The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1853-08-04
SELECTED TALE.
From the American Union.
Which is the HeireSS
A DOMESTIC SKETCH.

thought in exclaimed Charles Randall
ito his companion, the two gentlemen
being the occupants of buggy, which
a worn-out horse was worrying over a
sandy road, in town ofYe-and-twenty
miles from Boston.
"What would you marry for, Char
lev w asked Ned Ryder, as he brought
the whip down upon the flank of the
jaded horse.
For love, of course"
HSo would II
Love of moneyw said Charles,
8 with smile.
"And love the girl, too"
"Bah, Ned! the Book says, no man
can serve two masters"
Quoting scripture again, Charley !;
you are desperate proper youth"
KIT is, in my opinion, either the girl
or the money"
"Pshaw you are as stupid as an
owl; can't man love a girl who has
got money! Would you love a girl
any the less because she happened to
be rich 2n
81 should not love them any the
more for it."
You avoid the issue; should you
love her any the less !"
"No.n
aThen the battle is mine"
"Not exactly. There are Uncle
Malachi's two neices; you never saw
either one of them. You have been
told that one is rich-you don't know
which-but you have fully resolved 10
make love to the one who has the for
tune.n
"Just so.n
You want the fortune, and are will
ing TO take the girl with it-not that
you want her, but because she is ne
cessary incumbrance."
"You do me injustice; would not
take her if she were not good girl,
pretty, amiabIe, and all that sort of
thing. But am willing TO own, that,
everything else being equal, should
prefer to have the one with the for
innen
Charles Randall looked little in
credulous in fact, from personal knowl-
edge of his friends character, he was
perfectly satisfied the fortune was what
he wanted more than the possessor of
is-that he would pnt up with a great
many deficiencies in the heiress, for
the sake of her money.
By tacit consent, the two young men
relapsed into silence, each to ponder
the views he had expressed in relation
TO the important subject that had been
discussed.
The two persons introduced were
clerks from the Sonth, and were now
spending their summer vacation among
the scenes of their early life. They
had become acquainted while attend
ing the academy at H, to which
place they were now on their way,
having arrived at Boston on the pFeVi-
ous day from their respective homes.
Ned Ryder, while at school, had
boarded for some time with sterling
old farmer, Malachi Maple, who was
generally known by the shorter and
more expressive title of " Uncle Mala-
chi.n
The old gentleman had taken quite
a fancy to the two young men, and
had extended to them an invitation |
to spend week on his farm, and they |
were now on their way to avail them
selves of Uncle Malachi's hospitality. |
Probably the young clerks were In
hnenced in accepting the worthy yeo-
mans invitation by learning that since
their departure to the South he had re-
ceived into his family two young ladies,
his nisces, who were represented as re-
markably good looking. Young clerks |
are proverbially fond of ladies, and if |
these two rural divinities were not part
and parcel of the motive, we can only |
suggest that our exotics we're essential
w different from clerks in general.
The parents of both these young Ia
dies were dead. and Uncle Malachi had
received one because she had no other
place I'd 90, and the other because he
had been appointed the guardian of her
large property and her beautiful per-
son.
The names of these two nieces, by
similarity of tastes on the part of the
parents, as well as desire to compi-
ment the good wife of Uncle Malachi,
were the same; though, when it was
perceived that much confusion must
result from the fact, a middle name
was given to one, by which she was
generally called.
The penniless girl was simply Ellen,
while the wealthy one was Ellen Ma
ria. Both, notwithstanding the differ
snce in their worldly prospects, were
on precisely the same footing in the
family of Uncle Malachi. Both had
been brought up to work, and Aunt Ell
len kept them busy q good part of the
day in those occupations, a knowledge
of which is indispensable to the house
wife. II
TIE two clerks, after an infnity of |
toll over the sandy road, reached the
farmhouse, and were cordially receiv-
ed by Uncle Malachi. Unfortunately j
the two young ladies had gone out to |
spend the day, and Ned Ryder was /
obliged to smother his impotence to /
make the acquaintance of the heiress
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