The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-01-01

Z real name was bridget, but for some TO
I markahlcr oaeon DrIil stands for Bridget
| particularly when Bridget is Ia the hah't
I Of spending her cvery sparo minute ia
/ reading the family story papers. hclins
only relation was "a klf blind grano-
: mother. who wore quilted hood and
I knitted coarse stockings for her living.
I Della worked as buncher in "a feather
} factory and earned a. high as s. week
I sometimes. but then other times sheonly
got 81 5O-according TO the hriskncss OF
/ trade-as she did piccework.
Della was pretty. with violet eyes, half
I hidden by thick lashes, delicate COM
! plexion, curling auburn hair and dainty,
/ curved mouth and snow white teeth, and
she was naturally graceful and had a
good figure for a girl who worked so hard
and couldn't afford corsots. Della, being
pretty, was much admired by several Of
the sons Of families in Sullivan alley;
but, strange 20 say, she did not know It..
Her mind was 50 taken mp by dreams
and fancies Of what she would like 70 be
that she never thought OF what she was.
and her love Of reading kept Der aloot
from the chatter Of other girls or tho
awkward attentions Of the young men.
The day that Della was Is she noticed
the great blue and red posters on the
walls Of the alley telling about the
grand annual ball, etc, and her heart
gave a great thump and then stood still.
She had been reading about grand ball,
and how Angelina Araminta Jones had
danced with a great prince who was
there incognito, and how he had married
her on the spot. Here was romance made
real-a New Years ball The rest might
come. Her busy brain pictured herself
with blazing dark eyes. superb raven
black hair and pink dress looped with
yellow flowers. She never thought of
herself in these visions except as having
dark eyes and hair and dazzling COM
plexion. The violet eyes and red hair
were not che real Delia's, but the com
mon, workday Dclia's-not the dream De
liza, who was 10 becarried off by a prince.
But it was very odd that this mysterious
prince who always appeared "incog had
a remarkable resemblance TO Larry Fin
negan in the face. though to be sure the
garments differed greatly from those
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little local express. The prancing horse,
too, used to look a little like Billy, whose
sorrel tail was just the color Of Delia's
own hair.
While Della was dreamily eying the
pla,.ard Larry approached and said:
Il was just in to see yer nanny, Miss
DSsa. and she said l could accept Of
your company mean you could &c
cept Of mine-to go to the ball together.
VIII We gos"
Would she? Was not her heart hop
ping up and down with jOyf But she
said:
IN let You know tomorrow"
"Tu call tomorrow evening; but, De-
Ia, if You don't go with me and do go
with Tim Sullivan I'll HEX him so that
he can't dance q step"
Della smilingly went home. Her
grandmother said sharply:
''Ye are late, DAILY, and don't want ye
to get habit O talking in the street wild
ony one"
Larry Finnegan asked me to the
grand annual ball, granny. What did
you tell him:'
"Oh, faith, said We might go if We
want 70, but I don't know what yen
wear, wild them Muligan girls having
rale silk dresses too"