Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-09-12
THE SUMNER PARTY.

hnpfssnesf 10 be there when tne sIhtisef unity
came up
You may know or you may not know that
school teachers are the widest Of all summer
hoarders
You'd think them sage maiden la.iies in
blue spectaeles and brown wells. wouldn't
you. Indeed. they are not
This summer party came from New York
and they all taught school
Mrs Goodfeilow was enough in herself for
propriety, but there were plenty OF other
folk there, especially an English iady-who
thought IL all shocking"
MrA Goodfellow said that, according TO
American IDEAS, It was all right
Il feel a. II they were all my children
said she My own are all married and
away, and it most broke my heart TO hev
EN- 60" she said And heving young folks
uaakes it sserp like Old times. ! like TO sss
'em kiting round aud playing ball with fsh
net-good exercise, poor dears-and dunno
as don't like em best Of all my boarderS
they've go, such nice appetites fer ginger
bread and apple sarse. and milk and sweet
meats, and it's fun TO see 'em sneak away TO
court, like my Liddy Jane and Ann Eliza
used to hope III never get TO feelin' as II
| didn't sympethize with young folks. and
want 10 5cc CID stfiDus Alu uaie " nrsd CID
laugh, and not want EN- to sing and play
onto the nicholson, and carry on Seems to
me shill hope it's my time TO go when It
comes to that
No wonder Mrs Goodfellow, who acted W
to her principles. was general favorite No
wonder that when those young people asked
each other, Where shall we gor the unani
nous answer was. TO Mrs Goodfellowk"
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Fannie Green. Kate Grey and Rose White,
Alice Black and Gladys Jaune-not an agiy
girl among them And there was Tom Hope
and Dick Breeze and Harry Ashe and Rob
Bunting and Win Roth and Charlie Garden,
and it was jolly party, As one might ex
pect. when every one Of those young men
had vowed to offer his hand, heart and-no-
can't say fortune-his hand, heart and sal
airy to one of those young ladies before vaca
ton was over.
Tom Hope. who was bright eyed. black
haired, Jolly young fellow. who had no idea
Of waiting for what he wanted, contrived to
get Evelne Brown into forward car-they
had all vowed to sit together-and he should
have been ashamed of himself but he was
not, and proposed going down
There was no one to hear him except an
tiu oCi uiuAi, WHoui itil buIc Cpuiu uOt
derstand English, so he told her that he loved
her, and that he thought it would be twice
as jolly it they could begin that vacation as
engaged folk, and he said there was no girl
on earth as pretty as she was or as good, and
when she said it was sudden. he said, Life
is short"
Then he asked her If he might put the ring
he wore on his little finger on her first firaer,
t>t alr ,{Yh l.
had pulled it entirely Off he put the ring on
and kissed It, because it was, as he declared,
necessary to that in order that it might stay
on. Then he said:
"Oh, EvvieI" and she said, "Oh, Toni"
And on that the old German who could
not speak English" held out his hand and said;
shake! | gingratulates you, young PEG
Piles Dot vos right Dot vos vot did my
self. Ven you vos young dot vos de goot
times, and hope you get SO many blessings
as got myself Dot over dere vos mine wife
and my nine children, and dink dot vos goot
for a man in sixteen years-nine boys unit
girls"
And after all he meant so well that, though
Evvie blushed she could not feel angry
That is how Tom did it. As for Dick
Breeze, he waited until they had had tea and
then took Fannie Green out rowing
tom and Evvio are engaged, said he
at looks like it," said Fannie
LET us be, said Dick
You ought to ask ma and pa first" said
Fannie.
Never heard Of such thingln said Dick
"A pretty mess I'd be in il they accepted me
and you did notl"
perhaps they might forbid it," said Fan
ME
'S'pose I'D care if they did il you said yesr'
said Young America.
We'll ma and Ia do generally do as tell
them," said Fannie
And that was the way he did it.
Harry Ashe and Kate Grey lost their way
in the woods. and were found very hungry
but happy
She told us that since they thought they
might be going to starve together they felt
they could bear 1t if they were engaged
When the mad bull chased Rose White and
Rob Bunting saved her, calling the bulls at
tention to himself by waving red handker-
chief, and really was good deal hurt, that
affair was settled. and Will Roth wrote a
letter and carried it to the postoffice, and it
was three days coming. and Alice Blacks
answer was a whole week getting to him
Still when it did come it was an acceptance,
and every thing would have been perfect for
everybody at last IL it had not been Tor
Gladys jaime
Gladys was fiIrt, and we all said that the
way she behaved to Charlie Garden was SIM
ply shameful
She told me day that she felt that in
getting up this summer party the boys had
laid trap for us. and that she, for one,
would not fall into it She would not return
home engaged She was not sure, she said,
that she liked Charlie enough-at all events,
she wanted her freedom-and she got me to
lie with her all the time
was only "A, but felt for Charlie Gar.
den. Indeed | did. though he once said-l
heard him.
what do you see In that gawky little Bar
bara Prothero that you should always be 60
ing about arm in arm, or sitting somewhere
embracing each other' I'm sure the child
had rather be playing tag somewhere"
Oh, we'll, ! had my time afterward but
that isn't in my story
WAS in the way OF hearing all the girls Of
the summer party said, for a good many Of
US had beds in the biz garnet, and they all
declared twas shame Charles Garden
was more in love than any one ever was b.
fore. and something ought to be done
One afternoon-it had got pretty near
school time again. came out of the woods
with Gladys Jaune. She was laughing 10
think she had slipped away from Charlie.
and left him to &c to LookofY hill by himself
or to make az uncomfortable party Of three
Tor some OF them, and suddenly we came
upon the whole number sitting together In .
row in the meadow, near the old we'll
1t was a great stone well. with a chain,
and it was not used There was q better one
GEAR the house-at least one with all the mod
dern arrangements
There they all sat as solemn as owls Ola
dys stood still and hegan to laugh J laughed.
too.
Whats the matterf she asked
You'd better not ask Gladys.- said Rose
White
No, she'd better not said the cnorua
Then they groaned together.
You will have to know at last, Mis-
jaime" said Harry Ashe 80 we might a.
well tell you at once Charlie Garden Is
down the well
That's no, tarticuiariy bad news for me-"
said Gladys MT believing them Its VOTE
for him. He'll get wet"
Its true. Gladys" said Fannie Green
And they all called out: 1T is true
1T WIS because you left him in that way,t
think" said Tom Hope Indeed, Mis- jaime,
he caught hold u the bucket chain and went
down"
why. there Is the bucket DO the graa,.
said She
Yes said Dick Breeze Il thought be
had been down good while and drew it up:
it's empty