The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1859-08-27


stand tile subject at oil, Miss Magaho
II guess | don't, says I. III
Whether Miss Parsons was mistaken
or not, 4 know sue meant 10 do right,
for she was d good woman. rood,
ipious woman, enough better than / be,
though / wouldn't d done as she did
for all the world.
But was gwfne to tell about Dcacoii
Fusticks daughter gittin married 81
WAS surprised, and, must say, amused,
at the performances, Her mother's q
dreadful manuyerirl woman, You know,
Away figurin round to get beaux for
her daughters, ii an awful hurry To- get
'en married off. Sing lar, ain i il, that
any mother can feel SOP Why, when
Nancy was married and left me, ii enyl
most broke my heart, though she was
only an adopted child. 4 didn.t want
to oppose ID you know, for she got al
very likely young man. But Miss
l'nstiek don't seem to care much who
nor what her girls get IL she can only
marry EN- Off Amanda want but
sixteen when she was married, her
mother made the match entirely, ard
the mans a miserable stick. There's
no tellin' tile trials poor Amanda under-.
went since she took him. But il didn't
seem 10 lie no warnin to Miss Fnstick
lat all. she went on manlYerin and
fiourishin round, polSin her girls for
lrardinto the face and eyes OF all tho
young men, till she succeeded in gettin'
rid Of en- all but Ann Eliza, and she
done her best for her too; but somehow
she didn't seem to take. Shes ruthor
j pretty lookin' girl, but she was SO
\ lazy, and SO FOND Of dress, and SO etar-
nalfy In the streets, langhin' and hol-
Y leriG, and bawlin' at everybody she
/ met, and dom everything she could to
atract attention, that she oyershot the
mark. Nobody didn't seem to takesg
fancy TO her; the young men secInct
,s-a.a.s.s i.es. 81 I'm
they dldn want her for . wife. a
length, her mother begun to git dis
eouragel about her; so last fall sh
packed her off to spend the winter j
& Gambletown, whore they've got som
4 rich elbow cousins. The theological
siminary 5 located there, you know, AM
/ s pose she thought twoula be a GOO
plaee to try her luck.
She called to our house one day il
the winter, and told me she'd had sucl
gratifyin' letter from Ann Eliza, sh,
wished she'd q thought to fetch il alon,
With her and read ii tome. Ann Eliz;
had become so very nlaeh interested il
the cause of Foreign missions, and fel
Yto regret that she hadn't hilbert,
entered more fully into her ma s view
and feelinls on that subject. Yol
know, says Miss Fustick, sthat's
cause that lies very near my heart. .
i, j was surprised enough to hear it o
Ann Eliza; but ] knowd there wa
something behind the curtin, and wait
! ed patiently to see what twas. Ih
next time 1 saw Miss Fustick she toll
me that Ann Eliza had got so exercise
: in view Of the dreadful condition o
Q the heathen, especially the Muflle
tegawny's, that she'd made up ht
I mind TO 40 on a mission to EN- il p
and ma was within s0f course We q
I TEEN it a privilege to have her go
q says Miss Fnstick. Well, / was SUI
Q prisder than ever, and couldn't he
Q tellin' her so; hut she didn't seem I
consider it anything strange at al
n And it never once entered her hea
I to think but what Ann eliza was a vel
!. suitable person for such an unde
: takin' tss 81. s. ;.@3.
i, Law me- sif she's in such distre.
d to 60 on mission, send her up here
il Pndden-bag Lane; faint far OF, al
IS she couldn't desire to see a more he
ii flemish set than the folks that Ii,
% there; twould be a frst-rate field
d labor. Miss Fustick gin me one
m her looks, and walked off without sayi
another word. Z.
vi A few weeks after that, Ann Eli
d got home, and then the mystery W
i, all explained. Shed got a beau!
IL Mr.. Simpson, a missionary to the Mu
HetegaWny's Ct guess that's the name
h He'd lost his wife about six months b
rs fore, and come back to get anotht
u, and fetch his six children over to ma
er this country present Of IN. He "
to educated al the GambIetown Seminar
o. So he went there to leok round, got o
Equainted with Ann Eliza. She W
r wonderfully interested in his accounts