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LOVE AN D SKATES
IN TWO PARTS
PART • 11
CHAPTER VII
WADE DOWN
The hiwging of Wale by the happy
pair had to be done metaphorically, since
it was done in sbrlit of all I)underbunK.
Ile had divined a happy result, whon
he missed Bill Tarbox from the arena,
and saw him a fellow! away, hand in
hand with his reconciled sweetheart.
"I envy you, said he, "almost
too much to put proper fervor into my'
cam,ratulations.
- ,
'"Your time will come," the foreman
rejoined.
And says Belle, "I'm sure there is a
lady skating somewhere, wily waiting fur
you to follow hei
"I don't see her,'-" Wade replied, look
ing with a mock-grave flee up and down
and athwart the river ‘• When you 'ye
all gone-to dinner, I'll pro:peet ten mile , :
up and down and, try to find a good wet
rintoni al claim that's not taken "
" You will nut Collie up to dinner ?"
Belle asked.
"1 can hardly aff ird to make Iwo bites
'of a holiday," said Wade. " 1 'ye sent
Perry up for a luncheon llere he cornea
with it. So I cede my quarter of your
pie, Miss Belle, to a better fellow "
‘,..0h:" cries Perry, coming up anti
bOi - ing elaborately. " Mr. and Mrs'.
Tarbox, I believe, Ah, yes I Well, I
will mention it up at Albany. lam go
ing to - take my Guards up to call on the
Governor."
Perry dashed off, followed by a score
of Dunderbunk boys, organized by him
ns the Purtett Guards, and taught to Sa
lute him as Generalissimo with military
honors.
So many hundreds of turkeys, done to
n turn, now began to have an effect upon
the atmosphere. Few odors are more
subtle and pervading than this, and few
more appetizing. Indeed, there is said
to be an odd fellow, a strictly American
gourmand, in New York, who sits, from
noon to dusk on Christmas-day, up in a
tall steeple, merely to catch the aroma of
roast-turkey floating over the city,—and
much good, it is said, it does him.
Hard skating is nearly as effective to
whet hunger as this gentleman's expe
dient. When the spicy breezes began to
blow soft as those of Ceylon's isle over
the river and every whiff talked Turkey,
the population of Dunderhunk listened to
the wooing and began to follow its sever
al noses—snubs, beaks, blunts, sharps,
piquants, dominants, tines, bulgies, and
bilids—on the way to the several house
holds which those noses adorned or de
faced. Prosperous . Dunderbunk had a
Dinner, yes, a Mtltika, that day, and
Richard Wade was gratefully remem
bered by many over-fed foundry-men and
their over-titd families.
Wade had not had half skating enough .
"I'll time myself down to Skerrett's
Point," he thought, " and take my 11113c11-
eon there among the hemlocks."
• The Point was on the property of
Peter Skerret„ Wade's friend and col
lege comrade ten years gone. Peter
had been an absentee iu Europe, and
smoke .from his chimneys this morning
had confirmed to Wade's eyes the rumor
. of his return.
Skerrett's Point was a mile below the
Foundry. Our hero did his wile under
three minutes. Flow many seconds un•
der, 1 will not say. Ido not wish to
make other fellows unhappy
The Point was a favorite spot of
Wade's. Many a twilight of last sail
. mer, tired withtlis faeging at the Works
to make good the evil of w rule,
he had lain there on the rocks Under
the hemlocks, breathing.the spicy.methyl
theyv tured into the or. Alter his day's
hard fight, in the dust and heat of the
Foundry, with anarchy- - iindunthrift, ho
used to take the quiet resiortitives of Na
ture, until the warmer and. fragrance of
the woods, the cool wind, and the sooth
ing loiter of the shining stream, had purg
-e'd•hitu from the fevers of his task.
To this old haunt..he skated, andkind,'
ling a little fire, as an old canipai ,, ner
loves to do, ho sat down, and lunched h
heartily on Mrs. l:urtett's cold log',
cannibal thought I—on the cold leg of
Mrs. Purtet,t:s yesteVday's turkey. Then ..
lighting . hiS weed,-L-dearally of the . lone
ly,—the Superintendent began to think
of his foreman's bliss, and to long for some
thing similar on his own plane.
" I hope the wish is father-to its fulfil
ment," he said: ''''.l3ukt muSt, not stop
here , and be Stici,o,tiy.':YSueh a' hale,yon
day I may not - ha e-agalujii:all. my life,
ii
and I 07,10 to ma: e thi4cat of it, with
any New Skates."'
So he darted off, lied i filled• the ',little,
cove ahore the Point with , aiaby,iinth - of
()turns and:flourishes. . .. _• •
' When that bit of chrystal tablet • was
well covered, th s e podographer sighed for
a new sheet to inscribe his intricate ru
bricas upon. Why not write more ,tao
zas of the poetry of motion on the ice
below the Point? Why not?
Braced by his lunch on the brown
fibre of good Mrs. Purtett's cold drum
stick and thigh, Wade was now in fine
trim. The air was more glittering and
electric than ever. It was triumph and
victory and paean in action to go flashing
along over this footing, smoother than
polished marble and sheenier than first
water gems.
