Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-11

My sweetheart in the Ofrest.
My Ethelinda had a bout
In her trim canoe with a mighty trout,
And the pines, which love her, sem to
nod
In sympathy with her bending rod;
My hting of joy
My fisher boy.
call my E%thelinda.
MY Ethelinda swims with me
AS deft in the waves as are offers, She
She laughs and frolics by my side.
AS we drift along the fershet's tide:
. My waters pearl,
My Indian girl,
My Ethelinda's hand is quick,
OF the sudden shot she's learned the
trick,
And the hurting course of the grouse
is done
With the sharp report of the lightest
gun;
My wood nymph she,
OF high degree.
NV little brown Diana!
The daylight breaks: my eyes are dim,
I'm here alone with my boatman grim.
MY Ethelinda's gone from sight.
For she only comes in my dreams at
night;
y My visions heart!
My other part!
My flirting thing of beauty.
MY name is Theodore Bathnon, ana
have a friend named John Goodman.
Hes my brother-in-law now. l am the
hero of this story and. like "Verdant
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English universities, l am just "prow'ti-
tle." With my boy. my great mate IN
college. l pulled Through one of those
universities. and we graduated togeth-
err. We graduated under decent aus
nices. each of us, each of us with re-
spectacle chances in the world, and each
of us also with that regard for the other
which adds to a mans status, one of a
mans fractions Of real strength in life.
There is a sort of friendship existing
under only certain conditions, which en-
a,bles one to knew that he may call upon
some other man with certainty OF a re-
lsponse, which indicates that spirit which
makes us go to heaven when we die.
The quality of the friendship which L
have knu,Sn to come between TWO college
men seems to me sometimes the purest
and most thoughtful and most compre-
hensive of the future which may exist
in all the world.
We'll, we were separated, each fighting
our own fight, but as the stress or the
real world came upon us, the friendship
seemed to grew even stronger, for, some
how. even though fellows are good tight
Ars, they occasionally want sympathy
from fellows of their own kind. So 1t
happened that Goodman sent to me to
come to him at any time when l could
get away. and l promised to come. l had
been at his place one summer previous
~, when he was alone in the mouse, eXl
cept the servants. He had occupied a
big. broad room, opening upon a piazza,
q room in Which Were windows like doors
openir,g down to the flor. He had been
away a, part f the time, but l had not,
and, wherever l had been, had always at
any hour gone in through the open doors
into our big bedroom. and slept like a
lamb, and then ordered breakfast and
gone away for my days enjoyment in
one way or another. John had a sister,
a reputably brilliant young girl, in one
of the young ladies' colleges, but l had
never met her. The fact is / had never
thought much about her. How was it
possible that a sister of John, John, my
old crony, could he of any interest to me.
/ bolted down there to the country
place, got in late, hired a rig to take me
over, made the man drive quietly as we
neared Johns house, where John was
expecting me nat night. and from
whence he had written that if l came
too late it didn't matter, that l could
walk upon the piazza quietly and slip
into his own bedroom, and that there
would be no bother.
Everything went all right, l got in late,
I strolled up through the grounds. all
the pathways about which l knew so.
well; i stepped up with m'oss-footed step
along the piazza, stepped through the
open window door of the designated
room, undressed myself and went to bed
in one of the two beds in the room, which
I knew was vacant because the vagrant
moonlight streamed upon it. Then l slept
as sleeps the Jersey COW on the shepherd
dog. or the domineck hen. or such a de
cent fellow as I am naturally. l woke
when the sun glinted and glanced and
fooled with the landscape and made itself
withdrawing and helpful to mere fool
rnortais requiring three MEALS d Gay.
looked at the waite. OF the river.
and Il will busk and bourne myself I
said, land I will Law and swamp and
dive and uplift and toss about myself
In that depth which is silver-gray to
me from here, which will be blue as I
neam it. and which will he of no particu-
lar color at all when l am in it's midst
and depths. and taking care or the air in
my lungs and the strength of my leg
as l tanpper and toy with a foreign rela-
tion of existence.
We'll, Ieamduplcce XII Gao ishrdlueaoia
We'll, I ia Svpered and toyed in no time.
I was in tina water splashing and diving,
warmed by the slant sunshine of the
early morning, and I grasped my arms
full of what they would hold. and we en-
joyed ourselves together. the water, the
sunlight and 1. l had nothing but a
swimmers ibreech-clout around me, but
the buoyant water and I understood our
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