News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-02-15
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CHAPTER I.--Witn mis- grandfather,
small ramsey Milholldnd is watcning the
Decoration Day foIeue" in ne come
GOWN. Inc OLD SentI~nan. veteran OF
the Civil war, endea. orS TO impress the
younsster. with The sisnlncance or the
great conflict, ana many years atterWard
the boy was to remember his worus with
startling yividness.
CHAPTER Hin the schoolroom. a
few years afterward. Ramsey was not
distinguished for remarkable ability,
though his two pronounced dlsllkes were
arithmetic and REGULATIONS" In sharp
contrast to Ramsey's DackwardnesS is
the precocity of little Dora iocun. a
young lady whom in his bitterness he de-
dominates Teachers Pet"
CHAPTER HIN high school, where
ne and Dora are classmates, Ramsey
continues to feel that the girl delights to
manifest her superiority, and the Vindic-
Siyeness he generates becomes alarming,
eliminating In the resolution that some
dav he would show" her.
CHAPTER IV.-At a class picnic Ram
sey, to his intense surprise, appears to
attract the favorable attention of Miss
Milla Rust. young lady of about his
own age and the acknowledged belle of
ehe class. Milla has the misfortune to
fall into creek while talking with RAM
sey, and that youth promptly pIunges to
the rescue. The water Is only some three
feet deep. but Milla's gratitude for his
heroic act is embarrassing. He is in fact
taken captive by the fair one, to his great
CONSERVATION
I'm glad he's begun TO take little
care of his appearance at last. I'll
have to take look at him and give
n" - W'rt 81 i.r;'tt". | S'rNNoSe he'll
d" The pew lien We q I there"
r't R?'"~o.. vccN't IN tho new ; and
,'o.. .>-. N!-d her husband,
Nh' 49,, there, said they hadn't seen
anything of him. 1t was not until the
members of his family were on their
way home after the services that they
caught glimpse of him.
They were par,,.lg a church a little
distance from their own; here the con-
gregatiOn was just emerging to the
open, and among the sedate throng
descending the broad stone steps APP
peared an accompanied Ramsey-and
a red, red Ramsey he was when he
beheld his father and mother and sis
ter and brother-in-law staring up at
him from the pavement below. They
were kind enough not to come to an
absolute halt, but passed slowly on,
so that he was just able to avoid pa
'auihs up the street III front Oh lhehl.
In hoarse whispers, Mrs. Milholland
chided her husband for an eXclama-
ton he had uttered. "JOhn On Sun |
day You ought to he ashamed"
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W"O'i ne p'e"sah'er Ii heu taken
fancy 10 someone whose rahlIy De-
"''%S 10 our OWL circle
"iakeh iahcy he echoed, hooting.
w ny, mes terrible lie looked like |
ieu-giiied goldhsh mats Hoped IT.
sell out OF the bowl. Why, he
y say | wish if he felt that he had
Ia take girls anywhere" said Mrs. Mil
holland, with the, primmest air of
speaking to the point-"if this sort of
thing must begin. wish he might have
selected some nice girl among the
daughters of our own friends, like
Dora Iocum for instance"