Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-11-06

To the side door he went and agaiI
screwed up his courage, which hs,
reached ebb-tide during the period o
suspense, and found himself admitted
by Mrs. Jones to the kitchen. A glanc,
revealed the fact that the lord of tn,
house of Jones was fast asleep in hi
srm-chair, his boots of, and his calves
laid across a kitchen chair.
'Is Miss Jones in ?" timidly inquired
Jehial, fearful that his voice NIGH
arouse the sleeper.
"Y-e-s," doubtfully replied Mrs
Jones. 'Do you want to see her in
PARTICULAR"
"Yessum-I-I-"
"Well, she's gone to bed; but il
you'll wait I'll call her." interrupted
Mrs. Jones, going to the stairs door
and shouting.
"Ph'eb! Phoebe Jones. Git right
up an come down. You've got COM
pany"
The sleeping father evidently recog.
nized the peremptory tone and swsk.
ened with snort-the fragments of an
exploded snore. He rubbed his eyes
and inquired:
What's up?"
"Iou are, an you'd better go on to
! bed" responded his wife in the same
convincing tone.
He evidently shared her opinion, for
ne Immediately groped and stumbled
! along to an adjoining room, without
ever discovering Jehial in the unlight.
ed room.
1t seemed to Jehial that hours passed
before Phoebe descended the stairs and
, entered the room, and in response to
Mrs. Jones's questions he had told all
that he ever knew and considerable
that he only guessed at, regarding the
history of the Jayhawks and their an.
tecedents and circumstances.
Phoebe, clad in simple white dress,
that seemed to him a marvel of ele-
gance, advanced and gave him her hand,
! saying:
"Good evening. Mr.. Jayhawk; will
you excuse me while 1 get light?"
She went into the parlor and lit the
center-table Tampa ponderous affair
with an elaborately decorated globe OF
ground glass.
"Walk right in this way, Mr.. jay
hawk" she called from the parlor in
her best parlor voice.
1t was the first time he had ever
heard himself called Mr., and it seemed
so ridiculously out of shape that the
ghost of grin bogan to twitch the
corners of his mouth.
Fortunately for Jehial, Phoebe di-
h, ,nta
tions and at once brought matters to a
successful issue by asking him if he
had seen the announcement for the
Fourth and ii he purposed to attend.
eyes; was tninkin' I'd like to go
if-if-if / might"
Certainly; should think You
might just as well as not. 1t would be
too bad to miss such Fourth as this
is to be, I'm sure" prompted Phoebe.
II-I mean I'd like the pleasure OF
vour company to the Fourth, Miss
JONES'" he stammered, recouecting his
formula and pronouncing it at single
breath. as though fearful that it might
escape him before he could pronounce
| it.
Certainly; with pleasure, Mr.. Jay.
hawk" replied Miss Jones in the af.
fected tone prescribed by the 'Ladies'
Guide to Etiquette or the Mansal OF
Good Manners" Then came q dead
calm broken only by the echoes oi
the parental snores whose outer rip
pies penetrated to the most distant
portion of the house. Finally Jehial
( ,rinned at the variations in the nasal
,erenade and crossed his legs. Phoebe
,lso grinned and shifted her position.
Then they grinned in concert and
,hifted in concert. Phoebe a-hemmeS
md Jehial a-hemmed.
Jehial remarked that he must be go
ng, and Phoebe remarked that he
must not be in hurry. He took her
at her word and allowad another dead
calm to settle. Even the parental
,nores failed to start the converse
tional circulation. The frogs in the
deep hole-dignified in common par
.nce by the name of Daddy Jones's
Emusic box"-did their best to rasp
the silence into speech and failed.
Then screech-owl lit on the we'll
weep and fetched screech that faily
lifted the speechless couple from their
feet.
Jehial again remarked that he must
be going. Phoebe did not dispute it.
As he passed out into the moonlight
ind heard Phoebe shut the door be-
aind him and struggle with the rebel
ious look it seemed to him that he
WAS walking upon thin air instead
,f gravel. There was something in the
Moonlight that he had never known be-
,ore. Even the frogs in the old "mu-
Ic box" croaked with q rhythm and
cadence almost divine-he wondered
He wondered at the pangs of doubt
md timidity that he had suffered few
moments before when going up that
ralk 1t seemed new world to him.
All things had become new. Every
tar twinkled with q seven-fold bril-
rancy-all because his star of hope
lad risen!
The Fourth was over, almost. They
rad gazed in unconcealed astonishment
1t the long procession of masked and
painted "Fantastics, and laughed till
they ached at the broad burlesques
md crude impersonations they had
.onvulsed at the falls of the bag races,
ind roared at the antics of the pur-
luers of the creased pig; they had ex-
berienced the patriotic shocks which
result from the discharge Of an anvil /;
they had drained to the dregs the
pleasures of pink lemonade and feasted
on the sweets of sticky popcc-n balls.
. As they rode home the sun slowly
sank behind the hills - gray and
grizzled with the sheen of dry, wiry
poverty grass that fringed their sterile
SUBMITS, like the scanty bristles on