Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-07-01

draw glowing pictures Tor her OF neat
little porter house in the city, wherein
they should hold supreme sway, be
happy with each other, and let rooms
up stairs for single gentlemen.
The brisk land breeze, the swelling
sail, the fluttering of the gay little flag
at the gait, the musical ripping %
water under the counter and the
spirited motion of the boat ombined
with the bland air and pleasant sun
shine to inspire the party with much
vivacity. They had not been many
minutes afioat before the guitar case
was opened. and the girls voices
Laura's soprano and Hattie's eontralto
rang melodious1y over the waves,
mingled with feeble attempts at bass
accompaniment from their gorgeous
guardians
Before these vocal exercises wearied
the skipper hauled down his jib. let go
his anchor, and brought the craft to,
just off the rocks; and, bringing
the yawl alongside, unceremoniously
dumped the girls down into it without
giving their cavaliers a chance for the
least display of agile courtliness.
Rowing ashore, this same tarry person
left them huddled upon the beach, with
| their hopes, their hampers, their emo
tons and their baskets, and returned
| to the vessel to do little private fish
| ing on his own account till wanted
The mnidens gave vent to their high
spirits by chasing each other among
the rocks, gathering shells and seaweed
for the construction of those ephemeral
little ornaments-fair, but frail-in
which the sex delights, singing laugh
| ing, quoting poetry, attitudinizing
Il nj lalr -
old powders
Meanwhile Ned and Charley smoked
the pensive cigar of prepare ton in a
| sheltered corner, and gazed out sea-
| ward, dreaming and seeing nothing.
Erelong the breeze and the romp gave
the young ladies not only a splendid
color and sparkling eyes, but excellent
appetites also The baskets and ham,
| pers were speedily unpaeked, the table
| cloth laid on a broad, fat stone, so
/ used by generations of Grant House
| picuickers, and the party fell to- Laura's
/ beautiful hair, n little disordered swept
her blooming cheek, and cast a pearly
shadow upon her neck. Her bright
i eyes glanced arcbly out from under her
half-raised veil, and there was something
inexpressibly naive in the freedom with
| which she ate, taking a birds wing in
her little fingers, and boldly attacking
it with teeth as white and even as can
be imagined Notwithstanding all the
i mawkish nonsense that has been put
forth by sentimentalists concerning
feminine eating, hold that it is one of
the incest things in the world to see
pretty woman enjoying the creature
comforts; and Byron himself, had he
been one Of this picnic party,
would have been unable to resist
the admiration that filed the souls
of Burnham and Salisbury. Hattie
Chapman stormed fortress of boned
turkey with gusto equal to that of
Laura, and made highly successful
raids upon certain outlying salads and
jellieS The young men were not in q
very ravenous condition; they were, as
have said, little nervous, and bent
their energies principally to admiring
the ladies and coquetting with picked
oysters
When the repast was over, with much
accompanying chat and laughter, Ned
glanced significantly at Charley, and
proposed to Laura that they should
walk up the beach to a place
where he said, there were some
pretty rocks and things you know. 4"
She consented, and they marched
off. Hattie also arose, and took her
parasol, as if to follow, but Charley
remained seated. tracing mysterious
diagrams upon the table-cloth with his
fork, and looking sublimely uncon-
scious
"Sha'n't we walk, too?" Hattie
asked
20, why! the fact is" said he, hes
itantly, IL sprained my ankle, get
ting out of that COMPOUNDED boat; so /
don't feel much like exercise just now. I"
The young girls face expressed con-
Germ.
That is too bad Why didn't you
tell US of it before? Is it painful? I'm
so sorryl"
''N-no; it doesn't hurt much dare
say it will be all right in a minute
And then-rd just as soon stay here
with you-as to walk anywhere"
This very tenderly, with a little
sigh
Hattie sat down again, and began to
talk to this Fictitious cripple, in the
pleasant purring way some damsefs
have, about the joys of the sea-shore-
the happy summer that was. alasi
drawing to a close-her own enjoy
ment of life-and kindred topics-til
1 I'D" al SACGALcAb
to interrupt with some aspirations of
his own, which, he averred, must be
realized before his life could be con-
sidered satisfactory success
If you have ever been placed in anal
ogous circumstances, you know, of
| course, Just about the sort of thing that
was being said by the two gentlemen
| at nearly the same moment: Ned, lott
ering slowly along the sands with
Laura on his ARMAND Charley,
stretched in indolent picturesqueness
upon the rocks, with Hattie sitting be-
side him If you do not know from
experience, ask any candid friend who
has been through the form and cere-
mony of an orthodox proposal
When the pedestrians returned, the
, two couples looked very hard at eacf
other. All were smiling and compla
cent but devoid of any unusual expires
l sion. Indeed the countenance IS sub
7 ject to such severe education in
good society, that one almost AWAY.
, | looks smiling and complacent- Demon