Boone County Recorder . m up onoe with a piece of mymind. Rib think Best would give that Tom Ray-nolda the shake;Hes no good on earth, and that every oneJ knows— Be made her give up all the rest for his sake,And yet ha la too big a calf to propose. HCR think I ahall sound Mr. Raynolds next week, And learn If he has any purpose In toll him I like him, but foal I should speak,Aa ha keepa away others who like Bessie,too. night gone; what a fool I have been IAnd I weut there this evening, expressly to?peak;But time aftor time, when 1 triad to begin,Ioh
Boone County Recorder . m up onoe with a piece of mymind. Rib think Best would give that Tom Ray-nolda the shake;Hes no good on earth, and that every oneJ knows— Be made her give up all the rest for his sake,And yet ha la too big a calf to propose. HCR think I ahall sound Mr. Raynolds next week, And learn If he has any purpose In toll him I like him, but foal I should speak,Aa ha keepa away others who like Bessie,too. night gone; what a fool I have been IAnd I weut there this evening, expressly to?peak;But time aftor time, when 1 triad to begin,Iohoked at the words and grew tremblingand ahe oamo to the gate when I started toleave,To tell of the plcnlo and ask me to come,And rested her soft, little hand on my I oould have diod for her sake, yet , It makes my blood bolM She must pityme, too—afore likely despises me—well, let it passSome man ought to win her, Tom Raynolds,not you,A poor, oraven, cowardly consummate ass. — a large miningtown in the farwest there, livesGeorge Ran-dolf, a miningking, who is asstern and ar-bitrary as menare apt to bewhen they acquire sadden riches. Inaddition to his gold he possessed a raretreasure in the person of bis daughterBessie, as sweet a seventeen-year-oldmaiden as ever lived. Pretty Bessie did not lack for lovers,and, quite as naturally, the favored onewas the very one that her father ob-jected to. Clyde Brown was frank-spoken, withan. honest, manly face, a true, lovingheart and little else. Why, Elizabeth, her father alwayscalled her,that when displeased—howcan you forget that we are descendedfrom the Randolfs of Virginia? Justa : little longer, daughter—a year ortwo at the most—and we will go eastand live aa other people do. Then myJewel may find a worthy setting. *I want no one but Clyde, papa, pro-tested Bessie, tearfully. But tears made no impression uponthe hard heart of George Bandolf. However, he condescended to give a
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