OF THE RIGHT STOCK

She was small and frail, and richly dressed; but, sitting a few seats behind her, I could not see her face. Soon a handsome, manly young fellow opened the forward door of the car, and looked from one to another, as though expecting to meet somebody. At once, on seeing the lady I have mentioned, he quickened his steps, and a happy look came into his face. On reaching her he bent down and kissed her tenderly, and when she moved nearer to the window, he deposited his coat and handbag, and seated himself beside her. In the seventy-five-mile ride, which I took in the same car with them, he showed her every attention, and to the end exhibited his devotion by anticipating her smallest need for comfort. Once he put his arm around her, in such a lover-like way that I decided they were a newly married pair, enjoying the honeymoon. Imagine my surprise, on reaching Chicago, to discover her to be old and wrinkled, and almost toothless; but when I heard him say, "Come, Mother," and saw him proudly lead her out of the cars, and gently help her to the platform, banishing her lightest anxiety, and bearing her many packages, I knew there was not money or romance behind the exhibition, and that this was a true love-match.