Even the cats an' dogs rubbed up against him an' wagged their
tails at sight of him, an' the kids--goodness, Jimmy couldn't cross the
street without a dozen kids makin' a grand rush fer him.
"Well, time went on, an' Jimmy grew tall an' good lookin'. Then came the
girl--an' she
was a girl, too. 'Course, Jimmy, bein' as how he'd
had all the frostin' there was goin' on everythin' so fur, carried out
the same idea in girls, an' picked out the purtiest one he could find--
rich old Townsend's daughter, Bessie.
"To the Hadleys this seemed all right--Jimmy was merely gettin' the
best, as usual; but the rest of us, includin' old man Townsend, begun
ter sit up an' take notice. The old man was mad clean through. He had
other plans fer Bessie, an' he said so purty plain."
"But it seems there didn't any of us--only Jimmy, maybe--take the girl
herself into consideration. For a time she was a little skittish, an'
led Jimmy a purty chase with her dancin' nearer an' nearer, an' then
flyin' off out of reach. But at last she came out fair an' square fur
Jimmy, an' they was as lively a pair of lovers as ye'd wish ter see. It
looked, too, as if she'd even wheedle the old man 'round ter her side of
thinkin'."
"The next thing we knew Jimmy had gone ter New York.
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