The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-03-31

dumpy, I'll admit ; but full Of all man.
ner of domestic virtues Of the herb tea
order, and sure to make faithful, cheer
ful companion, for week or for a life
time.
Priscilla Patton is good girl, bu,
she hasn't quite snap enough said Mr..
Cram, between his puffs Of tobacco.
Well, then, there was Jenny Jenkins
He certainly couldn't say that of her, full
of life and fire as a thunder. cloud. As
wholesome and inspiriting, too, in qui-
ct neighborhood where nothing was do
ing more exciting than a weekly meeting
of ladies relief society, (for the soldiers.
Of course f; tha: you should think of ques-
tioning that ! TO which the men came
and scraped lint at evening She was
energetic and efficient, too. Jenny Jenk
ins was, and could have built house If
she had been put to it. while another was
selecting the underpinning.
0, but you know the Jenkins were
originally rather low ! Respectable, very,
but not quite first class. and even in a
little town like Meadows, that is consid
cred.
Well, well, if il has come to that I've
no more TO say. | regard person with
such views quite out of the pale of sym
pathy, and I've hall mind TO leave Mr..
Cram to his folly and his dog.
You may think it was none of my bus
mess at the start. Perhaps it wasn't and
perhaps it was this is a free country,
and if have mind to make it my bu-i
ress | have the right, | suppose you
know. Besides, my sense OF fitness and
propriety is affronted by the unnatural
separation ofelements that, united would
so sensibly swell the aggregate of com.
fort and happiness. Not that presume
to say either one of these eStimable. and
fitting girls would have been capable OF
the self denial involved in giving up the
pursuit OF her own happiness, which is
the third item of our inalienable rights
as citizens of the United States, for the
purpose Of cheering the life OF solitary
man who had been gradually getting old
er and more perversely set in his ways
for forty odd years. However, as be
had never asked them. | hold he could
not know what depths of benevolence
and abnegation may exist in the hearts
of the unse,fish. That the fellow had
latent tenderness in his nature was man
ifest just in the loving dminutive, Dot,
which he had bestowed for name on
his dog. A coarse grained man without
10 call the little creature Tige or Bose
So say as | said at first, it was a great
shame for Mr.. Cram to keep that pretty
cottage all to himself and his deaf old
housekeeper.
Whatever you may think about it, the
Widow Hazel thought as | do and she
good naturedly resolved to take the mat
ter in hand Widow Hazel was Mrs.
Pulfers sister. but you would never have
known it. Very evidently Mrs. Puffor
had inherited all the heavy, lymphatic
family qualities, and Widow Hazel the
sprightly and brilliant ones. Size had
never been in Meadows before TO stop.
although Mrs Puffer and the captain had
lived there since | can emember-whioh
may be longer or shorter f; but what with
marrying young and going South with
her usbanh, with her nursing him
through long sickness. and after that
having her pillance of property u look
after il happened naturally she had new
er spent any time al Meadows Name,
Phlinn said she wouldn't have come
there if she could have caught beau
anywhere else but Nancy Phlinn is an
i'll natured, gossiping old maid. and
hope YOU don't let what she says irha-
ence YOU at all.
Thus you see our faces were quite
new to Widow Hazel, and hers to us
And. though there were twenty faces