Litchfield enquirer., 1857-06-25
LrTCHFIELD, THURSDAY, JUNE IS, 1857.

time to that regular sound, while the hoofs
struck one against the other in their hasty
progress over the hardened snow. A few
minutes more, and the house-father was at
home. 'Good-evening, old woman good eve
ming, Anna. Thank you Anders yes, you
may drive the reindeer to the shed. Well, all
goes right at home
Yes, dear Jacris, all is WE'LL
You may believe, mother, there were peo
pie down there continued the good man, as
ne threw aside bis great goat.skin pelisse, and
sat down to his supper. Yes, it is amusing
to see folks at times, but was glad enough
to get away. Thank God, am at home
That you may well say, Jacris and say
so too
But do you know, mother said the hus.
band, who al! the time loved a journey we'll
do you know, must make a long journey
this winter, again
Where, thens A long journey Where
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Well, you see, there's a German, or an
Englishmau-it is all the same-who has got
up twenty-five reindeer, which he will have
taken to Stockholm, in order to be taken out
where, know not, but that is all the same
They must then expert the mountain and for.
est and the moss, also, l said to the agent.
And he laughed, and answered: Rightly spo-
ken, Jacris but that is not our concern.
Will you conduct the creatures to Stockholm? p
So agreed, for you see, he would not trust
them to anybody but respectable person.
What long journey! 1t will be dreary
time,' the wife replied.
1t will soon 60 over, little wife 1t will be
better for thee, who wilt be at home worse
for me, who must go out into that villainous
world, which have not seen for so many years
NOT since lived with the captain, and fol-
lowed him once to Stockhold but shall be
well paid and--Yes, mother, now comes
the knot. 1 shall take Anna with me you
must have the boy at home, but some one must
also be with me-
Anna few to caress her father, kissed her
mother, and capped Anders. Ach, but an
glad l shall then sec the king, aud the kings
wife-the dear little queen. I shall know
them all directly, for know already how they
dress themselves =
How, then, is that7' Anders slightly in
quired. .s.
/. The king wears red frock down to his
knees, with gold seams, and stands always be-
side table, on which gold crown lies on a
rcd o.shion- The -aaaen wears a red petticcat
also with gold seams and has peaked shoes
with heels so high--so high =
And how does little Anna know all that 7?
Because there's picture therein in the lid
of mothers clothes-chcst, and the king and
queen are painted there, just precisely as they
stand and go here in this world: Yes know
all that and shall get to see it soou.'
Provided you do not first drop your little
eyes out said the father, laughing
Eight days afterwards, Jacris and his little
daughter set out with tile drove of reindeer for
the capital. The mother wept wien she EN-
braced her darling child but the thoughtless
little girl was so elated with the prospect be-
fore her, that she felt scarcely grieved at her.
mothers tears.
H. K4MRER MILLEP;*
1T is six years this day, since the death of
our dear GIRL sighed Mrs Accountant Miller,
as she drew from q drawer some small precious
articles which had belonged to her only child.
To day she would have been sixteen years
old agreat girl she promised to be--but God
wied otherwise
=. Six years to-day the accountant echoed,
and silr--
We miss our girl: 1t is just childish, Mil
ler,' she added, with a sorrowful smile; for she
knew that her husband missed the child even
more than she did.
= You should be reasonable dear Emily: See
nh. now, took it calmly and reasonably from
tlE beginning
do not grieve, Miller but love the
chld's memory
Yes, yes but that memory is-is--Come
now, little Emily, let lis drive out and take the
air the fresh air is always good remedy
The Accountants drove out in their comfor-
table sedge, mp Drottninggatan, and out by
N9rtul. They met herd of reindeer, and
stopped to look at them. Bundled up in the
slesge ga. is.lo Auna, in her little soat-ekin
freck, with ears tied down at each side of the
cheeks, which the winter frost left as red as the
rose.
Now just see is she not little Annette p
said TIC Accountant. What is yorr name,
littIegiIl?
Anna--Jacris' dotter,' was the reply.
lnna Do you hear Emily Our little
girl vas Annette quite the same thing. How
old ae you?'
"bn years, within few weeks
I'm years Emily, what do you say now
at be p
he girl is truly not unlike our Annette
she rplied
III truth was, that the Accountant had
long Yished to follow fashion very common
in hifcountry, and adopt child for his own
he I'D never found one quite to please him
but sorrland's Anna, as he called our little
frie1, was precisely to hic taste. --
Hr lively blue eyes, her quick concise an
swei took his fancy at once and he Thought
it prfecrly unaccountable, that on the ami.
versry Of Annette's death he should meet an
Ann who so entirely resembled her. Thus
his ecisiou was made, and communicated to