Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06
EsrHETE.

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CRUSHED EsTHETE.
...,nsc Young Lady was Downed
uw an Us ,;.y r,ncucat Parents
months ago the daughter of an
4 'eE Export man, who had grown
ut l .,SIv wcll-off IN the small gro
pnio::'"",yr wa, sent away to female
Pry me AND recently she arrived home
pese' sa Md vacation. The old man
br;;le l a,.endance ut the depot when
as III :, rived, with the old horse in
be tra Law wagon to convey the daugh-
be o uu her trunk to the house. When
ef anu .ua;n stopped, q bewitching array OF
be ', ancas and de-brimmed hat
~ g1t srom the car and flung itself into
a o. elderly party $ arms. >,
W.. WI, i'm ever so utterly glad to
ee vol. ,s somewhat unnerved
1 .ho creetipg. but he recognized the
,5 1ll = cloak in his grip as the Identical
es 'a Of property he had paid for with
le' Wv, mare. and he sortof squat it up
ne ~ ~, erms ard planted kiss where it
M do the most good with report
''.'" sIrnlel above the noises of the
na' In Il brief space of time the
eiN" aud the attendant baggage We're
f"' IA INTO the wagon, which was soon
'ao. .,;nr over the bubbles toward
'0NI nrlrE EXCESSIVELY BEYOND.
.po dear" said the young miss, sur
.;n a ,be team with o critical eye, do
e y, naan,der this quite excessively be-
0 Duov2" returned the old man. with
,,ral air. "qni.e excessively beyond
shat?' ,,o,,4 ,,nao,s.,,,,,
no . the daughter explained. Il mean
I:, wagon and horse. Do you think
h h', are soultul?-do you think they
sa ,t} be studied apart in the light of a
smnbonv, or even simple poem, and
,naar as intensely utter to one on re-
.l ar, home as one could express?"
'" The old man twisted uneasily in his
soat and muttered something about lie
believed it used to be used for an ex-
' ur0s before he bought it to deliver in,
INT the conversation appeared to be
Swelling in such Lonesome direction
hat he pitched the horse resounding
crack on the rotupda, and the severe
ioltjuc overthe frozen ground prevented
lurther remarks.
"Oh. there is that lovely and consum-
mate mar screamed the returned col
1pr;atess as they drew up at the door,
and and presently she was lost in the en-
brace of a motherly woman in spec
tacles.
We'll. Maria," said the old man at
the supper table. as he nipped q piece
ii butter off the lump with his own
knife, IAN how'd you like your school q
We'll, there, pa, now you're shout
mean, consider it far too beyond" re-
plied the daughter ct is unquench-
ablv inetfabe. The girls are so sumpt-
uously stunning-l mean grand-so in
tense. And then the parties, the balls,
the rides oh, the past weeks have been
one sublime harmony"
dispose sol s'pose So" nervonsly
s.seatea the old man, as he reached for
bis third cup. "ha:f-full'--" how
about your buoks--readin', writin',
grammar, rule O three-how about
6em2'
PA, don't!" exclaimed the daughter,
reproachfnlly, "the rule of three
grammar! 1t is French and music and
painting aud the divine in art that have
made my school life the bos-I mean
that have rendered it one unbroken flow
OF rhymic bliss-incomparably an ex-
quisitely all but"
The grocery man and his wife looked
he!plessly at each other across the table.
After Lonesome pause the old lady
said
How do you like the biscuits,
Maria?"
They are too utter for anything, .
gushed the accomplished young lady.
and this plum preserves is simply u
poem in Itself"
The old man rose abruptly from the
table and went out of the room rubbing
his head in dazed and benumbed man,
ner, and the mass convention was dis
solved. Tba, night he aud his wife sal
alone by the stove until late hour. aud
At the breakfast table the next morning
ne raped snlartly on the plate with the
handle of his knife and remarked:
Maria, me an your mother have beer
,s'Eln the thing over. an' we've come
70 the conclusion that this boardin
school business too Utterly all but TOT
much nonsense. Me and her consider
mat we haven't lived sixty odd con
sammate years for the purpose OF raisin
q curiosity, an there's goin' to be stol
y put TO this unquenchable foolishness
Now' after you've finished eating tina
poem Of fried sausage an that symptom,
VI twisted doughnnt. you take an dus
up u, stars III less AN two seconds an pee
I'LL Ill. mat fancy gown an' put on kaliker
an then come down here an help you
~! wash dishes. I want it dis
. u1ray understood that there aln'tgo
~, ~ oe no more rythmic foolishness il
,uS house, so longs your superlatiy'
t. an your lovely an consummate ma
=, ,11Aaln, the ranch. You hear me
''a''a -Lochpo1i Union.
Til" Yankee Girl Abroad.
i: IN her aptitude for the details of trav
t tS'g : the American girl often astonishe