Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-04-16

nah. "why didn't think maybe hs'a
come? Well. here's for it!"' Sea f.i,t''
She made hasty toilet and went int6
the parlor with her flushed face held in
erect dignity unconscious that 9 va9i
rant feather poised saucily on enc Of
her eyebrows. coqusttiug with another
aloft on her hair. while Two or 4hrees
others, more adventurous still. sese
sawed on her collar and danced before
her nose. 20 ~
She held out her hand, gravely polite.
"How do you =" she begani but the
rest was lost in a sudden. violent sneezes
Outside the window an echo OF speezeA
sounded distluctiy-'Doniram's sneezeal
Annnh snid nfierwatd she could hear
the lisp In them.
IL WIS not long cell. Mr.. Hurry
Melntyr hdgeted with his cane nrdi
looked uneasily conscious OF Annals
feathers. The Conversation farreds
Yes, IL wns an early sprlug-very early
spring. No. there had not been as muck
snow ns usual all winter-not nearivi
ns much snow as usual. Wns n verv
lively at college? Oh, rather-~the fell
lows kept some kind of q row going
usually, you know. Wnsn't u con-
ioundedly stupid In the country 2-And
so It dragged along. interspersed wltR
poor Annals sneezes, md unenlivefed
10y any redeeming sympathy OF FUN.
When IL ended. Anngh went bnck
slowly TO her majesty's feather bed. AZ
the kitchen door she stopped in amaze-,
ment. 'Donlram scuttled past her.
trailing after him q gieefilr sneeze..
There was some one else In the kitchen.
too. .
Philip Bump." exclaimed Annah.
king Philip,f said he. " In war paint,
and fcathersl VIII you come into tho
wigwam?" l--ll
inc tail young man advanced 60 meet
her with solemn show OF hospitality
lie was In his shirt sleeves, and hia
homely, honest young face WIS tboIst
mud flushed. Feathers rioted over him
and adhered 20 his face unbecominrlv.
but he wns buoyant with triumph. Tie
waved his hand toward tho plump
feather bed. "t -
ITS done, az your service, ina'nm-
donel a stitch OF two. ond 10, tho
worst Ia over-you poor little grill" be.
added. with swift change IN his tone.
What time Of II you've hndi-
hut don't zee how you knew its
said Annnh, In bcwilderment~
'Doniram Cobb--iittle impi-thots
how. Ho hailed me going by with nv
plow, and told me the stralts you were
in. thrnshed him flrst, ana then [,
came 10 help you out bit. Yoii See.j
I've been there mysclf-filletl one Of
mothers beds for her once when sho
Was. sick. it's big contract
"ohi" cried Annah. you're Just aA
good NJ you cnn, be, bnt--but-I'm
afraid I'm going to laugh. In q minute,
oh, dear, what RlRil1 do?"
Taught Why not2'' Philip said. en-
oonrngingly. "I'll help YOU"
"it's feather over your nose that
wnves every time you open your
mouth" q - "a.
ms a rclict Of the departed brubns,.
that odorns your classic profile, ma'am. 81
They both laughed with boys and
girls foolishness, but 1t did not hurt
them. How much hnndsomer Philip
Bump looked wheu he laughedl His'
homeliness melted away In the big flash
of sunshine. -" "' fv'''-o -
In little while the Kitchen was IN ita
natural primnesS again. Philip fnsisfIne
upon helping 20 clear It up! They
laughed and eneezed and chattered To-
gether In great sociability. ~
Aunt Ursula came home by and by
gnd benmed upon them approvinRiy
through her spectacleR
philips the right kind of boy" she
conhded 10 Uncle Miles. "name or no
nane. Names aren't everything. I'm
going to keep him 10 supper. and open
some bnrberryNand-sweet-gpple pre-.
serves. Sammy oh. he's great deal
better" go 'fffi-' ..s' z"
"Phiiip'a snch n pretty name" !" unused
AnDeh that night, beside her little up
stairs window, lit doesn't matter IL
there is Bump on it-"--Youth's Com
panion.