Wade felt the high exhileration of pure
blood galloping through a body alive from
top to toe. The rythw of his movement
was like music to him.
The Ponit ended in a sharp promon
tory. Just before lie came abreast of it;
Wade under mighty headway flung into
his favorite corkscrew spiral on one foot.
and went whirling dizzily along, round
and round, in a straight line.
At the dizziest moment, he was sud
denly aware of a figure, also timing, the
Point at full speed, and rushing to a col
lision.
In fact, abashed at the blind eyes sud
denly uneloasing so gear her, she was on
the point of letting her burden drop.
When dead men come to life in such a
positioh, and begin to talk about "kissing
the place," young ladies, however inde
pendent of conventions, may well grow
uneasy.
But -.the stranger, though alive, was
evidently in a mulhiseous, invertebrate
condition. He could not sustain himself.
She still held him up,. a little more at
arm's-length, and all at once the reaction
from extreme anxiety brought a gush of
tears to her eyes. -
"Don't cry," says Wade, vaguely, and
still only half:conscious: "I promise Weil:
er to do so again."
TETE•A•TF.TE. At this, said with a childlike earnest
ness, lady smiled
SEEING Wade lle there mote:lesi. t he . -- " •
'Don't scalp me," Wade continued in
the lady— .
the same tone : ":••.'quaws . never scalp"
Took m o ff her spectacles, blew her ;cal lie raised Ins hand to Ins bleeding fore
red nose, and stiffly drew near.
head.
Spt•ct ael es ! Nose I No,—the her
i s ,
fivatnre
of her,.. had
never biiiiiiine
e_ ',he laughed
and eutright at his queer
plaintive tune the new class he had
anointed with the firmer; and there ' s
as little stiffness. as nasal redness aht laced her in.
11 er laugh and his own movement.
her. brought Wadi: fully to himself She per-
A fresh start, then,—and this in
cuived that les look was transform , her
accuracy , ,!, ! from the order of scalping squaws to her
Apalled by the loud thump (), id
proper place as aobeautifulyowl.. woman
stranger's skull upon the chief river
'the State of New York, the lady—it wa nil the high civilization ' ii n t7slimared
el-million, but blushing celestial
a young lady whom Wade had tumblet
to avoid=turned, saw a human being lyres}„ • „
said NN ade. "I can sit
mg; motionless, and swept gracefully tow
-'
aid him, without assistance." And he re
, like a good Samaritan, on the P now
outer edge. It was not her fault, but: e l ied
'l_ profoundly that good breeding !
i
' her dest lily, tha t t she had to lio graceful 'i,g,ed kin,-to sa y so .
even under these tragic circumstances. ..‘'in %Not hdro v horarms lie rested on
I ' " Dead !" she thought. "Is he dead ?" • 1, ice'—posture of the Dying Gladiator.
made an effort to be cool and distant,
The ;Tailing, thump had cracked the '''''
usual , but it would act do. This
' ice, and she could not -know how well the
skull was cushioned inside with brains to % mighty man still interested her. It
resist a blow.. 1 watill her business to be strength to,
I
hid ,
She shuddered; as she swooped about f '
inade a feeble attempt to wipe
toward this possible corpse. It might be
aw
het a t le drops of le
from his f a re- !
t h t lie was killed, and half the fault hers.
No wonder her fine eolor,..;shining in they . ;i ',li lys hanpkerelnef.
1 ,
,
right parts of an admirably drawn face, ! Sloe e be your surgeon . sa'd she.
•
all disappeared instantly. 1 I . L,t . -
, .e, AI P 7. I) were the initials in the
But she evidently was not frightened.
edoerni:ri':-Id It
and tenderly' turband-
She halted, kneeled, looked curiously at
, u hint
the stranger, and then proceeded, in a
Wade unittcd with delight to this'
perfectly cool and self-possessed way, Cu , t, ,
trentmen A tumble with such trim.
pick him up.-
I miters was x ,
I I A solid fellow, heavy to lift in his prey- 4Vho ." 1
IrY
indeed
cut lumpish condition el dead-weight! 1
thmndit
ic ld riot break his head," he
: imp{ . ,---
a t,
e lliave these delicate fi ngers ,
She had to tug mightily to get 'him up
ic.) cez
ci n ue llen,
.ate] this pure, noble
into a sitting position When he was
"one indifferent a
raised, all the back bone seemed his ? What a queenly
from his spine, and it took the whole brow „, l ier she has! What a calm
()se l l \ 7„honest eyes ! What a
force of her vigorous arms to sustain him.
