Daily Republican., 1888-04-09
ONE GOOD 1URN.

Young Mortimer was just putting
away his fishing tackle Afser morn.
| ipR'B sport, when he saw hand organ
1.-The Italian gentlemen who WAS even
now eating beef and brtAi In the
kitchen with the servants.
Mortimer thought 1t would be an OK.
csllent opportunity to try how hand
Iorgau operated, go he elung II on his
back and walked oat In the road, grind.
ling as he went,
The Summer hotel perch down the
road was generally tull otyoung ladies,
| but Just now they were cff on u noun.
tain rRmble, much to his disappoint.
ment.
Jutt as he had started In, however,
on ''Some Day" the pretty Miss Parker
came bowling along IN her trap. The
horse did not like the song and reared
and capered until Mortimer was com.
PEELED to drop his organ and rush to her
assistance, which he did very grace
fully.
She called him her preservar In her
choicest boarding school Italian and
owed to herself that she would meet
that delightful organ grinder again.
Mortimer was no less charmed and
from that day waI on the lookout for
the Parker trap, but It never came.
One day when Mortimer was fishing
Miss Parker met him.
my gallant preserveri" she cried, in
Italian. "0b, sienoIi Ia 1t possible9"
And he answered, in Italian aleo,
"slsnorina, this Ia the happiest day Of
my life."
Ana so they began to meet and mako
| ove TO each other in q RforeiRn language.
l Miss Parker felt sure that her father
would not welcome an organ grinder 80
guest, and did not ask him to call.
Mortimer, ou his part, fshed for an I'm.
vitStion, as he had never ashed for
trout. He was gentleman, and he felt
that, having really given his heart to q
young lady, he ought to know her
Iparents and pay his addresses properly.
AS for Miss Parker, she was quite ready
OF elope whenever he proposed It, and
| TO hold the tanbourine for penniea
while he played this organ over tho
whole world, Uut she wss not equal 70
introducing her papa, General Perry.
| winkle Parker, 10 an orRAn-grinder,
however charming.
One twilight, as Mortimer and Misa
Parker rat by tue trout brook and he
had called her "CariskimR" eeyerAl
times, IN avalanche rolled down tho
hill.
That was the eject. 1t wan, how.
ever, only the IGrt'y person OF General
Jobkins Pcrriwinkie Parker, who had
COINS upon them suddenly and slipped
In rushing down the slope. They broke
his fall, and were not quite crushed
hat; but when hs was picked up, and
had become binseif again, he began to
use language lis favorits preacher
would not have liEed to hear him use,
aud inquired, iu the psnses. "whAt his
daughter meant by this, and who this
rascal Was"
Mortimer, quito conscious that he
teserved this, was feeling in bis poolt. |
jts for card and finding none, and |
TcnieriDg, too, ~ the ease With which |
his italian angels parent spoke En-. |
Sish, when Miss Parker fEng herself |
on her kntea before her crRel parent, /,
rnd to bis Rstonishment uttered these I
verde, with 10 foreign accent what
ever: Dasr, deRr para, don't be an |
gfy. This is the noOlo organ grinder |
Wna saved my life. He don't know q |
woEd of English but his name Is Dartz |
Mortimer, and he's far above his sta. |
ticn. And Ia saving me he broke bis |
organ and has to support himself by
fishing"
"Hstty Parker" ctieI tho old gen
tlomap, "you'rs an IDIOT Here, you, Mr.. |
Organ 6rlnner, can you speGky any
EnR)esy, yOu know"
Perfectly" said Mortimer. tIn
fact, am on EnglishmAn. 1 thought
sour daughter an Italian lady until
this moment. ALLOW ne 10 explAin. | !
have the most respectful admiration for
Miss Parker, and wish to--"
81 can't have any explanations" In.
tsrrupted the old gentleman. "What
business have you to make love to my |
daughter, or She to lot you2 II you |
broke your organ saving her life, I'll
buy you now ore. I'm deeply PrStefui |
but you see, organ grinding or fishing
Is nos-that ts-I-"
"Oh, as to organ grinding" cried
Mortimer, II am only an amateur. Pm
no more an organ grinder than am an
Italian And perhaps you know Dan
lei Mortimer-lace meIchant-rAther
extensive. Pm his only son. 1t was a
mutual mistake"
However, 1t so happened that the
General knew Mortimer, senior, and
hat he quito understood what q good
match Mortimer, junior, was. 30
mere Will be a wedding in St.George's
'hortly-DAniel Mortimer, Jr., to Hes.
er, oUly daughter OF General JobkIns
oe:rIHihkle Parker.
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