The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-11-14

Bttner. DeIOTe Sne married u poor poOh-
keeper and you lawyer"
Mrs. Harrington was a little confused,
but she contrived to evade the uupalata.
Bile subject. ' '''1 a''
"Goodnessl Georgisna, who can that
be coming up stairs with such heavy
step? Not one Of those horrid trades
people after money, hope.
The door flew open as che spoke, and
an honest old counryman, brown and
sunbunt, and attired in an antique but
ternut coored suit, stalked into the room
with the tread Of an elephant, s.2
"How dye do, Cousin Becky Hav-
emit forgot old Jabez Higgins, hev you?
Many's the time you come over to our
house to get milk for your mother when
you lived in Yarmouth. .,i
Mrs. Harrington stood aghast at this
unexpected apparition Of country cous-
in who she had long ago supposed dead,
or married, or something. Meanwhile,
honest Jabez stared round at the gilded
gimcracks and satin draperies, with wide
open eyes. e., .g'' '7
J. "Sorry to see you looking so pale and
wizzened up, Cousin Becky. City air
don't agree with you, l calculate? And
how's Nehemiah?" 'n
Now, if there was anything on earth
Mrs. N. Howard Harrington detested, it
was hearing her husband named by his
baptismal appellation. 1t fairly rallied
her scattered faculties, and enabled her
to calculate with some asperity-
~ really did not expect"
"0f course not" put in Jabcz. good
thumoredly. l"Didn't expect to come to
York myself until yesterday mornin'."
'"But what could have induced you"
"Come to spend Thsnksgivin' with
you and Nehemiah" interrupted JabeE
with beaming eyes 4Iaa '.t
To spend Thanksgiving! Mrs. Har.
riug,on actually grew faint at the idea OF
presenting cousin Jabes Higgins. whose
existence she had studiously ignored for
the last twenty years, to Mrs Willough.
by st, James, or the Honorable Alphon-
20 Silyipgtam! ''s' .'Pi' ..F ~
II am sorry, sir" she said, frigidly
drawing herself up, "that am compelled
to decline the honor you intend me. We
are really unable to accommodate you, and
you must be aware that the slight rela'
tionship existing between us" '"
She need not have gone beyond the
first sentences word was sufficient for
Tokn nf
pride rushed into his sunburned cheek,
and the good old man simply uttered "l
wouldn't ha' thought it of you, Becky
and then he retreatcd from the presence
Ioi the cold woman Of the world.
| There was something very like a teal
i in the old countryman's eye as he wen
slowly down the street, meditating or
his late reception.
Nobody could have made me believe
it, that Becky Jones could be SO changed
Guess she's forgotten how many time'
her folks borrowed money from my ole
father. Well, it's kind y hard for I
onesc me old feller that halp't got chick
nor child, 10 be treated so by his relations
and on Thanksgiving Day. too. Blu
I'll 90 and see Ellen; maybe she'll behave
! far different toward me. Somehow,
can't go back TO my lonely home withou
one kind word" .
The bright little wood fire was blazing
, and cracking on the hearth in Mrs. AR
/ motifs humble dwelling, and the shining
damask table cloth was already placed 70
\ the festival dinner, at an hour when Mrs
Harrington had Just langulshed through
i her breakfast. 1t was sunny littl'
\ home, with Its bright window glass, ant
J.. few plants in the sunshine, and the ca
{, nary bird twilteling among the folds o
/ the Turkey.red curtains. and Mrs. Ar
mott in Il rocking chair by the fire, look
-, ed every inch the lady, even though sh
wore shilling dolaine with collar 0
Q plain, uuadorned linen. AS fos Mary
standing by the window just where TIL
r noon light quiVered like golden dia
n dem, around her lovely chestnut hair
, no words can describe her soft bloom o
q the dewy lustre Of her blue eyes. On
J. might almost forgive the mother for tn
: wish that hultered across her heart at this
: instant, that they were just lille richer
i. so that Mary's beauty might sparkle i
IS proper setting
q There was knock at the door, an
If Mrs. Arnott rose 10 open it.
e "Why, cousin Jabez, who could baV
IS imagined itl' ..e
"Come to spend Thanksgiving wit
y your said the old man. giving Mrs. Al
d nolt's slender palm a huge squeeze IN b
d brown paw. ,s .
=! "And you're as welcome as flowers i
Q. May" cried she affectionately. Com
d in, Cousin Jabez. and lei me take you
B. coat. Now, don't resist; you're going
stay with us a month at least. | hav
N not seen you for SO long. Mary, my 10,
IL that is your cousin from Vermont; yo
10 have often heard me speak of his knc
.. ness to me when a child"
Mary put her coral lips to kiss Unc
IN Jabez, and repeated the mothers cordi
lp welcome.
"John will be here in few minutes
said Mrs. Arnot,, when she had estal
as lished her guest in the rocking chair b
a fore the CHEEKY blaze: che will be SO glf
ne to see you. Do sit nearer the fire. Cou
in Jabez; tbere-thst's right. Why
ry seems like my childhood over again
a. sre YOU in our little Thanksgiving circle