Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-12-30

and merry laughter. About the table
We're as many as hundred gentlemen
and ladies. clad in as many kinds of
dress, running back to the modes of
the middle and further ages There
was Mrs. Cleopatra, who was not at
tired to any great extent, clinking
glaP ses with a gentleman who appeared
to bear close resemblance To .Iulius
Caesar and pointing a coquettish finger
at Mr. Antony. There was Queen
Eli kabeth, with ruffie around her
nee k so large that it seemed as il it
ought to choke her. exchanging excia-
ma tions of wonder with Walter
Ral cigh with respect to the BROOKLYN
bri dgc, whiel King John tossed merry
Jes Is to Annie Laurie and got them
baf * again, Mary Queen of SCOTS dis
Gus sed the war tariff with Lord Darn
ley and William Shakespeare put up
his hands with Francis Bacon in a
VIC lent argument as to Mr.. Darwin's
origion of man.
Plummer had apparently risen to "A
sitt ing posture about this time and was
dri hiking it all in with his eyes and
wishing the same with respect to his
eager mouth, when there advanced a
marvelously pretty lady who an
nopnced herself as Hagar in the wilder
ness, and Immediately introduced a
lady with a water-vessel ON her shapely
head as Rachel at the we'll
! In good faith" said Plummer gal
Ian tly. ''you carry your years right
royalty. Iou must be-why, good
grAcious.' exclaimed Plummer, as he
has Silly INDUCED in mathematics, "vou
must be so old that you can't count it.
and here you are with the down
and color of the peach on Your
your cheeks, and with eyes that spark lie
and lips that lift my soul to unuttcr-
able yearning BY heavens. it is good
to be here And how are Uncle Abra-
ham and little Ishmael?"
We may not dwell" said Rachel at
the well; and thereupon Hagar in the
wi lderness spoke up business, like, but
with a winning smile:
I'VE are appointed "A committee of
two to bear to you the compliments OF
the Queen of sheba, and conduct YOU
to her Majesty's side. Shall we have
that honor?'
You bet exclaimed Plummer. with
great rudeness; recognizing and re-
GREETING which. he promptly added
Even as the duck yearneth for its
native element, so my heart goeth out
to her serene and unrivalled Majesty"
'Plummer, said her Majesty, as |
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raised like, i have long looked ahead
to this hour. Hundreds of years |
have waited for it. All, with what in.
tehsity of alternate hope and de.
sphir, dear Plummer Sweetheart,
have drini?'
The concluding words seemed harsh
to me, though they were uttered in
the clearcst and most musical of tones.
! quaffed, however, and it must have
been of IA beverage brewed by the i'm
mortal gods. Fast as | quaffed. odd as
1T may seem, the words were repeated.
'Sweethearts, try another and finally
sank, | swooned-the spectacle, the
music, the company faded away
knew no more
The Christmas day began with Nv
ing snow. The bells rang out from
church steeples aud rang merrily from
the nccks of flying horses. The win
dows had countless forest and citv
scenes and figures on them, traced by
the merry but eccentric frost at
must be late" said forlorn figure,
staggering to an upright position in a
deserted hallway, "Wh-hy, where S