Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-08-17

berries, made over from the year before !;
and I was careful TO pick them as fast as
they ripened, 50 that Mr. Riley's folks
never got one Of them. I did not feel
that was stealing, for I did everything
in broad day, before Mr.. Riley's eyes
And he never reproyed your
No; I thought he was afraid Of ap-
pearing niggardly before his society, and
for that reason beld his peaee---fhough /
really tried to provoke him to say some
thing. As soon as the young potatoes
were large enough to eat, went at them /;
I took one hill after another, clean as
went. And the green corn too--we
feasted on green corn, until it was too hard
to roast or boil
But why do you tell me all this !; 1
mildly inquired.
Because must tell some one. My
heart burns and aches with it ?
Yet you persuaded yourself that you
were doing right, did you not ?
I was too angry, too selfish and per-
verse to have any conscience or sorrow
in the matter she exclaimed. All this
time never touched the part that was
set aside for me, to cultivate with flowers.
| was at work at my trade Of bonnet
making, and knew that a good many
people whose custom got, where recon-
mended to me by Mr. Riley's folks, but
that didn't soften or change my mind in
the least. He sends me work so that he
viii not have me to support,-that was
the construction 1 put upon it. But /
was telling you about the garden.
When haryest-time came, after all
his trouble, there was not much left to
him but the corn. There was good deal
of that which could not use green, nor
get time to gather when it was ripe. 1t
ivexed me, not so much that could not
secure it, as that Mr.. Riley should have
even so much TO pay him for his labor.
| One day the men came and cut off the
tops Of the stalks, just above the ears
bound them up in bundles, and drew them
away. Some days after that William:
came along, and commenced husking
! and throwing the corn in piles on the
ground. This was last week. Before
night it was all llhusked, and Williams, whe
knew had basket came to the door, ana
asked me to lend ii to him to carry tht
; corn in.
"sCan't Mr.. Riley afford to furnisl
you basket 2 retorted as snappishl,
as could.
He has baskets enongh, but it is som
trouble to go home for one,' said he, 'an
III use yours if you please
No you wont use mine, either ? sal
/, and shut the door IN his face, as ha
done before.
So he walked to Mr.. Riley's for
basket, and walked back again, and bega
to pick up the corn. In a little while
heard him knocking at the back door.
: What do you want thereF aske
ont of the window.
4 want to get into the wood-shed, sal
: he.
al You have no right in my wood-shed
= | said, and ordered him away.
II Mr.. Riley has right he replied
\ and am obeying his orders
}, Get in if yon can, then,' said Lie
.e 1 had fastened the door on the inside.
d did not think of his getting in at the WI
e. dow, but he did, though l tried to pr
vent him. He let me endeayor TO kee
him back, and never offered to retalia
ID but just went about his business as p
nt tent as Job.
Or Now what do you want ? said I, aft
be had opened the door in spite Of me.
Mt Nothing said he, only to find
m place to stow away your corn
I'd Ny corn / stood dumb with asto
I'd ishment, while he brought in the bask
IS, which he had set down outside the doc
en- carried it up into the wOod-shed loft, a
to emptied it on the boards. / couldn't s
ne a word, but there I stood, while he broue
nd in basket, after basket, and spread G
the corn in the loft. 1t all came to
m then-Mr. Riley's goodness, and my o.
ey folly and hatefulness. And there 1 sto
gh ike a stone, with one despairing thoug
Ias q wish that might die there-sink &w
a somehow-yanish from the sight Of mi
sn and from nay own sight, foreverl
81 Have you got . hoe ? said WfIliar
TO- after be had got the corn. Il see til,
I'm are few hills Of potatoes left, and / n
as well get them n for you, now I
y here, and have my hand IN
i motioned for hin to take the hoe
lvI / for / coutd't sneak