Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-10-16
How she caught him,

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Deacon Bancroft, though a goot
man u the main, and look d 10 t
T With respect by all the inIfabitant:
gof ! the village of Centreyille, wa
Z ru:1:ored to have, ii Yankee PAL,
lance, q pretty sharp eye to tux
N; man q .zt2I' chance, "a peculiarly from
which deacons are not ALWAYS ex
Tempt.
In worldly matters he was decid
| edlY well to DO, having Inherited &
fne farm from his father, which was
growing yearly more valuable. /,
nnsht= bessnpposed that, under the
circumstances, c the deacon, who was
fully ablet dose, would have found
S h.lptnate to share his h Use aid
name. But the deacon was wary
MatHnonys was to him in some
X measure lnatter-o' money, and Il
was his firm reyolye not &c marry
unless be could enhance bis wor1aIY
pros spasity Unhappily ythe little
VI J: ~ lil|agge of Centreville, and I.estowns
ia the Immediate vicinitY contained
Jew who were qualifieeIHl.tlis I'M
portant particular, an those
there were probably none with
whom the deaeon's ) suit would have
prosp pered
SO ithappened that year after
year passed away nntil Deacon
Bancroft was tie prime d: life life
torty-fise: Or tIaerea bouts still
unmarried, and u alIzhuman prob
ability likeIY.fo remain So.
1eaeon Bancrott's neig!rbor was
a widow vic
It dow Y ellis, who had pas
ea#1l1r9ugho matrimonial eexpe-
I.ieiae three Or four years youn.
ger than Deacon Bancroft. She
wassatl quite. q comely woman
Unfortunately, the late Mr.. W ellis
had not been able to leave her a
sufficiency to make Ter indepen=
dentsof the world. All that she
possessed was tie small, old-fashs
ioned house in@which she lived, and
a small amount Of fmoney, which.
was insnfficient=to support her md
! little son Of seven though hardly.
bile to besclassed as productive
II ANYTHING but. mischief.
z lie widow was therefore OBJ
iged totstke three or four hoarders
. eke ont the scanty income, which
# collnse imposed upon her consid-
srabIelabor and anxiety. .. i.
1T is=not surprising, then; that
lnder.=these circumstances she
hanld now and then have bethought.
lerself Of a second marriage, as q
nethodsof bettsri1g her condition
)r again, need we esteem.itssa spe-
;iiaSlll IL Wouder if, in=her reflections she
honId have cashier eyes npon her
Deacon Bancroft. The
leacon, as we have already said,
vas in f1onrishing circumstances
lie would be abIe to maintain d
wife u u; il great comfort and being
ne Of the chief personages in the
could accord her a promi
'nt social position.
Sore sayaciot1s psrsonhas obser-
ed, however, that it takes two per-
ons to make a match, a fact to bel
eriousIy considered for II the
resent case twas exceedingly
oubtffiII whether the worthy dea-
on.8eren iflle had knoWlthe. fav-|
rable opinion of his nextnaeighbo
7ould have been inclined to pro-
,ose changing her na1n TO Ban
roft, unless, indeed, = suitable mos
i've was brought to bearlpon him.
I IIere was a chance tolfinessing
One evening, after a day Of IA ta=I
guing labor, theWid dow ellsaatII
t the fire ii tllasItting room It'll
en- feet restin yazthe fender.
FEVER AM so situated as notI
1 have 10 have to work SO hard,
he murmured, ! shall be So hap
y. It's 4 hard life, keeping board
rs. fl was only as well Oft as
)eacun Bancio1t .zSs .r,2I
Still the widow kept up her thin-
ing, aaIby and by her face bright
ned up. She had an idea. which
le Is resolved to put mo execution
the very earliest practicable mo-
lent. What it was, the reader will
iiscover in the sequel. +
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