Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-12-12
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TIE BATTlE N The ENTRY.
BY uLp GRAY.

Miss Polly Motte vas Il maiden Idly
near fifty years OF age. To use a com.
mon phrase, she had enough to live on -
that Is she ha u moderate competence
anil 4 small brick house, left her Ivy her
brother She was the last of her family
and It died out with her.
Though Miss Nottl had not been sad
died with husband and had no lover
among the ronghcr sex, she did not live
all alone, nor was She unbeloyel for Miss
Sally Starch-a lady in her own prelica-
ment, marrimonlallv speaking one OF
her bosom friend, and boa dcd with ncr
and was of ahast the ,ma respectable
age; likewise did the widow. Mrs. Mary
Liver. some five years younger than
themselves, yet. very naturally, more cx-
percnce. Ihes three females We're friends
and We're the only tenants of 'iottle lit
t.ehouse, except Dorothea, the mald-ofaIl
work.
Whether they were all looking out for
husbands, is delicate question which can
not be answered but it is certain that
Widow Liver was /; (tor her husband had
been dead II year, aud perhaps she looked
out out Of compliment to the deceased
Liver. a. if to prove that he hid been
such good husband, that she hadnt got
enough of married life yet. How many
widows there are, as grateful and consil-
crate as the Widow Liver and how hap
Py their first husbands would be, il they
could look out of their graves and see
them marrying again But we are touch
lng tender spot.
a regular visitor at the Mottle house,
vas Mr.. Borley Bounce. a steady, solid
bache lor of about forty. Bounce had no
habits and was seldom stiff, irritable or
goomly, as are too many single men in the
meridian of life. He was a confidential
clerk in a mercantile house. had hand
some salary, and enjoyed himself like a
Christian.
Many were the excellent cups of tea
! which Mr.. Borley Bounce enjoyed in the
society Of his slightly ancient friends and
numerous were the eha,,y, cheerful inter-
views which they spent together. They
sefe all fond Of each other. and cynical
were three old women and an old bachelor,
Who tired Of living one, and unable to
get married to their liking, spent their
leisure hours together because misery
loves company and begets compassion. -
Blt We have nothing to do with SC ndal
It's scandalous There is such state as
single-bless lness.
what a dear, good man., said Miss
Mottle one evening to her friends. after
Mr. Bounce had withdrawn; ''if it wasn't
Tor peoples talking, | should admire
10 have him all the time"
tic is dear man." declared Widow
Liver. with animation "and what should
icare if people did talk ? For my part
tdont care how much people talk about
me; I'm used to 1t. Why don't you
have him p
what marry him p almost shrieket
Mss Mottle, quite electrified by the ques
ton
NO !; have him come, l mean boart
here"
,"lf | was a widop," simpered Mis-
Ao:tle, with her head on one side. like /;
yyang girl. perhaps might. but thougl
Mr. Bounce is very discreet, man
Never saw anything wrong in him il
Sy llie,' eagerly interrupted Miss Sail.
Starch.
~ should be afraid continued Mis-
a''tle. that seeing l was never married