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IF I COULD only And a four-leaved
clover I Now I wonder who would
come under it j nobody, probably thcro's
nobody to como; but then, if I were in
town, I shouldn't bo likely to And the
clover, bo it's about even. Them's a pret
ty view of tho interval; I mean to sketch
it." And then she sat down on the grassy
knoll, opened her sketch book, and at
tempted to carry hor threat into execu
tion. She worked 'away diligently l'or
half an hour, when some ono said over
her shoulder,
" You need somewhat heavier touches
just there, if I may interfere. Don't you
see how black the, shadows full ?"
"lr. Gray!" cried Felicia. "How
you startled me ! How dare you look over
my shoulder, sir ? Don't you know how
rude it is V
" How rude is it '("
" So rude that if I weren't so glad to
see you I should send you away. Where
did you come from ? Did you rain down
with the sunbeams '!"
"Just now," ho answered, ''I came
from .Shell Beach, where my mother and
sister and a few friends are wasting the
summer hours; and there 1 heard that
you wero here."
How nieo it is to see 'ou ! it seems
like old times. I was just on tho point
of getting homesick, and you liavo cured
mo. Shan't we go up to the house, so
that I may introduce you to Aunt Sophy '"
" Unless you vote against it, I should
rather stay hero tho little time I have
to stay ; 1 should have to divide you
among so many up there."
"And I being so insiguilicant, I think I
there wouldn't be enough, to go round'
l?y-thc-way, whore do you moau to settle,,
doctor? When 1 lust hud tho pleasure
of talking with you, your mind was per
plexed by the juery."
"Yes. What would you advise '! How
would it do to settle hereabouts '!"
" In this wilderness? Waste your sweet
ness on this desert air, and practice pa
tience instead of medicine '! Besides, I
heard aunty say that there was a new
doctor here already."
" Indeed ! Did she mention his name '!"
"Yes; it's Dr. Arnold, morning, noon,
and night. If I don't take his doses,
I havo a chronic dose of himself. She
sings his praises loud enough to make his
fortune. I dare say he has given up ad
vertising, lie cured aunty of n fever
when the old doctor over at Shell Beach
had given her up."
" Then you haven't scon him?"
" No ; tho truth is, I am afraid to face
such a paragon. He was here tho first
night I came, and aunty begged me to go
down and see him, but 1 had a headache,
you know ; travelers always have head
aches; it's one of their perquisites."
"And ho might have cured it. So he
was hero tho first day you came, eh ?"
" Yes ; and he was coming to-day, so I
took my sketch-book and trudged out
here. I don't care to see their old coun
try doctors; they must be stupid enough."
" Uli ! is he an old fellow V
" I don't know ; wears a scratch, per
hapB, and green goggles, and takos snuff.
He's a bachelor, at least ; for aunty-dear
old goose ! suggested that it would be
ever to nice if ho were to take a fancy to
ine, in order that we might live near her.
It never occurred to her that I might
have a word to say in the bargain. I
laughed so heartily at the idea that Aunt
Sophy was quite put out, do you know,
and told me at least there was no danger
of my doing half so well as to marry a
country doctor. I hopo I shan't. See,
I've found a fuur-lcuvcd clover I"
" Which meuus good luck."
" Which means that I shall put it over
the front door, and trust to Fate."
" Ah, what prejudices you women
cherish ! According to your own ac
knowledgment you have not seen this
worthy. Well" taking out his watch
" it's time I was off; five o'clock. Young
Bugbear must be gone before this, unless
he stays to tea. By-the-way, send me
word, will you ? how you like him. and
who comes in under the four-leaf clover."
Then he mounted his horse which he had
tethered to tho fence and rode away.
"Where have you been, child V asked
Miss Sophy Suion. " You always do
contrive to hide yourself when the doctor
is here. He wanted to see you and ask
ed if you were well; and I told hi in you
were well enough to be galivanting over
the neighborhood all the afternoon."
