Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-07-29


 ton of Be1indy's forced flight, by the various merchandise scattered along the road. Suddenly the old sailor came upon the very pail that the fair girl had shaken at him as she drove past and he stood on the deck of the Polly Q. What emotions rent the cap'n's soul as he looked at that pail. It was half full of prunes, and he ate one or two in the bitterness Of his spirit, and rolled dejectedly on. expecting every moment to find the evidence of some terrible catastrophe.
 At last whom should he see sitting beside the road on the seat of the dem ocrat wagon? Belindy herself! When the cap'n came up he hooked off his hat, pulled his foreloclz, and showed his right foot back along the grass. 'I begs your pardon, mum, for the cannon's goin' off, an hopes no bones is broke, an that sees you well?"
 "Im all right, says the fair Belindy, looking up with forgiving smile. ''The seat jounced out'n the wagon, an of course l jounced out with it TEe horse was to blame."
 after the cap'n had vented his spleen, in a nautical way, upon all horses in general, and the sorrel in particular, he exchanged names with Belindy and they talked and talked until Simon Yarrup drove old sorrel back with the idea of picking up the remains of his daughter.
 | "Belindy," he said, in open-mouthed wonder at discovering her alive and in the company of Cap'n Bounce, "what's the matter? Answer your pawl'' | '"Thank heaven!' put in Cap'n | o1,S Sc Co an finds herself, begs to report, as hearty an ship-shape as jolly afore breakfast"
 | "Paw," said Belindy, with a blush, 'Cap'n Bounce; Cap'n Bounce, paw" | This formality over with, mutual ex- plantations were made and a VOW never again to fire his cannon under any pre- tense whatever was given by the capn and solemnly recorded. After collect 1 ing the scattered merchandise, the cap'n was invited to call on the Yar- rups, the Yarrups were invited to call on tAe cap'n and they parted Belindy cast down her murky gray eyes and the cap'n emitted sigh that cost him suspender button and considerable feeling.
 'Gone," he murmured, looking after the democrat wagon. ''Gone, an my heart has gone with her!''
 The capn thereupon went in and set himself to polishing up his thermome- ter, which, in mockery of his wrought up feeling, stood at sixty degrees Everything lovely).
 In this romantic manner began 8 courtship truly Arcadian. The cap'n painted out the mysterious Polly Q. and rechristened his shack the Belindy Y. For some months everything went on swimmingly, and then, when the cap'n had finally screwed up h1s cour- age sufficiently to ask Miss Narrow to become the mate of the Belindy Y., a distressing mistake materialized that was far-reaching, indeed, in its conse- quences.
 Dragging from a sacred locker blue cap with gold band that only saw the flight on state occasions, 8 faultless double breasted jacket, and a pair of wide blue trousers, the old sailor ar rayed himself and, just as the evening shadows fell, started for the home of his inamorata. He had wrought him. self up for the momentous occasion he would propose to Miss Yarrup.
 Just as he came within signaling dis tance of the Yarrup dcmesne, however, ! U $ dows of the "best'' room and he fell to wandering what this could mean. Mrs. Yarrup's 'best' room was only used on Sundays and on the occasions when the cap'n called to see Belindy; so, as this was Tuesday, and the capn not ex- pected, what meant that light?
 The cap'n decided to reconnoiter be- : fore going in. Creeping stea1thily to the window he saw-oh, horror of hor- TOTS! Belindy Yarrup seated on a sofa with her hand Tn the hand of long, visaged individual, who wore light mustache and a yawning smile.
 Great heavens! The twenty-fourth teddy had proven faithless. The cap'n fingered until he saw the man with the long face embrace Belindy and then he rushed off into the darkness. After pondering over his sorrows brief space in one of old Simon'S straw stacks he > rose, brushed his clothes and drove , home. One thing was certain. The future of Cap'n Nathan Bounce was des. tined to be miserable apology for al existence. That night the cap'n wrote & letter:
 "BELINDY: have discovered you to be false - ! to me, but do not reproach nor condemn you When you receive this shall be far away my
  , l the Hottentot country or the Mosquito coast anywhere, but not here. could bear up under Itwenty-three like aflictions, but this, th' twenty-fourth, has heaped my cup of unhappi = ness, and now leave your forever. Farewell
 "CAP'N BOUNCE.' But Cap'n Bounce got no nearer r Hottentot country than Bismarck l There he tarried, and one day Jim Lit
 tel, of Paradise, ran across him mopinf ] along the Missouri river. It was the1 2 that the cap'n learned how old Simo1 r Yarrups son, whom they supposed to b. :, dead, had come back to them. As the description of this son given by Jin ] Littel coincided with that of the olt l sailors supposed rival the cap'n dis l covered his sad error and hurried bacl 2 to Paradise, but no explanation woulC y avail with the fair Belindy. Old Si g mons son had come back rich and h. e was going to be the making of hi: ], folks. They were going east to live