The Newtown bee., 1892-08-12
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sessing himself of Edith's hand, gave i pressure which brought the brighi blush to her fair young cheeks.
 s'Yes. love story. Once upon : time-say 100 years ago, or tn ereabouts- there was young man whose name wal Tom, and he lived in New York. Ht was rather a lonely young man, for h' had no home, and had lodgings tha
 were not very nice; but he minded it les
 because he had never known what 1, home was; and, besides, he was very busy all the time."
 ssWhat was he busy at?'' shouted Jack, who was famous for asking ques
 tions.
 ''He was clerk in a great wholesal,
 warehouse
 "What did they sell?"
 ''Now, Jack. you mustn't keep inter rupting,'' cried the other children.
 "They sold machinery, Jack, and farmers tools-ploughs and harrows and such likeand all sorts of inven tions and patents; what are known now adays as Yankee notions"
 "Why, that is just like Clark X Am bler," cried Jack, but somebody hushed him up. Grandpa only laughed. Clark &5 Amber were the successors of the house in which all his money had been made.
 ssAs said before, he was very busy for though business was on a smaller scale then than now, this was one of the largest houses in that line, and there was great deal to do; and, by working hard, he had laid up some money and, what was better, earned the good will and confidence of his employers. There was some talk of his becoming junior partner in year or two; and, altogeth- CT, he felt that the world was going smoothly with him.
 He hadn't many relations, this young man. His parents were dead and he had no aunts nor uncles. There was a first cousin of his fathers living in New Eng land; but he had never seen him or any of his family. But just at this time, his two daughters came to town to make a visit to a friend"
 "What were their names, grandpa? ?' asked little Nell, in her soft voice.
 "Well, pet, we'll name one of them Edith and the other Ellen. They always called each other 'Dittie' and Nelly Edith was the prettiest. She had long, light hair, blue eyes and fair skin and, was just about the sort of girl young fellows picture themselves falling in love with some day. And, l assure you, the young fellow Pm telling you about did so the very first time he saw her."
 ''And was Nelly pretty, too?" asked the Nelly on grandpa's knee.
 "Well," continued grandpa, in con- sidering tone, mot exactly. She had brown hair and eyes and trim little fig ure, and looked altogether good and hon. est and sweet. Still, guess most young men would have given her sister 10 glances where they gave her one. Atall events, my young man did; for he look ed at Dittie all the time, and hardly saw Nelly at all.
 There were not many places of amuse- nent in those days, but, such as they were, they seemed very brilliant to these country girls, who had never been in the city before. And you rarely see cousin IS polite as Cousin Tom-so ready to de- vote all his spare time in taking them to his place, and that place, and hunting 1p shows and entertainments for them. They wrote home to their father how kind he had been their letters were full of him; and, in return, papa wrote and sent his regards, and Cousin Tom must surely come and spend his Thanksgiving with them in New Hampshire. You may De sure cousin Tom was ready enough to accept the invitation, for he had never seen girls so pretty or so nice before; md, by this time, had quite made up his mind to fall in love with his cousin Edith.
 It was all arranged. The young ladies went home, late in October and the day before Thanksgiving, if nothing prevent sd, Tom was to present himself in -, he place they lived at in New Hamp- shire.''
 "What place was it, grandpa ?" persist ed Jack.
 Suppose we call it Westfield, replied grandpa, with twinkle. "As it hap oened, this young clerks employer had some business to be transacted in the own of Elgin, only 12 miles from Vest ield-and as Tom was going so near, he decided to entrust it to him, only, it un- luckily happened, this business must be attended to, the Monday before Thanks giving.
 But never mind that said the head of he firm. T'll give you fortnight's cave, and you had better be of, next Tuesday; that will bring you to Elgin on night. You can do the busi- less, Monday and be free to go to your friends by Monday evening. Then you leed not report yourself here till next Thursday week. How will that an- werg
 ''It answered wonderfully well, ex- ,ept for one little thing and that was hat Tom did not like the idea of pre- enting himself at a strangers house two lays before he was expected. However, here was no time to write. Mails trav- lied rarely to that part of the country. There'll be tavern or something, Tom aid to himself. 'I'll go there and see low the land lies before make my ap- 
 So, in the best of spirits, he starred or his AS hours of staging. An. boys, ,ou may talk as much as you like of the