The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1895-10-26
lie NAMED THE DAY.

His name was Jim Kitchens, and Ia
was Il carpenter Ito his trade" Her
narle was Meiia, and size was cid Binks'
daughter, ard the neat little brass plate
affixed to the door of her modest abode
bore TIE inscription, Miss Binks.
Dyessmaker.
Miss B!nks was a very genteel young
woman and IL aspiring to keep COM
pany with her Jim Kitchens was con
sIdered to be decidedly lettering" him
self.
Keeping company bciuy, it should be
Observed, so-tc ct intermediary process.
so. etjllEy betvseeI mere ordinary ;c-
iCa.ntanceship AID that more definite
and satisfactory condition which il: as
suned only On being actually invited 10
name The day"
Consequently, when l repeat that Jim
Kitchens a..d Miss Binks We're keeping
company, ! do not wish to imply that
they were By any means arrived at that
blissful condition which. i'll a higher
walk of lie, is known as being ell
gagged.
Oh, dear, 10! Matters were not near
~ so far advanced as that, though it
was possible that, with time and care,
they might reach such Il point.
Jim Kitchens had not been keeping
company with Miss Binks for more
than 10 years at a stretch, ard those
people who insisted on reckoning the
time as 20 cid not really know the ms
and outs Of the affair half SO we'll as
they pretended, the additional ten years
which they thus indiscriniinately tackled
on to the period of probation having
merely been passed in a species Of light
skirmishing and entirely without preju-
dice.
And SO they kept company.
Every Sunday afternoon at 3 80 Jim,
IN all the rnaccnstomed glory of a clean
shave and his Sunday suit-you could
tell his Sunday suit at the end Of the
street by the creases in it-called for
Miss Binks, and they made a solemn
progress down street" Or Cup street."
as inclination Or the force Of circum-
stances directed.
There was not a great deal of CONVEX
sation INDUCED in, because il order to
converse brilliantly it is, if not neces-
sary, at least advisable to have som
topic on which to express opinions.
Consequently, as Miss Binks had no
opinions outside her own business, and
always talked most freely with a row OF
pins between her teeth, and Jim Hitch
ems was equally circumscribed in bis
ideas, not many words passed between
them on these occasions.
just as the gentleman was Oh the
point OF taking his departure the lady
would be apparently struck by an orig
inal idea.
Il s'pose you wouldn't conn in and
take q cup o. tea along O father and
me?' she w I'D inquire with modest
difidence.
This unexpected invitation, though
repeated Sunday after Sunday as the
years rolled By, never failed to take MIR.
Kitchens entirely by surprise.
WELL, rubbing his left whfsker, II
dunno, but o. course if you puts it that
way, Miss Binks, Why
Then she would open the door, and
he would follow her meekly into a little
room where a little old man would be
doing peacefully in an elbow chair, with
Il blue cotton handkerchief spotted with
white owe his bead.
Miss Binks would take off the kettle,
and h turning to the little old man
bend down and shout in his ear:
FEATHER, here's Mr.. 'Itchens como
to take tea along o. YOU"
Whereupon her little old parent would
Whlsk the blue cotton handkerchief off
his head and betray vast establishment
at the sight of the visitor.
"Lor', now, to think O. that, Mister
'Itchensl Well, bless me, this is a sur
prise"
After tea Jim invariably escorted !
Miss Blnks to chapel and sat beside her 1
i'll the gallery.
His words Oil parting from her at the
door-for matters were not advanced % !
the state that he could expect TO be
asked to supper, supper being a more
confidential and compromising meal
than tea-would be something in this
style: =
II dunno, Miss Binks, whether You'd
be thinkin O. takin a walk next Sunday
If the weather Odds up?"
Te which Miss Binks would reply
with maidenly hesitation:
well, / 'ardly know what to say
about it, Mr.. 'Itchens. You see, it de-
ponds upon father. He's gettin on and
well, If you car to walk down this
way it don't take me long t put Oh nv
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