Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1848-03-16
BY B. W.&P. c. JOHGSON.

straw hat set on her pretty head, aud those fair
curls of paly gold floating wilfuly on the breeze
or clustering round her merry face, she would
fly about picking up the falling nuts, aud fling
ling them hilher and lhther atlho hapless youngs-
tiers, Il they were faint TO cry for mercy. Truth
TO say. Renee gave precious liulo help, though
she always managed TO stain her fingers vastly!
Or, was il sleighing paryl All, I can see
her now, seated in the back part Of the sleigh,
with her liule red riding hood, her daintlly ft,
ted coat, and the famous muiT which half con.
coaed her saucy face, Renee calo it her che
raur d, frise, and she might have added, her
magazine, for ofcner Than once did il serve as
e. respectable for a stalk Of snowballs, packed
carefully, By the hardy hands Of Harry Grey;
aud oftcner Than once have seen the conceal
ed missivos flying steady through the air, at in.
leryals, and rarely ever missing their proposed
aim.
Did the sleigh tilt, directly tho Needless girl
would lean on the down side, and strive by her
light weight TO assist ths upset. needless alike Of
herself, and The screams OF her more rimid com
Ipani0n5. UnmanOgeble Renesl how we scoldtd
at, aud ten minutes aIler, forgot, lorgage the hei
nous offences.
On her fourteenth birthday r enoe seated her.
self on a stool at her mohcr's feet, promising
to listen allenliyeIy to What thai careful parent
had to say; nevertheless her eag'r eyes wand
cred TO the open door, instead OF fixing on her
mothers face. The palisuI lecturer spoke gen.
lily, yet earnestly
"Renoe was qule old enough now 10 become
more sober, more womanly."
"Bn don't want 10 be woman, molher!--
So big and gravc-and don't want to laugh at
aud her merry carol broke on The air. aud rose
to shout as she perceived Harry Grey slowly
approaching. "Ilaryl Harry oh come quick
Ily and deliver mel such n Ieclurel won't lis.
ten another moment mother! did not promise
to stay all day, did Il" and mprinting hasry
kiss on the placid face, the giddy creature boun.
ded through the low window, and sptans to meet
her playmate.
"Whero's Katcl say7 And where's my
birds nest! Oh you good for nothing Harry
YOU haven't got it! you--bul what's the matter,
Harryl You look like November morning.
| really believe you have been crying"
Handsome Harry "coored up" al this accu.
sa'ion and Renee laughed merriIy; but when she
saw his gloom deopcned, she stopped and look
ing up under his hat, questioned earnestly as 10
his dependency. 1t was soon explained. Six
tecn--must 60 TO colcgc-in two weeks-and--
such an outbreak Harry aud half dozen 9th.
crs, who had been grieying oaIhsIr own account,
were iain TO hush, and turn comlouers. Poor
Renee! she shed more tears in those Two weeks
THAN she had ever wcpt in her life before, far
mora-poor child! she really seemed in danger
of di3Solving.
"Never miad, Renee" whispered Harry Grey,
the night before he started, us we three sat togeth-
eron the moonshiney banks ortho peaceful lake,
"ncver mind-onIy four years, and vacation be.
tween times, TOO; then I'll come back TO GrovIe,
and marry you.'
Renee did not blush at this open declaration,
she was TOO very child, TO care for such fool
shness; SO she c'ung, first 10, Harry, and then
to me with passionate grieftiIl we parted for the
> night.
And the leave taking next morning! Poor
Renee! the oceans Of tears shed would have for
ever quenched the brightest of any other orbs
than hers.
at was very FOOLISH" said her mother, "lor
wasn't Harry coming home at vacaon!'
Perhaps Renee began 10 think so too; for after
weeping until she was as unlike her own lively
self as possible, she suddenly dried her tears,
and after few weeks became again the joyous
Renee.
Harry Grey came home at vacation, as he had
promised, and very merry time had we; such
stories Of college scrapes-such fun as they had
there, and old Rusty coat" never a bllhe wiser!
Oh it was capital! how he did wish girls could go
10 college.
"Oh YES! wouldn't VIC have fine times Kate?"
and Rcnec's blue orbs diIated with beautiful de-
light. ....
, But the first vacation passed, and many Others
till Renee became quite sIolc0l when parting
tine came.
"Twasn't so very long, after all, and II was so
nice TO look forward TO a meeting"
Bulthere came longer intervnI:a year passed
instead of term, and no Harry and still anolh-
er term, yet no return he was not coming home
again. (said his letterS) till his studies were
completed. Oh, he was going to be learned,
n was Harry!
! Thevillagors began to look forward 10 his arri-
val as agroat event; for then, it was understood,
old DR.. Grey was going to leave clear field 10
his truant son, and settle down comfortably in
f.. his green old oge.
q There were hostso of messages for his old play
). mate, but Tho maiden pouted her ruby hp when
r she heard them and accused Harryin her heart
of change and forget'uness; not at all pleased
i was she with his proceedings, and she inwardly
. determined TO care nothing more about him.
She was not seventeen; and the fairest. purest
q creature in the world She was changing, too,
:. from achiId to IL woman--a child-woman though,
d for how could Renee, the bright, the light, be-
4 come a prudent wording nurtured, as she had
c been, in our simple village!
r fetanoIher year passed by, and Harry Grey
r Stood once more beneath the patornal roof, en-
folded in Il mothers arms, while a bright tear
}; gathered in the fathers eye as he gazod on his
l.. noble son, then unhecdngy rolled down the
q furrowed cheek.
!. "And Reneel"
4 "She is in New York"
"New York;"