The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-09-29

We're provoking and required chastisement
of regeneration. Baby was to them a
''kid, > to be treated with contempt and
when IN paroxysm Of delight over that
folly of law paper he had tilted one of
the young mems hats, that base ancient
replaced it in position with a bored and
weary air.
How Baby had taken in the situation I
cannot guess, but he had his mind on the
lads, and suddenly, while they We're sus-
! tanning an elaborate unconcern, lie flung
himself back and crowed-yes ioyfully
crowed-with rosy. jocund countenance in
the whites of the eyes of the two solemn
ties One raises his eyebrows, and the
other looked at the roof in despair, but |
had hopes, and who could resist this
bubbing chortling ninth! One laughs a
glad, boyiSh chuckle, and the other
tickles Baby just at the right spot below
the chin-has a baby at home after all,
and loves it-declaring aloud that lie was
"a Jolly little beggar." Those boys are
| all right; there is a sound heart below the
little Alterations, and they are going to
be men.
This outburst of His Majesty cheered
us all nightly, and young woman at
the top of the bus. catching his eye,
waved her hand to him, with happy
smile. Brown gloves, size six and a
| quarter, perhaps six, much worn, and
jacket not of yesterday; but everything is
well made and in perfect taste. Milk
white teeth, hazel eyes. Grecian profile
what a winsome girl,-and let me see,
| she takes off a glove, yes, she is wearing
an engagement ring; lucky fellow,
for she must be good with those eyes
and merry smile. Daughter of a doctor
or clergyman who died before he could
provide for his family: a teacher one
! guesses, and to day off duty, going to
meet her fiance in the city, and then the
three, her mother that dear woman with
her hair turning gray, will go upon the
river, and come home in the sweet sum
mer evening full of content. AS soon as
he gets rise in the Office they will mar
~, and she will also have her gift as
every woman should. But where am |
now? Let that baby bear the blame.
| We had one vacant place and that was
how he intruded on our peace; but let me
make every excuse for him. 1t is agrava-
ting to stand on the edge of the pavement
and wave your umbrella ostentatiously to
bus which passes you and draws up
fifteen yards ahead, to make your danger
Gus way along slippery street with han
SONS bent upon your life, to be ordered
to ''hurry up' by an impatient conductor
and ANONYMOUSLY hauled on to a moving
bus. For an elderly gentleman of mill
tary appearance and short temper it was
not soothing, and he might have been ex-
cused word or two but he distinctly
exceeded.
He insisted in language OF great direct
ness and simplicity that the conductor
had seen him all the time, that if he
didn't he ought to have been looking, that
he, the colonel, was not a fox-terrier to
run after bus in the mud, that the con
ductor was an impertinent scoundrel,
and that he would have him dismissed,
with other things and words unworthy
even of a retired Anglo Indian. The
sympathy of the bus did not go out to
him, and when he forced himself in be-
tween the lawyer and Grannie, and lean
ing forward with his hands on his cane,
glared at us impartially, relations were
strained. A cut on his left cheek and a
bristly white moustache, half hiding, half
concealing a cruel mouth, did not COM
mend the new passenger to a peaceable
company.
Baby regarded the old man with sad
attention, panied at his unlicensed talk
but full of charity, and at last he indi-
Gates that his fancy is to examine the
silver head Of the colonePs cane. The
colonel, after two moments hesitation,
removes his hands and gives full liberty.
On second thought, he must have got
that cut in some stiff fight; wonder
! whether he is V. c. Baby moves the
cane back and forwards to march of his
own devising, the colonel actively assist
ing. Now that l see it in proper light,
his moustache is soft and sets off his face
excellently. Had it not been the cut
puckering the corner of the upper lip,
that would have been very sweet mouth