„.":
id i
u l d l i t , equable cheeks ! \V hat
The effort was enough to account for firm
a
nie nt mouth ! Not a bit
the return of her color. It conic rushing
afraid of
an , he feels that I am a
batik splendidly. Cheeks, forehead, ev
usal not presume."
erj thing but nose, blushed. 'I he Lord,
'De
"I. l 'h ere I" drawing back. "Is
work of lift big so much avoirdupois, and that comfortable i e '
possibly, also, the novelty of supportine - ,
t - "Luxury !" h • aculated with fervor.
so much handsome fellow, inteusified all 1„ 1 an rb
) afraid II to blame for your
her hues. Her eyes—blue or that shade . terrible fell. "
even inure faithful than blue—deepened; i "No,---,my oWUu„'s 'm•ess
and that
and her pale golden hair grew several car- oar-blade are in fat , -
ats—not carrots—brighter...
"If you feel- Iv'
She was repaid for her active sympathy enoug h to be left
i alone, I will skate ofi d .o I
at once by discovering that this bigl t d call my Dien s•, In Prism, I cry!
"Please do not - I ,
awkward thing Was not a dead, but only inn quite yet! The whiskey of the Immortals
i says Wade, entirOY Forbids me to dto." '
a stunned, body. It had an ugly bump I tisficd with the
tee.-a-N te . ' " Ire effeminate women of the nine
and a bleeding cut on its manly skull, "Ali ! here c ' .
omes, teenth century are afraid of broken heads,"
but otherwise was quite an agreeable ob- Skerrett round
the Point 1" she sa id said Fanny. "But Mary Darner seems
ject to contemplate, and plainly on its' d sprang up, i
looking a little guilty quite to enjoy your accident, Mr. Wilde,
" unembarrassed brow Nature had writ• as an adventure."
ten ' Gsntleman.'" CHAPTEIK. Miss Darner certainly did seem gay and
As this young lady had never had a LOVE IN THE ruts exhilira,ted.
, MIME.
fair, steady stare at a stunned hero before, "I enjoy it," said Wade., "I perceive
she seized her advantage. She bad hith- ETT o ' ol • •
PETER SICERR
... ailing round that I fell on my feet , when I fell on my
erto been distant with the other sex. the purple rocks of his ,
Mt, skating o ld friends , an d
0 crown. I tumbled a m ong
She had no brother. Not one of her like a man who has been,-
1- ie South of
I hope amon g new. ones."
Europe for two winters. ~
male cousins had ever ventured near "I have been waiting to claim my place
He was decidedly Ana'. • •
enough to get those cousnily privileges r. ed in his among your old friends," Mrs. Skerrett
that timid cousins sigh for and plucky and I '
whiskers, coat, s
I V
9therwise said, "ever since Peter told' me you were
cousins take, if they are worth taking. hp in all respects repeatte 1 •111-k nowt] one of his models."
ancestor, Skerrett o t he, t .,
Wade's impressive face,' though for the! e l ut ion; She delivered this little speech with a
whose two portraits—l. A tut
moment blind as a statue's also seized hero in caressing manner\ which totally fascinated
its Avanta , re and stared at her - intently, `reg i m entals , ,, ilbert Stu
i n G
' early Wade. •
brandy-and-water manuer .
• 2 ._. ~_.
with a pained and pleading look, new to ' 1 • ' .-• reaY Nothing was, ever so absolutely pretty
Lhasa resqlute features. . . 1 sage in senatorims, in !!tuart s ;
, r day , -
as Mrs. Peter Skerrett. Her. Complete
et and-water imuiner—han , irili
Wade was entirely unconsious of the b '.''''saen - prettiness left nothing to be•desired.
vita hit he hail made by his tumble , dant. s dining rum% r
"Never,' thought "hide, "did I see
Pet.eils first lo , was . a pro 1
plump into the arms ' of this heroine ! '' -' ‘ •na'Y such a compact little casket of perfections.
The e were fellows extant who would. significant tine. at the contused macsh. Every feature ,
well
is t horoughly done
MD , lady. Secondly be int
haVe suffered any imaginable amputation, .. n g Y' , - :. qed and none intrusively. Her little nose is
Gladiator on blue ice..,i ,
any,Neonceivable mau li ng, any thin: , f rom, t hin ' ) y n n - '" a combinatiott, of all the amiailities Her
the apex of anything into the lowest deeps "Have you been tilting itt thiO,':.Ri e
• black oyes sparkle with fun and mischief
of anywhere, fur the honor he was now man, Mary?" he asked, in the veiti
a and wit, all playing , under deep tender
. . .
' enjoying. • . • cheerful? friendly fellow. "Why i lA -' neee below.
Her hair ripples itself full
I -hßut all he knew Was that his shall was hr. Hooray I.q It's Wade Bichard,p,
la, of gleams, and shadows. The -same co
' a beehive in air uproar, and that one lobe Dick Wade! Don't look,
Mi " !''''''' quetry of Nature that rippled her hair
of his brain was struggling to swarm off, while I give him the grips of all the
has tinted her cheek with shifting dim
,His legs - and arms - felt'asiflthey-belanged - cret aePiqti_e§.Ate__. belonged to-in-.Colley:
Plea: EverFtiiiieTalielteilettraii-she
to another man, and a very limp one. at „Mary, however,_ did look
oni . Otis
n 1 , siniles as if sixty an, hOur where not half
that. A ton of cast iron seemed to b.. and amused, while Peter plumped d "Illowance-- dimple slides into view and
pressing his eyelids down, and a trickle on the ice, shook his friend's handua !
anishes like -a dot in a flow of 'sunny ,
of red-hat metal flowed from his out fore. examined him as it' he were fine croeVer l' v -
or. •- And, 0 Peter Skerrettl -if you
~..at
head. - • spilt and perhaps shattered:
' ' ' '3re not the best fellow in the world, I
tim - ik - e - " . o
" I shall have to scream," thought the "It's n ot,c, , 1 f ,trepanning, Melt,.
