Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-11-04
Cousin WeeZie.

looks or cleverness, or any of the
things that perhaps are in my outfit;
so when l deliberately step out from
behind my native and we'll known
modesty, of course you know that
something important and true is COM
ing.
/ want to say a few words about
nv heart Let me assure you that it
is very good kind of heart indeed.
Not one of the philanthropic kind,
though such one isn't bad to have,
to hold and to use; but mine is one
of the healthy kind, the hard-to-kill
kind. Mine is heart with an iron
constitution is just big enough, just
warm enough and just near enough to
the right place to be hit often by
beauty, sympathy and other danger
Gus missiles that are continually fly
ing about.
All this occurs to me on thinking
over the events of yesterday and the
day before.
Ever since 1 made the acquaint-
ance of Josephine Belfield felt that
there was some destiny drawing us
together. And, as for me: | made
not the least resistance-in such cas-
es / never do.
Miss 10, as L soon got to call her,
should have been named Brown; for
she was brunette, with brown hair
and brown eyes and eyebrows, and
more than half her dress was brown
not to mention the brown feather
in her hat.
Thinking back at this distance from
Yesterday, | do remember that she
was spoken of as being frivolous by
her Aunt Rachel but then that only
meant that she was good natured,
and as try to be the same you can
easily see why Miss 10 and L were
well taken with each other.
Miss 10 had a cousin, Weezie, 9th
erwise Louisa Newberry, who was
paving her a visit. Whenever, l be-
gan to think tenderly of 10 as Mrs.
10, the thought of Weezie started
up like Observation-Disclosures. In fact,if
it hadn't been for Cousin Weezie-
but wait and hear.
Oh, there wasn't anything positive
" the matter with Cousin Weezie.
She wasn't asleep, but awfully sleepy,
nor was she stupid, but awfully slow.
must admit that Cousin Weezie's
mouth and eyes had sort of morbid
fascination for me. If you know
any one with big blue eyes, just think
of eyes twice as big and twice as
blue, then give them an insane desire
to pop out at you, and you have
Cousin Weezie's eyes. If she had
been a twin / should surmise that she
had aggrandized half of her sisters
mouth. And when she laughed heart
ilv. which she did on the slightest
provocation, / could readily believe
that she was doing the laughing for
both.
There must have been some .fnesse
about Miss 10. Her cousin and she
were inseparable, which gave 10 all
the advantage that only such con-
trast could. When 1 proposed WIS.,
it to the theater, the park, or the Zoo,
the invitation was always understood
to include Cousin Weezie. / soon
came to think that when in due course
of time 1 proposed to Miss 10, and
she answered Certainly !'' she would
be speaking for Cousin Weezie as
we'll as herself, and / would have to
take the lot Dreadful anticipation
If some young fellow, born unfor-
tunate, would only take fancy to
Cousin Weezie, what relief it would
be!
That idea foated into my mind
one evening like thistle-witch ;lodg-
ed there, grew over night, and next
morning l had a goodsized notion tc
find that unfortunate fellow. AnC
so I did that very day, in new &C
quaintance of mine, Willoughby Dick
son, a most laughable-at fellow
He was about my age and size, bu
our similarity goes no farther, if yor
please.
He was in the hardware line, bu
was rather soft ware himself. A yer,
stylish young man next to the lead
er in fashion. Whatever the freal
was-long, short, tight, loose, high
low-found a bauner-carrier in Dick
son. Yet, if the order went forth t.
keep in or take off all moustaches
that L think, would "give him pause :
for his burnt lumber pair were no
long, but elaborate in design and fin
ish.
Like you and me, some thing
Dickson knew and some he didn'
know, and that's as far as | care t
90 into Dickson's education. At an
rate he was we'll off, would some da
be better off, and can't that cover de
fects and deficiencies, and make ma
hogany of cheap pine? OF course
CAM Who shouldn't it?
Ipitched upon Willoughby DicF
son as the young man that Miss )
and | wanted for Cousin Weezie, b,
cause | knew that he was preoccl
pied with himself, and would be qul
we'll satisfied with the most modera
mental stock in q well-dressed con
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