The Sunday morning news., 1891-11-15
ALHAMBRY JAMES OUTING.
1t Was Considerably Complicated by an Ancient Spec
ulation in Green Goods.
BY MARY KYLE DALLAS.
oopvrfoM 1sst-Au iehts ReSerued


she had to take it. and it's worse now"
1--WE heard your ma retail her suffer
ms" says L, "but she lived through
them. So will you"
mo, l shan't," says Alhambry; "Fd
rather be took for anything than a
crank. | won't have that thing poked
onto me. Eff l had relationship that
had any detachment for me they'd rise
up in my offense when most need 'em.
You can carry on when you're mind
to, Aunt Becky; why air vou dumb and
motion1ess now?"
"Alhambry Jane" eaysI ''your great
granper in naturally quite an elderly,
aged, old gentleman. and sot. Fur to be
conterdicted fur the first time in his
ninety-oneth year might be fatal More
over, though I'm not mercenarious,
don't advise a family that amt more
forehanded than they wish to be offend
ing a great-granper with property to
leave behind him, and that has already
had evil influences brought to bear in
regard to leaving it to charitable consti-
tutions instead of his own ancestors.
What is a trunk, however wounding to
the fashionable inspirations of the heart,
to few thousands to start life with?
Be carr, Alhambry Jane, and say to
yourself, what can't be cure must be in
sured, and you and Neptune will be
thankful hereafter"
Well, Alhambry Jane felt to feel that
was judgmatical in most things, and
she washed her face in the tin basin out
side the kitchen door and went in. Her
eyes looked like poached eggs, but the
rest of the family knowed why. and
great-granper's eyes wern't overly good
and he didn't notice.
Only Alhambry James pa, who is
kinder abstractiye, kept lookin puzzled
and sayin:
II had orter tell Alhambry about that
there trunk or suthin, but 1 can't re-
membe what it is"
Poor Alhainbry. l used to hear her
cryin and moanin in her sleep after
that, and I'd go in and shake her, and
she'd say: "Oh, Aunt Becky! had
nightmare. | thought great-gTanper
Rusk's old hair trunk had got up and
was sottin on my chest" Or else she
Wa6 d uIGdlIlu tl1dL BIG was cCItAh az
the winder of one Of them fixy taverns
they have down to York, and seen the
colored walters histin the trunk in and
all the fastidicle company larfin at it.
And once she thought all her outside
clothes had to be put into it because it
was so big, and she was obleeged to
walk up Broadway in nothin; but
thoughts of that old hair trunk kerved
lines into Alhambry James noble brow
that week that never was defaced, and
amt this minute. But she didn't say
nothin, and time went on like a relent-
less jugglenot and fetched on the we'd
ding day.
There wus no gret calamitudes fur
as l know, only great-granper felt like
he'd enjoy helpin make the fruit cake
and, his eyesight bein kinder repaired,
he took piece of brown soap for some
citron. and sliced it up and stirred it in,
and the evenin of the weddin her pa went
up garret to read suthin another about
! the tariff and forgot about comm down
until most too late, and then appeared at
| the door in his old flannel dressin gown,
sayin, you and Neptune is sottin up
ruther late, darter," as they used to do
courtin nights when he thought Nep
! ought to go hum. But every body there
knowed he was abstractive. so there
wern't no need to mind SO much as AL
hanbry did.
| The minister beginnin to christen the
young couple instead of marryin 'em
wern't nothln neither, only Alhambry's
sensitudes is so delicate, and when the
other folks all snickered she cried and
made herself look like she was peelin
/ onions for the rest of the eyenin. I've
noticed that it's those that feels things
most they happen to oftenest. But
4 things might have been wus at Alham-
bry's weddin, even her travelin suit
/ Seems as ct it was natral arrangement
of Providence that when two is wed his
clothes should fit too good and hers
! shouldn't fit at all A brides travelin
| frock always makes her look as ugly as
she kin accordin to her gifts that way,
and though Alhambry Jane was right
pretty sometimes in an old caliker with
the sleeves tucked up, hangin out the
washin, in her case her white weddin
! gown was more unbecoming than her
gray travelling suit. eff that was pos
sible.
But what does s-ch things matter if
the young couple is happy and don't
know it. On what slender chains hangs
our Joys or our sorrer. While they wus
biddin us goodby great-granper says to
Neptune:
'Nep, you kin tlo me favor down in
York. My old friend Captain Peeler
was down to see me yesterday, and he
was showing me his watch that was pre-
sented to him by the passengers for his
1 gallant conduct in q case of shipwrecs
and unhitched itsfron his chain and left
it behind. Now want you should take
4 it to him. just put 1T in your pocket
He's at the Astor House"
/ "All right, granper,' says Neptune
and buttoned it up, never guessin whai
trouble it would bring.
''Goodby," says pa; "seems to me
there wus something ! meant TO say
about that there trunk, can't remember
what it wus though"
Then they wus off and we all throwet
rice and old shoes. We didn't know
until afterward how some of the rice go
into Alhambry's eye, nor how pas slip