" lie wanted to give me a dose of calo
mel, I Buppose. I hate doctojs' stuffs and
doctors at least," remembering , an ex
ccption at least most of them. I've
been sketching the interval ; haven't
been gulivaoting, and I don't know what
it means.
"What do you call sketching? Those
little daubs of led-peneil marks I Looks
as it the crows bad walked over the na-
per. Dear me! is that tho nonsense folks
call sketching ! You'd butter been athome
churning; it's a sight more profitable," '
'"I leave that for couutry doctors
wives. By-the-way, Aun't Sophy,1 your
ir. Arnom wears a win, doesn tie l
" My Dr. Arnold ! when you see him
you will wish he was yours. What if he
does wear a wig, miss If Is there anything
disgraceful ia thatfT. Miss Bopliy .wore
ft false irons berselr. (,., . v) t; . ,.
Oh, no i only H shows that t he is ee
etuoken, they say j nad lor my , prtk, 4
would rather bo a young man's slave than
an old man's darling."
" Which only shows your bad taste and
inexperience But you needn't worrry ;
young or old, Dr. Arnold wouldn't wasto
.a thought on such a chit as you though
you might thank your stars if he should
in spito of forty wigs." And Miss
Sophy chucked softly behind her tea-urn.
" If he would ii 't wasto a thought on
me, why in tho world do you try to
make my mouth water ? I'm snro I don't
want to lead him into any such extrava
gance." Felicia placed her four-leaved clover
over the front door that very night, aud
sat down to await tho movements of Fate
which wo know are always stealthy aud
unexpected. Just now, certainly, Vato
seemed in no hurry. A week passed
without bringiug any ouo in under tho
spell of the clover-leaf. Felicia had be
gun to despair, when n perfumed note
from Dr. Gray arrived saying:
" Dkah Miss Fm.ioa : liavo you made
tlio acquaintance of Dr. Arnold yet? poor
man. And how fares it with tho four-lcavcd
clover ? I am delegated to present you with
my sister's love to which may I add my
own '! and to request tho pleasure of your
company at Shell Beach any lino day this
week. I should bo most happy to call l'or
you, but duty beckons in anothor direction.
Yet I shall try to givo myself a half-holiday
should you consent to make it ouo.
" Hopefully yours,
"A. h. fl.'.AV
"Oh, I should so like to go!" cried
Felicia " But how to get there ? I can't
walk that distance, and all the farm
horses are at work, I suppose. Dear mo !
whore's my godmother that she ean't
uiakciuo a coaeh-und six out of the squash
vines and the squash bugs?''
" Where do you want to go asked her
godmother in the shapo of Aunt Soph)'.
Fur Felicia had uot read the note to her
aunt ; and, moreover, she was afraid of
Aunt Sophy's opinion of the young man
of the period. She would be sure to
say, " In my day young men didn't write
to their sister's friends unless they had
something particular to say for them
selves ; and tho young men didn't send
their love in that off-hand manner, .is if
it wasn't of the slightest consequence."
So Felicia answered :
" Mrs. Ames, a friend of mine and
mamma's wishes me to spend the first
fine day with her at Shell Beach."
"Perhaps Dr. Arnold will happen
along and take you in. Ho drives from
Dan to Becrshcba on his visits and
wouldn't think anythingof doing a per
son a good turn," said her aunt.
" I'd rather stay at home," sulked Fe
licia. " You'ro a very silly girl."
Perhaps so ; but silly girls are just
tho ones wiio like to have their own way.
Cau't you send me to Shell Beach ?" she
said coaxingly.
" Well, perhaps old Jones will harness
old Jolly and drive you over,if you're set
upon it, and are up early enough. Aud
there's tho stage go over in the stage,
and I'll send Jones and Jolly to fetch
you home. That'll bo handiest."
OU, thank you ; you are the best of
aunts, after all, if you have gonu wild
over that old Dr. Arnold. I dare say you
can t help it ; he s bewitched you.
" Just wait till he bewitches you.
