The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-06-28
the LOVE LETTERS OF AN IRISH LASSlE.
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LETTER TWENTY-FOUR.

INST morning, anu / lmmeuldtely stOle away ~ sthiIstO Pctuso
the contents. always manage to be alone when read your
letters. For at times the letter will drop from my hands and
l set as one in a state of catalepsy for a while. Then again l
will find tears strolling down my cheeks, and finding a resting
place on The pages so lately traced with pen and ink by your
own hand. Perhaps as your hand traversed the lines on the
pure white paper, you never dreamed Of tears falling from my
eyes thereon. But alas! how little we know OF the human
heart. Nevertheless, dear Frank, such has been the case, and
l hope you will not laugh at me or think me foolish, for l am
not. And at other times | have laughed zeal heartily at some
of the quaint conceits.
Dear Frank l have been real happy today, and the principal
source Of my happiness was derived from receiving your loving,
kind and interesting letter. Dear Frank, | found one great
fault in this last letter. Now do you want to know what it
was? Well, will tell you--it was not half long enough.
am we'll aware of the fact that on an average my letters do not
cone half way up to yours, either in quality or quantity. Now
try and write a longer letter next time.
There is some one calling me so | will have to stop for awhile
and see what is wanted.
Well, dear Frank, 1t is now 10 o'clock p. m. Mr.. Davis
returned my autograph album and stayed quite a while. We
had a very pleasant evening. l informed him l was writing
when he came, but l did not tell him that l was writing to my
lover.
The wind has been raging furiously all day. So much so,
that one would think the god of the winds, Eolus, had just
loosed all Of his funes. The Greek mythology teaches that
4Eolus held them imprisoned in a cave and let them loose only
to further his own designs, which were not always benefcent.
He certainly glutted his vengeance on us poor creatures today
with a super-abundance Of
The wild seety wind,
That seems searching for something it never can find.
l am all alone, we'll not exactly, either, for my dear old cat
is here to keep me company. Well, dear Frank, if there is
any truth in the old saying, that if a girl likes cats she will be
an old maid, I arm doomed. That is as certain as that the sun
rises and sets. Sam (that is the cats name gets treated a
great deal better than many little children. | like to see every
one kind to animals.
Last Sunday took a buggy ride with Cliff Harmon. He
came up Saturday On business and stayed until Sunday night.
Cliff asked me 10 take a ride with him over to the Springs, as
he wanted to see a man who lived near there. So l went and
had q very ENJOYABLE time. His father and mother arr both
dead, they were great friends of ours. Poor boy, felt so sor-
ny for him Sunday. He was all broke up. He told me that
when he left home his girl was not expected to live. She was
very sick with a fever. They had quit going together. l guess
they had a little racket, and he said he could not stand to be
in the town where she was and not go to see her. They had
intended to be married last Fall, so Cliff told me. 1 entertain.
cd him the best | could and tried to cheer him up. We had
quite a long talk about the boys and girls, and about them be-
ing deceitful and flirting, etc. l told him l thought it a hard
matter to know when to trust a boy. Well, he said il was hard
to tell, as the majority of them were decsitful and would hmt.
Now what is your opinion on the subject?
thank you, dear Frank, for your kindness in thinking Of
me as true girl. | only hope and pray that you will never
have occasion to think otherwise. My aim is to be a true,
honest, kind, good and noble lady, SO that if l ever marry, my
husband will be proud Of his little wife. And l want my hus-
band to be still better than l am, as l know l have plenty Of
room for Improvement.
You spoke Of the boys something like this: 'they put their
heads together, compare notes and soon arrive at a conclusion
which very often turns out nearly correct
Well, | an we'll aware Of the fact. l know another thing to
be a fact, and that is l know a great deal more about what the
boys say and do than they have any idea Of. Perhaps they
think they are too sharp for the girs-wel it is all right if they
are. They can just think SO; l will think differently.
Dear boy, | doubly assure you, even if your name was the
last on the list you are not the least by any means. I think it
should lead all the rest. But as to who will be the lucky one
q should say unlucky one,) | don't know any more about it
at present than you do. 1t might be possible that all Of the
ten will be disappointed. But, Frank, | cannot give myself
credit with even two out Of the ten being stuck on me bad
enough to want me fol a wife, when it would come down to
testing the matter. So | don't see where the disappointment
comes in at.
Yes, dear boy, | tave seen some very happy times and also
some very unhappy times, but it has all been for the best un
~douttedly.
Dear Frank, | don't want you to be so down upon Mr..
Davis. You should not entertain such a feeling in your heart.
He has not harmed you, dear boy, has he? SO now, dear
Frank, bury all those bad and malicious feelings, for there is
never room for such in a true and noble heart; and ON sure
they will soon be a thing Of the past with you, won't they? l
can tell you more about MI. d. when / see you. | sometimes
feel veYv. very sOrrv far GeorOe huf 7 cannot tall al of ~