The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-03-05

vulgar. Her complexion was SO dark
that threugha a veil she might easily ohave
been mistaken for mulatto: but she
had brown, straight hair, and an oval
face, and eyes which must have been
grey--I only recollect how they varied
with her mood. / have seen them dull
as the eyes of beetle, and anon they
glittered like diamonds, or glowed like
burning Goals, One seldom saw her 4ey es,
she had way Of keeping their power in re-
serve, curtained under lashes which were
longer than those of any person have
ever seen; almost as long at the corners
as in the midst of the lid, and as express
sive too as the crest o. brd-joy, mis-
chief, indignation, or disgust she could
convey by the lifting and lowering Of
/ those strange lids. ~
Cinderella was always in trouble-only
it did not trouble her. She never remem-
bered her lessons; her marks and repri-
mands and punshments and attempted
di$graces were innumerable. and yet she
was never disgraced; always ready for an
adventure, and frank as, she was daring,
ready and able to bear the whole blame
of mischief which score of us had com
bined to perpetrate; and neither hurt nor
disguised when We left her to suffer alone.
Serene as a. sybil the girl walked on
through evil and good report; SO, much
as she had to encounter, we never said,
''Poor Cinderella. -
There was tv other sisters; Melissa,
the student quiet, naughty and irritables
always puzzling over plus and minus,
sines and cosines on her slate; then came
Miranda, the beauty of the school, with
pink cheeks, smooth skin and hossy curls,
fond of beaux and hattery. d.
What u school ours wasI cannot re-
memberduying all the years spent there,
of acqu iring so much information as
could be written in half page; yet we
pursued from ten to twenty branches of
study, and had smattcring of every
thing, from philosopy-to ethics, from min
eralogy to Greek. Neither pupils nor
teachers were in earnest, SO we chased
the arts and sciences as we might pack
of butterflies, and learned-the look of
their retreating wings. 50 3tAk
We scattered at last to enter various
seminaries and finishing schools, or to
mold levees of tutors for German, Italian
and French-how far We afterwards pur-
sued the literature to which these Ian
guages open how many of us ever read
In the original a volume of Schiller, Tasso
or Lamartine, would be acurious and
mayhaps useful subject for investigation.
About that time Mrs. Mute had long
and serious illness; Miranda's complex
ion must not be ruined by confinement in
a sick room, Melissa must not fall be-
hind her classes in geometry and Greek;
and Cinderella though the Youngest.
must remain at home. All, it was
change, from the leader of all our merry
mischief, to become the nurse of one nei
ther grateful nor easily pleased; one to
whom, whatever she gave, Cinderella
owed little love-to renounce music and
bellies -lettres for the connecting of cruel
and listening to querulous complaints. =
Years passed-those long years we
used to live through in our childhood
years OF rapid growth for us, and full of
events and changes; but we came home
to lind Cinderella seated in the chimney
corner of her mothers sick room. still
grotesque as ever in dress, yet with the
same serene content upon her face. As
relief from her long, lonely vigils, she
had looked into the arts of housekeeping.
millinery and the like, and now could
make pies as well as panada; and fabr
cate bonnet, dress OF cloak with ease
and skill
at is convenient" said Melissa, at
is Providential," - said Miranda, 1T is
economical" said papa, "She was made
for it, said Mrs. Mute; SO Cinderella
was elected housekeeper and seamstress
from the day Of her sisters return. She
did not expostulate-perhaps she was
glad to be Of use, they thought; how Of
ten | wandered what she thought, while
working AS she used, week after week in
that dull, upper room--hcr sisters anu
sing themselves meantime with all man
ner of gaieties. fancied the event of
Cinderella's, contentment was, that she
expected nothing Of fate or friends, and
being ola healthy nature, satisfied her
self with her own inward resources. !
lancied too that she had sort of deep af-
fection for her kindred-a a deep pity for
their selfshness, and restlessness, and
frivolty; and took upon herself SO many
cares as willing compensation for her
own better gifts-I knew afterwards how
rich and abundant these were. 5.4 tad
Mrs. Nute's health seemed quite shat
tered; her illness returned at such fire.