Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-06-06
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Delys Cow.
eent down u the iarm-yard one day las
month and as | opened The gate | heard Pa
Mallory say, Blddy Bddy I" thoughl a
first be was ca ling hen, but then remem
bered the hens were all shut into the poultry
house that day, To be sorted, aud numbered, an,
condemned 50 ljoked again. thinking pr
haps Pats little lame sister had straycd Up from
the village and gone into the barn alter Sylyy'
kittens, or a pigeon egg, or 90 see rev ctlt
but, to my surprise, saw red COW, ot no par
ticular beauty or breed. coming out Of the stable
door, looking ab1u, her as 10 IN search ot some
body or something and Sheu PAtcalled again
blddy Bddy BId1y ~ the creature walked
up u hun ucross the yard, stretched out hel
awkwarl neck, smiled httle, and cropped lfon
hs ksnd the wlsp OF fuHen hay be held, Is com
posedIy as II she were tame kitten, aud then
followed hlm all round the yard for more Which
am sorry TO say sbe did not get Pat hao
only displayed her accomplishments TO astonist
me, and then shut her 90 her s'all again
slterward hunted out Blddy's history, and her
it is.
Oa the Derby turnpike, just before you enter
Hanerfo;d, anybody that ever travelled that
road will remember Joseph German bakery
IL was a red brick house, with dusty window
toward the street. aud just uside the door
llttle shop where NJ. German rstailed the ssa'-
lopsd cookies autei gingerbread, long loayes OF
bread, and scAntly filled pes, m which he dealt.
and which We're manufactured n the long sa0p
where 10 summer you caught ghmpses OF dur
barrels all arrow, and men who might have come
out OF those barrels, s'rewet wi.h Aour were
all their clothes, s,-paper-cap and White apron
scarcely 10 be distinguished from the rest 0l thu
dress 50 far as color and DUST ys, weut Here,
too. when her father drove cot the cart every
afternoon, sitting IN front OF the counter with
her sewing or her knitting, Dely German, the
baker pretty daughter, deal. Out the cakes and
ratified the Fennles Ia her apron. pocket with So,
good grace, that not young farmer came into
haneriotd with grain or potatoes or live stock,
who did not cast glance in at the shop door.
gong toward town. and 20 IN on his return,
0stensibly to buy u sheet of gingerbread or
dozen cookies tor his releeshmrnt on the drive
homewird. IL Was curious thing 10 see how
much hungener ihoy were on the way home than
coming into town. Though they might have
had good dinner In llanertord. tha. never ap.
peased their appetltes entirely, while 10 the
morning they had driven their slow cams all the
way without So much az thinking OF cakes aud
cheese SO By the time Dely was seventeen,
her black eyes and bright cheeks were we'll known
for miles about, anj many youth, going home
10 the clean kitchen where his old mother slt
by the ii knitting, or his sgue,er sister scJldeI
and scrubbed over ts muddy blot-traoks,
thought how pretty il would look g. see Dely
Gefmin sitting on the other side. in har neat
calico irook and White ap on, her black hair
shining smooth, and her fresh, bright face look
ing welcome
But Dey did not think about any OF thom 10
a reciprocal manner she liked them all pretty
well, but she loved nobody except h5t father and
mother, her three eats aud all their kttens the
big dog, the old horse, and wheezy robin tAa,
she kept in a cage, because her layorlto eat had
half killed 1t one day, aud u never could ly
any more. For ali thes0 dumb things she had
really intense al 6cuon as ,JT her father ami
mother, she seomed to be a part OF them 1t
never occurred 10 her that they could leave her.
or she them and Khea old J0o German died
one summer day, just alter Dely was seventeen
she Was nearly distracted. However, people
who must work for their living have to ge, over
their sorr5ws, practically, much sooner than
those who can AFFORD tlma % indulge them aud
as Dely knew more about the business and the
shop than anybody but tho foreman, $40 bad to
Resume her place AZ the counter balore her father
had beea buried q week. IL was great source
ol embarrassment 10 her rus4l admirers to see
Dsly IN her black lroek, pale and soJer, when
they went in they did no, knos what to gay;
they iolt US Il their hands aud fee, had groen
very big all at once, aa3 .s II the cents ia their
pockets never could bo got at. at which they
turned red aud hot aud got choked, aud went
away. swearing internally at their own blundor.
log shyuess, aud deeper sml;ten than ever With
Dely, because they wanted to comfort her 10
very much, und didn't know how