Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-07-15

alttT tue SulTN lIt SIphtu hIIIe WAS Lizerunt.
 She worked at a pickle factory and ap- peared abroad in an elaborate and shabby costume, usually supplemented by a white apron.
 Withal she was something of 3 beauty that Is to say. her checks were very red, her teeth were very large and white. her nose was small and snub and her fringe was long and shiny. while her face, new washed. was susceptible of a high polish. Many such girls are married at Is. but Lizerunt was much brlated and had never a bloke at all.
 Billy Chope WAS year older than Lize- runt. He wore hillycock with thin brim and permanent dent ill the crown. He had a hobtail coat. and his collar was turned up at one side and down at the other. as an expression of independ- ence. Between his meals he wore his hands in his hreerhcs pockets. He lived with his mother. who Inangled.
 His conversation with Lizerunt con sisted long of perfunctory mods, but this especial Thursday evening, ss Lizerunt, making for home. followed the fading red beyond the farthcrmost end of Com mercial road, great things happened, for Billy Chope. slouching in the oppo- site direction. lurched across the pave ment ns they met. and taking the nearer hand from his pocket caught and twisted her arm, pumping her against the wall.
 "Garn. said Lizerunt greatly pleased. ''le' go!" For she knew that this was love.
 Where yer auf to. LiLrr:'
 "Ome, O course. cheeky Le' gor" and she snatched in vain at Billy'S hat.
 Billy let go and capered in front. She feigned 10 dodge by him. careful not to be too quick. because affairs were drvel- oping.
 T sy, Lizer." said Billy. stopping his dance and becoming businesSlike, ''goin anywhere Monday"
 Not along Q you. cheeky. You go long O Beller Dawson. like wot you did Easter"
 Blow Beller Dawson: she ain't no good. I'm goin on the flats. Conner"
 Lizerunt. delighted but derisive. ended with promise to see" The bloke had come at least, and she walked home with the feeling of having taken her degree
 She had half assured herself of it two days before. when Sam Cardew threw an orange peel at her. but went away after little prancing on the pavement.
 Sam was smarter fellow than Billy and earned his own living. Probably his intentions were serious, but one must prefer the bird ill hand. There is no other fair like Whit Mon days on Wanstead flats. Here is a square mile and more of open land where you may howl at large. Here. the pub lie houses are always with you; shows, shieS swings, merry y-go-rounds. fried fish stalls. donkeys. are packed closer than on Hampstead Heath.
 Also you may be drunk and disorderly without heinz locked up. for the stations won't hold veryhody. and when all else has palled you may set fire to the turf. Hcreinto Billy and Lizerunt projected themselves from the doors of the Holly Tree on Whit Monday m nrning.
 But through hours and hours of fried fish and half pints both were conscious ot a deficiency, for the hat of Lizerunt was brown and old. plush ii was not. and its feather was a mere foot long and very rusty black.
 Now. il is not decent for factory gir from Lin!chuuso 10 90 bank holiGayins under any but a hat of plush. very higl in the crown and of a wild blue or { wilder green. carrying also an ostricl feather, pink or scarlet. or what no that springs from the fore part, climbt the crown and drops as far down tn, shoulders as may be.
 Lizerunt knew this and would hay, stayed at home without bloke, but 1 chance Is chance.
 Billy, too. had vague impression muddled. but not drowned in half pint that some degree of plush was con dign to the occasion and to his own ex penditure.
 Still there was no quarrel, and tn pair walked and ran with arms abou each others ueCks, and Lizerun thumped her bloke on the back at prope intervals. so that the affair proceede, very regularly. although in view of Liz erunt's shortcomings Billy did not insis upon the customary exchange of hats. | Everything went we'll and well enoug until Billy bought ladies tormento and began to squirt it at Lizerunt.
 For then Lizerunt went scamperin
 madly with piercing shrieks until he
 bloke was left some little way behind r and Sam CarIvw. turning up at tha n moment and seeing her running alone
 the crowd. threw his arms about he
 waist and swung her round him agai 2 and again as he tloundered this way an
 that among the shies and the hoky pok = barrows.
 "'Ullo, Lizer! Where are y a-comi
 to? If 'adn't laid old Q yer
 But here Billy Chope arrived to d
 mand what Sam Cardew was doing wit
 his gal. Now, Sam was ever readier f.
 fight than Billy was, but the sum
 Billy's half pints was large, wherefol
 the fight began.
 On the skirt of the hilarious ring Liz
 runt. after some small outcry. triumpht
 aloud. Four days before she had I
 bloke. and here she stood with two, ar
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