"No," said Noble, still confused. "I suppose not."
"I'm half way through another one I think myself'll be a good deal better. I'm not goin' as fast with it as I did with the other one, and I expect it'll be quite a ways ahead of this one." She again employed the deprecatory little laugh. "I don't know how I do it, myself. The family all think it's sort of funny I don't know how I do it, myself; but that's the way it is. They all say if they could do it they're sure they'd know how they did it; but I guess they're wrong. I presume if you can do it, why, it just comes to you. Don't you presume that's the way it is, Mr. Dill?"
"I--guess so." They had reached his gate, and he stopped. "You're sure none of your family have heard anything to-day?" he asked anxiously.
"From Aunt Julia? I don't think they have."
He sighed, and opened the gate. "Well, good evening, Florence."
"Good evening." Her eyes followed him wistfully as he passed within the enclosure; then she turned and walked quickly toward her own home; but at the corner of the next fence she called back over her shoulder, "I'll leave it with your mother for you, if you're not home when I bring it."
"What?" he shouted, from his front door.
"I'll leave it with your mother."
"Leave what?"
"The poem!"
"Oh!" said Noble. "Thanks!"
But when his mother handed him a copy of the first issue of The North End Daily Oriole, the next day, when he came home to lunch, he read it without edification; there was nothing about Julia in it.
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NEWS OF THE CITY
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The Candidates for mayor at the election are Mr P. N. Gordon and John T Milo. The contest is very great between these candidates.
Holcombs chickens get in Mr. Joseph Atwater's yard a god deal lately. He says chickens are out of place in a city of this size.
Minnie the cook of Mr. F. L. Smith's residence goes downtown every Thursday afts about three her regular day for it.
A new ditch is being dug accross the MR. Henry D. Vance backyrad. ;Tis about dug but nobody is working there now. Patty Fairchild received the highest mark in declamation of the 7A at Sumner School last Friday.