'lt'd envy 'Yon that, late& kids of a
lady, after an instant-of anxious waiting, my boy?" said he. _ : .. espy 'you
; '•
' '.. nth:'
"if he does not revive. I cannot leave ' "Nel,"qsaid the other. "I tumbled "ni
You
him to go for help." trying to dodge this lady. The ice thought „.
: . nee d • not ,say it,: Vade,--your
, en head exempts you' from the.,busi-
) Y
,
Not a prude, you see. • A prude would my facmmight to be scratched, bo4lisQ' •r ` 9of complitnents," said. Iteter; "but
have had cheap'. scruples about com Pro • had been scratching ite'face without nker- :1; .
in
• think. - tilyr - : wife perfection.
iniSing herself by taking n `thaa,:it} hm: oy.• My wits were knocked out of me; . Ve
' - --- ihilailkiiheinore;you - knOw „ lieeL
arms. Not o'vul'ar Person, who . would
taut
hey . are tired of secession r and plead- ~-'i,,,:p , oor , A .ehall l '
P t r"'-s said ..hc, -
a ,
.
have required - the stranger to. be Over, ing tohe letin,ag4in.,.,.: ..i .. ' ;:•litrt ) .N "' • ~- ii charms
--•-.--,,,,Aide-behincL,the..supo..V7.' ~. ~.._ _,
ly recommended by - somebody who came "R. - cep some of-(hetti : out for ou'r sake I . ef:•4 7 ,• Dait i jor. - o • _.;
over in'the.-Mayllower, before she helped Wm must - have yea 'at our commonplace :
-: . i.irT_Dattier certainly '. was weinan of.
him • Not a feeble-minded - damsel, " - who, level. Well, liss'lClary, TisuppoSe this tilpi l o id a i::: you
, - Might*PUlrat Hie
•if she had not fainted, would., have -fled - is the first time yea have had the sense- bellUl
- cock at ibm-knookep imd, be in•.
away, gasping and-in team.- No•timidity tion of breaking a - man's head: Yon yeatie
4, m uto the boudifirs of all the bans=
,or prtidery_ or underbrpd :doubts about •generallY hit'hiwer.' . Ppter
. taPped his
es'',,L'tieatet,-chateans,•atitCpalabeS- in
this. thorough creature. , She knew" she heart:, ,•'
~, . .•, . . - •' - .• Cl"P'''-"n'-Withoutiltietng tuiett another.
-vas 'in her right - womanly place, and she ~.2i."l'm ali fight ..-00, ,thatilti. 'to :my. sur: Shel A-
a dietinetly,to:lbe:Nortliern
Meant. to stay there,
ga
But she hen .to
. need•help',,poSsibly -Peterw
.-•llepalled'up 'nnid clung to his weine , ..,
'era ' WA, indeed,. a :trace of
a IRnoit . , possibly fiocket-pistoli-poSSibly friernl.'',. ' --- -'" ' ' - - , , . . ' - hau ' , e " ,,..„ c1 imperiousueSs . in
,borlobk
..:,.. , :•-•:.1- ' ' - - ' '''
- - '.
:•-•
•—-. ' 1 ' .
• - - . . . ..... . .._._ . .
IFe
look
aside to avoid it. 110 could
not look to his footing. his skat e struck
a br'oken oar, imbedded in the ie. H e
fell violently, and lay like a dead tan.
His New Skates, Testimonial ttlYferit,
seem to have served him a shablttriek.
CHAPTER :I'lH
/VRINIR, NOR 'MA Min° ALT GE2OIIM.
hot blvtkets, possibly somebody to knead
these lifeless lungs and pommel this flac
cid body, until circulation was restored.
Just as she was making up her mind
to scream, Wade stirred. He began to
tingle as if a familiar of the Inquisition
were slapping him all over with fine-tooth
ed curry-combs. He became half-con
scious of a woman supporting him. In
a stammering and intoxicated voice he
murwured,—
"Who rl 11 to catch me when i fell,
And kissed the place to make It well /
My"
Ile opened his eyes. It was.not his
mother; for she was long since deceased.
Nor was this his non-mother kissing the
place.,
CARLISLE, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1862:
"You're the vine and I'nitthe' lamp
post," Skerrett said. “Maryy do you
know what a pocket-pistol
"I have seen such-rweapons, concealed
about the persons of modern warriors.'
"There's ono in my ,overee4-poeset,
with a cup at the but and a , cork at the
muzzle. Skate Off now, like;*an angel,
and get it. Bring Fanny, too. She is
restorative."