So the next fine day found Felicia on
the road to Shell Beach, where Mrs.
Gray aud Mrs. Ames were waiting to
welcome her, and where, toward noon,
they were joined by Dr. Gray. They sat
on the veranda, aud watched tho bathers,
and rodo on the beach. Felicia mounted
on Dr. Gray's roan, of which, to tell the
truth, she was mightily uiraid, was only
comforted by the delight of being eared
for by tho doctor, who made her forget
danger by the glunce of his eye.
Aud have you not met Dr. Arnold
yet? And has the futed fairy prince not
entered beneath the four-leaved clover ?"
he laughed. ''How do you know what will
happen while you're away i"
" When the fuiry prince comes, may I
be there to see .! No, I haven't met the
tiresomo old doctor yet, though aunty
suggested that if he happened along I
might ride over here with liim."
" But he didn't happen along?"
1 " No, thank goodness. I took the
stage over. Mr. Jones is nomine to tuko
me home." :
"Mr. .(ones? Ahl I don't remember
hearing you mention him before. A
particular friend of yours ? Lawyer, doctor
merchant, thief t, He's a thief, if he
comes with intent to steal my little friend,
Felicia," said Dr. Gray, with iil-ooucealcd
curiosity. ; ( ,
' "Ho is one of the farm bauds, if you
please.", . , '.'''.,
. " Cruel girl ! I shan't forgive, you' in a
hurry. Jones is a great burden off my
mind. ' What possessed you?"; ' ' 1
" Ono likes to make believe to lave a
lover once in a while you know." ! :r
" What's the use of making believe
when tho reality's staring you in the
faiser " "' ' ' ' '' '
' " Oh ! inake-believo lovers are 1 not bo
troublesome as real ones." : 1 "
' " I suppose Dot,"t he said, with a sigh.
" They don't ask you to live n tluj back
woods with them.". . ' ". 1
I hope not.1' .YVhy wss be always
harping upon living in the eouutry ?:.
hi " I suppose, now, that no one could
persuade you to such a sacrifice !"',. . . ,
i I hope no one will try," she answered,
loftily, greatly wondering if . he had any
such intention. .
" Well," he said, after a pause, " when
I marry I hopo my wife will love nature."
" I should rather she would love mo,
if 1 wero you," she said, archly.
" But wasn't it a joko ? My drawing-master
used to say to me, " You are de most
great big lover of do nature, Miss Fclicito
she do havo ; you do show of it in de
every touch !"
" He was a flatterer," said Dr. Gray.
" I thank you. Nobody cati bring
such an accusation against you."
No ono spoke for a full minute.
" I think wo had hotter go back to
your mother," said Felicia then, some
what crestfallen. " It must ho almost
timo for Mr. Jones to come for mo."
"Oh, not so bad as that, I hope. I
should give myself tho pleasure of taking
you home, but I have an engagement."
" What a pity I" said Felicia, quite for
getting herself. " Where aro you going ?"
" To seo Miss Athcrton ?"
"Oh!" cried Felicia, sharply, involun
tarily, as if somo one had struck her a
blow, and biting her lips hard to keep
tho paiu in. Miss Athcrton had been
a college flame of Dr. Gray's which his
mother had succeeded in quenching ; aud
here she was at Shell Beach, and here
ho was making engagements with hor.
" Ts she is she as beautiful as ever ?"
Felicia managed to ask.
" Quito as beautiful."
Oh, how horrible it was ! How she
wished that she had not come to Shell
Beach to spend the day, and to be made
miserable! She would have been happier
at home with her dream, though it were
nothing but the dream of a dream.
" I am quite anxious about her," Jr.
Gray pursued.
Was he going to make her the confi
dent of his love? It was more than flesh
and blood could bear. " I thought," she
faltered " 1 thought that was all over,"
referring to his youthful fancy.
" No. there has been a relapse." said
the doctor, gravely, "and that, you know
often proves lalal.
What was the matter wirh Felicia?
