Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1892-09-02

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Caught whom?" said Mr.. Maverick,
! frowning little at the interruption, az
he turned the page.
"The girl MS steals our flowers"
"Where?"
Cup on the garden WALL"
why doesn't she get down againP'
"Because I've tooken the bit ladder
nwayl" exultantly answered old Peter.
Mr.. Maverick smiled grimly, let
her stay there then, until she asks par
don and promises good behavior for the
futurer" said he, and relapsed instantly
into Carlyle"
Old Peter went back, chuckling TO
himself.
AHA, bairny," said he, my master
says ye're 10 speer his pardon and
promise never 10 steal flowers againw
81 WON'T" cried indignant Patty.
"Suit yourself, suit yourself" said old
Peter, and he went TO work at somo
tulip bulbs with the most barbarous
Indifference. And there sat pretty
Patty ON the wall, her little feet hang
ing down among wild honeysuckles
and Michigan roses, her hair showed
over with the huttering petals Of the
ounce blossoms. for whose sweet sake
she had rislted so much.
~ can't jump" said Patty to herself,
otis too far; and | can't climb down,
for there's a quickest hedge on one side,
and a straight, steep wall on the other.
And I'll neper ask the horrid old bache-
lor's pardon, no, not II sit here for
three daysl''
At the end Of an hour or two old Mac
kenzie came toward her.
"Will ye say yo're sorry9" demanded
he
mo, WON'T" said Patty.
He went back to his master.
"She wunna say she's sorry, sir, !"
said he.
LET her stay there, them" said Mr..
Maverick abstractedly.
But when the level beams OF the
sunset peered through the wistaria
leaves and danced on the pages Of THE
French Revolution" Mr.. Maverick
threw aside his book with yawn.
"Nfaclsenziel' said be.
sir" responded the gardepeE
Ills that child up on the wall yetP"
"There she is SIR" answered the old
man, "and there she's like to stay. A
wrang-headed, willfu' creature as ever
/ set eyes on"
"I'll go out and speak TO her myself"
said Mr.. Maverick, little impatiently.
And Patty, from her lonely height,
looked down upon handsome, middle
aged face, with dark, laughing eyes, a
beard like jetty silk, and rich olive
skin He started back in blank sur
prise at beholding. instead of the
Rawhy, village schoolgirl for whom he
had looked, n pretty young lady with
blue eyes, floating golden hair, and a
pink muslin dress
Mackenzie" said he, there has
been a mistaken
"Nae mistake at a, sir, nae mistake
at a." persisted the old gardener. II
caught her a-stealin' EN- my ainsepf'
Mr.. Maverick turned gravely TO the
dimpled captive on the garden wall.
"Are you the purloiner Of flowers?''
said he. THE hardened wretch that
declines TO supplicate for pardon?"
Are you the fiinty-hearted old bach
elor?" sauclly retorted Patty, who was
tired and hungry and sunburned, but
resolute still.
IAN old bachelor-yes, but flinty-
hearted-nol Mackenziel"
"Sirr'
Bring the ladder at ouce!-
but, sir, she hasna speered pardon
yeti" cried the bewildered old Scotch
man.
Bring the ladder, sayl" And then,
as Patty reached the ground, he bowed
low.
"Will you forgive l..s??" said he. "For
assure you that II had known II was
anyone but the tormentiag h.tle school
children, this should not have hap
pened."
Ill only wanted o few ounce bios
SONS to pattern my wax flowers after.
said Patty, with crimsoned check and
quivering lip, "and-"
Mr.. Maverick glanced down at the
faded flowers to " hich our little heroine
still valiantly chung,
"And these are all wIlted," said he,
"Allow me to get you some more"
Guide save us ar commented old
Peter TO himself; here's T. master
speering pardon of Z lassie, instead OF
her TO himl lst world a upseed DOWN
But Mackenzie's establishment wa
nothing to that of Miss Araminta Aller
when she saw Patty Price come saun
tering leisurely home with Mr.. Maver
lex at her side, all laden with blossom
ing ounce boughs, and heard him say;
"Tn bring you those maidenhaii
ferns and oxalis specimens in the morn
ing, Miss Price; and II there is any
thing else about the place you fancy
beg you 10 consider my grounds as en-
tirely at your disposal"
"How have you conquered him9" sale
Araminta, In amazement
"He is an old bachelor" said Patty
laughing, "but he isn't so very dread
full, after ALL"
And when the ounce blossoms were
all gone and the tall tiger lilies were
in bloom Albert Maverick asked littl'
Patty Price TO give up her city classes
and stay at Maverick Hall altogether
And there are no more broken bottles
on the garden wall, for Mrs Maverick
let's the children have all the flower
they want.-Amy Randolph, In N. Y
Ledger,
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