News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-06-01

"No, | hain't got nobody's trunk.
lost this on my way home from New
York last summer, and here il il.
But the clothes come real handy,
didn't they?"
He turned them over kinder care
less, as if they want Of much value
tew him. They was year old now.
and | suppose he considered them all
gone by and out of stile.
When he came to the leather box
with Manicure's name on it, he look
ed at the tools and finally carried it
to his room and set il on the table.
Going down stairs, Car'line says TO
me:
"That Manicure will git herpresent
now, after ALL" and answers. "Yes.
but | didn't think much about it.
After this eppersode happened, all
at once Car'line seemed to change i'm
her manners toward Richard Cor
don. When he spoke to her she
answered stiff and proper, instid of
laughing and sassy as she used tew
and she kept out of his way all she
could.
He was terribly cutup, didn't know
what to make on it, and hung round
trying to git n word with her alone,
but she wouldn't give him no chance.
1t was so for week. till suppose he
could stand it no longer, for, come
Sunday morning, he says at the
table before us all:
Miss Carline, will you go To
church with me this morning."
Car'line glanced at him for asecond
half defying, half crying, but some
thin compelled her, / suppose, for she
answered low and trembly you could
hardly hear.
"Yes-I dunno but | WILL" then
run off upstairs.
| thought at the time that they
would come to an understanding
with one another on the way ter
meeting, and they did. She told me
all about it, She always con6des in
me as ifw were two girls together.
1t seems they took a cross-road
that led through the woods. 1t was
a good deal further, but they didn't
care, they had plenty of time. They
walked quite piece without speak
ing and pretty soon Richard took
hold of Car lines hand and looked at
it.
"Car'line," says he, "where is the
ring | give you? Have you lost it?"
She snatched away her hand, and
says she: mo / haint lost it, but /
am not going to wear it anymore.
You may have it to give to Mani
cure.
To give to who?" he asks, stop
ping still in the road and looking at
her with his mouth wide open.
"Why to that other girl. You
know who and you need not pretend
to look so inherent. l dew hate and
despise a cheat-so nowl" says she.
"a cheat? Who is a cheat he asks,
dreadful stern. "Hain't paid my
board bill-hain't paid all my bills?
Carline laughed. "You men think
as long as you pay your board and
store-bills you are all right. You
forget you owe something to
girls hearts and feelings"
Car tine, Carline, what Go you
mean? he says, droppin on n big
rocker and pulling her down side OF
him.
Now, Car'line, he says, loving and
firm, 'you tell me what | have done.
She dropped her head and blushed
"It's, it's that other girl-Manicure, "
she says.
"Manicure, Manicure" he repeats
to himself, and looks wild.
Eyes. You know who | mean. Her
name is on the box you are keepin ftr
her Oh, Richard, who is she, and
where is she?"
Then he hollered and laughed as il
he would die.
"Oh, Car'line, Car'linep says he,
when he got so he could speak
What dear little igdorant goose
you bew and he hugged her and
kissed her over and over, laughing
all the time as il he was crazy; and
Car'line, half mad, half ashamed, had
to submit, whether no. But when he
had stopped at last get his breath,
she begins again pouting:
w nO - nlAtS ANiNhaAh W hO -
Manicure?"
Then he tells her aboutit, and says
she shall have the box, and he will
show her how to use the little tools,
though her fingers are pretty enough
without and he kisses them again and
again 10 prove it; and when Car'line
finds out what silly blunder il all
is, she hides her face and feels wuss'n
ever, and cries and asks Richard If he
amt ASHAMED of loving sucn a silly
little gumpl'
And he tells her how lie amt, how
lac thinks she is Jest right as she is, in
every single respect but one. He
would like to change her name to his
Hawkins to Gordon-Tight away,
if she was willing.
Then they both laugh and feel bet
ter ane there they set and talk and
talk, till the last bell begins TO ring;
then they go sarntering along the
through the fields.
And the fields was paradise, and
the church was heaven ter them tew,
because they was tergether. But
you know, and know, Jest how they
felt, and how everything seemed To
them; so what is the use of my say
ing any ore?-Belle c. Creme.