The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-09-15

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- Here | be- sald Jack, stopping she horses.
and looking In the direction from whence the
voice came. Hoy be elAeulAted, In . tone Of
astonishment and qualification, 90 bis eye iell up
on the little figure Of the girl who had been taken
to help In the dairy.
What be you doing here, Nelly ?
Waiting 10 see you, Jack
That's kind At any rate, and lt's not many
would do II but I'm ne'er do we'll and no
one need trouble abou, me, said be, somewhat
bitterly.
That's jus, what came to tell yOu,' return
cd the little maiden.
Then you don't care about me p said he,
with a little vexation In his tone.
Care why should ], for lazy fellow like
you? should think not
But you might, Nelly
Night, indeed mightn't do anything Of
the sort. Atany rate don't
Then what do you come here for 2
To tell you you ought TO be ashamed Of your
SELF
Yea but you don't heed them, and you
might heed me Jack. Won't you begin 10 work
bitT
Il don't know what 10 begin at
Your mothers nice bit Of garden, Jack.
I've nothing TO put In H. answered Jack. de-
spondingly.
Nonsense, said Nelly what faint hear,
YOU have. I'll give lot OF beans 10 begin with.
You put up the horses, and l'll back In minute
SO Jack put up the horses aud WAITED for
Nelly. Presently she came tripping along, with
/ her apron full Of something
Here, said she, hold your hat She poured
the beans into Il and he went home.
| Next day Jack took q spade and worked
away diligently for two hours.
What's come 10 thee, lad p said the widow.
as he came In, oil flushed and hungry, 10 his
dinner.
Nelly Giles is good lass quo,h Jack and
| II ever get rich I'll marry her.
Thee &c, rich said the Widow Bligh and
she held M her hands deprecaiingly'
i Strange things happen sometimes, returned
Jack and he resumed his digging with renew
cd dencrgy. All that afternoon he dug away y
though his life depended on II.
The next day he planted his beans. lie had
evidently turned over new leaf, and the widow
aud her neighbors thought the lad was bewitch-
ed, as perhaps be might have been. Al any rate
he had 81, 10 work n earnest, and he soon found
plenty 10 DO, the farmers being nothing 10th 10
give employment 10 one who. despiR his idleneSs
was a general fayofiie.
" Nelly alone held aloof. Jack was getting
hey ond her patronage he had suddenly become
more manly, and seemed as IL he had grown half
q head taller all at once aud Nelly turned shy,
and il was all be could DO 10 get stray word
from her now and then.
II was clear that she would have nothing 10
! say TO him, which Jack thought rather hard AZ
ter nll the trouble he had taken 10 please her
and the more hc pondcred over IL the less he
could understand 1t. Nelly used TO be 50 friend
ly. Perhaps II were n rich man she might
give a thought TO me. said Jack and so he de-
icrmincd 10 go elsewhere. 10 seek his fortune and
return and make Nelly his wife.
| When he went 10 say Good bye 10 her he
Jill II in rather a laundering way.
Maybe shall find You married when come
home again, Nelly said the poor lad, looking
ws,fuliy at ler.
Maybe you Wili,' re,or,ed Nelly, II ! find
any one like whilst you are away.
| And so they are parted, aud both Tepented
their speeches when Il was TOO late 10 recall them
Well what Il TO be is 70 be- soliloquised Jack
endeavoring 10 find consolation therein but
Nelly the only woman that shall ever be my
wife.
When Jack was gone, Nelly went very often
TO see the Widow Bligh, and was great comfort
TO her and their conversation always turned up
on Jack.
4 year passed away, and no tidings came Of
him. Then another, and the two women did
no, talk so much now, but they sat quietly at
their work when Nelly could spare time from the
dairy, and It was consolation TO them 10 be to-
gether.
At the beginning Of the next year Nelly was
summoned TO her home 10 q distant county
Her mother was dying, and as she did not come
back the Widow Bligh was left 10 bear her trou-
bic alone and through the spring and into the
| summer she watched and watched and every
morning as she opened her shutters and let In the
daylight, she wondered whether that day would
bring her son home, and every evening as the
daylight faded away she said, He may come to-
morrow
And at length the tomorrow came aud q
handsome sailor walked up the village street into
his mothers cottage and soon as the news spread
| abroad that Jack Bligh had come home with bags
Of golden guineas.
'Iut that was not Of course, true. The first
person that Jack asked after was Nelly Gilea
bn, he could hear nothing Of her.
Never mind her, Jack, said the widow who
was quite content, now that she had her eon,
and indeed did not care much for rival, she's
not worth thinking Of
But Jack was not Of his mothers opinion,
and he was scarcely sorry 10 60 away again, for
the old place seemed very dreary without Nelly.
I" This time he was able TO write 10 hls moth
or occasionally, for he had brushed up his writing.
and Il was q proud day for the widow when the
schoolmas,er came In 10 read her sons letters.
a second time Jack Biigh came home and
this time hired carriage, laden with boxes and
packages, stopped at the widows door, for Jack
was prospcring.
hut nothing had been heard Of Nelly, and
Jack could not bear the sight Of the 6ne thing.
be had brought, for he had intended the mos. OF
them for her
It's all through these beans thought poor
Jack, that came 20 20 away
Yc, would he have been any nearer had he stay
cd at home In idleness ?
Fifteen years had passed away, and Jack had
prospcrcd 50 well that he decided upon giving
up his sca-liie and settling In HE native village
SO he took the Jolly old farm and iied II with
his foreign curiosities, and the Widow Dlieh pre-
sided over II in great state.
Aud did Jack marry ? ] asked.
Don't Interrupt me- said my friend. For
a long time he did not, although his mother
pointed out more than one girl In the neighbor-
, hood, who would make him good vife-at last
he did
oh = said with Kind Of sigh.
Wait continued my friend.
tine morning pale thin women catered the
village, aud when she was opposite the old black
,imilcrsd house. she asked Of a wagoner who Was
passing, whether the Widow nigh was silll liv-
Ing
: Ay rrlIici tis iaai, ssss ss.'
c Aud has Jack come home
Jack, indeed Z said the man. Squire
; Bigh's come home, and he lives b that houss
there
: The poor woman looked up at the suheian-
/ tiai dwelling Of the lad 70 whom she had given
. the hat full OF beans and her heart died within
!. her. -,
Hell not care for the like Of me-, said she 10
> herself as she turned 10 20 away again.
hut the shock had been too great for her toll
and travel worn frame, and she had not taken
many steps before she sank down on the ground.
The wagoner ran 10 her assistance. he rails
ed her head pushed back her bonnet, and shout
ed TO tho astonished Squire who happened 10 be
returning from HE mornings stroll.
i MeaSier, mcastcr fhere beant Nelly 0iles 7
"a sThls was on a Saturday, and how u eli casns
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