The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-13
HE ROANOKE TIMES, SUNDAY. OCTOBER Is 1895

Malay pants is my laotto-evil to him
that evil thinks write Of people in the
middle walks of life and don't care q
cuss for the aristocracy of Flat Rock or
Philadelphy. Thoro I'm told that folks
wait for mi introduction, and oven n
fireman ain allowed to come in house
and rescue Il young lady from the fumes
till they change cards, and then if hisn
is leetle too wide or has 'Mr. Oh it
when Esq. is tho thing she oxclaims,
Welcome. death!' and perishes in tho
flames. ~
Hero is q bit that interested me very
much, - Isaid, picking up tho book from
the sewing machine and reading from it
whilo tho young author played a sonata
or ali car Of hot corn:
a few minutes later Oliver and Ava was hur-
rying down Main street at Marietta Tho
hours and words passed swiftly with Avn
Oliver talked of lovers Quarrels, sea VOYAGES
Ind everything he could think of to interest
her young mind. Avas mother and father was
half mile behind and Ava WINS growing lone
some when Oliver sang her n little song:
"Therc's n lover that lives, and no lives for me.
And l hope some day to see him marching
forth by the side of mo-"
And then, farther on, where the
roguish girl sings:
81 be an old maid and sit in tho shnde
And not marry ut all
I'll marry the rich and they get drunk and
fall in the ditch,
And not marry Mt ALL
III marry tho poor and they 20 round beg
ging from door to door
And not marry Mt ALL"
divers voice trcmbled when he said, "You
are not going to DO an old maid, are your" at
don't KNOW" she said cit depends upon nv
mind when rrt ;,,l- Il
have hard times and don't think many sit
III the shade" ''1f were an old maid, would
sit i'll the shade but don't guess I'll be one
II can get married. "Oh, there are plenty
of boys that would have you," said Oliver
The day went by swcctly to Ava, for she was
loving Oliver more than she cared to tell
Late in the evening they landed ut the
grounds Tents was being put up; the crowd
was as thick as it possibly could be.
"You would hardly believe it now"
the author said, laying down his cob with
sigh and combing out q few kernels of
the corn from his long silky mustache
with his fork, ''that Oliver Boswell's
Courtship was refused by ON eastern
publisher?''
"Nov"
"Well, it just was''
"Get out p
Yes, 1t was plumb sent back, with Il
printed circular inside of it which went
OH to say that it galded them like sin to
send back such good penmanship, but
that they had all overplayed themselves
and bought up a lot of stuff from Stock
ton q Howells and By-Jalmer By -Jorth
By-Johnson, ETC., and would 1 ever
forgive them SOS they could look me in
the face? could sec by the way they
wrote that they felt meechin enough. -
Can you think best with stub pen,
or do you feel more free with lump of
chalk and the underside of bridge?"
'lwrite freely on anything and never
revise single line. -
''That shows that you are not hide
bound by custom. Your grammar also
shows that -
eyes, hate grammar-that is con-
ventional.
TRUE" 1 said as my little boy snap
ped the kodak on both of us as we sat
together trying to look like Washington
Irving, for l wanted tho picture to use
i'll magazine article and had already
borrowed u photograph of neighbor