Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-09-01


had been q medical student under old DIR.
West, and when he died got my diploma
and atuck my shingle out here. Scon after
that got acquaipte With as trim a built
girl as You often see, and after while,
somehow or other, We became engaged. l
was young and nd my way to make, and
we resolved to wait tNh wears Before settling
Town Over back of the hill yonder lived
girl named Nancy Brown, pretty, pale
creature, who seemed just ready TO go Otto
the angels. | was called TO attend her, and
/ wanted TO do my best. knew they could
never pay me cent, and perhaps FOR that
reason ! went little ofte than | needed.
Nancy had one precious thing, her rose
Lush; small then, but giving promise of
/ great things. 1t did seem as If everybody
begrudged it to her, for half the town. in
one way or another, sought to make it
worth her while 10 give it up.
| Perhaps the motives were good. But,
though Nancy was in comparative poverty,
, no gold was yellow enough to buy her one
treasure. Well, ler fragility proved not to
be incipient consumption, after all, and
time went on until witt in twenty four hours
of my wedding day, and that morning l
was i'll my office here on the watch for my
| sweetheart, who soon, all smiles and
! bushes, with tue constituencies that 1t was
! the last time as maiden, came tripping
! down the street. ! went out to meet her.
| This bush, not half as large as it is now,
stool here in the window.
oh, said my bride that was to be. in a
pretty rapture, Nancy has sold you he1
rose! Did you cross it root and branch
with silver COIN"
"'Not |. Nancy gave it to me of her own
sweet will
A jealous flush came over my girls
proud face.
az thought, she said. that your visits
there were more frequent than her illness
called foi loh love her; and if you are fair
to her you are false to mG.
Il made asharp reply. She had charged
Inc with double dealing. We were both
terrible angry. The next morning we were
TO have been married. That was fifteen
Years ago and we have never spoken since
Nancy was going away TO fulfill promise
made iii Hhildb5od, and she gave me her
rose because had saved her life for her
lover Perhaps l had; but she had un-
| knowingly ruined mine. kept the bush.
and it has blossomed every month with all
its might. More than one young mother
las begged of me some dainty buds to clasp
| III her dead baby'S hand and many bride
! has pleaded with sweet lips for just few
blossoms to gem her hair. / have denied
them all, aud have tlever cut one Of the
flowers until il withered from the stem. ii
was not for Nancys sake, either, but Some
how for the life that was to have blessed
mine"
"Bnt you did not love your sweetheart
much" ventured Lottie, winkin9 off the
salt drops that had collected ON her long
lashes.
Not love herf" roared the doctor.
"Xouudsl can chit like you undertake to
sahge the depths of mans soul?"
IF you had you would have orted differ
entity" bravely asserted this small council
of one, sitting in judgment, with her chin
resting on her hand.
Acted differently" Numbered the irate
doctor. "Pray, Miss WISDOM how should
l have acted"
You would have said TO your sweetheart
4 do not love Nancy, but do love her
rose. Size is goin9 away and gave it to me
in gratitude. But give the rose and my
self and all that | have to you, because |
love you bo:tor than all the world Then,
don't you see that everything would have
leen smooth. and you would have been all
these years full of joy"
"Zounds! so / should" exclaimed the
excited doctor, rising to his feet. John,
come in here" he called. Help me to
wrap up this rose tree. There, put it OH
your hand sled and draw it home for this
young lady and set it III the house. And
you, little miss, present it, with my COM
p!imeats and b, st wishes to Miss Hen
rieta Henshaw. Good heavens, what a
fool!' said the doctor, striking his bald
head a vigorous thump, when left alone.
Iottie did rs she was hidden, giving Aunt
Hetta such galvanic shock as to paralyZe
her; but the good lady came to enough to
glance furtively down the street to see
really that the "impertinent white thing
was no longer staring at her flom the doc
tors bay window. She had a bay window,
too, looking southwark, and into it she
contrived to roll the great box, with its
wealth of white blossoms.
The doctor, looking stealthily out from
his dismantled corner, drew his own con-
illusions.
"Ahem!" said Miss Hetta. "How long
would 1t take to work that nonsense you
were talking about?"
II could get it done by night" gasped
Lottie, all of delicious tremble.
Wei, child, | did not mean to be cross.
Take this, and do rs you please with it..
Lottte's hand closed quickly over the
gold coin; she did not need tenth of it,
and she worked the whole afternoon, to the
detriment of her blue eyes and the loss OF
her supper, till on a garnet ribbon a broad
satin stitch of gold, ornamented with tiny
/ which stood not for Her Britannia Ma iesty,
but some one every BIZ as regai-iteiiry i.
| Manners, otherwise Harry.
She ran down to the hall, which was
flooded with light, and greeted Harry, and
had just secured the hatband in his hat,
when the parlor doors were thrown open,
and there stood Aunt Hetta, blushing
through the frosts of forty winters, with
great heaps of white massed in her hair
and clustered on her bosom. DR.. Beach,
pompous and portly, was at her side.
Here, little MISS" he shouted, you
and that rascal run for the Parson."
The willy physician had armed himself
with a ring and strip of paper signed 10y
the town clerk, and before one could say
"Jack Robinson" the knot was tied that
transferred Miss Henrietta llenshaw into
Mrs. DR.. Beach.
Lottie was SO bewidered that she could
never tell whether she said yea or nay when
Henry asked her to be his wife. But
the young rascal seems to know, for he is
building wondrous castles in the air.
IN the sunny parlor, close beside the
great rose tree, stands an elegant pianos
birthday Offering to little miss" from hel
Uncle Doctor. CieceLand SnH.
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