The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1852-09-09

7 last Phineas will come back, and W
shall live happily yet. Folks are good t
me, till he coines--and its very pleasant
when she stopped short al Grandma
towering brow, and sudden recolectio,
Ihst she was about to say the very uofor
,nnate words that excited her to begin
and more afraid to stay than to fv, sh,
hastily gathered up her open bundle anl
glided from the room.
"Phinens WAS nv youngest Uncle," be
gan my grandmother, for not the first time
in our hearing, as the door closed behine
the little Aunt. "And he was more as
brother to Me- she added with some emo
ion. "We had all rather have seen bin
n his grave than to have had him marry
where be die" I'VE thought tbev would
have enloyed more putting his little wife
lin) 81 wiH say she was pretty as doll
"a little lively dancing creature with
white hands that knew nothing about work.
and bright curls all around her little head
They let her come home with him at last,
and, be was proud as king ofhis little no
oady wife, and loved her and every little
curl Oh her head, and, he said, every little
ioib'e she had too,-which was not inpos
slbIe for bis great generous heart. And
she liked him--but lore, she knew nothing
Of it--she was not capable of any such
thing. She did not know that there was
4nything for her TO do in the world but find
for herself amusement. and kiss Phin when
she went away, and again when she came
home.
"i'bey went to his pleasant farm Ia live,
n the rich valley of the Connecticut,
where she still went on in her old WAYS,
ATTENDING to what the world was doing
around them, but not at all to her own af-
| fairs.
"Phineas found his hearth growing cold
er and colder every dey, till at length be
too got careless and discouraged--grew
| distracted and almost stolid-which she.
never seeming to note, went on her accus-
toned way from one house to another.
while day lasted, and home to him at night,
with her cbldishkiss and triling ak, that
concerned everybody but themselves, that
sometimes set him asleep, and sometimes
caused him to leave her which
was dreadful to her, not because he left
her, but because she could no, STAY alone
she could never entertain herself for an
half hour together.
"Phineas would sometimes brighten up
and begin to hope again. when success.
sion Of bad weather kept her 10 for some
days, and she made hersell'pretty aud neat,
and hustled about her aiiairs, and made
| their home almost comfortable, dropping
kisses on him through the day that were
sweeter TO him than flowers, and chatter
| ing till he lost himselfin sleep nj the same
ness OF he stream. and il the sun happen.
"a to conre out, len 10 one when be awoke
| his huttertll hoasc-keeper had flown 10 say
something to a neghbor, she forgo. the
day before; and 10 expos,uations, would
forever answer: ''lt is SO pleasant to co.
with a smile aud kiss, till he abandoned
all attempt to reform, believing himself
only wrong in thinking she could ever be
iet,ered down by domestic drudgery
ave all concluded him about rs simple
as she was, in deciding that duty was IL
hard for any body TO attempt, but gave up
al talk on a sabect TINT was yearly grow
ing sorer aad sorer To his family.
AT last, one pleasant summer morning,
she brought him bahe--a very lovely
chd to the eye-and this promised for a
time to be the seal of more complete un.
ion; and anxious friends looked on in hope
that new sense was awakening in her
for she caressed and fondled il, with tears
aud laughter, and her husband thought be
had never seen her so pretty, though her
curs were put back, and she was really
faded and much palmer. If the mother.
love was klndling into life the soul that had
seemed so long dead--~hat joy!
She would sing and talk 10 her baby iol
hours together, and watch him toss his lii
lie leet and arms, and hold the TIM hand
in hers, while she studied every line in his
countenance, and every hair in the fain'
Ieycbrows.
"But il was only as new doll to child
when she had seen il enough, little By
little, the helpless one was left, neglected
and spoiled, aud the Lord sent no more
children.
"The little boy grew up with really nj
friend bu, his father, and he, over indul,
gent and most broken hearted. So he came
and went whenever he chose, as he got
large, aud as he became a man assumed
still greater license-a and finally had hab
i, of returning home only near daylight
each morning, which caused the greatest
anxiety in his poor father. Questioning
elected no satisfactory answer. Al length
the haunt Of gang of counterfeiters was
discovered among the hills in the vicinii.
aud this poor, misguided, almost mother'ess
and fatherless boy, was under suspicion
and suddenly disappeared with his father
and they never havo come back again.
"My Aunt came home that night, ane
found no ''Phin" to kiss, aud when the
neighbors saw her again, after many days
she seemed more flighty than ever, snc
some thought little crazed. Sho sale
they would soon come, and she has gone Q,
forty wears to say 30, and to amuse herse
ill then,- land has 50 far succeeded.
"She still depends on "Phin's" return
for he was all the anchor her Imagination
hrs h ad yet-and the memory OF him ha
served, since he has been gone. She de
, pends on finding him aud tring haPp'tl
yet!
' Sy~os