The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-11-01
BILLY BOY.
MATCHMAKER
By MARTHA Neutrality-suspicious.
COPYRIGHT, iea5, bvl. n Marshall

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coNertly at Helen Mari She IS we'll
named. liz Went on "taust you fancy
hers tie
"Ftee thai. launched u Thousand ships
Aud burned thu tupisss towers of HHu,aa3 ~
No Norris answered With Il laugh.
ing shake Of the head Remember.
I'm neither artist nor painter, nor even
Bohemian merely II village landlord,
whose chief concern Is to keep terms
With his tenants, and used Il seeing
pretty girls. even very pretty girls
every day in the week
III YOU call her pretty. | repeat Your
case is hopeless. Wheaton persisted
This time he spoke very low. but not
50 low as to escape llctcus ear. She
Was coming toward them on her dap
pied pony. her hat hanging at the back
of her head and II sheaf of wild roses
IN the hollow of her arm. The pink of
the roses WAS deepening in her checks,
and she would have ridden past with
the mcreSt inclination OF the head hut
that Billy Boy, spoiled beast. was of
another mind lie whnnied loyously
to Norris, aud when he got abreast of
that gentleman planted his four legs.
ohstinately refusing To bulge. his whin-
ny changing to IL plantivc Wicker of
protest
Il see Billy Boy IS constitutional
proud and naughty like his mistress
lie does not ignore his friends If he
does happen 10 lind them in bud com
panN." Norris said. stepping To the
pony's head and letting him rnmmage
a sugar lump out of his pocket.
Norris tried To speak with his usual
banterng friendlncss. but not very
successfully He wished, indeed Billy
Boy had been less his constant friend
since he did not want to present WheA
ton II Billy Boys mistress However.
there AvaS no help for II II served him
right for spelling the creature So But
there were mitigating circumstances to
the spelling.
The MARI paddock adioined his own
and while holding converse with Billy
BOY acroSs the fence of II, giving him
bread. sugar or sweet apples. he need
ed no excuse for likewise holding con
verse with Miss Helen. She was shy
of him when they met saeinlIy far
though Norsis would have serlInled tn
admit II he was the catch of the vii
lage, much courtcd by the eager and
rather let alone by the self respecting
Beyond their pride and their pedigree
the N,rrs had lIttla uclon,s ,.hfof ~
var.ian =tn,lo.d WIN, H., ill, H. ,,,l,
.haut tho red r,,as and III, sh,d,
I,ucs ,,h,.h led from TIM ,tll,,,,o ,nto
t,,n dnn,, ,.anntrv
Wheaton y.as mt b.,1 ,a,.t =1,,,i H.,
v,,a ,.ft, n,.,n md Nar,t,, ,na,,, no.,
susnnctc5 - trttlnr m,l.tnr I,,n 4,
eyr, nrctt,. ~. ,a,.,. ,i.,,,,,t r,,.o
he ON, .a,ntered He WINS moreover.
dlspustln,lv GOOD ia Iool, nj Tins
Norris eonfrnstcd mentally N'houton,q
stumble elegance with his own h,u.lv
strength Wheaton pInyrd nj hcInt, nm
artist chiefly by way Of dIycrsIou lie
Ind lust enough money I, Itoru himself
In huXurlou4 likeness and no WIN what
ever Ia increase the sum of II or divide
the spending Norris knew MI fhat:
therefore he ragged lnlv. mainly M him
self while Wheaton talked fo Helen.
the while c1aXing Billy Boy II stand
obstinately stiu 10y giving him tufts Of
tender roadside grass II was play
fully done. So playfully Helen did not
In the least see through H.
She got over her shyncSs very quick.
~ and taIl,el brightly 10 Wheaton. Civ
.''e MN no" anu aRi''ll 'la1H'lhe sinlie5.
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