The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-02-28

breeze, and the whltecaps were run
ming on the sound. When Miss Nettie
proposed a sail In her catboat, Bunny
looked at those whitecaps for a long
minute, and shivers ran up his back.
He followed her down to the boat land
ing, however, and did his best to ap-
pear Indifferent. The girl hoisted the
sail, took a reef in it and then shipped
the tiller, and the visitor was asked to
sit amidships and trim the craft. When
half a mile out and just after the fifth
barrel of spray had struck him in the
back, he said something about having
an important engagement In the city,
but the boat did not cease to bounce
nor the spray to fly for nearly an hour
later. Miss Nettie was also sOpping
wet and her hair flying, but she was
humping Bunny. On approaching the
landing she rounded into the wind,
held fast to the sheet and yelled out as
the boat turned turtle. She was along
side of him as he came up, sputterlng
and gasping, and as she reached out Il
hand and drew him to the overturned
boat she said:
Hang on here, and we shall be
blown ashore. We might as well have
bath while we are about it. Hope
you are enjoying yourself"
When Bunny went to his room for
the night he was almost ready to ad-
init that he was wrong in arguing that
there were no up to date girls. The
next morning something happened to
please him. He was invited to take
morning gallop in company with the
young lady, and he saw his way clear
to pay off old scores. He was given
the best mount, but the gallOp had not
covered hundred rods when 1t was
evident that horse and man were not
agreed. At the first fence to be jump
ed the horse remained on one side and
Bunny on the other, while the girl dis
appeared in the distance and didn't
seem to miss her cavalier for a full
hour. Bunny's excuse was that he lift
ed his horse too soon for the jump and
that there was something wrong with
the climate of the United States.
Next day the visitor and Miss Nettle
went buggy riding. Bunny took the
reins with determination to show off.
He was showing when Miss Nettie
took the reins away and brought the
runaway animal dowH to his PAGES.
There was one more bump in store for
the young man. Next day, after wres-
| tling for an hour with his palpitating
heart, he made proposal in due form.
and was prepared for it. She simply
handed him an advertisement she had
written and proposed to insert in the
leading papers. 1t read:
"An up to date girl wishes to adopt
an orphan boy and be Il mother to him.
| VIII teach him how to climb trees,
stand on his head and turn back hand
/ springs. All new ideas taught as soon
as they appear. A positive guarantee
given not to bore him. A cure for Ian
guldness and the London complaint
kept constantly on hand. Address in
confidence"
That was another bump for Bunny.
but he took it like little man. In
stead Of returning to his old ways and
his old life, he went over to Oldfelds
and bought the right to plant oysters,
and he has displayed such energy and
ambition during the past year that Burt
Galbraith looks at him across the club
dinner table and mutters to himself:
IL wonder why in thunder Net does
not name the day. l know they love
each other and are as good as en-
gagged"