Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1866-11-21
S(isttllaneous StaSing.
DAN H0LLOWAY'S COURTSHIP.
BY MARY KYLE DALLAS.
"Dap. simmer is ready."

| the field on the other side, and chewing
them as though they were his natural
| food. His trousers were tucked into his
boots. His coat was somewhere in doors,
and his straw hat had hole in it No
one unused to farmers ways) could have
guessed that Giving Dan his money value
he was worth more than many an exqui-
site, promerad.ng the sidewalk of Fifth
Avenue. lie Ead grand, well-tilied
farm, bank account Of value, and a
homestead solid as an old castle with its
massive granite walls. Yet, as he loung.
ed there, chewing straws, he said to him
self, with a kind Of savage scowl, 81
wonder what 1 was made for ? | M moth
ing. haven't got anything worth hav-
ing. Every one is better off than |.
wish | was in the bottom Of the mill
pond-I do. Hang it what's the use CT
living such a life ?'
And all that because, an hour before,
he had seen Mis- Lucy Lee pass up the
road in a gig with young Morris. both 80
deeply interested in their conversation
that they did not even see HIM.
"I,'s just what might e1pect-ex-
actly my luck" he said savagely, I've
always had it SO. Other boys have had
mothers-mine died before | knew her.
Other boys have had sisters-I never had
one, No woman ever cared for NE or
ever will-and Why should they "A
clumsy cIod hopper, who knows nothing
beyond sowing and reaping and driving
the plow. ID rather be the preacher
with his four hundred dollars year AID
his pretty vile. I'd rather &c the little
lame schoolmaster, Who teaches the youn
uns in the hollow, yonder, | saw him with
his arm round Kitty Deans waist, last
night-and poor and lame as he is, | ex-
pcct she'll marry hiu. Nobody ever
loved me; nobody ever 'eiW l wish I
was dead"
Dan, tea i. ready
"Confoupd il, | know it," mutteled
Dan. and slouched in, old nurse Peabody
greeting him with Lawful saAcs, things
is all cold. Why will you saii'y-shaily
500"
She sat pouring out the tea, an old
grim looking woman, who might have
been made Of east iron, SO hard we're her
features. After t%o frss remark, she
said nothing more, but helped Dan, as
she had done ever cinee the time when
she came to the farm to keep the house
and see to the motherless child-and eat
her own srpper in silence. Dan shovel
ed lis in as only Yankee farmer could
leaving TO time to chew, and left table
the Instant he was done.
lie was not in the habit Of inding {
social occasion in q meal at home. Firsl
he fed the 'critters" and then himself, il
much the samo spirits. In his action;
there was 20 tinge of romance-in hi'
speech, less. lie was burly and brown
and had a way Of answering stranger.
that made them shy OF speaking a SECOND
time. frs. he started, then he paused
then he pu. his answer into the shortest
words capable of the longest abreviation:
to be found in the English language, and
mu,terod them without looking at The
Marty addresscd-and all because, in hi:
inmost heart, he fancied that, do what hs
would. nobody could Ike him-Lucy Lee
in particular, who always seemed to hiu
the best and prettiest thing in the whole
world. and as far above him as the stars
are above the muddy earth.
Her father was the village banker, {;
gentleman who stood nigh in the estima
ton of the best families and Lucy wa:
ACCOMPLISHED, beautiful and good Blu
for all that, Dan Holloway need not have
despaired as he did, for Lucy, from bel
pew in church, had often cast sly glance
at the brown, broad shouldered farmer
with his glitteriug black curls and glow
ing cheek, and thought him the handsom
est fellow there. SO he actually was, iE
his Sunday toilet, for, to quote the words
eff old nurse Peabody. Dan holloway
became dress"
Once, too, when the dun COW in the
meadow frightened Miss Lucy, Dan hae
proved himself quite hero, and had al
.erwara actually escorted her home