to dictate Or even to suggest to
her, but he might hint that she was
losing Joe irrecoverably.
He found it very difficult to COM
pose the letter that evening. He was
tired out with his grammar, and was
unfamiliar with the art of putting
things. When it was completed it ran
thus:
MY DEAR DAUGRTER.-This is to let you
know that we are all well and there is news
except that we have q new Jersey calf, and Joe
Kent is making up to Lyddy Stone, and folks
thinks the new minister wears wig. So NO
more from your loving father. p. S.-Proputty
is great thing, and some folks thinks Lyddy
is harnsome.
To Cap'n Sanders mind this letter
was Machiavelian. 1t certainly pro-
duced in Caddy a change of manner
which was both cheering and puzzl;ng
to Joe. 1t was difficult to carry out
his plan under its softening influence;
but to finch from his purpose was
quite foreign to Joe's nature.
1t was Joe who was easy and con-
versational to-day, while Caddy made
an effort that was plainly to be seen.
which Joe broke with an air of hesi-
tatiOn.
'Caddy, hope you won't mind if
make little suggestion. Of course
every thing you say is charming to me,
and little carelessness doesn't matter
in Plumport. I am a little careless
myself sometimes, though it doesn't
matter SO much for man."
Caddy's eyes were growing round
with wonder. She could not in the
least imagine what was coming, but
this was decidedly a new tone for Joe
to take with her.
Don't look so scared, Caddy"-she
afraid of Joe!-''it's only a little
matter of grammar. You make few
slips that would affect peoples opin-
ion of you in cultivated society. A
little while ago you said to me you
had better do this; of course you
knew that you should say you
vould better, but you were care
less. And l notice you always say
you should have liked to haUe seen a
thing; of course, you know that you
ought to say you should have liked to
see it, but you think it doesn't matter,
or, perhaps. you even think it's more
heard of girls who were afraid of be-
ing school-ma' 'amish. But / hope for
a wider sphere that Plumport some
time, and / have always resolved that
my wife, if I should have one, should
be elegant in speech"
Caddy uttered a little gasp of as
tonishment. Her face was scarlet. She
murmured, indistinctly, that ''every
one said these things"
Joe would have liked to drop down
at her feet. Indeed, he afterward de-
clared that he felt like crawling under
the table. But in spite of these emo
tions he carried himself jauntily.
'Well, we'll, our lives are great,
these things are SMALL you know the
rest, eh. Caddy? l hope you're not
offended"
And then he got himself away, leav-
ing Caddy with an unusual look about
her eyes; he could not decide whether
they were going to flash or be fearful.
They did both after Joe had gone,
and after an appreciable interval,
which Caddy had given to deciding
whether she were awake Or dreaming.
1t must be because Joe was going to
marry Lyddy Stone that he gave him.
self such airs as these.
She had thought but little about Joe
of late, but in the background of her
consciousness had remained the i'm
preston that whatever came, he would
always be her humblest of humble serv-
ants. She had regarded her speech
and manner as being elegant to a de-
gree quite beyond Joe's appreciation.
That he could find fault with her, and
on the score of grammar, was almost
too asto nishing for the mind to grasp.
AS has been said, Caddy gave way to
her feelings a little-a somewhat un-
usual proceeding for her; but she had
quite dried her eyes by the time DIR.
Helmsbury, the new Pinkham doctor,
came and invited her to drive, and she
accepted his invitation with unusual
alacrity. She proposed. too, that they
should drive to Plumport and visit her