Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-06-24
The First T19
Daisy. '@tse|s 8
o.
. =
How Harry Leary
Cheated In Love.

Crag cottage was the scene that spring
| of as pretty a courtship as ever sprang
| into life when the buds and grass were
new. We were there, the first summer
| boarders in the month of June. Mrs.
| Primrose, Pink, her daughter; Harry
Leary, a bank clerk away on his vaca-
| tion, and ].
1t took only one day after my arrival
| for me to discover two things. One was
| that Pink Primrose was remarkably
pretty girl, and that Harry Leary was in
| love with her tried to discover third,
that Pink returned his feeling, when
something occurred which settled the
matter.
Miss Fink was drcadfully superstitious.
You knew that from the minute you met
her. If you did not discover il in the way
she crossed her fingers when she glanced
at cross eyed person or said. Bread
and butter" when she handed you a pin.
you were laughingly informed of Miss
Pink's popularity by Mrs. Primrose. who
thought it just the funniest thing in the
world that her daughter should object to
walking under ladders, sitting down to
table with 13 and watching friend out
of sight.
One of Miss Pink's oddities, or pecul
iarities. was heg fondness for and her be-
lief in flowers. 1t was adorable to see
her pluck buttercup and hold it under
your chin, gravely informing you wheth-
er you liked butter or not. Pink's way,
like Pink's face. was desperately pretty.
To be sure, mother-in-law would have
frowned upon such Stiffness, but we were
all, from papa Primrose to myself and
Harry Leary, -Pink's devoted slaves.
One afternoon we sat on the little
farmhouse veranda looking down the
road, as city boarders will, as though
expecting something TO come. along and
relieve its monotony, when something
did come. Over the hill in the late sun
shine of 5 O'Clock came Pink and Harry
walking and talking. he hatless and
smiling, she grave; both desperately in
terested Pink held daisy in her hand.
Within ten yards of the house they
seated themselves upon Il rock. Pink
still twirling the daisy. and it would not
have taken sage TO understand that
luetT COuNeISdliOH NuS dpOut tHe iohGi.
l saw that Pink was pulling it to
pieces and that Harry's face grew by
turns hopeful and sad. "Notw l heard
him exclaim once. then he reached ont
and got another flower, which Pink pull
ed to pieces. ''Noti" again he echoed
as Pink parted her pretty lips and shook
her head at is all nonsense anyway"
he added. But | could see by Pink's
face that she did not agree with him.
81 leave it to mutual friend" said
Harry at last. as Pink continued to shake
her head Come down." calling to me.
"and settle the dispute-and my fate" !
heard him add. THE fact is that | have
asked Miss Pink to marry me and she
has
asked the daisies" put in Pink softly.
"And they saidT' ventured l.
'That he loved me not" almost whis-
pered Pink.
And then the whole plot dawned upon
ME. These two silly young persons had
been trusting their future happiness to
the petals of daisy.
Il picked them off one by one." said
Pink, gathering courage, land ] said,
He loves me, he loves me not and it
came out, He loves me not
"Try again." ventured.
81 did try-three times" said Pink.
"And so she has refused me-" said
Harry, lifting an injured face. from the
rock on which he was leaning.
There was nothing more to be said, for
before could put in word Pink sprang
up and ran toward the house as fast as
she could go, and we did not see her
again until evening. Then she appeared