Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1893-10-19

STOOD Up AND SAL HE WAS THASkFur-
slowed very little attention upon that
lady. Yet she was very fair 20 look
upon She was tall. handsome. rosy
checked, and the play and sparkle of a
perfectly healthy life shone in a thou
sand lights in her dark-blue eyes As
Jacks normal appetite and reawakened
mind returned he began to take partie-
ular notice of Mary's personal charae-
teristicS She was an early riser and
was generally TO be found in the flower
garden. or among the cows. or in the
field where the farmhauds were at
work Jack had worked for years at
night upon n daily paper. but somehow
he had not been long upon the farm
before he, too. had become an early
riser. IL was also. at least. a singular
coincidence that in the course of his
morning strolls around the farm he
met Miss Mary frequently and found
her company IN more and more
agreeable. lie had intended to return
to the Marigold Mirror after a weeks
absence, but at the end of that time he
wrote to his sub just to keep on sub
bling until further orders, as he found
his health improving rapidly. Owing
to the peculiar characteristics of farm
life Jack and Mary were thrown a good
deal together. lie always found her
merry and full of fun, so that. although
he was at first inclined to play the mel
ancholy Dane to attract pity and inter
est in his ease. he gradually found him
self being laughed into a state of abso-
lutte j~ovialty- Cupid must have been
hiding in the GSass or among the rose
bushes, for certainly great changes
were taking place in the demeanor OF
the shark chairman of the Marigold
Mirror.
A fortnight. three weeks. had slipped
away. and July was melting into Au-
gust. but still Jack Rule fingered on the
farm lie explained this frightening
of his stay to his cousin By saying thar
his cure wasn't quite complete yet,
although he felt himself getting better
every day; and then the cousins wife
winked and smiled slyly-very slyiy-
and whispered to her husband that per-
haps Mary Blame would have 4 good
deal 10 do with the ultimate cure: with
which opinion Jacks cousin instantly
coneurred- One morning when the
birds were twittering merrily among the
bushes and the sun was spreading a
tempered radiance over meadow and
tree and brook. Jack found himself
gathering a posy Of d~ew-drenched fow-
erS What will I do with them?r he
asked himself Well" he answered
to himself, I'll give them I o Mary
and As this lady, with hes pleasant face
Swallowed in n large sunoonnet, ap-
peared At that moment in the doorway
n called him to breakfast, no doubt
he carried put his intention
Six weeks after Jack Rules vaca ton
commenced he reappeared in the Mari
gold Mirror office. looking As brown as
a berry and as happy as the biggest
sunfiower ever seen His manner was
80 different from what il used TO be, he
looked 50 much more like a good
natured human being, that he was
hailed with inquiries on every side.
Hello, Jack. How did you enjoy your
tripT First rate, never enjoyed my
self more in my life. I feel as il / dom,
care for typesticking any more. Auy.
how, I'll put on q sub for two nights a
week for some time to come" Another
said: Hello. Jack. how much do you
weigh nowT" And Jack replied: More
than twice what I did wheh I went
away" why. how in thunder is that?'
Well, you see. I've got q better half
now, and the weight of the whole nat
urally exceeds the weight of the
moiety." Then Jack set them up for
the whole house like a man-an extrav-
agance such As he had never before
been guilty of-Malcolm Mcpherson,
in National Printer-Jo urnalist-
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