Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-05-13

luI5 young Iduy
I'm not a lady" said Kitty with
dignity. 81 am Kitty Carter, and live
with my grandmother at Brigg End
Cottage"
Il know it. It's on the carriage road
to my fathers. No doubt I knew you
long ago."
CAS- a baby in arms" interrupted
Dunthorne.
ooh, ali, was only trying to estab-
lish a claim to Miss Carriers ac
quaintance
"Say Kitty, please, Mr.. Newly; Miss
Carter does not sound right"
"Well, then, Kitty, if I may use that
pretty name, unless my memory errs,
I seem to recollect that when the last
pike was made the haymakers used
to join hands and dance round it.
Will you dance round this pike with
me"
That's what comes of London
said Kitty. you've clean forgotten
country ways. It's corn that folks
dance and sing about when they're
carrying the last load home-or maybe
you're thinking of the dance of the
nell supper"
'Tsn's there a nell supper when the
hays got in?'' asl, ed Newly, where
upon Kitty and Ounthorne laughed
"I maggie by your laughter that this
nell supper-mill, of course. it should
| becomes off only in honor of corn"
"That's SOP said Dunthorne, and
again sweet Kitty smiled
'I think Til go home said Newly
with some pique.
''What a stuck-up idiot of an animal
that fellow tsp exclaimed Dunthorne
''He thinks himself better nor all of us
put together just because he has spent
eighteen years in a dingy old printing
house in dirty old Londonr
"Iondons London!' observed Kitty
thoughtfully.
and it's where you'd fam be, I
reckon
Just to see it. Winstons where
want to live"
'You can't do BOTH said Dunthorne,
and she wondered what he meant.
"How they did rive his coatr'
ut wouldn't have rove if it hadn't
been a twopenny-halfpenny thing out
OF slop-shop."
How you do TAX agin a poor fellow
all of a minuter'
Glow you do TAX fancy to fellow
just as quick"
Robert! :"
kitty! !"
Don't Kitty mer'
ooh, now that he's to Kitty you, I'm
not, I suppose
There you go, making few words
into a great big quarrel! only meant
don't Kitty me when you're so I'M
kind"
If I'm unkind I'm like your'
I'm neither unkind nor wanting to
be. It's you, Robert! It's you from be-
ginning to end. Since Mr. Newby cam
highland US it's all you have been.
You'd nothing but pleasant words for
me by the dike-side-it's we'll for me
that l didn't believe themr'
"They were true, Kitty"
who's to say what's true and what's
not? All I know for certain is that I'm
going home, so good-bye,' and in a
moment she was gone
kitty he cried, "wait till I get my
fork and rake and coat, and I'll set you
across the fields. I've something to
say"
mo, no! 1t would only be more of
the same sort! and away she sped,
leaving him planted there in sheer
amazement.
Sunday came and DunthOrne got
ready for church betimes, doing his
best to Danish the thought th8L New
by's way thither led past Brigg End
Cottage. HE shall not walk to church
with Kittyr' he resolved. "That is,
if I can hinder him. So he set off be-
fore the time, passed Kitty's home,
which stood in garden full of flowers
in an angle between river and road, and
waited by gate on the road by which
Newly would come Tie church bells
began to ring cheerily; he waited and
watched. No Kitty was visible, but
ere long Newly appeared, respondent
garden was renowned in his button
hole.
Church," he said interrogatively.
Yes, church.
'Then let's go together, unless
you're waiting for some one"
And that's = am" Dunthorne
answered shortly.
ali right" said Newly, and walked
on. Dunthorne observed, however,
that he loitered at the Brigg End, brt
one of the church bells stopped, leav-
ing to its companion the task of hurry
ing up laggards, and Newly doubtless
thought Dunthorne was beginning to
think that Kitty had already gone.
THAT sharp-sounding little bell
will drive me out of my witsm thought
Dunthorne "'Come! Come! Gomez it
seems to ding angrily into ones ears.
I am coming. bell, as fast as I CAM
know that Kitty's gone-she never
waits for you and your horrible noise!
Thank goodness she set off afore he
went bvr'
He made all haste. hit they were
in the middle of the confession when
he entered the church. To get to the
Windy Nook row he had to pass Kitty.
She was kneeling like the ro~+ and
never looked up. but he saw what cut
HIM to heart-ins-e7d of the sprig Of
sOuthernwood which she usually
brought, a, moss rose from the Newbv's