The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-04-18
MISCELLANY.
From Al the Year Round.
: e T'S rTATCH-M AKINL

The only time ever tried match-mak
ing in my life was when | was seventeen.
and then 50 burnt my fingers over the
business that took care never to NEEDLE
with it again. | was living at the time
with my stcpmothor on her farm near
Ballymcna. Ny father was dead and
my stcpmolher did not like me. She had
| placed me for time with a lnilliner in
the town, but finding it expensive sup
/ porting me apart from her, had taken me
away again. She was thinking Of a sec
ond marriage, though ! did not know it
at the time. But this did know,-that
she had written TO some distant friend, of
my father in America, who had unwil-
IinSly consented to take me of her hands.
| don't think ii would have been half
US hard for mo to have made IN
my mind TO die; for | was a shy little
thing, without bit of COURAGE TO deal
with Strangers and my heart was fit TO
burst at the thought Of leaving the very
few friend, whom had TO love, and NV
oWn little corner Of the world, where the
trees and the road, knew me. But felt
it would have TO be done, and | Law
awake all night after the letter arrived.
tryinr TO think low | sbnnl1 o,or I,n
brave enough to say goodbye to my dear
friend Oracle Byrnc, anil to Gracir's
lover, Donncil A'Dunncl.
Oracle WAS the clcv,rcst Of all Miss
Doran, apprentices. She was AN orphan,
vitbort , ir;.rl t,I,.l. .l,..I.,. e.li
was the lo,I.st Girl in the ronn,ry p.,o
,L. s,i H.. v.,s ,,r,,,l .,,I ,.;, I,.t
never could think She wn. ci,Lrr 81,
and loved one aro,bcr dearly ,hon',h
cannot think what attracted her to mar
little plarn me. She had nlrnt,. oi al.
mlrrrs, and She opo.n.l if lin.lv .,nn,,.,
them bat tine only ON, f. .,yh,n, ,ynIll
hoyc given her with ull n,v L.,rt GOA.
Donnrll NrDonncll And. II dn,r, Lc
was the very one whom She ,y,ulJ r,,,
look At.
Dounal AMI ! were grcat rrjcrl. anil
had promised TO do mi | could to h'ln
lin with Glacir. lie was vonnr ami
,lrlnr. AN II. bnnny = man -. roull f..
sem. II. had q fin. C.r, ,II L;..n,.,
some three miles nrro,, ,bc co.n,rv in',
NV i, pn,,tncr.- rI,r. II Gr,.;. onulI
htii NJ rr, linn. 5 h.. w,uil Iiy, like, AID.
and drive u,o H.lhn,ni ON L,r o,n
iun'in,-r.r. nu, III, wa, al,y,v. ,,,in,
that She woul 90 away o Lou,,n. an
be- Il great "W,,t end" milIjn,r mi.
terrified me BADLY. scc.nr that Ionlon t.
such wicked place.
Ny strpmn,li.r WAS ALWAYS crvint oui
that Graci. wo,ll couo IL - si,rn,,r,l
end. Which made ne wild . and -. Ij,,
awake that terrible uirht thonnlt :,
rrcat dead about what miolt Lunnnn f.,
her if ,he went away TO London bv her.
self. and she 50 handsome and NOT L,vrrc
friend at all. And | wished with nil
NV strength that she woull marry Dan.
nell NTDonncll before | went nwnv +,
America, which would case nv mind
2bout him. For | felt the greatest rif,
in the world for kind biz Donnelrs dis
My stcpmothcr was provoked at NV
sad face ncxi dnv and caIlod mo unu,.,..
rll But when | cried bitterly shn nnt ,
little kinder, and in the evening allowed
me TO 90 into HoIlymnn, +, ..o nv, r.;o,I
Oracle. 50 towards .nnIown when ,Lc
snow was getting red uDon thc fences I
wrapped my shawl about me and SET c,T
for tle town e,ll;r,, I,,,II,, =, o..,, ....'
heart, all along the lonely road wbnrc
there was no one TO hear me but ,ho roL.
ms Tie brown trees oo,;n.t ,ho dnsl.,.