[Illustration: AN APPEAL.
“Maud Percy Sidney, listen to me. Me an’ my child is desolate since you
have took from us our purtector an’ surport. If my words cannot move
you, let the wasted form of this poor child melt your heart, if it be
not made of adamank or cast iron.”]
[Illustration: IN DOUBT.
“Lizzie, you’re a woman o’ the world and what I’m a’ askin’ you is in
strick conferdence, o’ course. Jim, there, has offert me his hand. (In
a hoarse whisper): Do you think a woman would be happy with a man with
legs like his’n?”]
[Illustration: AT THE END OF THE SEASON.
“Billy, now that she’s agoin’ away, I want ter tell yer that I wuz all
broke up on that gal, an’ I would have married her if she had only
given me some encouragement.”]
[Illustration: BY THE SAD SEA SHORE.
Argument: The last boat of the season is leaving, carrying away a host
of summer boarders.
Party on Rock (in tones of deepest anguish): “Farewell, Mercedes,
farewell! In six short months you will have forgotten Vacopo the
fisherman’s son, and my old age will be made a wreck!”]
[Illustration: ’TWAS EVER THUS.
Smitten Youth (who has been very attentive with flowers and
huckleberries for a month past): “Hevings, Horatio, she must be agoin’
to leave the place!” (Swoons.)]
[Illustration: THE LOVERS.
She (on right of picture, timidly): “Will Sidney forgive his birdie if
she asks a favor of him?”
He (warmly): “Sidney kin refuse his Hortense nothink.”