Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-06-04
Miss VanB Busker's
Limerick.
Ev Mrs. George Norman.

vo were none of us quite sure after
.u whether Miss Van Busker nao OF
had not accepted the Duke OF Derry.
"This is so sudden, dook,' his SIS
4or little Lady Hildegarde, wlckediy
nratended Miss Van Busker to nave
said and then that she must nave
+r,o-a month or so-in which to get
10 know him.
So far Miss Van Busker's getting TO
know the Duke of Derry had seemed
almost to consist in staying in country
bouses where he wasn't and-WeH,
talking to his men friends. l sup
nose she talked about him.
plain white envelope among ner
mink and mauve scented letters on the
sideboard at Littlewick every morn
ing of our stay there seemed some
thing of an indication, however. Tor
LADY Hildegarde used to raise ner
pretty eyebrows whenever she came
down before Miss Van Busker ana
saw the writing.
We were all as a party very keen'
| as the men called it, on limericks. we
usually spent the morning spolilng
sheets of poor Lady Newbattle's best
notepaper.
Miss Van Busker wasn't so enthusi-
astc as the others, however.
I'll help" she said the first morn
ing at breahast-she always came
down as fresh as a daisy and as sweet
tempered as possible while trays were
going up to a lot of the other girls
rooms Il mayn't . be a flyer, but
guess can fix limerick.
Capt Croome, who is nice looking
Young man, with a place in Warwick
shire, and thirteen motors, but who
certainly isn't clever, developed
most extraordinary taste for liner
icks.
If you'd be so good, Miss Van Busk
er," he said, quite eagerly for him.
Why, certainly" Miss Van Buske1
said, with her pretty smile and hold
ing out buttered roll to the pug, ant
captain Croome hurried through hi:
breakfast to go and look for pencil
and paper.
1t was a dreadful week of fogs
hunting and shooting were off, and i
was not cold enough to skate.
What we should have done with
out these delightful limericks," Lad.
NeWbattle confded to me, Il trembl'
to think
All the rooms, and even draft,
passage called the armory, were full
VI people-usually two at a time
NNh two pencils and one piece OF pa
per' At luncheon they didn't seem t
-aVe done SO very much, but the but
asf m spent all his time sending down t
Ie village for sixpenny postal orders
snlch soon ran out and had to b
'eched from the town.
me nrst few days Miss Van Buske
nav sat IN the music room, and Cal
s'ln Cfoome had sat there. too, an
,aaue noughts and crosses, as I haI
psneu to see afterward, on Who'll
Faeaf of papers.
,.. ,ne other girls at this time wer
asnef la indignant with Miss Van Bu'
~ II she isn't engaged to Stony
mi, mna' ls' the Duke of Derry Ssh
r" c.'sat say so; and if she is, we'll
Ia'ain I.a'' Croome ought to know it.
NO.. hiidegarde said to me as "
"Gnt t5ip up to dress for dinner.
c,.. 'nlnh some one must have give
tna,Ia tap'aln Croome hint, for to my IA
nulsnment Sar he joined me in a yer
sra .' uamD and uncomfortable tran
stt ouno the park on the Wednesds
as nr-ah-' he began suddenly, ju
abo, we got up to the statue of Dial
mo 'he house and as l was wonde
Mis. "4at he'd come for-"er-ah!
ssss. s van Busker engaged to tn
neal. neally, Captain croome," sa
can't think who you mean, and