Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-10-09

sMr OF Wild glarng eyes among the
hslss and whispering how they had
hard, the night before, Of some neigh
t5rs sheep-cote which had been broken
into. and the blood-draggled grass had
Ull the story next day.
Well, listening to just such tales, in the
autumn evenings, we dreamed among
those gray old mountains, the story we
ere about to tell you.
q guess we shall have a real warm
day of it tomorrow" said the widow
Pease, as she stood a moment in the
kitchen door of the old farmhouse, at the
close of an April day, some two-score and
a half years ago; just as the sun was
resting on the tops ofthe mountains that
bounded the horizon. Sixty years OBJ
servation of the winds and clouds, had
made Mrs. Pease a kind of weather ora
Gle in. TIE village and the good woman
prided herself no little upon her elemen-
tai foresight.
We'll, Lefty" she continued, as she
closed the door, and returned to her knit
ting and her chair by the fireplace, i
guess it'll be a first rate day to bile sap.
Tntell Enoch and Cyrus to pile up the
bOughs tonight, and hang on the kettle
so YOU can have it all ready 10 kindle in
the mornin'. You know they said the
trees were runnin' briskly to-day, and
they'll have two tubs full afore night"
They didn't though, mother ~ sai(
Lefty, pausing a moment in her work fol
she was setting the supper-table. "Goody
am so glad, for I do love to have q
sap boiling"
Letitia Pease was the child of her moth
er's old age, and q dantier bit of nature
handiwork you have seldom looked upon
The next summer would be her twenti
eth, and her blue. eyes were clear am
bright as her New Hampshire skies, an
the mountain winds had kindled a rud
dy glow in her fair cheeks. She wa
rathershort, but straight, with fnet.
curved figure, and plump as health an
hearty appetite could make her.
For her characteristic was a righ
down, good-hearted, light-spirited Me-
England girl. That pretty little hea
of hers had been slightly turned by til
Aattery that sundry swains had poure
into it: but consider that she was Ii
handsomest girl in the village, and kne
it. too, Lefty conducted herself remarks
bly, well. And perhaps, after all, It W;
not so much her fair face as it was IL
smiles that broke from the warm foul
tains other nature and always displaye
that won so many hearts towards he
She was not sentimental, or inclined
the blues. Alas the damsels Of fiji
years ago had not so intimate an acquan
tance with these matters as their desce.
dants.
But now reader, in order to do fl
penance for this latter remark, we ju
admit that, for one, we don't believe o.
grandmother's were any better than '
are-not bit
Nicer pies and Ruddings they cou
indisputably make, thrifty house-keeper
faithful wives and loving mothers tn
surely were, and for these things bless
be their memory But, after all, spinni
wheels alone cannot enlarge ones syl
Pathies, or daily darning stockings enri
ones intellect; and habit narrowed do'
to the circle Of their own families, t
views and feelings of the women of t
last century.
And the true woman of the prest
une has broader social sympathies, a
richer life ; and although she must I
knowledge that her first duties are in
nome, she will not think they end the
Is her grandmother did. KnoWIed