News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-09-17

day last November he made biz
friendship. His nurse was passing {
few remarks with young man who
asked the way to my house, and baby
went ahead pursuing his lawful occa
sions. Curious to know what it fell
like to be a real fish, he was stepping
into the river to see about it, wher
the young man interfered.
Lego my TAIL" said David wrath
fully, then with sudden defiance, 81
got my feet wet anyway, so there"
That's So" the young man agreed
81 say" David grew confident
"Mummie says it's in the paper, SC
it's all right"
whats that sonny?"
"A little boy what went in to see
about some fishes, and that man what
swum and swum, and l saw'd his pic.
ture in the paper. So now tend you
! look de udder way"
"Why, | can't see nothen."
you can see. The game is for me
70 jump in, and you swim"
But can't swim. I'm a sailor"
ooh, WEAKLY? Then what's your
nane?"
IT'S Billy OFlynn."
No but that's WEAKLY my guinea
pig, the pink one-Billy O'Flynn.
You're not fairy, Billy?"
''Why, what does you know about
fairies?"
Most truthfully, you know, don't
believe in fairies, but then it pleases
mummie.'
So Billy sat on his heel making
friends with the heaven-born, and
Patsy, the nurse, came behind him,
craving with cotton-gloved hands to
touch the sailors crisp, short, golden
hair, and David gravely tried on the
mans peaked cap.
YES" Billy agreed, fairies is rot
when there's real gals about, with rosy
cheeks a-blushin an cotton gloves"
'Lawks! 'Ow you sailors does fancy
yourselves" said Patsy, her shy fin
gers drawn by that magnetic gold of
the mans hair.
Climb on my back and ride" said
young O'Flynn to David, I'll be a
fairy horse"
The cheek of 'im!" jeered Patsy,
fairy orse indeed"
Oh, surely the fairies were very
busy about them, tugging at heart
strings, while Billy and Patsy fell head
over ears in love, and my pet cupid
had them both for slaves. David rode
Billy home, by his august command
straight into my brown study, where
| sat in my lazy chair.
Was it my voice telling baby to go
and get dry feet? Was it my hand
grasping Billy's horny paw? For
heard my roaring canyon, saw my
cliffs, my embattled sculptured cliffs,
and once more seemed to walk with
Jesse in Cathedral Grove"
l laughed, l cried. Oh, yes, of
course l made a fool of myself. For
this dear lad came out Of Wonderland,
this needless ruffian who knew of my
second marriage, who had such tale |
TO tell of Madame Scotson." Oh, |
haven't you heard? Her precious |
Baby David is illegitimate! Couldn't |
hear my neighbor, Mrs. Pollock tell
ng that story at the Scandal club?
Feeling ill-bred and common,
begged Billy's pardon, made him sit
Down, tried ever so hard to put him
1t his ease. Poor lad! His father
condemned as a felon, his mother such
| wicked old harridan, his life, to say
he very least, uncouth. Yet some
low out of that rough savage face
hone the eyes of gentleman, and
here was manliness in all he said, in
he did. After that great
Quincy for my sake how could let
lin doubt that he was welcome?
Il know I'm rough" he said hum
'ly, but you seem to understand.
you know I'm straight. You won't
mind straight talk unless you're
hanged, and you're not changed-at
east not that way, num-"
Changed! All, how changed! The
ooking glass had bitter things to
ell me, and crying makes me such a
rump, never felt SO plain. And the
yes of a young man are often brutally
rank to women.
Don't mind about me, Billy. Say
7hat you've come to tell me-"
Been gettin' it ready to say ever
ince l started for England. Look
ere, mum, want to go back to the
to when I was kid, an
lother KEEP that hash house in Abb
enc. Dye mind if l speak, mean
bout this here Polly?"
l set my teeth and hoped he would
e quick.
well, We see, mum, she only done it
Or a joke, and the way Jesse treated
er-"
81 can't hear this"
you don't mind if say that moth
r and me haven't no use for lesser"
81 know that"
well, mother put her up to the
lea. To get shut of him, she sham
led dead. l helped. l say she done
light, mum. If she'd let it go at that
d take her side right now"
BILLY, was that a real marriage?"
ut was that. She's Jesse's wife all
ight."
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