Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-12-14

horse, and decked out like poppes; and
Eoratio riding black, coliish looking
horse. They must have been stable teams.
fer | didn't know either or them ; they
want Hamilton horses, nor they want
liubbylthorne's.
IL want to know, replied Miss Silence
Dammie. who was trimming hat ior mrs.
! Fascett with black velvet and scarlet pep
per pods.
"Yes; and I guess whether or no there
won't be wedding up to squire huooy J.
thorne's come next Thanksgiving time, If
not before. They will make great doings,
and invite froin far and near, you may be
arr Of that, for llubbolthorne's folks
aren't Of the kind that stops to pinch
sixpencc. When they lay out TO do any
thing they do 1t withou. standing for the
cost. tell YOU"
"5ursly," replied Miss Dnmmis.
But il 10 to be hoped Mrs. Fascstt did
not buy her green gown. for there was
no wedding at Hubbyl,horne's alter oil.
II don't know for what il fell through.
They would have made such . handsome
couple" said she regretfully.
II wish isabella could feel TO marty one
Of my boys" sighed Mrs. Hamilton, with
tears in her motherIy eyes, 10 Mrs. Hubbyl-
thorne, - they met on the church steps
before service.
Mrs. Hubbylthorne joined softly in the
sigh II don't know why it is. but Isabella
doesn't seem to DO one Of the marrying
kind" said she apologetically.
Deluded woman This shows that even
mothers do not know everything.
Horatio went back west, and next that
was known OF him he had married Cuban
lady at San Francisco, and was thus DOT Of
the way and out Of the question.
But behold oil this time there was be-
longing 10 the Hamiltons another brother,
"a little one" the youngest, Frederic lie
bad been IN invalid in his earlier years
weak lungs or something-snd so was
rather counted out but still there he was,
and one day when Isabel Hubby lthorne was
out in the rocky pasture, half wav between
her fathers and Mr.. Hamilton's houses,
picking blsckberries, suddenly she looked
up and he stood before her just 40 though
he had been brier ali along, and she was
the princess who turned him into . man 81
her touch.
"Why, Frederic Hamilton, thought ysu
were 10 Labrador" said she, without q
much - winking.
''Se I was replied Frederic.
GLOW well you look p said Isabel next
"My mother used 10 think So" answered
Frederic.
And then the ball began to roll.
Frederic Hamilton was = little wiser IL
his general on than his older brothers. IL
did not begin his suit so early, but be per
sisted in it longer. Like Mary's lamb,
EVERY where that Isabel event
| Frederic, was sure TO 90;
And every time that Isabel happened Il
look at Frederic she caught him hastily
turning his eyes away from her. So surely
that presently she felt impelled by magnc.
ism or curiosity to look again ct him, alwsy
finding his eyes just leaving hers. quick,
aud consciously. So she could not keep hin
out Of her mind altogether. though he neve
seemed 10 intrude himself into it. Away
meeting her at every social gathering ther
was naturally now and then time whe,
} Isabel had no especial attendant, and OF
such occasions Frederick walked home will
her in an informal matter of course way :
lie also lent her flowers enough to cove
the Babes in the Woods half . mile deep
| on, itttiC iit0V, az utOpPtb
wears away a stone, Isabels heart had Be
come honey -combed through and through
when one day. black berries being ripe enc
more, Isabel and Frederic met again in til
rock pasture.
gFirst, like Maud Muller and the Judge
they
"Spoke OF the grass and flowers and trees.
Vi the singing birds and humming bees
And then or . sudden Frederic eyes put o,
the grave, tender expression Isabel though
so becoming TO them. and he said, II Oh
glad, Bel, you refused to marry my broth
es'
"Whyi" asked Bel beginning to picl
leaves instead Of berries, while . pooh
sprang into full bloom on each cheek, an,
her eyes fell o. suddenly ~ though the
were nails and FredeIic's were hammers.
"Because | wsnt you myself" repie,
Frederic, ~ assured AZ though one wa
enough 10 make any bargain.
For minute there was no sound unde
the blue sky but crows voice crying, La
In Ia u ard the measured beating Of
fail in somebody's barn like the throbbinl
of great heart then Isabel, without look
ing up, said, making . deep sigh, III
must marry one Of you Hamiltons. why
suppose must and ! would rather j
were you than any other one
So, ~ true IS you are sitting in tina
chair, there was wedding at the Hubby
thornes At last, with grandeur and styl
enough to satisfy Mrs. Fascest, and with
Silence Dummie to cut the cike.
20 be sure And there they are. Isabe
ard Frederic. settled, after al her ups an,
downs and all his wanderings, over to Hold
en-whch is right at home as you may SAY
in as pretty house as you could ask t,
see all fit cd up az handy ns q work be,
without and within, and with . buryinl
ground joining right on to the home LOT,
said Mrs. Fascett.