The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-04-22

uheis ana me, loF UranoIna Ueane was slightly
deaf "si'" - = Ae''ss54.oi
Oh TNo, iiasn't Eforsosten either. - she said.
placing her hand on Gora's hair. 'I hare feid
Lucy Reid on my lap too often, and rocked
her cradle-poor little motherless thing-soe
many times to forget" 'l''.@ 'S.s'Y S'D'i'
Cora's look of ofincredulity was giving syyay
to one Of curiosity. ITs.G Grandma Deaney won't
you tell us all about it? Jennie and 7 viii
sit down on this big stool, and know by that
look in uncle Charles eye he wants to hear,
too. Come, Jennie, let the flowers go;'f and
my vivacious cousin established herself on the
stool at the old lady's feet ero.;g ese-gtsrs
Grandma Deane slipped the yarn around
he'll little finger and commenced: "Let me see.
it can't be more than forty two or three years
this summer, since Justin Keep came upto
Farmer Reid's TO let himself out for hired boy
through harvesting 49, ,v,.r- sssf
'1hc Reid's house stood little this side of
Stony creek. There's nothing left of it now
except the chimney, and it looks cut, gray and
cold from the green grass all about it; but fafty
years ago it was . fine old place, with the
lilacs in front, and the hop vines running ali
around the back. Lucy was hardly thres
weeks old when she lost her mother. Fer
father never married again, and the child grew
up there in the old home as fair and sweet a.
the flowers about it.. -, -
-9tShe was turning into fifteen when Justin
came there that summer He was shy,
strange, awkward sort of a lad, and the neigh
bors all said Farmer Reid never'd get his salt,
for his porridge out of him. ..-r....
"He'd been bound out till he was eighteen
to some man down in Maine, and he hadh'tai
relation in the world that he knew on, mora
suit OF decent cloths when he came to Farmer
Reid's. ...-
But for all this Justin proved himself s
smart, likely boy, and the farmer who SONG
how never was forehanded--I always thought
his wife's sudden death hurt him-found that
Justin was real prize. -..t.-.-.,...o
"At first, he was gloomy and silent, doing
his work, and taking little notice of anybody
but he couldn't stand it long before Lucy. IdE
like to have seen the heat that girls smile r
wouldn't have thawed out. =
"She was Just like bird round the old
place, singing from morning till night and her
blue eyes, that were like mothers, seemed 1alos
ways letting out one laugh as her red lips did .
another. / never wondered her father dotted
on her as he did and. OF course, Justin wasnft
long in the house before she tried to make
friends with him. G55E ,TsE - 6tsI sf.5 ~
"Poor fellow it must have seemed very.
strange at first; for | don't think anybody had
ever given him q kind word till he came to
:. But he made ladders for her flower Yines
to run on, and got shells for the borders, and
propped up the dahlias, and did thousand
other things, which took them out into the
garden after supper, and made them the best
of friends. sa5 3e!sooFs sl- -sssa5c H3f
Lucy had playful, childish way about her.
that made her seem much younger than ahs-
was; then she was small of her age Sc at
fifteen she did not seem much older than you,
Cora. 80 80 80
''Wel she rode on top of Justin's hay cart,
and helped him husk corn in the barn. and /.
pretty soon the farmers noticed great change
in Justin
/, aHe got him new suit of clothes, and his
face lost its old doloa look and after harvest
ing, Farmer Reid made him an offer to stay all
winter. E-.--i...ss- .y rF t.rues
$50 Justin staid, and taking Lucy's advice.
went to the district school; and though he
hadn't any eddication before, he went ahead
of many an old scholar that winter. asge 81
Well, Justin staid with the farmer four
years. Then he had good offer somewhere
lin York State, and he concluded to accept it
for the winter.
"Lucy Reid was grown into young woman
by this time, and a handsomer one, children
these dim eyes never looked on. ses1 Liso.eE
81 don't know how it happened, for Lucy
might have had her pick of the boys for miles
around but somehow she took to Justin, and
when ne left they were engaged to be married
one year from that time" a5 ia.lalfaa So l,Lqa
"Why, grandma Deane, you aren't going to
stop now p cried Cora, in alarm, for the old
lady had laid down her knitting. ri 4ya. rs b5l
mo, my child y and she removed her sped
tacles and wiped her eyes. "But the rest ID D.
sad story, and must hurry over it." aosu.
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