"Are you alive enough to tiainiio that,
Dick.?' he continued, as she'shiliimed
away.
"It would put a soul undertbo 'ribs bf
Death,''
"I venerate that youvg woman," says
Peter. "You see 'what a heanty she is,
and just as unspoiled as thislice. Un
spoiled beauties arerarer thus-Tees' eggs."
"She has a singularly true facer Yade
replied, "and that is the main'iliirg;-:
the most excellent thing in than or wom
an."
"Yea, truth makes that nuisance, beau
ty, tolerable."
"You did not do zne the honor to pre
sent Inc."
"I saw you had gone a great, way be
yond that, try by. Have you not her
initials in catubr t on your brow ? Not
M. T., which wouldn't apply . but M. D."
"Nary r,
"Damen"
"Llike the name," says Wade, repeat
ing it. "It sounds simple and thorough
bred."
"Just what she IS.. One of the nine
simple:helarted and thbrouglilired girls
on this continent.'
"Nine ?"
"Is that too many ? ?Three, then.
That's one in ten milliorAw -- The exact
proportion of Poets, Painters, Orators,
Statesmen, and all other treat Artists.
Well,—three or nine,'—nary Damdi is
one of them. She never saw fear or
jealousy, or knowingly allowed au ignoble
thought or an ungentle word or an un
grae.eful act in herself. ller atmosphere
does not tolerate dirtathor. You must
find out for yourself how much genius
she has• aml.has not. But I will say this,
—that I think of puns to a minute faster
whim Pin with liar. Therefore she must
be magnetic, and that is the first charm
in a woman."
Wade laughed
"Yon have not lost your powers of an
alysis, Peter. But talking_nf this hero.
ine, you have not told me anything about
yourself, except n propos of punning!:
"Come up and 'v"'" X7,71:F ay
personal histories, bra 'e !
I've been looking in
hero to set, vis a vis t 6
But stop ! perhaps yr,'
turkey at h0rn,e,.w4hy,..,..
a brace of boys waitioiriiaistieks"
"No, —my boys, --)Me Cherubs, await
their own dntlistickS j -They're not born,
and Pin intr-inarriedP
"I thought, you looked incomplete and
abnormal. Well, I will show you a mod
el wik,—and here she conies 1"
here they came, the two ladies, gliding
round the Point, with draperies floating
as artlessly artful as the robes of Rapha
el's hours', or a Pompeian Bacchante.
For want of classic, vase or pateru, Miss
Darner brandished fetter Skerrett's pock
et-pistol,
Fanny Skerrctt gave her hand cordial
ly to Wade, and looked a little anxiously
at his pale face.
"Now, M. ,I> ~,',§ays Peter, "you have
been surgeon, you shall be doctor and
dose our patient. Now, then,—
"Helm, pour free!
Qnickou his eyes with muuntain.dow,
Thal :-tyx the dole-ted,
'A" mote, bu okay VIEW."
•'The"lta, hobo!"
Wade said, continuing the 'quotation,—
"1 quaff I 1
and manner ; but it did not ill become
her distinguished figure and face. Wade,
however, remembered-her sweet'•earnest
ness when she was playing leech to his
wound, and chose to take that mood -as
her dominant ono.
"She must have been desperately an
noyed with bores and boobies,"' he
thought, "I do not wonder she protects
herself by distance. lam afraid I shall
never get within her lines again,—not
even if I should try slow and regular ap
proaches, and bombard her with bouquets
for a twelvemonth."
"But, Wade," says Petei, <<nll this time
you have not told us what good luck sends
you here to be wrecked on the hospitable
shores of my Point "
" I live here• lam chief cook and con
fectioner where you see the smoking top
of that tall chimney up-stream."
" Why, of course I What a dolt I was,
not to think of you, When Churm told us
an Athlete, a Brave, a Sage, and a Gen
tleman wa,s the Superintendent of Dun
derbunk ; but said we must find his name
out for ourselves. You remember, Ma
ry. Miss Darner is Mr. Churm's ward."
She acknowledged with a cool bow that
she did remernher her guardian's charae
tei• of Wade.
" You do not say, Peter," says Mrs.
Skerrett, witli a bright little look at the
other lady, " why Mr. Churm was so mys
terious about Mr. Wade."
" Miss Darner shall tell us," Peter re
joined, repeating his wife's look of mer
ry significance.
She looked somewhat teased. Wade
could divine easily the Meaning of this
little mischievous talk. His friend Churn'
had no doubt puffed him furiously.
" All this time," said Miss Darner,
evading a reply, "we are neglecting our
sliming, privileges."
" Peter and I have a few grains of hu
manity in our souls," Fanny said. "We
should blush tosail away from Mr. Wade,
while he carries the quarantine flag at his
pale checks."
" I am almost ruddy again," says
Wade. " Your portion, Miss Darner, has
completed the work of your surgery I
can afford to di,nti: , s my lamp post."
Whereupon the post changes to a
tectotum," Peter said, and spun off in an
eccentric, ending in a tumble.
