The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-03-11
THE VILLAGE WONDERS.
1.-THE CnNtLrSION. |

"1f it's fair question, what part do We
| live in, ieddes p
We explained, with similarly wide mar
gin.
Yen have gay time in the south. Do We
go tn many balls ~
Not 10 balls Neither are we very gay
we re too busy
"Busy-what business have ye?''
1--WE are both eldest daughters and that's a
perfect labor III ITSELF
What yen ca labor-tcoming the money on
o your purses upon counters, among silks
ana veiyets, and things"
mo, no, Mrs Stewart not that exactly"
''What kind o queer letters are they We had
to-day irae hame? Was yom your names %
NO. To amuse the village, we babe them
1nSt put on our initials"
She was called to the door by an inquisitiye
nelghbor, who, OF necessity, was marched in
to criticjse us, we bearing the inspection with
the most unaffected artiessness. Such was
only a specimen of Mrs. Stewards tactics : for
to go through them all, and answ ers
would make a tOlerably Well-siZed volume
"What ladies are these you have with YOU %,
said the minis ter.
II din ma ken
"What are their names at least?'
q Gamma find DOT, sir"
"Why don't you ask them p
"They wanna tell
"That does not look well, :" said the minister.
and he ever afterwards honored us with =
broad scru tinizing stare, in right Of his cloth
Another person, Smitten by the general
curiosity, was dart boy belonging 10 the vii
lage. Everywhere we went, far or near we
saw him some time or other during the day
No matter how early, or how privately we
Set out, he knew, and set out, too Sometimes
lie would walk past us, and then sit down for
a long time, and again overtake us. A first,
we were IL little alarmed and uncomfortable
but when we knew more about him, it only
added to our amusement. He never spoke
once 10 us, and never pretended to notice us
No doubt the little spy greatly edited his
mother and granny.
"isn't il queer for tom body TO look
doun into a loch, when they re no accustomed
tit, and see the water waVin away?'' We
were thus accosted ty a most peculiar, smart,
dark-eyed, elderly woman. 'Do ye like the
Hollands? -
Every much; there are such beautiful
places to he SEEM
Yell haze seen near everything already
Yen haze been walkin' ABBOTT Il deal 20
YES, good deal"
Civ ye seen the glen IA 20
"No. Where is it -
'Wad We like TO go. I'm gaun there the moo. !
It's raal bonny.''
We assented.
Yen be the leddies that's stoppn' doun at
Mrs. Stewart's?"
We Acknowledged it.
DIV We like herr"
''She is very kind and obliging.''
''She S fine body
as she your sisterg'' she whispered once TO
me. indicating Ally with her thumb.
NO; she is not my sister"
'ls she ony relation ?"
ssNone in tue world"
'Whats her name ?'
'I'm afraid you must ask her that your
SELF
Whats yours. then?''
'It's such long one, you could not pro-
nounce il, and it is not worth trying to- ~
When we had seen the really beautiful falls
and were on level ground again, she turned to
Ally Whats your name nov miss ~
people always forget names among these
hills don't believe you could tell me your
own, if / We're TO ask you ~
With many long screed of confidential
gossip, she tried 10 tempt us to break our reso-
la ton, bat in vain
The innkeepsr "daundnred" down also to
out your leddies' NAMES -
"Ne'er hae /. They Wilma tell me them,
Jenny nor Jessamy, for a my speerin' at
them
'.I'm thinking they wadna haze been sac
lang wi me without my finding DOT. DO they
get nae letters -
Yes; but they haze jist some o. the A &c
On them, Care o. the Postmaster" Such a
faft-llke thing. It's one o the things dinna
ike ABBOTT Them as If they couidna SPELL
I'm thinkin' they can do that RIGHT weel"
81 ken that; for the postmaster Showed me
IVA letters they had addressed to Edinburgh
% Trends there, and a richt black dashin'
iand they bath write; and they helpit me
With my accounts the ither night and RIGHT
'rand iigaes they are. for certain
Il IN thinking they're bath born ladies 80
"No-div yeg Whyf''
because Lord and Lady aud Fitzbohn,
hey askit Inc the ither day what was their
lanes andl telft them naebody could find DOT.
ana they kind o. laughed, and Miss said
: We got . great fancy 10 find out myself And
saiu NY lady. you'll find them any day
you IKE by the loeh side, for they've begun
'Aetches there And she and her mother did
%, oat don't know what they said, only
hey DOW 10 them now, when they meet them
Ind heard Miss say: They are uncommon
II everything
Again:
What kind O. dodgers are they We haye.-
That's MAR nor can tell
Hoot, nonsense' Whatll be their nam.,
hen 20 'AAiee 8
81 never was so beat in my life. Iaskit the
ne, ana she said Well be like the Queen, (
md not tell our names till we go away:' ana
when speefed at the ithsr ane, she saws
VI hats In name, Mrs. STEWART Pepper
mint by any ither name woulf smel II as sweet
'at never can be angry with them, however