Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-11-05
the night was over.

Miss Phillips received George with
the careless, almost sisterly familiar
itv, which is as much of a setback to
lovers as a decided coldness would be.
He would have liked it had she been
a little more distant with him.
As it was already late they went at
once to the house where the party was
to be, and were received at the door
by Miss Kate Edmonston, their host
ess.
Miss Edmonston, little girl with
a freckled face and red hair, whom no
one could call pretty, but whom all
called attractive, received them at the
door, and told them to hasten, as the
games were already in progress.
In the parlor was a large crowd of
young men and women busily engaged
in the sport of diving for apples. In
this sport, as everyone knows, a lot of
apples, each bearing the name of man,
are placed in tub of water, and the
girls try to catch them in their teeth.
The name on the apple caught is sure
to be the name of the future husband
of the young woman who dives. There
was another tub filled with apples on
which there were the names of the
girls, but that was for the men, and
consequently of comparatively little
interest.
There was much diving, much laugh
ter and much disgust when it was
found that carefully curled hair was,
owing to the water, hanging down be-
fore the eyes of the owners, straight
and stiff. But no one cares about hair
at Halloween party and so that dis
gust was short-lived indeed.
At last it came Arline's turn to dive
and, while the laughing crowd Of girls
were bnsy dragging her to the tub,
George Edmunds slipped into it five
apples, each bearing his own name.
He thought that should Airline get
an apple with his name on it, she
would then expect the proposal that
he was mastering up his courage to
make.
Airline leaned over the tub, and bit
at an apple, but it foated away from
her, and so she tried again, but with
no better success than before. She
was persistent, however, and in about
five minutes, dripping and triumphant,
she stood up with an apple held fast
between her teeth.
An inspection revealed the fact that
the apple bore, instead Of the name OF
George Edmunds, the name Of Fred
erick Hopkins. This Hopkins was a
dapper little fellow whom all the girls
said was "nice, and he sat in the
corner and smiled huge smile when
he heard the fair Airline read his name.
To make matters worse, the festive
Frederick had been a frequent visitor
at Miss Phillips house, and George
had often been Jealous Of the attention
she paid him.
The evening wore on, and poor
George was in evident agony over the
fact that Airline had not chosen him
for a partner in any of the games, and
had, on the contrary, taken the dapper
Hopkins more than once. George
wished for some time that young Hop
kins was playing full-back to his end
on rival football teams
"Oh, wouldn't l down him = he
muttered.
But fortunately for Hopkins it was
Halloween, and that young gentle
man wouldn't have played football
anyway-it was too rough.
Midnight struck, the witching hour
when graves give up their dead y And
now was the time for the final and pos
tive test.
A girl took a candle in one hand,
and in the other lOoking-glass, and
walked backward up the stairs. 1t
was supposed that at the top Of the
fight she would see the face of her fu-
ture husband in the glass, but under no
circumstance was she to turn around,
for that would break the spell.
Several girls tried it ; each one sol
emnly declared that she had seen a
face in the glass, and then came Ar
lines turn.
"Isuppose shell see that fellow Hop
kins?" muttered George, as Airline
went to get a light for her candle.
Just at this moment Kate Edmon-
ston rushed up to George, and said,
BE quick run up the back stairs and
look over Arline's shoulder when she
reaches the top. Hurry up, how, OF
she'll see you"
George hesitated but a moment, and
then obeyed. He reached the dark