" I must have a share in your restora
tion, Mr. Wade," Fanny elaitneil '°l
see you need a second dose of medicine.
Hand me the flask, Mary. What. shall I.
pour from this magic bottle ? juice of
Rhine, blood of Burgundy, fire of Spain,
buble of Rheims. becswiugof Oporto, hon
ey of Cyprus, nectar or whiskey hiskey
is vulgar, hut the proper thing, on the
whole, for these oceasiiins. I prescribe it!!
And she gave him another little draught
to imbibe.
Ile took it kindly, for her sake,-,--and
not alone for that, but for its own respect
able sake. His recovery was complete.
His bead, to be sure, sang a little still,
and ached not a little. Some fellows
would have gone on the sick list with
such a wound. Perhaps he would, if he
had had a trouble to dodge. But here
inEtead was a pleasure to follow. So 'he
began to move about slowly, watching the
Fanny was a novice in the Art, and
this was her first day this winter. She
skated timidly, holding Peter very tight
ly. She went into the dearest little pan
ics for fear of tumbles, and uttered the
most musical scteams and laughs. And
if she succeeded in taking n few brave
strokes and finished with a neat slide, she
pleaded for a verdict of " Well done !"
with such an appealing smile and such a
fine show of dimples that every one was
fascinated and applauded he.artily.
Miss Darner skated as became her free
and vigorous character. She had passed
het-Little Go as a scholar, and was now
steadily winning her way through the list
of achievements, before given, toward the
Great Go. To-day she was at work at
small circles backward. Presently she
wound off a series of perfectly neat ones,
and, looking up, pleased with her prow
ess, caught Wade's admiring eye. At
this she smiled and gave an arch little
womanly nod of self-approval, which also
demanded masculine sympathy before ft
'was quite -a perfect emotion.
With this charming gesture, the alert,
feather in her Amazonian hat nodded, too,
as if it admired its love mistress.
Wade was thrilled. " Bravo !" he
cried, in answer' to the part of her look
which asked sympathy; and then, in re
ply to be implied challenge, he forgot his
hurt--and his shock, and struck, into the
same figure.
lie tried not to surpass his fair exem•
plar to cruelly:. But he did his periphe
ries well enough to got a repetition of the
captivating nod and a Bravo I from the
lady.'
" 13rato !" said she. " But do not tax
your strength to soon."
She began to feel that ne was express
ing to much interest in the stranger. It
was a now sensation for her to care wheat
-or men fell or got up. A new sensation.
She rather liked it. She was a trifle
_ashamed of it. either ease she did
not wish to show that it was in her heart.
The consciousness of concealment flushed
her damask cheek.
• .It was a damask cheek. All lief hues
were 060 and pearly; while Wade, Sax
oti too, liad'hot,gOlden tints . 'in his hair
and moustache, and.his abler, now
. •
mg, was good strong red , with -plenty of
bronze in it.
"Thank you, he replied. "My force
has all come back. You have electrified
miltjng; but liiiirminitnawaged
to gut info his tone And look, whetller ha
Would or - 11ot. •
Which he perceiving, on his part, be
gan. to feel guilty. ,
Of what - crime 7
Of the' very same crime as - hers,—the
most ancient•and Most pardonable crime
of youth. and maiden,—that sweet and
guiltless crime of . loop . in the first Ile.
,So, without troubling thethielves.to an
alyz,e their feelings; they found a phiutint
ilensure in skating together,—she in ad
miring his tours de force, and he in in
structing her.
" Look, Peter 1' said Mrs. Skerrett,
pointing to the other pair skating, he on
the backward
. roll, she on the forward,
with hands crossed and locked ;—such
contacts are permitted in skating, as in
dancing. "Your - hero and my heroine
have dropped into an intimacy."
" None but the plucky deserve the
Pretty," says Peter.
" But he seems to be such a fine fel
low,---suppose she should n't"—"
The pretty face looked anxious.
" Suppose he should n't," Peter on the
masculine behalf returned.
" Ile cannot help it ; Mary is so noble,
—and so charming, when she does not
disdain to be."
" I dont believe she can help"it. She
cannot disdain Wade. .He carries too
many guns for that. lie is just as fine
as she is. He was a hero when I first
knew him. His face does not show an
atom of change; and you know what-Mr.
Charm
Charm told us of his chivalric deeds else
where, and how he tamed and reformed
Dunderbunk. He is chrystal grit, as
crystalline and gritty as he can be."
" Grit seems to be your symbol of the
highest qualities. It certainly is a bet
ter thing in a , man than in ice-cream.—
But, Peter, stippse this would be a true.
love and should not run smooth ?"
" What consequence is the smooth run
ning, so long as there is strong running
and a final getting in neck mid neck at
the winning-post ?"
" But," still pleaded the anxious soul,
—having no anxieties of her own, she
was always suffering for others,—" he
seems to be such a line fellow! and she
is so hard to wim 1"
" Am I a fine fellow ?"
" Nu,—horrid!"
"The truth,—or I let you tumble."