She could not sco tho way before her.
Dr. Gray's face was far oil' in mist ; ho
was preaching but his voice was inaudi
ble to her. Presently the mist cleared
away ; tho setting sun was illuminating
the sails of a pleasure boat, till they look
ed like the two pink wings of the spoon
bill ; a wave was idly breaking about the
horses' feet; a little beach bird skipped
along tho sand ; some gulls wero scream
ing and flying low. A little while ago
it had been so beautiful. Now she cared
for nothing but to go away and hide her
self from tho man who loved another.
She went homo broken-hearted. Aunt
Sophy declared it didn't do her any good
to go junketing over to tho beaches. She
left her books unread, her sketching un
touched, Auut Sophy's dainties untusted;
she even forgot tho four-leaved clover.
She began to wonder if she could bo an
old maid, like Aunt Sophy, and find her
happiness looking after tho parish poor,
and sending butter and eggs to market.
" The child's sick," thought her aunt.
" Like as not her liver's out of order ;
folks' liveis is the peskiest things to keep
a-running. I don't like to have nobody's
lite on my mind ; so I 11 just send round
for Dr. Arnold, and he'll do the right
thing with her."
Felicia had a headache, aloin heart
ache, and was lying on the lounge, when
somo one opened the door and Aunt So
phy flew in from the kitchen crying:
"Thero! Dr. Arnold, I'm right glad to
see your face and eyes. I've been wor
ried out of my night's sleep along of this
child, and her, and her folks a hundred
miles away. I've given her herb tea
and peppermint, and they didn't do her
no more good than so much water. Law
bless you, if she was love-sick she couldn't
be worse off, with no relish for her vict
uals. Kver since she went over to
the beach to see them Ameses, whoever
they may be " And Aunt Sophy might
have run on for ever but that Felicia,
thinking to escape Dr. Arnold by bolting
through a side-door while hor aunt de
tained him in the hall, was skimming
across the room like a piece of thistle
down, when she felt hornolf suddenly
detained by a firm grasp on her shoulder
aud turning about, sho found herself con
fronting Dr. Gray.
" Whither uwy. Miss Fuliciu," said
he, " before I've so much as fell your
pulse ? Come, how do you like Dr. Arnold,
at your service? What do you think of
his gieen goggles ? How docs his wig tit,
think you ?"
" Dr. Gray'."' cried the amazed Felicia,
" Dr. Arnold '. Which ! How ! I don't un
derstand, I thought " '
" Dr. Arnold Gray, you little' goose,"
Aunt Sophy said, " I thought everybody
knew that. You ucd, there's an old Dr.
Gray over to Stall Beach, and he ' isn't
bo sort of a favorite, and so we've got in
to the way of calling this ono Dr. Arnold
to distinguish, so when we send for the
doctor they shan't got 'the wrong one.
There, I believe to my heart I smell my
siihs a-burning ; just like ' Mary Jane to
be talking to the men folks out of tho
window ' and letting everything go to
rain ! You'll prescribe all right for her
without me, doctor?" i i . t ., n ! , , .:.
Yes, if she'll take oiy prescription.,"
" What is it?" asked Folicia,: coloring
under his eye,,, and ; wondering, if; he
guossed Iter trouble, r i ,( ,.,
. "It is myself.;., Xo see, , shouldn't;
dare to prescribe so Wdly, but that I am
convinced I'm your Fate. T came in un
der tho four-leaved clover."
" So you did," laughed Felicia. " Has
Miss Athcrton " remembering herself,
and drawing away from tho doctor's
arms.
" Yes, sho has quite recovered ; she
rodo out to-day for tho first time."
" Then sho had been ill ?"
" After goting over a fever she had u
relapse. 1 believe T told you before,"
he said, impatiently.
" I believo you did ; but ! thought
that it was you who had a relapso.
Thank you, Dr. Arnold, I will take your
prescription." '
TIic IMutksinTth's Trick.
