The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-02-26

ny MISS MILFORD.

the Urst phrase, although giving " LII Nut
closest picture Of the place, does, 1t must be
+ confessed, look rather Irish, and where the
aforesaid brook wends away by the side Of
another lane, until il spreads into river like
! dignity, as lt meanders through the sunny
plain of Hartly Common, and finally disap-
nears amidst the green recesses Of Perge
Wood-that pretty, square farm house, half
hidden bv the tall elms IN the flower court be-
fore it, whlch, with the spacious garden and
orchard behiAd, anu the extensive barns,
yards aud oit-buIidngs, so completely occu-
pies one Of the angles formed By the cross
ing OF the lane and the Stream-that pretty
farm house contains one Of the happiest
and most prosperous families in Aberlegh
the large aud thriving family Of farmer
Evans
Whe.aar from skill or good fortune, or as
is most probable, from lucky MIXTURE Of
both EVERY thing goes right on his great
farm. His crops are the best in the Parish ];
his has is never spoiled his cattle never die;
his servants never steal, anl his children
are never i'll. lie buys cheap and he sells
dear money gathers about hun like Il snow
ball and vet, in spite OF all this provoking
aud intoiefaDle prosperity, everybody loves
good farmer Evans. lie is 50 hosptable
so good natured, so generous, and so home
Ilyl There. after all, lies the charm. Rich
es h,,e only not spoiIt the man, but they
have not altered him. lie is Just the same
in look and word and way that he was thirty
years ago, when he anu his wife, with two
sorry horses, one cow and three pigs began
the world n Dean Gate, little bargain Of
twcnt5 acres, two miles of. Az, and his
wife is the same woman the same frugal,
tidy, iulus trious, good natured Mrs. Evans,
"a aF
good looks and plain dressing; as frugal, ~
good naturei, rs active, and rs plain dressing
Mrs. Evans at forty five its she was at nine
teen, and, in different way, almost as good
looking.
Their children-six 4" boys" as farmer
Evans proniscuously calls them, whose
ages vary from eight to twenty, and three
girls, Two grown up, and one, the youngest
of the famiy--are all just what might be
expected from parents so simple and SO good,
The Young men, intelligent and Well con
Quoted, and the boys doeile and promising );
and the little girl-as pretty q curly headed,
rosy-cheekei little poppet as ever was the
pet and plaything Of a large family. 1t is,
however. with the eldest daughter that we
have 10 do
Jane and Patty Evans were as much
alike as hath often befallen any two sisters
not born nj the same time for in the mat
ter Of twin children, there has been a series
Of puzzles ever since the DAYS of the Dro-
MOS. Nearly at an aye q believe that at
this moment both have turned nineteen. and
neither has reached twenty,) exactly of Il
stature, 50 high that Frederick the Great
would have coveted them for his tall regi-
ment--wth hazel eyes, large mouths, full
/ lips, white teeth, brown hair, clear. healtay
compilations, and that sort Of nose which is
neither Grc3ian, or Roman nor aquiline, n0r
{epetje me- retrluSSe THAT some persons pre-
Ter to tacm all; but nose which, moderate.
II prominent snd sufficiently well shaped is
Vet ri far ne know, anonymous, although
Fit Da perhaps as common and as well look
M q feature as is 10 be seen On an English
face.
Altogether ,hey were pair Of tall and
com S n1Ieae, and, being constantly ut
,irad IN garments Of the same color and
fashion, looked AZ I'll times much alike,
sha. no stranger eyer dreamed Of KNOWN.
them apart, md even their acquaintance,
were rather accustomed 10 think ana speak
81 them generally as the ''Eyanses," than as
thc separate individuals Jaae aud Patty.
Sven those VINO were not exempt from ms
t4tes, wt.ch the si5tees-patty especially.
nao delighted in the fun SO often produced
rs the iIlu AL resemblance - were apt to
favor by changing the place III a walk, or
slipping from one side to the other al a
country party, OF playing hundred little
innocent trices 10 occasion at once 4 grave
bunder and merry laugh.
Old Dinah Goodwin, for instanee-who
beng ra.aer pnrblnd, was jealous Of being
snspeeted OF seeing less clearly than her
uei2hbors. and had defed even the Evanses
~ puzzle her seeking in vain
oa Patty hand the cut finger which she had
dressed on james, ascribcd he incredible
cure q tine merits OF her own Incompatible
s4.ge ana could be hardly undecelyed, even
5y the pulling off OF James glove and me
exhibition Of the lacerated digital sewed
round 81 her own bandage.
louag George kailg, too, the greatest
beau in the parish, hav ing betted ut Christ
mas party that he would dance with every
pretty girl in the room, lost his wager (Which
Patty had oyerheard) hy that saucy dansel's
slipping into her sisters place, and persuad-
ing her to DIN her own unconscious partner /;
50 that George danced twice with Patty, and
not all with Jane. \ bantering piece Of ma
lice, which proved, as the young gentleman
T (a rustic exquisite of the first water was
pleased to assert, that Miss Patty was not
dispensed with her partner How little
does a vain man know Of woman kind Ii
She had liked him she would not have played
the trick for the mines Of Golconda
Ia short, from their school days, when
aJane was ehidaen for Patty's bad work and
Patty slapped for James bad spinning, down
to this, their prime Of womanhood, there had
beea no emf 70 the confusion produced by
this remarkable instance Of family likeness.
And yet Natur"--who sets some mark pf
Individuality upon even the meanest produe-
tons, making some unnoted difference bo-
tween tAc iAmbs dropped from one eve, the
robins brod IN one nest, the flowers grow
lng on one stalk, and the leaves hanging
from ON trce-had not left these young mai
dens without one great and permanent dis