OCR Text |
Show I A CYNOSURE. " ' ' Ills front nnmo wan Ailolphus and his ur-: ur-: name woa Brown. t The girls all said his muatache Wan the " prettiest In town. ,y HU hair was n doep auburn and It crinkled fc up In cUrls K That made him tho cynosure of all Mitt $ village stria. Now, nelnfir a cynosure, ho had mora or v less concolt. You could suo It In his manner when hs walked across the stroot. HIb very air proclaimed aloud to everyone e In town: , "Say, don't you think I'm handsomo? My s namo's Adolphus Drown." yf Well, so It went for several years. Adl-', Adl-', phus cut a. dash, But being a cynosure doesn't pay In ready .- cash, &lr,,Aud finally hln father brought tho youth ' ' 'up with a Jerk, And lip said, says he: "Adolphus, you have Kot to bo to work." Now, when Adolphus heard thrtje words and thought wliat they Implied, 1 1 la first thought was that ho would ko and " - ho a suicide; jf ,' Hut of nervo to swallow poison ho found " - there was a lack, Andi tho thought of a revolver sunt cold ' alilvcra down his back. u And bo Adolphus still survives, with his , '-, mustache and his curls, And ho still Is a cynosure for nil tho village .s ". ' Klrls; 3n fuct, ho's rather inoro so now than he ' ovor wns before, Por ho's selling laco snd ribbons in Mc- Cloakey's bnrgaln store. Somorvlllo Journal. |