Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-09-24
with the origina, as you had been with
her photo on my desk. /"

No, and I've always wished I'd never
made that call. Then I wouldn't have
known her, and all those heated dis
cussionsswe used to have about the girls
wortho raworthlessness would have been
avoideti:' 4 4 ~
Still, Jack, you''l have to admiit that
she was q terribly fetching and fasci-
mating girl sss. sas
Eyes, yes, Phil, rye admitted that q
Thousand times, but that ssisn''t the ques-
ton. My point has" always ~been that
she wasn't a girl who had enough in her
to, warrantSa fellow of your good sense
going crazy ,over her. Fetching sand
fascinating-Jove, man, there are any
number Of your, tickle, ,fighty, skim
deep sort of girlsswho are. fetching and
fascinating, and she's one of them But
fiddlesticks, what do they amount to-?
Nothing .-never get married-grow up
into detestables old maids with sour
faces. and still sourer; dispositions. Como
now, Phil, sI'lla bet you, tenaSto one that
Pearl Lancaster never gets even en-
gagged"
mo. no, Jacks won't do it. It's bad
Principle, betting onfa girl, anyhow.
Besides, yousmight lose the wager, for
she came mighty near getting man
last SUMNER
''Why, how do you know?''
II saw her at Bar Harbor."
p. Were you down there again last sum.
mer?" ~ 49,. ~ sgtaa 81
- "Yes.'
"And was she there?"
:"Yes.' + @ ~
Hum, then I'll Il bet.y,oou,l r,e,lppeated the
foolish performa nee OF your sophomore
year, \ ~ SJS y w Nv
II did, Jack, with compound interest.
We were together most of the time.
Never had such jolly summer before in
all my life" ~ a.
Sand the other man you said she near
" captured---where did he come in?"
T "Oh, he was a particular friend of
mine, SO I didn't begrudge him any
thing. Excuse me moment, Jack, l
must get some more coal for that fire.
Better fill upa pipe"
+ u proceeded to do so and casually OBJ
served at the time that Phil smoked
the same abominable tobacco. Expen-
esiveae stuff, but, CAD! how,.,it burnt
mans tongue: Phil was the only fellow
who ever smoked it without swearing.
The other men Invariably declined It,
so we always claimed that he used that
particular brand to keep his friends
from apirating tobacco off him. But
then, that wasn't so, for Phil was the
most generous-hearted fellow of the
gang.
Having filled the pipe I went to the
mantelpiece for a match; that was
where he used to keep sthem-when he
had any. I didn't find match, but
found 9 photograph that had been laid
there. It was a new one of Pearl Ian.
caster-had undoubtedly just come
with the letter. I was holding it in my
hand when Phil came back from the
coal~closet. M
.sWell, what do you think of it, Jack ?"
#3 sssGrand, good-looking girl beyond .
doubt. And I suppose if you were witt,
her again all last summer you must be
more cracked than ever over her."
Phil surprised me by uttering sigl
and sinking down into chair.
Alas! Jack, l ami fatally so,'' wer,
his respondent words. "And now what
oh, what, do you suppose she writes me
in this letter."
''Jove! not that she's engaged, is she
man? Luckily for me you didn't take
that bet.'' S.
eyes, Jack, she says she's the hap
piest little girl in the world, for she's
engaged to the dearest fellow in the
world. Engaged at last. Poor girl. !.
suppose you'd say poor fellow Ane
such a fellow, ,too-oh my! Well, al.
can say is that I've seen worse fellow:
and-and better. Oh, dear!"
But who'is she engaged to? What's
his name?'
'The man she was with down at Bar
Harbor last summer ~
''Not the other man."
''Alas, no, the others other man."
s'Not yourself, you fool?''
Poor Phil covered .helplessly down in
the chair and feebly held out his hand
as i. expecting whipping.
I IS Yes, Jack, he whimpered, ".congrat
ulate and forgive me, old fellow, but
I'm 4 I'm the man. 81
ssWell--!E But L say,sPhil, You don't
smoke any better tobacco than you used
to-. doey ?'--B Boston Budget.
Beats Mrs. Darlington.
~ This~ old ladyacana give Mrs. Parting
ton points on the use Of English, She
walked into the office Of the judge Of
probate and asked: Care vol the il1dne