Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-07-18

"Now, we have teased her long
enough, girls" says Amy, $50 Dodo pre-
pare! Who do you think came last
night?'
1.-THE President and all his suit"
"Guess again"
"The clam-bake man"
"Horrors, no! Now, once more"
~ ca. I think of any one else, unless
it's Gertrude's Dick"
''No such good luck" pouts that
young lady, cor we'd be riding the
waters blue"
"And burning your nose rosy hue,
chimes in Amy readily.
swell, I'll tell you before you go wild
with curiosity. I hope you haven't for
gotten your old friend, Wayne Palmer
stou, who lost his wife three or four years
ago. Well, maamselle, they are here
Not his wife, you understand, unless her
harnt has come, but he and his little boy.
He is no end ricn, handsome, and fascin-
ating, we know. Could anything have
beer more desirable? No, not the death
of his wife, Gertrude, blush for you
! but his coming here"
"This is positively his first appearance
since his grief" says Gertrude. ''Ah,
Dick look out, if you stay away much
longer, there is no telling what may hap
pen, for, Of course, he is after wife. II
that is not bonanza for this man-less
resort, where the bug professor is belle of
the ball, l give it up"
Dorothy's face, usually most exples-
sive, is positively rigid now, so anxious is
she to keep any betrayal of her feelings
from this giddy crowd of butterflies.
When they finish talking, she sits
straight up in her chair and says:
"Do you, iniquitous young females,
really mean to say that you have had the
audacity to take me away from Emerson,
to fill my eyes with such vapid nonsense
as this? I admire your temerity and I
have the honor to wish you very good
morning"
So saying she takes her departure
backward, unhindercd this time, her
slender figure in its dark blue habit
dress sharply sillhouetted against sea and
sky. The girls watch her till a curve in
the beach suddenly shuts her from their
sight. They are quiet for a minute or two,
then Gertrude says:
CHOW did you dare. Amy2"
go, I dare do anything" returns that
nonchalant damsel, with, at the same
time, an uneasy feeling in her heart, as
she recalls some memories of Wayne Pal
merston's friendship for Dorothy.
AS they separate to prepaSe for bath
ing, a gentleman IN the balcony overhead
throws away his cigar and walks beach
ward also, but out of sight Of the girls.
The next morning Dorothy, with "Sar-
tor Resartus" held loosely in her hand,
is looking out over sea and sky from a
pile of rock far above the beach, when
the book, struck by pebble, falls down
on the beach below.
Good temper may not be Dorothy's
strong point, for she turns wrathfully to
discover the cause of her mishap, and
meets the roguish laughing eyes of
small boy in kits, who contemplates her
wrathy face with calm satisfaction.
"Did you ever see better shot?" he
proudly queries.
II can think of a BETTER" she answers.
"What is it," he asks with interest.
'To shoot you down after it," she re-
plies, laughing.
''Ho, you couldn't, you're girl, and
girls can't throw for cold victuals, Don
aid said, and he knows; Donald teached
me-"
"Well, suppose you go and fetch it
back, then, since you belong to the SUI
perior SEX" she says, amused.
II will, pretty quick. I'm tired now;
I'd rather talk to you. Girls can talk;
Donald says they've got the gift of CAB,
if nothing else."
''Pray, who is Donald2"
"Gracious! don't you know Donald2
Well, he's one of the bulliest bricks you
ever knew. He takes care of place of
papa's, down in the country, and he's
teached me more things than I s'pose
you'll ever know, cause he won't let
girls come there if he can help it, he
spises 'em cause they gable So"
Good for Donald; they do" with
recollection of the preceding mornings
trial.
Just then gentleman comes in sight
with Dorothy's book in his hand, and he
comes toward the mute little figure look
ing blindly, anywhere but toward him,
saying, GOOD morning, Dorothy, here
is your book which my son so rudely sent
from your hand"
Mutely, still, Dorothy stretches out her
hand for the volume and finds it clasped,
and presently is aware that there is some
one sitting besides her on the rocks.
dorothy, are you never going to
l I.