Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1857-11-19

ed his throat to say Good night did say
something Ike it, and left.
Well, Sally swear you're good at signal
Iln',' broke out Long, as soon as the youths
were fairy out of sight and sound you he,
done it for George Tucker =
Sally gave no answer, but brand from the
back log fell. blazed up in shaft Of rosy fame
and showed suspicious glitter Oh the girls
round, wholesome check Aunt Poll had gone
to bed 'Z@kle was going the nightly rounds OF
his barns, to see tile stock Long Snaps was
aware of opportunity, the secret of success.
! SILLY 2 said he, is that Teller sparkin
you ?
Sally laughed little, ard something, per-
! haps the blaze, Redeemed her face.
! L don't know, said the pretty hypocrite
demurciy.
Hin well, do answered Long and
you amt never goin' to tax" up with a Tory
don't think its yer dooty, hey 2
! No, indeed = flashed Sally. DO yon think
Id marry a Britisher? I'd run away and live
! with the Indians first
Pooty good I! poorly good you're calk'la
ting to make George into a rebel. | 'Xpect.'
/ Long was looking into the fire when he said
this he did not see Sally's look of rage and
( Ills uiil IciiclIdtlOi!.
In sure | don't care what George Tucker
thinks said she, with toss Of her curly head
! HIN " uttered Long, meditatively, lucky :.
| 'xpect he carries too many guns to be stcered
by "a woman it's kinder pity you ant a
man, Sally mebbe you'd arguty him round
then it's plain az the Gulf you can't crook
his wage he's too stiff for wimmin-tolks,
that is fact =
Oh, Long Snaps! Long Snaps! how
many wives, in how many ports, went to the
knowledge OF feminine nature that dictated
that speech Sally set her lips. From that
hour George Tucker was doomed man but
she said nothing more audible than Good
night Long looked at her as she lit the tai
low dip by the fire, and chuckled when lie
heard her shut the milk-room door in the safe
distance He was satisfied
The next afternoon, Sally was wedding on
ions in the garden ;--heroines did, in those
days = the currant bushes had just leaftd
out SO George Tucker, going by, saw her !;
and she, who had seen him coming before she
began to weed, accidentally of course, looked
up ard gave him very bright smile That
was the first srider-tEread and the fly stepped
! into it with such a thrill !
| OF course he stopped, and said,-
What pleasant day !'-the saving phrase
of life. Then Sally said something that he
couldn't hear and he leaped the low fence
without being asked, rather than request her
| to raise her voice he was SO consderatc !.
Next he remembered ust as he turned to go
away, that there were some white violcts
! down in the meadow, that Sally always liked.
couldn't she spend time to walk down across
lots and get some? Sally thought the onions
couldn't be left. Trnth to tell, her heart was
in her mouth: She had been playing with
edge tools but jest then she smelt a Whit
of smoke from Long Snaps pipe, and she re-
! Tented and George peceiving it, used his ut
most pcrsuasiveness and the result was that
Sally washed her hands at the well, and away
they went in the most serene silence, over fen
ces and bitches, through bits of woodland
, and fields of wintergreen, till they reached
, the edge of the great meadow, and sat down
on log to rest. 1t was an old pine tree
which had fallen at the feet Of a majestic cluS-
! ter Of its brethren, so close that the broad
column 0. made a natural back to part OF
! the seat. Inc ground was warm, dry san.t
strewn with the tino dead leaves Of the past
I seasons, brown and aromatic. A light south
! breeze woke the voices of every hough and
/ the melancholy suSGrrus rose and fell III deli
cate cadenecs while beyond the green mead
ow, Westbury River, a good sized brook, bah
bled, and danced as il there were no pine
! tree lamcuts in the world.
| | believe the air, and the odor, and the fy-
ing wind drove the violets quite out Of both
the two heads that dropped silently over the
pine log. If Sally had been nervous or pocti-
cal, she would have been glad to recoIcct
them but no such merbidness invaded her
healthy sonl She sat quite still, till George
said, in supprt ssed ard rather broken tone
L was sorry to vex you last night, Sally
could not be sorry for anything else
'Iou did gricye me very much, Mstc,
George SAID Sally, affecting little distance
in her address, but sufficiently tender in man
ncr.
Well, suppose yon don't see it the way l
DO returned George and | am very sorry
for I had rather please You than any body
else
This was especially tender, and he possess
ed himself of Sally's little red hand, unaware
or careless that it smeIt Of onions but it was
withdrawn very decidedly.
| think yoa take strange way Of show
ing ycur liking 7 shifted the dansel.
"toiSe h;tt astod!iuea. Another tiny Spl
der-thread stopped the fly a subtle ray O
blue sped sideways cut OF Sally's eye, thai
meant don't object to be liked
/ wish with all my heart knew any good
way to please you he fervently ejaculated.
1 should think any way to please people
was good way retorted Sally, saying NOR,
with her eyes than with her voice-so mucl
, more, that in fact this fly was fast. A littl,
puff of wind blew eff Salys bonnet: sl
looked shy, flushed, lovely. George stood vi
| on his feet, and took bis hat off
Sally = said he, in the deepest notes of hi
r manly voice, 8 love You very much indeed
will you be my wife p
Sally was confounded: I rejoice to say sh'
was quite COMPOUNDED bat she was made