Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-03-13

ing where he was and seeing it was broad day
light, he jumps out of bed, makes his morning
additions, and dresses himself in great haste,
determined to wait no longer for an answer than
ii would take him to find the object of his dreams
Down stairs he goes and into the parlor she is
not thcrc-looks into the garden, but does not
see her, when suddenly bethinking such no.
table little dame might be good housewife, he
starts for the kitchen. There, forsooth, he finds
her, singing like bird, elbow deep in the bread
trough, kneading away for dear life. Johns
heavy tread betrayed the intruder, and she look
cd up.
"Do you want to know how to make johnny
cake, Mr.. Wolfe P" she exclaimed merrily.
mo" said john rather seriously, for, like n
man of deep and earnest feeling as he was, he
felt that he approached a crisis in his life -" no
do not-my johnny cake is mixed already
only want to know whether | can get it,
The widow did not know what to make of it..
DWELL" said she, " do not know any reason
why YOU should not"
THAT" replied John is what want to find
out and as you know, my dear friend that two
heads are better than one, have come to con-
suit you about it."
So, to make the matter plain to her. he re-
lated his dream to its termination.
"And now. Jane said he, " | am here for
on answer. VIII you be my johnny-cake Yes
or no."
Jane had held her head down while he spoke,
bushing celestial rosy red--as is quite proper.
believe on such occasions. But James was an
earnest nature, likewise and all triiling and fun
had vanished, when, looking up to him, her
bright eyes trimming full of JOYOUS tears, she
gave him just one of the sweetest kisses he ever
had in his life.
" For ever and ever ~ she cried for ever
and ever, John, if you will have me-"
just at this instant the old lady mother step
ped into the kitchen, brought them both to their
senses by cXcaiming
"Why, Jane :"
"Oh. mother, mother" said Jane, am so
happy /" and she left John TO embrace her moth
err " He has asked me to be his wife, mother,
give me joy am to be John Wofcs wife,
There were jolly times, you may be sure, in
the old lawyers house that week, and when John
Wolfe carried off his little wife to New York,
there was the mcrricSt wcdding-party in that
village that ever drove dull care out of doors
"Well." said my friend Cynic, when paused
" now with all your yarn, You have never said
one word about her being rich. | should rath-
er think the old lawyer, her father, must have
been rather poor how could his daughter be
rich /? and folks do say that John Wolfe married
a rich wife ="
Folks say good many things sometimes
that they do not know anything about" said |.
" John Wolie's wife was not worth ten dollars
in money, when he married her but il so hap
pened that very soon after marriage, an aunt
of hers. in Boston died suddenly, and as jane
had always been favorite of hers she left her
her entire fortune, | have heard it was hun
bred thousand dollars, but don't know and |
don't care but | do know. and John Wolfe
knows, too that she herself is an ample fortune
for any man--and that Cynic, is the way John
Wolfe got his rich Wife"