The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1861-06-04

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hase her always
Wlg can't we exclaimed Mr. Goer,
almost hercely.
sure epoael why can't wef There
a'nt nobody besides you and ne, ! sup-
pose. thai 'iiaks slss park. WRal :
john Hcuicls and Dan Norris hangin'
ronrd f0r al tie time
Aud they may hang round ill The cows
come homc Nary hair Of lyy's head
shali they ioaeh,--nary one on en-
lasi al this iuncIure Of affairs, the dam
sel IL question bounded into the room.
Come here. lyy said the old man ;
your mother been a-elanderin' you +;
.ays you don't know n0ihin
i lvy kneli before him, rested her arms
on his knees, and turned upon him pair
81 palpably rosuish eyes.
Father. il Is an awful SANDER. ! do
know a sight
I.ud, child, yes / knew you did.
No more you don't wan, TO marry John
lIerricks. DO YOU
Oh. Daddy Geer! 0--h--h.'
Nor Dan Norris nor none Of EN- z
Never one, father.
Nor don't you ever think Of getiin'
married aud slayin' yourself out for no.
@body. I'm plenty well able 10 take care
Of you, as long as live. You'll never
live 20 happy as you DO at home aud
you Il break my heart to 90 away, Ivy.
IN never 20, papa. (She pronounced
it with the accent on the first syllable.)
Indeed never will III never be mr-
ricd. rs long as | live.
No more you tha'n't, good child, good
child 7
And again Farmer Geer betook himself
to the depths Of his armchair, with the
compliment consciousness Of having faith
fully discharged his parental duties. She
should not 60 to school. She would not
be married She had said she would not,
and Of course she would net.
of course shall not, unused Ivy, as
she lay in her white bed. What could
put it into poor papa's head ? Marry
John Ilerricks, with his everlasting smirk,
and his diddling walk, and take care of
all the Herricks' sisters and mothers and
aunts, and the Herricks cows and horses
and pigs--and- -hens--and--an '
But Ivy had kept her thoughts on her
marriage longer than ever before in her
life; and ere She had finished the inven-
tory Of John lIerrieks' personal property
and real estate, the blue eyes were closed
in the sweet, sound sleep Of youth and
health
Mrs, Geer, in her estimate of her daugh-
ter's attainments, was partly right and
partly wrong. Ivy had never been fin
i.hed at Mrs. Porters seminary, and was
consequently in a highly unfinished condi
lion. Small Latin and less Greek jost-
led each other in the head. German and
French, Italian and Spanish, were strange
tongues TO Ivy. She could not dance, nor
play, nor draw, nor paint, nor work little
dogs on footstools.
What, then, could she do!
Lmprimis, she could climb tree like a
squirrel. Secundo, she could walk across
the great beam in the barn like year-old
kitten. In the pursuit of hens eggs she
knew no obstacles from scafiold to scat
fold, from haymow to haymow, she leaped
defiant She pulled out the hay from I'M
der the very noses Of the astonished cows,
TO see ii, perchance, some inexperienced
pullet might there have deposited her
golden treasure. With all four-footed
beasts she was on the best of terms. The
matronly and lazy old sheep she uncere-
monously hustled aside, to administer con-
ISOLATION and caresses to the timid, quaklng
lamb in the corner behind. Without sad
die orbridle she could
:" Ride black horse
To Banbury Cross"
IN. B.--I don't say she actually did. |
only say she could; and under sufficiently !
strong provocation, / have no doubt she
would.) She knew where the purple vio- !
lets and the white innocence first fecked
the spring turf, and where the ground
sparrows hid their notified eggs. All the |
little waddling, downy goslings, the feeble
chickens, and faint-hearted, responding
turkeys, that broke the shell too soon, and
shivered miserably because the spring sun
was not high enough in the morning to
warm them, she fed with pap, and cher
ished in cottonwood, and nursed and
watched with eager, happy eyes. o bles-
sed Ivy Geer True Sister Of Charity
Thrice blessed stepmother Of brood
whose name was Legionl
From the conjugal and tilial converse
ton which | have faithfully reported,
casual observer, particularly if young and
might infer that the ques-
ton Of Miss Iyy's education was deini-
lively settled, and that she was henceforth .
10 remain under the paternal roof.
should, myself, have fallen into the same
error, had not long and intimate ac-
quainianee with the female sex generated
and cherished profound and mournful
conviction Of the truth Of the maxim, that
are deceitful. Il. e., woman
has set her heart on something, and is re-
fused. She pouts and sulks that is clouds,
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