'•\Nell, upon compulsion, I admit tha
you arc.'•'
Then being a fine fellow does not
minish the said fellow's chances of being
blessed with- a- wife, quite superfine."
" If I thought. you weee personal, Pe
ter, I should object to the mercantile ad
jective. 'Superfine,' indeed !"
"I am personal. I withdraw the ob
noxious phrase, and substitute transcen. :
dent No, Fanny dear, I 'read Wade's
experience in my own. rdo not feel
very much concerned about him. Ile is
big enough to take care of himself. A
man who is sincere, self posessed, and
steady does not get into miseries with
beautiful Amazons like our friend. He
knows to much to try too make his
love run up hill; but let it once 'get
started, rough runlaing gives it rim.—
Wade will love like a deluge, when be
sees that he may, and I'd advise obst
acles to stand off."
" It was pretty, Peter, to see cold Ma
ry Damer so gentle arid almost tender."
" I always have loved to see the first
beginnings of what looks like love / since
I. saw ours."
" Ours," she said,—" it seems like yes
terday."
And then together they recalled that
fair picture against its dark ground of
sorrow and so went on refreshing the
emotions of that time until Fanny swil-
" There must be something magical in
skates, for here we we are talking senti
mentally like a pair of young 10%-ers."
" Health and love are cause and effect."
says Peter, sententiously.
Meanwhile Wade had been fast skating
into the good graces of his companion.
Perhaps the rap on his head had deranged
him. He certainly tossed himself about
in a reckless and insane way. Still lie
justified his conduct by never tumbling
again, and by inventing new devices with
bewildering rapidity.
This pair were not at all sentimental.
Indeed, their talk was quite technical:
all about rings and edges, and heel and
toe,—what skates are bcst, and who best
use them. There is an iinmenie amount
of sympathy to be exchanged on such
topics, and it was somewhat significant
that they avoided other themes where
they might not sympathize so thorough
ly. The negative part of a conversation
is often as important as its positive.
So the four entertained themselves
finely, sometimes as a quartette, some
times as a two duos with proper changes
if partners, until the clear west began to
grow golden and the clear east pink with
sunset.
" It is a pity to go," said Peter Slter
rett. ‘.'ll;verything hero is ,perfe6tion
and Fine Art; but we must not be un
faithful to dinner. Dinner would have a
right to punish us, if we did not encour
age its efforts to be Fine Art also."
" Now, Mr. Wade," Fanny command
ed, " your most heroic
,series of' exploits,
to close this heroic day."
He nimbly dashed through his list.—
The ico was traced with a labyrinth of
involuted convolutions,
Wade's last turn brought him to the
very spot_ of his tumble.
"Ah 1" said he. " here is the oar
that tripped me, - with - -4 Wade, - his -- uirki'
gashed i6to it, Tf Thad
touched Miss Damer's handkerchief—
"for-a souvenir, I think I would dig up
the oar and earrynit.hotne."
" Let it melt out and..float away;in the
spring," Mary said.. "It may be a perch
for a sea-gull or a buoy for .drowning
man."
- Here, if this were a long story instead
of a short one,.might be given a descrip
tion
,of Peter' Skerrett's house end. the
menu of Mrs. -Skerrett's dinner. eter
and his wife..bad both been to great pil
lory , dinners, ad '• and :.learnt
'yvhat'to avoid: How . --not to„be bored . is
the - objeCt of all tivilizatiori, - •.4ad•the - alter•;:
rats had discovered the methedri: —•
• must dismiss thp• dinner and the 'eye -
biegistamped With the 'general epithet,
•• • •
Perfection
" Yoa usagain morrow on
•
the riveri": said
M. Skcrrett, as Wade
rage. to go: , , , .
te•Te-morrowr gO•iloWn to report to my
Directors." . . - - .
Id 56 per anninn in advando
( $2 00 11 not paid In advance
"Then mixt day."
" Next day, with pleasure."
Wade departed and marked this halcy
on day with white chalk, as the whitest,
brightest, sweetest of hie life.
[CONCLUSION NEXT 'WEEK.]
Home Politeness,
Why not be polite? how much does if
cost to say, "I thank you." Why not
practice it at home? to your husband ?
to your children ? your domestic ? If ti
stranger does you some little act of curie ,
sy, how sweet the smilifig acknowleclge.‘
ment ! If you'r husband, ah ! its a mat
ter of course; no need of thanks.
Should any acpuaintance tread on youf
dress, your very, vety best, and by [Loci. ,
dent tear it, how profuse you are with
" never rniud, don't think of it, I don't
care at all ;" if a husband does it, a frown;
if a child does it, chastised.
Ah ! these are little things, say you.—
They tell mighty upon the heart, let me .
assure, little as they are.
A gentleman stops at a friend's house;
and finds it in confusion. He don't seO;
anything to apologise for—never thihk,
of such matters. Everything is all' right
—cold supper, cold room, crying children
—perfectly comfortable. Goes • hotrie;
where the wife has been taking care of
the sick ones, and working her life almost
out. Don't see why' things can't be kept
in order—there never was such cross
children- before. No apologies aCC6ptedi
at home.
