COUNTING UDER DIFFICULTIES.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3575, 11 June 1880, Page 2

COUNTING UDER DIFFICULTIES.

He came up a little late, stepped in without ringing, aid striding into the parlour, dropped iuto an easy chair with the careless grace of a young man who is accustomed to the programme. "By Jove," he said to the figure sitting in the dim obscuvity on the sofa, "By Jove, l thought I was nevei* going to see you alone again. Your mother never goes away from the house nowadays; does she Minnie?" "Well not amazingly frequently," cheerfully replied the old lady irom the sofa. " Minnie's away so much of the time now, I have to stay in." In the old hickory at the end of the house the moping owl complained to the moon much in its usual style, the katydids never sang more clearly, and the plaintive cry of the whip poor*will filled the night with poetry, bat he did'nt hear any of, it, all the same. "And, by, George," he laid to a friend fifteen minutes later, "If I didn't leave my hat upon the piano, and cane in the hall, I'm a goat. Think of 'em ? Forgot 'em P Strike me blind if I knew I had any clothes on at all. What I wanted was fresh air, and I wanted about thirty acres of it, and mighty qu'ck, too." -