Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-06
Mistelianeons.
TANGLED AND RAVELED.

/ Miss. Grump, spinster, came homo from
the morning church-service all in fiutter,
walked straight up TO the little glass, set
tied the bow under her chin, and patted
the curl over the left eye approvingly,
without salution TO the round, stout Ill
tie body in a wonderful black lace cap,
who stood in the relation maternal 10
Sophy.
"Oh, ma, l declare 1 am so nervous l
don't know what to dol" -a
Ma Grump was not very quick of com.
prehension, but always ready to do kind
ly deed, SO she looked up from the pota-
toes in progress of being mashed and said,
"Here, just you lake the ladle mint
and III go right of and make you some
Wild Isaac tea and she had already
wiped her poor old willing hands on The
crash roller when Sophy's pe,ulant reply
put an end TO her desigus. % as,sr
"Wild Isaac! Ma do wish you would
MT talk so outlandish. It's wild byssop
you mean; and l don't want. any of it
either. l am only kind of fustered at
seeing Grant Ryland this morning sitting
right opposite to me in church, and he
looked at me sol didn't know which way
10 turn. Every time looked up his eyes
were perfectly sot, and know blushed
dreadfully. Well, l shan't make an OBJ
lection on account of his losin' his money;
he will find that l am not going to forget
old times" f... -. III .-.. ~
"Did he come home with you Sophy!"
"Why no. am sure be did mean TO,
but old Miss. Beaufort and Poliny sot
right behind me, and they must have made
some motion to him, and he couldn't do
any other way Than to 60 with them, l
know he was dreadful cut up about it..
Ma put a bit of butter in her s.eaming
potatoes and said, in her old fashioned
way. ..... ID. -.....-
"Why, Poliny would be first rate
match for him. She's rich enough for
both. l shouldn't wonder if he took her."
"Take to her indeed, ma?' se+7....
There was malice in the damSers eye;
there was grim determination in the way
she fitted the band-box cover over the split
straw beneath ii; and there was energy of
purpose in the crossing of the ends of her
cape before her spare person. What she
then and there intended was sure to be
done; and she registered n mental VOW
that if Grant Ryland didn't propose to her
be never should to that child, Poliny
Beaufort. Sundry convictions not pleas
ant to encourage came over her, that fair
young face like Pauline's just behind her
might have accounted satisfactorily for the
earnest glances from Grant Ryland's deep
dark eyes in that direction. She snubbed
"Ma" completely, as was her wont to do.
Ma, in her secret soul, really thought that
little "Wild Isaac" tea would do won-
ders, but she didn't dare to say any thing
more on the subject to her strong -willed
daughter, especially as her preconceived
ideas of the name of the herb had received
a considerable of shock. So she said
nothing more, but meekly announced that
dinner was ready, in her homely, CHEEKY
way, and succeeded in restoring the ruffled
dignity Of her tartaric offspring. Still she
looked dangerous all the afternoon, as she
sat biting her nails yiciously, and plan
ming, thinking, thinking, and plotting
what could be said and done to prevent
q new rival coming on the stage. Youth
wealth. It was a dangerous
combination; but she fancied she could
combat even more than that by little
skillful diplomacy.
When | announce village sewing cir
Gle the reader will know at once all the
dranatis persono. The kindly matron,
sublime in her knowledge Of buiscuit-ma-
king and preserving; the fierce collector of
dues and donations, with anxious eye on
unprotected single men, whom she regards
as lawful prize for the benefit Of fairs and
societies the anxious mother of a family,
who is fancying the baby is crying at home
all the while; and the blithe maiden, who
wonders if John or Ed will come for her