The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1890-03-06
ONE VALENTINES DAY.


.srs hopping lightly from the silsery
biossowed pussy willows 10 the iringed
snd tasssied hazel and alder shrubs no~
aud then ifiliios forth from their toy
th,oais pafesl spIiog like songs Of
Joy.
Adown tie hazel bordered couutry
road came two rosy girls clad 10 navy blue
Walking suits. With here and there 10
their costumes dash Of red; their bfis sht
faces and wind tossed hair throun With
iiunty crimson ysrus With dark blue ,ss-
sis
Their steps were elastic with health snd
youths undoubiiug ba"eiulness. they
gave toe finishing touch Of life that msde
the seen. perfect one TO iso young men
who were sitting nnohserved by ,Eelo 10 a
sunny corner where two walls met, sk,tch
| ing tue stretch OF grey rosdeay With its
shrub briiinpel edges aud luuering
| hifds.
BE quick aud sketch them. Jack. it is
she one thing needed 10 make The theme
perfect. There, they have paused. aud
how uuconsciously graceful they are psus.
ing Not often 10 you get such sn sccl
dental touch as this and the picture will
| be the envy at the Annual Exhibition.
Rapidly the sketcbing went on, and to
gether the girls resumed their steady
tramp, keeping perfect step, and passing
the two young men who looked as innocent
as only the guilty canl II they had not
sketcbed The girls, they naturally would
have sLosp some Consciousness Of their
approach.
Now, 1t was the girls who gave almost
start Of surpfie as they snddedly dis
covered the artist aud his friend
What handsome, stylish young meni
Did you notice the moustache OF the dark.
haired one? What q natural wave it bad,
not that horrid waxy curl ut the ends
that makes you feel that it must have
Just come from the barber's tongs, said
Mabel rInkham, who was something OF
an artist III her taste as regarded masculine
besuty, Being herselfa rich hned blonde,
it was but natural that she should have
been attracted by the dark style OF ROLAND
Hulland
No, did not notice the dark one as be
ing other than common looking man,
but the owD.bearded man what fig
ure be had And a perfect face! and
Mary Peck, With graceful movement Of
her arm, put up her hand to her hair, to
assure herself that the wind had not blown
1t every way Really. are We blown quite
into rights, Mabel? | wonder who those
fellows are. and where the came from.
One was sketching and the other leaning
on the wall and locking, or do you sup
pose be was posing. Wouldn't be make
splendid portrait?
He? No. he couldn't hold candle to
the dark one. | wish We could know
them, but what is the use in talking such
nonsense; you and shall never know
such as be out in this wildernessl ! won
der il pa will ever get hlsbusiness straight
ened ont, so that we can once more have a
comfortable home in the city For one,
am heartily tired Of living out here in the
country, shut out from all society don't
see why men who know enough to do bus.
mess on change don't know enough not to
get feeced. as pa calls it. Oh dear,
what made him fail ell at once, and send
Us out here to grandisthers?
don't know, | am sure; buying long
and selling short and buying short and
selling long, aud being rich few years.
md then suddenly as poor as Jobs tur
Key is a conundrum cannot understand. '
But began to feel that when pa and his !
,lique was rich, then somebody was heec. .
u and made poor; we didn't know who 9
I was, that was all, and We just enjoyed e
Now pa talks about our being heeced and .
suppose some one is hourishnR on the D
ieecing just as we did; and never dream
ng that ont here in the woods we, the .
leeced, are dragging along miserably,
hut out from oil the things we used to
lave. How long have We worn these
uits? Mine is actually sprouting q fringe
round the bottom sort Of growing it's
pring foliage as one might say. won.
Ter II we can have some new ones this .
pring2
don't know. We have actually worn D
hem three years; they were the last we U
ad before we came here two years ago the y
onrieenth Of this month. Don't yon re 9
Iember we were planning such fun for
be novel valentine party Lucy Hoyt had
ent ont invitations for? Then pa failed, o
nd We arrived here at prsndpa's the even. o.
" Of the party | thought should die t'
) We ssy that uiaht 10 the kitchen and VI
stebed grandpa popping corn and grand
IA cracking gslnuts. and actually feel q
IL tha, they we're mskiug a real good time "a
" as! 10
Never fear, remember ii all, il WAS 81
lsi horrid. And grandma ssys now she 81
on'tsee what all our opportunities have
nonuied 10 we can't do hall az much 10 OF
clip ourselves, as girls sho never had IN
alf our ehsncel b'
Hnw provoked she is bscause we don't 81
sni to teach; aud she is right, We Ia
,ulin do II IL xe dii wish TO She told os
e tbi. morning. il wanted bew dress vi
ough, 10 fad some way 10 earn it. that 10
vas a shame that pa bad spent tbcu M
nds Of dollars on our school bills piano vi
ssons and French teachers. aud after all
4 couldn't teach sven the school Ia this %
s,riet! Aod there's Nancy Fsrnum, cd
hos never had dollar speni 90 her ds
hoollns. aud has earned ten dollars o
rel for forty weeks year, for the last We