Why not be polite at home ? why not
use freely that golden coin of' courtesy ?
—how sweet they sound, those little
words, "I thank you," or, 'You are very
kind." Doubly, yes, thrice sweet from
the lips we love, when heart smiles make
the eye sparkle with the clear light of
affection.
Be polite to your children. Do you ex
pect them to be mindful of your welfare 7
to grow glad at your approach ? to bound
'away to do your pleasure before the re
quest is half spoken? Then with all your
dignity and authority, mingle politeness §
itive it — in your - her Icon remple
a nielibin your - huuset.
Only then will you have learned the true
secret of sending out into Alm world real
ly finished gentlemen and ladies.
What we say, we say unto all—Be poL:
lite.
UNDERSTANDS HERSE LF.—A good
joke says the Syracuse Standard is related!
of Miss G,, a laughter loving, good natur
ed lass, who was spending the afternood
with a neighbor, and during supper, the .
conversation, turned on hens, eggs, &c.
During which Miss G., observed "that
their hens laid scarcely any eggs, and eh&
could not tell the reason.' "Why" 0b..;
served Mr. P., "my hens lay very well, I
go out among them almost every day and
yet egg.;" My gracious!" was the instant'
rejoinder, "1 wish y.cru would come over
and run with our hens a spell, I'm sure
father would pay you well for your trou.
ble." She'll do.
A WESTERN CLERGYMAN, in present
ng a revolver to a volunteer s said : "If you,
get into a tight place, and have to use it,
ask God's blessing, if you have time, but
be sure not to let your enemy get the start
of you. You can say amen after you shoot•
A WAG says that it journeying lately
he was put into an omnibus with a dozen
persons, of whom he did not know a sin-.
gle one. Turning a corner shortly after,
the omnibus was upset; "and then," said
he, "I found them all out."
Two MEN conversing about the ill hu
mor of their wives. "Ah, said one, "with
a sorrowful expression, "mine is ti Tartarl'
"Well," replied the other, "mine is worse
than all that—mine is the Cream of Tar
tar."
A DETRO' T paper mentions the attest of
a woman of that city, "with nothing on hot
person but a love letter and an ambrotype."
Rather a poetical and pieterespie cos
tume.
Our young friend, Harry Turn, recent. ,
ly married his cousin of the same name•
When interrogated as to why he 'did
so, he replied that it had always been a
ma:tim of his that one good turn deser'o
another, and ho acted accordingly. •
MORE CCU NTERFErra.--.Dttring the
last fortnight. a groat number of new counter
feits and altered notes have been put into sire
dulalion. During the month off` Yebruary
forty-five new counterfeits were put into cir
culation. From .this fact our readers may
judge of the necessity for cloddy scrutinizing
every hank bill offered. Among the latest
counterfeits 'issued are the fallowing:
Farmers' Bank of Reading, ra.—Bs, spit -
rious —I ndian and 5 above an the loft, portrait
with 6 above on right. -Naale access the bill.
Farmers' Bank of Reading,--rs, spurious
—Vignette, cows, sheep and a train of cars:
on the right end a figure of Justice with
scales and sword ; on the left end, locomotive
and tender in a circular 'border, all poorly
engraved. --
Bank of Beaver County, Pa.-ss, altered—
vignette, man Seated with child, • dog,*borses
and plough ; on each end, 6, V 5,; on the
lower part of the note State arms: -
-Bank
-
-Bank -of Crawford County.---Moadville,-,Pa
-10s altered from 2s—vignette, buidr ark
five deer under a tree ; femahi fig. and chink
ens on right. v
. Bank. of Danville, Pa.-18,. spurious—vig
nette, an eagle - poised on frame,•rnanton each
side; „brig and.l on right; female feedina
eagle on Left. • • .••• • • ,
Columbia Bank, 141.-18:alteritd—vlathzttet.
en eagle poised.on a . shield, ears,' c.;4 on,
right end. a 7 girl. gleaning - and figure b;
loft. fen2alo seated near grain,- bolding. att.
eagle andstars and stripes. - '
Harrisburg Bank, :Pa.—Eh) altered fr t om in
Gem - Seettitt - 0011Efi; *omit and.
ch i ld on left end; two girls an right.end.
' lUeobanies' sank. rhiladelphis are in.
Circulation. This battle - Iva issued any small.
saes yet, so refuse all Is, 20 and Bs. • -
Meohanios' Rank, Philadelphia-2N altered/
-,-vignette, wagorta loaded• with cotton,: on
lower right, bust of sailor; on, lower left, man
ploughing with. hnrsea. - ' • • -
Stroudsburg Bank, Pa —alterodt—cigneite..'
shunter fighting a bear; a male heath on right;
female and• graia on left; „
_ T,ioga County Bank, Pa.,...5,0 altered from
farm• soemoi' Mani children and
dog; on right end, S awl Indian ; on left end,
and 'Washington ;' rod ElV.E.tioroes . the WM,
NO lg,