The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1857-01-08

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trast, to 20 onNa few "a y.
new store whIi%ils grq
large sign, and sce Jason
store dressed better thar
and receive one of his ID -.
lbgf ii would be- su /, ane
all the girls woH'Rsg be wouIc
be ~, 4Wnlias. TIE Pnercha1t's wife
1t sog6de exedin9 ~ and yet, whel
she tho9gM it, ul"t Nv voice would
rise up%nd 2ak Tor W. miller again
Poor Lefty. 10 wohnc' n WAS So severe
a struggle between heF "Attions and hci
pride. -
Shelo6EH . edow, and the
full moon was = h on the bare
earth, and whiteni naked branches
of the tall trees. Ths .et, pensiye light
stole softly into the k1's heart and drew
her towards it.
Il guess I'll rrA down to the grove. i
anybody comes, you can talk to 'em moth.
er, till | get back, for | won't be gone,
long, was her sudden conclusion.
The girl had not been absent for moro
than five minutes, when there was knock
at tie door, followed by the entrance OIL
Jason Williams. lie took seat by the
great fire place, and chattcd a few mo.
ments with the old woman about the new
meeting house and the prospect of all
early spring, when suddenly there was
another light tap at the door, and in an
swer to widow Pease'S come in,' the mil
Ter made his appearance.
Il 7as not so remarkable coincident,
after all, that the young men should both
visit Lefty this evening, for it was bright
enough with its balmy air, and large round
moon, to WOO any man to visit the woman
of his seeking. Of course, the merchant
and the miller could not have regarded
each other with peculiarly complacent
fceling;a probably each wished the other
thousand miles off; Notwithstanding they
met quite as cordially as rivals could be
expected to do.
But somehow the conversation Jagged
exceedingly, and at last Jason proposed
to Seth that they should go down to the
grove in search Of Lefty, to which the
EIatter gladly consented.
She did look like picture, as she knelt
there, piling up the dead old tree bougbs,
while the shadows and the moonbeams
danced restlesSl ly over her figure, as rest
less as they.
The young men came suddenly upon
her, and she sprang up with little Shrek
and bounding of the blood into her
cheeks-but her laugh, oh, that was like
all sorts of sweet sounds, as it ran rip,
pling otto the echoes of Blueberry hill!
well, you've come, and now | shall set
you straight to work, young gentlemen,
said the girl, with that dainty, huttering
motion of the head so natural to, and so
graceful in some women.
OF course you will. We're ready to
obey orders, Lefty was the simultaneous
response of the young men; and the dainty
merchant and the handsome miller set
themselves vigorously to work; and the
voices of the trio mingled loudly and mer-
rily as they piled up the branches of pine,
and birch, and hemlock Lefty affirming
that the sugar boiling was likely to be the
easiest she ever tended, now all the trou-
BILE of gathering the fire wood would be
over.
'Hark! didn't you hear a strange kind
of noise?' and Lefty lifted her head sud
denly, and started eagerly around her.
Its nothing, Lefty only the sap drop
| ping into the tubs answered Jason, as he
added fresh handful of boughs to the
rapidly increasing pile.
No, it isn't the sap. There, | hear it
again. It's rustling among the branches
They all heard it now; ii was a strange,
steallhy, mysterious sound, that, heard IN
the woods, and at night, is perhaps more
startling than any other.
A faint Shrek suddenly broke from
Lefty, which drew the gaze of both the
young men to her. She was standing a
few PAGES from them, her face white and
rigid, as though death had struck sudden
lY at her heart. There was something In