Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-07-14
HAMPTON, PtOEBUS AND OLD POINT-C Continued,
A ShATTERE Ed
DREAM
Dy horace Seymour Keller.


find gals put up to pick an choose
frum?"
"A few: mean theatrical agency
Going to start show. fricnd?'
DO | look much like "A wire-dancer,
a jugglcr or a clown in pantymine
| mean a place where a man q stand
in in the community can look the list
over. make IL choice, plank down IN"
rhino an take his birdie hum. see
Know such a storc?'
What you mean Is the bureau OF
Information"
"Perhaps: hut | can furnish all the
furnitonr needed. What | want Is
somcthin' In the line o kaliker wuth
hcft, length O reach an good staYlh
wind, see? Grace an beauty don
cut no ice up OH the farm when nilkih
time comes an when the hired yeip
fur grub, see? I'm liaber to be married
ag'in as soon as put my eyes on the
proper sort
Il think see. Try that place over
there. Likely you can find the correct
shade OF goods you are after. Luck 10
you, old man.
With a smile the bluecoat turned
away and sauntered down the street,
while Ell Pivins crossed over and en-
tered the doorway. He was usheren
into snugiy arranged room with q
fine rolltop desk at one side. He stoo'l
there twirling his hat nervously as no
xazed at the very prettiest creature IN
the line of feminine divinities he haf
ever met He felt young and boyisf
and was only sorry he had neglected
to have his beard trimmed and MAJ
cut before leaving the farm. Littl
thrills of hot and cold flashes passe
up and down his backbone as pa
of blue eyes now and then lookt Y
over the top of the desk and nail "
him to the floor. He couldn't MOI .
let alone say word. His tongue cid 8
to the roof of his mouth, his y
seemed as if they weighed ton ca d
he knew that his beard had mel
looked so much like spinach-he 3,
a stump.
The fluffy hair that rolled up 4 C,
that alabaster brow sent sob intof
throat every time he glanced al 50
Suddenly while he was in a mild
of. insanity a musical voice told II
to be seated. He fell with thud W
a chair. feeling positive that he W
paradise and in the company ofe
OF tbs prettiest birds.
"B'gosh." I've hit it. sure pote tn
fust time Cricky, but I'm the io'
cuss, Wonder If it breathes.ts tn
walks an is like other human bf' &C
Eli muttered under his heard asiat
dumfounded and stunned. "Y
Finally after another short bYh-
full pause the fair vision rose gre ne
vealed itself to the delighted III tur
all its grace and lovely persontoh
of female beauty as it stepped foe 1t
hind the desk. Her smile ost
drove him mad, and he gasp"S
and deeply when she said in ice -
that almost robbed him OF hiiseS
and sent thrills of rapture to Iery
ends of his toes:
Il take it you have businFl'h .
me this morning ""'
Well, / have. l don't havfook WV
no further. that's all tho Ia nou
have a long an lonesome h lore tne'
hit the proper sOrter goods iteo' .ne
But luck is mine an the hup'er' INA;
I'm on the right track fust, oS no
cricky. thought | wanted long VINO
....h an, good stavin' wIThat and
dream has vanished like fI III eu
Inv. Grace an. bcautv is roper afte
80 ,-,.r all ON the Yer Brit
MI IN, eves an the hull hings In {
about you hit me just to All so'd
ready to put my money Z s
green. play my shuttle. sig; gree
ment an run long hum last G.,
GO .h.m cars'u take uh my is 9
prize MT.
You seem rather part as IN from
the personal qualities ofer'ah' Wht
you would hire his
Servant nuthin. moufs my in
,r..n y. diamonds heartJe hull into
nao. whenu Won no 10 tro, the
hum with me an makfarm nell
garden o paradise" that
Did you not come y hreo with
help" -
Not much. I need Ne''e
cEngin' wiley" q
You have struck the ?iac- n,
"Jordy, An you al In ohe Rr,,.
market! , phila
Not since n'e yef Lond
morning. Il l.. -. Alfre
Eli went away WIZ dale.
thruat. and spinach a,ten
- quith
St. Peters AZ girls.