Beadle's Dime Novels No. 131 — page 41: what you’re looking at

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A LOCK OF HATR. 45 “ Let me see Katie’s hair,” she said abruptly, after a long silence, owing: which they had floated slowly down the beach. “ Here it is,” he said, taking a little package from his vest- pocket, and, undoing the tissue paper in which it was wrap- ped, he held up a-curl of fine hair, which glittered like the rays of the sun; as the breeze waved it lightly out. “ How beautitul, Olla! I wish mine were that color!” “You must give ome a lock of! yours, before [ go, to put with it; Katie will wish to see yours, I have talked so much about you.. The contrast will make-each look prettier.” Tangee brightened .wp) considerably at; this; if Oliver wanted her hair, also, it was not so fatal that he should have another girl’s. “ How would you like to ni SRS A thy “ Have youit with you?’ “Yes ; “Jocined dtpetedetell theca you think.” [erect She eagerly received the little case, and — —— the fair young: creature mirrored within. “* She #dovely,” she said at last; with a sigh, | “ Are all the young girls, away from the beach, who. az er same ful ?” vi : “Whywno, you little puss; not any of hem: that is, very few of them. Next to Katie, you are. the handsomest girl I have ever seen. aati I bala ve adtiptes her, —— you are animated.” — ~ “Oh, no, Olla a mindartanmmadtntndnet I oolebbates: be so sweet and fair as Katie. I should like to go away toschool, if it were not for leaving daddy.. ol méan to ask him what he thinks about it.” lov twol a bein “I wish you could go, Tange; it is all you need to wake yon ee va woul ee sapere 5 Feast “Is seatiabteniadinndaaiadindtaig tal in sedabiet on sensitiveness.to her mistakes, she fiever used the | — afetiagce od?-ta ge@unitest es dowel. tae beatetew | When Will Williams eame in at sunset from his y's bing, he passed the two going out for their evening row, anda frown his face; but when Tangee called out to him to ask him if he would take out Oliver on the morrow, he con- sented with a good grace. : CoMmiclOoks.con -