The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-12-01

no soner seen to smile, and to wear new
hat, than ii was thought he was 'sprucing up
lor new wife. Hhe could have sunk low
er in tho estimation Of his neighbors than
previously, he would have done 50 now, but
that was quite impossible.
Passing by his house one afternoon, Mrs.
Speed saw Moses whitewashing the fence
about the yard she saw that the dead trees
were gone, and that some new shrubbory had
been planted. That night she and Mrs.
Weed drank tea together, and said many
things abont Moses Wolfe and Anne Hadly.
which Ineed not repeat. Mrs. Speed did
not see Anne as she passed the house, but
she knew we'll enough from the. looks or
things she was. there; she thought too, Mo-
ses was growing younger every day, and she
did not tbl nix it looked very we'll for q viii
over to bow and smile as he did. Of course,
neither Mrs. Speed nor Mrs. Weed cared one
straw what Moses Wolfe did nor what Anne
Hadly did: it was none of their business /;
but really it did look too bad. They talked
of Anne's age again, and this time establish
ed it to their entire satisfaction that she was
forty-fve and a half years old. -. H.
The apples were red in the orchard it
was September, and it was his own orchard
no~-the farm was paid for, The young
housekeeper was gone: Anne had learned
that it had bcen her habit TO carry h,me
without leave, sugar, coffee, tea. butter, Sc,
enough to supply family of five persons.
No wonder Moses had not got along she
thought. The horse Moses had sold 90 re-
luctantly, had been bought back again the
corn was ready to gather, the wheat and hay
harvest had been good, and the house was as
clean and orderly as house could be. Two
lighted candles were on the table, where ba-
ked apples and milk and broiled chicken and
steaming tea waited the coming in of the
master of the house. Walking quite erect
and looking more as he did when a young
man than she had seen him for years, Anne
thought, Moses came in; but she looked
thoughtful and felt sad a.....s+5
When Moses inquired what she was think
ing of, she answered. looking thoughtful a.
her plate. "You must get a housekeeper.' .
Moses looked thoughtful, too, for moment,
left the table in silence, unlocked an old
chest, and taking from it bunch of wither.
ed flowers, laid them in Anne's lap saying
with such tenderness and seriousness as [
cannot write Twenty years ago, dear
Anne, went mile out Of my way when
the work was done. to gather these flowers
for you; you would not take them then, ant
in spite and vexation--but no natter, will
you have them now
Anne bent her head lower and lower ovei
the flowers, and Moses bent lower and lower
over her, to hear what she would say, till
his lips quite touched her forehead. / need
scarcely say her sighs ended in bushes ant
smiles, and that supper was not the last BY
great many which they ate together. 2
When the neighbors once became recon
-ciled, they said, one and all, they wished
Moses and his wife happy, and thought the
marriage prudent; but of course there was
no love in the case. Anne, they said, was
a poor old maid who wanted home, ant
Moses widower who needed a housekeeper
and who would have anybody who came il
his way, s fs .s,3 s.f ot r,ae. .ssg, q
So much for sppe pearances. a7e ,-sasse.