Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-03-29

SOuEeSetucuI- My hearts n1gl broken
with him." and she gave a faint sigh.
"and indeed but that l have the COM
fort and consolation Of possessing my
own wise, good Alexander l think II
would be quite broken long ago. Now
you have got your warning, dear
Nancy dropped a naughty courtesy
"and mind you keep that boy at arms
length, for emphatically I'll not toler-
ate my servant girls counting with my
SON."
Nancy tossed her head again and
dashed look at Mrs. Nelson. She
felt that she would like to deliver her
self Of a piece of her mind, but poor
Nancy likewise felt that If she spoke
she would say something hot and hasty,
for which she would certainly be sorry
afterward, so wisely she restrained
herself. A hot blush overspread her
cheeks. She thanked her mistress bit
terly and whisked from her presence.
"Heigho?' Nancy sighed as she scrub
bed a big plunge churn in the dairy
later on the same day.
"Heighop' was echoed back as from
a breast weighted with trouble.
Nancy, startled, looked up and beheld
rakish, dashing fellow seated on one
Of the milk crooks which stood on the
table. BE was laughing heartily at
the start he had given her.
Hello, Nancyp' he said when he
could.
Nancy had been more than half in
clined to laugh at first, his countenance
was so humorous and his manner SO
catching, but she remembered Mrs.
Nelson's warning, so she replied tart
ly:
Indeed an my name comes GLIB to
We, doesn't it, or not?'
by George. 1t doesl Seems to me
like as IL I'd known you, Nancy, for
the last 80 years"
well, the quicker We get rid o. that
notion the better Who are We, or what
are We, or what's yer business hereP'
That's right, now. like that, Nan
cy. That's coming plank down to bust
ness at once. Well, I'm Tommy. I'm
harum scarum good for nothing-at
least so the old woman says, and she
should know-and my business here is
to court you"
Nancy flung the churn scrubber at
him by way of reply to his audacity,
and Tommy caught 1t deity. He dis.
mounted from his position and. ap-
preaching Nancy, returned the brush
with mock bow, then turned to her
the back of his bent head, saying:
Perhaps you would like to ease your
distressed mind by Furnishing Tommy p
Nancy without any delay drew him
across the head smart whack of the
brush, causing him to jump up with a
yell and execute a good imitation OF
an Indian war dance around herself
and the churn, rubbing and scratching
the back of his head the while.
That's for yer imperence," Nancy
said when he quieted.
'Oh. you duck! Shouldn't like to be
thrashed every day for just such a
vision as your sweet selfr'
I'm troth," said Nancy, 'if We provoke
me TO so practicin my wrist on We again
ven maybe find it's little o. the Visions
about tor at least it's the sort o.
vision that laives blisthers behind it,
Nancy, mavourneen, it's l who know
that, for already there's a blister on
my heart the size OF your shoe-the size
OF my own shoe, mean"
BE oG, say, or III raise them the
size o. yer head-an that's big enough
--on the ribs OF We. Be OF, tell yer
And 1 can't go, tell your accom-
panied by such n travesty on an ogle
that Nancy was compelled to laugh.
1t wasn't enough for yer mother to
warn me against We, / suppose, an tell
me the sort o. villain We We're an the
thricks We do be up to-"
Nancy, agrah, wish the next time
you find my mother preaching against
counting you'd just only ask her quietly
If she never did 1t herself and did she
get the man sent down from heaven in
hand basket OF a morning"
Go ask her yerself, We rascal! Aren't
ye every BIT as big an as ugly as me to
do the businessT''
"Ah-h-h, Nancy. avilishr'
"Begone, for the common nuisance We
arew And by means Of a very vigorous
assault on him with the scrubbine
brush Nancy whacked him out of the
door and slammed 1t In his face.
AS she got at her work again he was
sending a parting salute through the
keyhole:
Eyes. Nancy, darling, I'm gone-gone
to patch together as best l can the
smithereens OF a smashed heart. With
that cruel brush OF yours you've made
very small pieces of 1t. If 1 can get it
into any sort Of presentable order, Pu
be back for another court tomorrow.
Till then adfeup,
'Then the divil go with YER Nancy
shouted.
"a purity boy indeed We are" she
went on smilingly, soliloquizing as she
wrought - "a purity boy, trothl An
small wondher yer own mother had to
warn me against We. If We come tol
keep me from work the NORA, I'mI
afeerd it isn't the scrubbin brush mi
be usin on We. No; I'll be afther takinI
to ye somethin a thrifie weightier-
somethin that'll make We Parn yer place
an keep it."
Hes been interfering with you, II