The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-01-27
"Very big eyes" said she.

thought II "mean shame" she wouldn't
"help him out, while she sat there look.
ing good enough to cat" and laughing al
him, as even his blunt perception told him
whilst her attention was apparently he.
slowed upon the shirt flap. He wished il
was his shirt she was stitching so assidu.
ously He stirred up the ashes on the
hearth, and almost made up his mind that
''he warn't going to give her another
chance at him !" but Cynthia dropped her
cotton-ball, and Seth, not rising from his
chair, streached out his long lank arm md
picked it mp. He touched her hand as
she took it back, aud an electric shock
thrilled through his veins, and made him
"teel all over--ever so," as he some time
afterwards expressed the sensation to me.
"Miss Cynthia, may be you are fond of
maple candy? ?"
VERY" said she
"Well, now," said Seth rising, "the
next time / come, | Il try and bring you
great COB"
But as he rode home, behind his old
farm mare, he said to himself, "I reckon |
amt going back to court gal who sees a
feller in fix, and never helps him." And
sure enough he never did retnrn. Miss
Cynthia lost her richest lover, and many
folks, even to this day, believe she wished
him back again. 1t is the way of women
to want the thing that can't be had. At
least, so men say, if not in practice, in the.
ory and Cynthia's mouth watered, 1 dare
say, for many week after, for that COB of
maple candy.
The MoRAL-Let every man, oh pref
ty girl, pay court to you in his own way,
and not in your way, and help him out at
that being sure, however that you are in
harmony with his mode of procedure. New.
er disturb ice-cream when it is going to
freeze nor lift the pot as it begins to boil
nor make false step and get out of time,
when your partner is meditating aieeys
in the dcUa temps, or the polka Many
declaration Of affection has been fright.
ened of by some wrong note sung in the
treble Of the duet, which put it out of har.
mony,
! Cynthia, thought so pretty grl, and SO
experienced in the art Of saying no." to
an offer of marriage, had yet a good deal
to learn in her own craft and, indeed, no
! experience ever primes woman for the
/ decisive moment. Each case must be met
on principle, and not on precedent. 1t is
! our hnsiness IN discover, in this story of
"Snip-Snap," how far pretty Cynthia prof
| tied by the experience she prided herself
! upon in the rejection Of her lovers.
1t was mellow autumn morning, and
a rlsset glow had tinged the woods at the
back Of 'Sqnire Simpsons homestead 1t
was Teth Taggart's wedding day. He was
to marry, that evening, Susie Chase--a
smiling little rosebud of a wife, TO whom
he found plenty Of things to say, as sweet
TO Susies ears as to her lips his maple
candy Cynthia, as one Of her best friends
was to be bridesmaid and as she wished
to shine that night in all her bravery, and
wanted some new ribbons for her head
/ dress, this want tempted her abroad, little
/ after noon, when the harvest fields were
| quiet aud the yoked oxen stood relieved
from labor, leisurely chewing the sweet
morsel reserved for that soft sunny hour
of rest, as men of business used to do the
thought of the last letter written by the
hand they loved till the burden OF the day
is laid aside, putting it apart with all its
woman nonsense, and half unreasonable
fancies,) pure from the contact of the pile
of yellow letters lying on their desk, offer
ings upon the shrine Of Mammon.
Our pretty Cynthia tripped along her
path, scattered a cloud of grasshoppers and
crickets as she stepped /; and in her silly
little pride of bellehood her heart held,
though she would not have confessed tho
thought, that her relative value TO her
crowd of beaux was in the same proper
tion as that of one woman to many grass
hoppers.
AT turn in the path she came sudden
ly on one Of these admirers Frank Han
dy. Franks face flushed He had been
thinking of her when she surprised him
thinking of her all that day and through a
sleepless night and in those hours the
Cynthia of his fancy had smiled on him,
and laid her gentle hand in his, and had
been gathered to his heart--it was a shock
to come thus suddenly upon so different a
reality, At the moment he encountered her
he was indulging himself in an imaginary
love scene, in which he was calling her, in
heart, My Cynthia, my love and at the
sudden sight of her all such presumptuous
fancies fed in haste, and hid themselves,
shrinking like yari-tinted coral polypi when
danger approaches-each into the recesses
of its cell
II beg your pardon, Miss Cynthia, he
said, stammering before he gathered self
possession, and accustomed himself to her
presence. 81 was on my way to make you
a call II you will allow me, I will turn
round and walk with you
IL am not going far, Mr.. Frank, only
into the village, for some ribbon for my
hair and gentlemen dislike shopping, "
(knowing perfectly well that he would 60
with her.)
II know where a wild hop.yine grows,
said he sit would make much prettiel
ornament for your hair than any ribbon,
you could buy in the village"
"And will You get me some 2'
Turn this way into the woods, ant
spare me half an hour while twist it int,
a wreath. am going away from here to