Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1862-09-19
The Stick of Candy.
BY ANNIE SAWYER DOWNS.

isn't the funniest package 10 have in your
jewel box For once, something of
yours not done up in silver paper; but
regular grocery stuf, brown, full of
straws, and smelling of cheese and on
ions. What on earth is it?" ratified on
gay, inquisitiye Anne Bradstreet.
Undo it, and yoi'll see, Nan"
Nothing in the world but stick of
red candy. dirty at that. Where did you
get it? Did some of those old country
lovers, you are always picaing up every
time we show ourselves ouside of Bos-
ton, give it to you,-
" In the days that You went gipseyin. long time
ago"
Blushing, as l live; tell me, and I'll
never tease you for these dear ameos
or wear your amber beads and Iosethem
again, or disturb the rest of your bauti.
ful laces p
so, child, don't talk Sc fast or SO ligt-
/ ly; look at the date and you'll see it was
not an old love gave it me-"
"ApriI 9th, 90; why, that is the day
you came home
"Yes, the day cane home put it
down gently, Mamie, and | will tell you
why hide it away amoIg my treasures.
That day, waiting in tie Haverhill sta
ton for the noon train rom the east, my
attention was attracted towards a middle
aged Irish couple, wI' got out of the
Amesbury stage. Tne man wore the
army uniform, and fran their talk to-
gether | learned he badoeen home for
month, on account of ,ckness, and was
then going back to his regiment, in the
trenches before Yorkto'n,
He seemed a cool, eIf-possessed sort
of man, but his wife gas taking on in I
the noisy way in with women of her
country and class usudy express their
sorrow. The great teis followed, one
after the other, downhtr brown, wrin-
kled cheeks, and chasing him by the
cape of his great coathe said,
"And bad luck it wi, to US both, when
we left the dear oldcounthry, to come
here, and you 60 ad be kilt, my poor
Jimmy "
In vain he tried hush her, telling
her he shouldn't be XII, and that the fight
would be over beforele could get there
and please God he'd Don come back to
her; but finding his persuasions of no
avail, he unclasped br fingers from his
coat and went to lookafler his luggage.
She threw herself dom on a settee, and
rocked her body BACKYARD and forward,
as if in pain. wet up to her hoping
to comfort her lite by telling her Of
o b mothers nd wives whose
sons and husbands we're in the same
ranks; l told her, Anne Bradstreet,
Of your bright your brother Hal, who
left his mother and sh a widow, because ,
bis country needed hm, and before her ,
husband came back sic hushed her wild
sobs, and only cried emily. | left her
when he came, and oon she said some.
hing to him so quic and so low that l
,ould not catch her wrds. In a minute {
lie darted out Of the room, across the !
rack, iEto little ship, and soon rushed !
'ut, with a small pa&age in his hand =;
He came directly to me, and taking off
lis hat as reverentlyas he would to the
queen, said in whol-hearted Irish way,
Ilways so fascinating to me-
God bless ye, mis-, for spanking COM ,
ort TO the ould womin, and wouldn't ye
'e for taking this sti& of candy, from
'oor fellow that woud give you thou ,
and if be had 'em p
As l took it eagerly, he went on
"Please don't ye think that | want to
ave the fight over befcre get there l :
My said it to aise her, for indade my !,
cart would be sick if thought l couldn't
i've 'em rap wild my gum" i,
found out the brave fellows name, r
nd when the cars came shook hands with 8
i'm as if he had been my friend for many h
ears and now you know why the candy h
as laid away, wrapped in its common a
'own paper. II
l kept watch over my man, and when 81
ere was no fighting at Yorktown l
uldnt help being half sorry that he had te
} chance to use his good gun At n
anover Court House he was as cool as ia
veteran. He wrote from there thai al
didn't behave those big rebels had a N
IL that would kill him. and with that hi
lex, strange bumor common to bis race, n,
d 'how when his powder was all gone e,
thought he'd better be doing some hs
ng, and went back after a lot of bread pe
i butter, that he remembered seeing in