OOM1! timo ago a gawky-looking indi
IO vidual entered a blacksmith's shop
in a country town in Connecticut, and ap
plied for a job in a voice in keeping with
tho stupidity of his physiognomy. His
awkwark, ungainly aud uncouth personal
appcaranco impressed tho smiths with
the idea that they saw before them an
object of prospective merriment. So they
quizr.ingly asked him if he could do all
sorts of forging. Upon his answering
affirmatively, the " boss," winking to the
workmen, handed him a bar of cast-iron,
and told him to try his hand at forging
sonic horseshoes. Tho greeny, in his
persevering efforts to make tho treacher
ous metal stick afforded much amusement
to the other smiths.
When dinncr-timo eamo the greenhorn
had not mado much headway towards
constructing a shoe, but he kept at work
until the last man had gono to dinner;
then suddenly dropping the bar of cast
iron, ho made directly for one of the
forges, and selected tho best pair of tongs
ho could find, and in an incredibly short
space of time, bo had converted tho jaws
of tho tongs into a perfect horse-shoe.
Then ho slipped along tho next forgo, and
repeated the trick, and thus ho left his
compliments to the three forges. When
the blacksmith and his three jours, re
turned from dinner,' they found the verdant-looking
fellow astride of an anvil
with a mournful, disconsolate, woo begone
countenance comical to behold. Ho was
greeted with a boisterous shout of laugh
ter, coupled with the inquiry " How do
you get along making horseshoes? Ain't
you sorry you learned the trade ?"
The object of their je.-.t replied, " I've
knocked out three shoes, all 'cept cutting
off tho spurs.,, Then he held the tongs
or rather what were once before their
tongs, before their astonished ga.e. As
the idea that they had been victimized
gradually dawned on tho minds of these
disciples of Vulcan, their lenghthened
and ludicrous visages were interesting to
behold. Like the profane man, when
the hind board of his cart eamo out as
he was driving up hill with a load of
apples, and scattered his cargo along the
road, so with them swearing couldn't do
justice to their feelings. It turned out
that the verdant-looking chap was " boss"
blacksmith in a New Haven shop, and
was considered one of the best workmen
in the country.
How a Clerk Uot Promoted.
The Troy Tiiw tells this story of Col.
James H. Hooker, an eccentric charac
ter, who died in that city somo twenty
years ago :
" A remarkable mau was Col. Hooker,
and very eccentric withal. At times he
would fairly boil over with passion, and
was very violent in his speech and action.
Vet be was a just man, aud directed his
fury against what ho believed to bo wrong
aud rascally. It is related of him that
having a dispute with ouo of his clerks,
tho latter would not yield the point in
issue to him, whereupon tho Colonel un
der took to put his stubborn employee out
of his office. But the clerk was too much
for tho irate Colonel, and in the melee
the old man .was laid upon his back,
aud his countenance rather unpleasantly
tapped. Kisiug from his position, he pro
ceeded to wash his battered countenance,
brushed his clothes carefully, and, seat-'
ing himself, asked tho victorious clerk to
como to him aud report. Said he : " A '
pretty thing you've done, sir ) got your i
sell into a bau scrape ; committed assault
uud battery; licked your employer, This
shows that there's somo Muff in you,
miserable sinner, and uow, you infernal
scamp, I am going to pay you for it.
You are discharged from the desk you
now hold, aud to-moriow morning 1 want
you to take a place next to me, aud
hereafter act as uiy confidential clerk,
with your salary increased $250. That's
ull : now go about your business." The
clerk thus promoted held the confidential
position assigned him many years during
the remainder of the Colonel's lifetime,
and never had to whip his employer
again to get an udvauce of salary,''
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and was received ut ' the gate with due
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ises. . AJ'tfrsouie cur-s.ory remarks by
the dog, cur-tailed by Jim's .impatience
to be. gone, both withdrew,. Jim cur-sing
nnd swearing,, tho dog about as, usual.
Jiiu said of bis pants next dy that i they
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