The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1861-11-15

ing.
The children six "boys," as Farmer Evan.
promiscuously calls them, whose ages var,
from eight to twenty, and three girls, two
grown up, and one the youngest of the fami
ly-are just what We might expect from pa
rents who are so simple and so good. The
young men, intelligent and well conducted
the boys, docile and promising; rosy checked
poppet as ever WAS the pet and plaything of
large family. 1t is, however, with the eld-
est daughters We have to do.
Jane and Patty Evans were as much alike
as hath ever befallen any two sisters not
born at the same time; for, in the matter of
twin children there has been series of puz-
zies ever since the days of the Dromois.-
Nearly OF an age, Il believe at this time both
are turned nineteen, and neither has reached
twenty,) exactly y of 4 stature, $50 high that
Frederic the Great would have coveted them
for his tall regiment with hazel eyes, large
mouths, full lips, white teeth, brown hair.
clear, healthy complexion, and that sort of
nose which is neither Greek nor Roman, nor
aqualIne, nor &c petit me- ret rousse, that
some persons prefer to them all, bat a nose
which, moderately prominent, and sufficiently
well shaped, is Vet as far as know, anony-
nous, although it be perhaps as common and
as well looking feature as is to be seen on
an English face. Altogether, they were d
pair OF tall and com-ly maidens, and being
constantly attired in garments of the same
color and fashion. looked at all times SO
much alike, that no stranger ever dreamed OF
knowing them apart, and even their acquain-
tanees were rather accustomed to speak and
think o! them generally as "the Evanses,
than rs the separate individuals Jane anu
Patty. Even those who did pretend to dis
tlngu>h the one from the other, were not eN-
empt from mistakes, which the sisters-Pa.-
~ especially, who delighted in the fun so Of
ten produced by the unusual RESEMBLANCE
were apt to favor by changing places in d
walk, or slipping from one side to the other
at country tea-party, or PLAYING hundred
Innocent tricks, TO occasion at once a grave
blulder and merry laugh.
Old Diuah Goodwin, for ins,ance-who.
being rather purbiind. was Jealous of being
suspected Of seeing less clearly than her
neishbors, and had dc:ied even the Evanses
TO puzzle her discernment-seeking in vain
on Patty. hand the cut finger which she had
dressed on James, ascribei the incredible
cure to her own Incompatible salve; and
could hardly be undeccived, even by the pull
ing off of James glove and the exhibition Of
the lacerated Llgltal sewed round by Ter own
bandaSe. Young George Kelley, too, the
greatest beau in the parish, having bet at a
Christmas party that he would dance with
every pretty girl in the room, lost his wager.
which Patty had overheard, by that sauc,
damseI's slipping into her sisters place. and
persuadins her TO join her own unconscious
partner; SO that George danced twice with
Patty and no, at all with Jane. A barterinc
piece of malice which proved, as the Young
gentleman "a rustic exquisite of the first wa
teri was pleased to assert, that Miss Patty
was not displeased with her partner. How
little does a vain man know of womankinl.
If she had liked him, she would not have
played the trick for the mines of Golcorda.-
In short, from their school days, when Jane
was chldden for Patty's bad work, and Pat
ty slapped for James bad spinning, down 10
this their prime Of womanhood. there had
been no end TO the confusion produced by
this remarkable instance Of family likeness
And yet nsture-who sets some mark Of
individuality upon even her meanest proiuc-
tlons, making some unnoted difference be
tween the lambs dropped from one eve, the
robins bred in one nest, the flowers growing
on one stock, end the leaves hanging on oue
tree-hath not left these maidens withou,
one great and permanent distincton-a nat
ural and striking disSimilarity of temper. T.
qually industrious, attectona,e, happy and
kind; each was kind, happy, atFectionate, and
Industrious, in a different way. Jane was
grave; Patty was gay. If you heard Il laugh
or song. be sure II was Patty; she who
jumped the stile, when her sister opened the
gate, was Patty she who chased the pigs
from the garden, as merriy as if she were
running race, SO that the pigs did not mind
her, was Patty. On the other hand, she tha,
SO carefully was making, with its own rave
I'D threads, an invisible dam in her mothers
handkerchief, and was hearing her sister read
the while; she that 81 patiently was feeding,
one by one, two broods of young turkeys;
she, too, that SO pensiyely was watering her
own bed Of delicate and rare flowers
pale hues of the Alpine pink, or the a,abas-
ter blossoms Of the white, evening primrose,
whose modest flowers. dying off into blush.
resemblcd her own character-was Jane
Some Of the sossips of Aberlegh used to as
sert that James signing over the flowers, as
well as the early steadiness of her character
arose from an engagement, to my lords head
gardener, an intelligent, sedate and sober
young Scotchman. Of this know nothing.
Certain it is that the prettiest and newest
plants were always to be found in James lit
tie flower garden; and if Mr. Archibald Mac
lane did sometimes come to look after them.
| did not see that il WAS anyhndx's hnsinass