Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-11-09

tie white hands
That these pretty hands don't know
much about brewing and baking, etc p
Exactly; | believe be thinks just that
Then he thinks wrong" said Barbie,
reddening, and looking up at her lover
with comicai little pout Didn't hear
you say you needed servant at home ?
I've mind to 90 down and offer for the
place"
Anson laughed again enjoying'y.
I'VE need one badly enough, but father
will not suffer one inside the house,
'Why, how do You live then Who
cooks for you now that your mother is
in?'
''We do our own cooking" Ansun said
18th return of the half smiling, ha f
embarrassed expression "We cook for
oursel es or do without"
The very day succeeding the one which
witnessed this conversation Anson was at
home busying himself over some culinary
operations, when the outside door, which
stood aiar, was noiselessly pushed wide
and sin sularly attired form presented
itself on the threshold 1t wore a red and
green plaid dress, the checks very large,
yellow shaw, and a very frowzy and
tumb ed white bonnet \ red feather,
nearly rs long as Anson's arm. streamed
from one side, and within the brim Topped
the immense frili of a cap, which clung
close around the face of the stranger
The face, what cou be seen of it, was a
cry curious one to be inside such a bon
net and cap just now, as she surveyed
the kitchen and Anson-herself still un-
seen-tEe muscles about her mouth twitch
Ell nervously and her eyes twinkled with
ro9ueish brightness.
Present Anson looked that way.
Instantly the face took a lugubrious
length, and, coming into the room, the
girl said insinuatingly, but without look
ing at him
AN would We be afther hirin' SER
want the day?' and stood fdgeting with
the fringe Of her shawl.
Il believe not said Anson, coloring.
with some annoyance, perhaps, at the ma
ture of his employment.
"Shure. SIR, an the lady that sint me
God bless her swate eyes said you d be
shure to take me on her Recommendation.
which has in my pocket-and here It's
now"
She gave him little note, which proved
to be from Barbie Halstead Anson read
it with very loeer-like carefulness, but
shook his head
4 am cry sorry, my good girl, but we
DO not wish TO hire a servant"
"Belike your father mayn't object whin
he sees me- she persisted
Anson looked at the soiIed white bon
ret and the red feather, and repressed a
smile, wondering what his father would
say. But he was Of too kind g nature
to be willing to expose even this servant
to his fathers rough manner. He repeat
ed what he had said before, assuring her
that it would be of no use to see his fa-
ther
The girl stood a moment-'If We plaze,
sur. III Just see him a moment Belike
he NAV take likin' to the looks o me. "
And before he could reply she had
crossed the room, and stood upon the
threshold Of the next. Anson followed
presently, curious to see what sort of a
reception she would get.
"Shure an III do plenty more'n I'm
worth to yees," she was saying with inno-
cent emphasis as Anson entered. She
talked rapidly, pouring out such a torrent
of words that the old man could not by
any possihi itr slip one among them, and
sat regarding h er with an expression OF
most ludicrous astonishment-
This remarkab e volubility completely
Lalfled the old mans slowness, he could
not saw a word if he wished to, and when
she concluded at last with-"I can make
fiapiacks and corn bread that'd bring the
very eyes out i yer and make We swally
yer tongue with delichtsomeness,' Gt he
had a weakness 1t, was fr fapjacks and
corn lread,) he con i only twir his
thuns in sort Of delicious awe, and ask
her with cunning smile how much she
expected 'to -et fer all them things"
'.seventy-f cents a week, was the
prompt reply.
With still more cunning laugh, Joe
offered her half the money. Great Y to
his amazement, she agreed at once, and
he found himself, to use his own express
sion. "in for It To add to his chagrin
Anson stood by laughing with intense en-.
joyment.- ~ .ss
But the girl, without further ado, pro-
ceeded to djsencumber herself of bonnet
and shawl, and eanished in the direction
of the kitchen before anything could be
said. As she shut the door she stole a
glance at Anson that made him start and
bite his lips, and presently he stole kiteh-
onward also. She was already at work
handling the broom like an adept, anc
crumhling in her rich brogue at the dus
that had accumulated in the corners To-
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