The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1890-08-07
HIs NEI0HD0Ry BEES.

Z
siipct With sweet romantic scents. aud on'
red light barsed like . beacon star 10 .h'
coitsse window on the bill.
! Look ssid fleds Fenwick. Ma bal
lighted the lamp lie high time We ser'
home.
And you haven't said zee! mourniuiiy
uttered jack TrcvelyD.
Add don't mean TO say yesl
Jack seated himself on the stone wall
just where the bars bad been taken down
He vss . handsome. sunburued fellow
sith sparkling, black eyes aud rich
dark complexion. ~ II. 10 his far bsck 40.
cesiry. there hsd bssu some olive bsowed
SpsDisrd. Fleds leaned agsios, the bars
the moon turning her fair hair to gold and
lingering like blue spsrksin the deep'
OF her laughing eyes. Ifevrr opposiie'
existed 10 nature, they existed there. and
then.
I've . great mind TO 60 away to ses. said
Jack. slowly and vensefully.
| Do. ssucily retorted Fieda,
Aud never come back again!
Oh, Jscki
The ides, he cried. raising both hands
o. IL to invoke the fair moon herself BY
way OF audience "of % girl refusing to be
married simply because she hssen't goi
some particular sort OF . Wedding gown to
stand up 10.
II cant be mArried like other girls.
won't be married ct sll. declared Fleds,
compressing her rosy lips.
The Id,s Of keeping man waiting for
tbsii grosned Jack.
1t won't be long, cesxed Fleds.
But. look here, Fleds. why cant We go
quietly to church aud be married. any day
and get the gown afterwsrds0 pleaded
Jack.
But, Jack, it wouldn't be the same thing
ri oil. Agirl gets married but once 10 her
life. aud she wants to look decent then.
My own darling. you would look an an.
gel 10 anything.
Now, quit that. Jackl laughed Fleda
It's what my school children call tsffy.
hate your school children, said Jack
venomously. ! hate your school. l des
pise the trustees; and should like to see
the building burn down. Then you would
have to come to me.
No, j shouldn't, averred Fleds. ! should
take in millinery and dresssmskiug until l
had earned enough for the white silk
dress. never would = Oh, jack Who's
that?
A trs,npl ! soon settle him with my
blsckshornl cried Trevelyn. spripsins
up.
No. don't. whispered Fleds. shrinking
close to him; It's Mr.. Miusden. He's on
his own premises; these woods belong to
him. It's We that are trespassers. Wsit!
Stand still uutil be has gone by. He's
very near sighted aud he never will see
US.
Aud who, ,breathed Sack, as stout elder
ly person trotted slowly across the patch
OF moonlight. and vanished behind the stiff
laurel hedge, il Mr.. Mingden?
Don't you know. Our neighbor' The
gentleman who bought Smoke hall
The old cove who il always qusrreling
with youi
Yes-the very man who hates bees so
and wants mamma to take
away oil those lovely blue hives down by
the fence. He says he can't take his con
in peace. because hes always
afraid OF being stupg.
Why don't be take it somewhere else
tLen?,
That's the very question, said Fleda
Miudgen. eh? l believe il must be Har.
~ Mindgen's uncle-it's not such 9 very
common uame. said Jack. effectively. And
Hsrry's my college chum and I'm going
TO ask him to be my best man st the we'd
ding.
On. jack / hope he isn't AS disagrees.
BILE rs his uncle: cried Fleda.
He's . trumpl
Besides, i don't believe his uncle will let
him come. added the girl
Not let him Gomez Why shouldn't
he?
Because be hates Us so.
Un account Of the bees?
Yes. on account OF the bees.
It's regular Montague and Cspulet bus
iness II it. eh2
Rather 80. I'm afraid, sighed FIeda.
But. / say. Fleds! cried the young man.
This complicases mstters promised 10
20 and see Harry Milgien when 1 ~ss
town here.
Go and rec him, then. but don't men
ion the name Of Fenwick for your life.
Indeed shall Isn't il the name OF
III others in which take the most pride'
On. JACK. you will make more troubled
I.il be worse thsn bees. Promise me.
Iick. or I'll never. never speak 10 you
gain.
And Jack had to promise. sfter some nm
rilling fashion:
Mr. Feusiek. pretty. faded little wid.
ow, vas fully charged With indignation
, hen Pieds returned from her stroll In the
Sooas.
Mamma. What 10 the msttsri said Fle.
10.
ooe Of the hives sss tipped owed tonight
obbsd Mrs. Pensict; and I'm cure be
I'D IL.
II Vas the wipd. msnms.
No sind ever did tbst. Fieds. Bot I
st it up sgsia' sill never. never sseri
Ice my spisry 10 bis absurd prsladices
De,r psmma. il you souid only have the
lives moved 10 the other side of the gar
lsri pleaded sFIeda. esressiuely.