Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1910-02-12

the trencher and refill the
beaker with dispatch. Try an,
other fragment of this ambrosial
steak, Rinka mine. Not! Have
a flying. wedge, a cuneiform slice,
drilled by your own fair hand.
No? Dearest, you eat like q bird!
But you, fair one, have not yet
experienced the displenishing in
Huences Of brain flag. This con-
tinuous destruction of gray.mat-
ter ia the Uranium of the philos-
Hello. someone else likes to ring
bells, it seems. Sweetheart, con-
tinue to pretend to eat, while !
see who it is breaks thus rudely
upon our idyllic repast.
At the door stood sailing sailing
Swedish. woman. Is my Rinka
hereP
She is, ! believe.
/ afraid she bodder you.
Have no fear, Msdam;far from it
Wall, you send her home 50
quick she bodder you.
Assuredly. He bowed pleas
lsntly and closed the door softly.
Returning, he found the rooms
empty and the back door ajsr'
Rinka Kinks has fed, he muir
INJURED, but her memory remains
likewise the supper.
Afterward he took up book
but found himself laughing gent
" every sentence or SO. He
threw it down and wrote q letter
to his darling mother.
The next day Rinka was again
at his door. / see that bell ring
ing has not yet pslled upon your
taste, little Rinka He stood
polishing his glasses, while she
tasted the joys Of the electric
button. Then she strobe grandlJ
in, and climbing into the rocker
began her favorite exercise. h
sat near, book in hand.
Are you in your usual health
and spirits after the revelries o
yesterday
She stopped rocking, knocked
away the lock Of hair from hel
eyes, and said, Is dat S'iddish
No, Rinka mia; I haven't takel
mp Swedish, yet. ] asked you
you were well.
Course; my mamma looks car
ONE. wy dom you got sick
wivout your msmms =
i Why--er-happily, | have
sanguine temperament, which
combined with the inherent resili
ency of adolescence, prevent
my falling an easy victim t
cachectic conditions. He laugh
! ed softly at her vigorous wink
ing.
Were do you keep'emP
/ Oh, stored in my capeciou
physique. But let Us not tres
such sbstruse topics this after
noon; let as rather meet on
more comfortable basis. Do 20
go to school, little Rinkai
Nope; I didn' went till I'd b
thix iears old.
To be sure; I forgot. So, 9
> course, You are not versed i
!, literature and mathematics.
She rocked TRANQUILITY; by-snG
bye she announced, | can cour
in S'iddish.
Indeed! Can you talk in Swet
fish, too /?
4 Nope; we're all English to on
house; Peter said so.
Good, good; most desirabl
! citizens. but / should love !
hear you count in Swedish.
Il She promptly and sweetly r
} cited, En-, iva, tire, frys, fen
4 thex, THU.
4 Wade had heard it before, br
g never with that delicious acceI
q norsthat adorable lisp. He shoe
with silent laughter, wiped b
glasses, and then went of I'M
O. another paroxysm.
Rinka rocked sturdily, until |
y had composed himself, then sa
austerely, Yeu langhin' at me I
# No. dearest; look me in the ey
g If you ever looked in the eye Of
i, serious man, now is the hour, al
,, the man, and the eye. But ] q
neglecting matters Of vital %
1, ment; the dishwater, perchanc
is congealing while ! daily. Ju
y count up to seven for me agai
y sweetest, and ! fly to my task.
to You shs'n't laughg
] shall not laugh.
}? She counted. ending tranquil
with the little swirIing thin.
" Thanks, thanks! Can Pet
a. count as delightfully."- as you. B
of forgot: Peter is English.