Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-12-03

and when he shall say it. He thinks.
too, that he can be pretty certain Of her
answer for he would not be so foolish
as to ask, though, if she should make
some few objections, he hopes and be-
lieves he knows just how to combat
them successfully. So he lays ont mis-
plans while Angelina sleeps peacefully.
dreaming. most probably, OF him: and
he retires to rest in stat Of supreme
Observation-Disclosures is likely to have
visions of some other and hitherto for
gotten girl.
The courtship begins and prospers
somes~l-,.t slowly, as courtships will
when carried on beneath alien ewes:
but one day he calls and asks her to
walk. Happily they are suburban and
natural. SO Angelina assents; she is
lovely and Iight-headed, Tom gallant
and gay. He knows Of path in a ro-
mantle piece of woods, a lovely bit of
forest with fallen trees and broken
ridges and a purling. winding brook-a
little oasis of nature left in the desert of
advancing civilization for just such hap
py pairs as this They talk of the last
dance they attended in the winter; he
tries sentiment, but she insists on re-
calling the incidents of that evening in
a very different way: How very pleas
ant Dick Darcy was, and what a delight
full dancer, his step quite suits mine
which was not what Tom planned at
all
How can he make a point while
hearing his rival praised?
In the midst of her chatter about the
delights of the past season, she steps
on a root running zigzag across the
path, and hurts her foot Instantly
our swain is al sympathy and pity.
VIII she not show him where it was
hurt? No, of course not; she could not
do that, and besides. how would it help
the matter? Then he signs and wishes
it was her rounded chin or pretty hands,
that he could make them well by an
old recipe his mother had when he was
a little child. She, never thinking,
asks what it is, and when he says: "A
kiss" she exclaims: oh" and trips on
ahead of him, blushing furiously, but
feeling pretty happy after all
This episode was not in Toms plan,
but he thinks it a good one and be-
lieves he has scored point.
They come to fallen tree; this Tom
had remembered and given it a promi-
nent place in his proposed campaign.
lie would hold her hands and holp her
over and-but the girl vaults lightly
across unassisted, and Tom says some
thing rather bad under his breath as he
thinks that there was fine chance
lost.
They walk along in the cool green
shade until the brook is reached; then
he CALAMITY puts his foot into the shall
low water and tells Angelina to step
on it and SO pass dry shod But she
spies piece of rock and makes a STEP
ping stone of that, declaring that she
could not think of crushing his foot be-
meath her weight. Tom looks at the
slender figure and springy step and
laughs at the idea Of her hurting him.
but groans inwardly as he thinks of
this being another planned episode
gone astray. The only results are Il
wet shoe and the bottom of his new
trousers badly dabbled.
Angelina is sparkling as the sun
shine, as enticing as beauty, good
health and warm heart can make her;
but Toms eourtship does not progress
She is very will-o'-the- wisp along
conversational paths; as he seems near
ing the desired point, she is off and
away on some other line of thought
He follows and tries to take the lead.
but with the perversity of her youth
and sex, she avoids the very thing she
most would have, and will not allow
him to say one word even verging on
sentiment At length Tom lapses into
monosyllabic replies, and looks as he
feels-very downcast and little
gloomy SIZE watches him furtively,
and begins to take a less heartless
tone. He is quick to see the change,
so IN, intains his respondent manner,
letting it gradually harden into auster-
ity. AS he becomes severe, she softens,
until, declaring she is tired out, she
throws herself on green knoll,
spreads out her pretty draperies and
prepares herself to be propitiated,
coaxed and courted.
Tom feels instantly that his chance
has come, and, honest gentleman chat
be Is, shows his JOY IN his face. He
throws himself down quite near to her
and falls to praising her dress, her hat,
the fit of her gloves, the dainty chain
around her slender throat. 1t is only
the beginning, and soon love makes
him eloquent, though his heart is beat
ing furiously and he has forgotten
every speech which he had prepared
No matter; her heart beats as fast as
his and every throb pleads for him as
he speaks-until at last he draws her
toward him, lifts the dropping head,
takes one long glance into the soft
brown eyes and lets his lips touch hers
in the first kiss of love- His veins
throb and, forgetting himself for an
instant, he holds her so close and tight
that she is frightened and begins to
cry. Then he feels as if he were a
criminal and pets and soothes her into
quiet.
They sit there long, hand in hand,
saying little, only feeling that the SUI
preme good has come to them and