The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-05-31

brought you up fit to be the wife of
any gentleman, who was good enough
for you-and that kind is scarce-and
if you can set your cap for him, you'll
be lucky. You're far enough ahead of
any city girl he knows" o9se s.;ay
'sBut, father, the idea of his caring
for me! True, you have sent me to
school and been very kind to me, but
think how my tastes for climbing cherry
trees, and hunting hens eggs, would
shock a city bred young man !'' -.
But you will dispense with all that
while he is here, ! hope. Well enough
for you to indulge in snch things
here by yourself, but lay them aside
when Mr.. Jacobs comes, and show
him you know how to behave like a
lady" 80 ''.'', -'i' s'''''i4 Oh " f-'
"Oh, I never could entertain him,
father. I should be frightened to
death. 1t is an easy matter to talk to
cousin Nathan and these country beaux,
but these city people, who think one
COW gives skim milk and another cream,
and that we keep one expressly to give
buttermilk-such people are not con-
genial. I could not act myself before
him. / wish you'd send me away some
where until his stay is ended" i's .
"Send yon away, indeed I! when it is
you he is coiningto see; that is" he
quickly corrected himself, che is com
ing for his health. But then I know his
father would rather have him marry
some healthy, sensible country girl
than any city lady in the land"
"But cousin Nathan father?" faltered
Fanny.
"Cousin Nathan can so to grass,
curtly said Uncle Joshua.
"And I along with him ?" she asked
with a roguish smile.
"You and Nathan can't marry, Fan
ny. I'm agin it, the Bibles agin it
and the fates are agin it. He's prom
ised to see you no more until you arr
the wife of some one else. He ha
given you up slick and clean, and
hope you've got too much spunk to fee
any hankering for him, after that
| Fanny's cheek flushed very hotly
then grew white again. She swallowed
a quick sob, and said /:
''Very we'll; if after all he said. t
me last night, he can give me up in thi
way, Pm sure ] don't care. He didn'
even bid me good bye % f,i
Uncle Joshua thought by the wa
the BLUSH shade settled around Fanny
mouth, that she did care a vast dea
more than he imagined she could.
"When will Mr.. Jacobs be here
father?''
Tomorrow afternoon, in time fo
tea"
| Never had Fanny felt such drea
of tomorrow afternoon" in all her life
; 1t came at last, and she knew the e,
} pected guest had arrived, because Ur
: Gle Joshua was in the parlor down stail
} talking with somebody. and that som,
, b~dy, she felt sure, was Jeffry jacob
$ '1'll run out and get the eggs out
e the speckled hens nest" thought Far
e ny, "before | put on my best dress"
Fanny considered the gathering {
, the eggs her sole prerogative, and ha
any one else touched the hens nest
. there probably would not have bee
: another egg laid in Uncle Joshua
barn, so well was itundersto ID anon
I the feathered tribe that Fanny neve
: ''shooed" them off the nest TO get tn
J. fresh egg, or picked the she'll to hurr
e out the little chickens not yet ready {
e be hatched. '''l' 'D-i
Fanny had scarcely reached the ha
n NOW, when she heard Uncle Joshr
S enter the stable below, and comment
y to discant upon the fine points of th
It soft OK" to his young guest. '..
o e"I would like just to get a peep
d that young man." thought Fanny, ar
stealing to the edge of the NOW 81
!, ventured to look down into the stab
below. Alas for Fanny! The boar
e on which she stood tipped with h
l. weight, and in a cloud of hay and du
e down she went, alighting squarcly {
e the back Of that off OK.
/. "5tsn+ ITO be continued) -i5ilt- al
r VALUE OF A LOAD OF HAY.-I ser
K you a method by which, with but lit
q time and trouble, any one can tell VIII
? their load of hay or straw, amounts I
:, by simply taking the weight multiple
2 by half the price per ton-for exampl
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IS 800 lbs. multiplied by half Of 1S, whit
is 9, gives the amount--so too wi