M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1856-04-17

lOiy uotuVus, anu OeluS constantly
attired in garments of the same color
& fashion, looked at all times so much
alike, that no stranger never dreamed
Of knowing them apart; and even
their acquaintance were rather accus-
toned to think and speak of them
generally as "the Evans" than as
separate individuals Jane and Patty.
Even those who did pretend to distin-
Iguish the one from the other, were not
exempt from mistakes, which the sis
ters--Patty especially, who delighted
in the fun so often prodnced by the
unusual resemblance were apt to
favor by changing the places in the
walk, or slipping from one side to the
other at country tea party, or playing
a hundred little innocent tricks to oc.
casion at once grave blunder and a
merry laugh.
Old Dinah Goodwin, for instance
who being rather purblind, was
jealous of being suspected of seeing
less clearly than her neighbors and had
dehed even the Evanses to puzzle her
Idiscernment-seeking in vain on Pat.
| ty's hand the cut finger she had dres-
sed on James, ascribed, the incredible
cure to the merits Of her own incom.
prehensible salve; and could lie hard
ly undoceived, even by the pulling oil
Of James glove and the exhibition Of
the lacerated dlgital sewed round by
her own bandage.
Young George Kaily, too, the graf.
est bean in the parish, having betted
at a Christmas party that no would
dance with every pretty girl in the
room, ,bost his ager(which Patty mad
overheard) by that saucy damsel's
slipping into her sisters place, and
persuading her to join her own uncon-
scious partner so that George dan
ced twice with Patty, and not at all
with Jane. A bantering piece Of
malice, which proved, as the young
gentleman "a rustic exquisite of the
first wateD was pleased to assert, that
Miss Patty was not displascd with
her partner. How little does a
vain man know of woman kind !
If she had liked him, she would not
have played the trick for the mines of
Golcon6a.
In short, from their school-days
when Jane was chiddcn for Patty's
bad work;and Patty slapped for James
bad spinning, g,down to this, their prime
ofwomanhood, there had been no end
to the confusion produced by this re-
markable instance of family likeness.
And yet Nature-who sets some
mark of individuality upon even her
meanest productions, making some un-
noted difference between the lambs
dropped from one eve, the robins
bred in one nest, the flowers growing
on one stalk, and the leaves hanging
from one tree-had not left these young
maidens without one great and perma-
nent distinction-a natural and str.k-
ing dissimlarity Of temper. Equally
industrious, afiectionate, happy and
kind, each was kind, happy, affection
ate, and industrious in different
way. Jane was grave; Patty was
gay. If you heard laugh or a song
besure it was Patty; she who Jumped
the style, when her sister opened the
gate, was Patty ; she who chased the
pigs from the garden as merrily as ii
she was running race, so that the
pigs did not mind her, was Patty.
On the other hand, she that so care
fully was making, with its own ravel,
led threads, an invisible darn in her
mothers handkerchief, and her little
sister read the while; she that was SO
patiently feeding, one by one, two
broods Of young turkeys; she that 50
pensively watering her own bed Of
rare fowers-the pale hues of the AL
pina pinl, tho -alnhnetar hlnssnma
of the white evening primrose, whose
modest flowers, dying off into a blush
resembled her own character--was
Jane.
Some of the gossips of Aberhigh
used to assert that James signing
over the flowers, as well as the early
steadiness of her character, arose
from an engagement to my lords head
gardener, an intelligent, sedate and
sober young Scotchman. Of this |
know nothing. Certain it is that the
prettiest and newest plants were to be
found in James little flower border
and if Mr.. Archibald Maclane did
sometimes come TO look after them, l
do not see that it is any businiss Of
any body.
In the mean time, q visiter of a
different description arrived at the
farm. A cousin Of Mr.. Evans had
been as successful in trade as her hus-
band had in agriculture, and he had
now sent his only son to become ac-
quainted with his relations, and to
spend some weeks in their family.
Charles Foster was q fine tSoung
man, whose father was neither more